Illustrated cutaway of a sun-baked river-corridor terrace with a roped-off archaeological dig, a small NPS closure placard, and a shaded canopy over excavation squares

Furnace Flats: The Thin Public Record Behind a Real Closure

A federally closed cultural site with almost no public detail beyond the closure order itself, and what a 2007 dig actually documented there.

September 23, 2026 · 7 min · 1410 words · Justin