Need a place to land?

Being that I am a big fan of aviation, history, and mystery, the website Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields is the perfect intersection of all three.  If you have a similar penchant, it's more than worth a visit and will certainly lead you down a rabbit-hole of reading, and I felt it deserved it's own post. 

I remember finding this site almost decades ago, around 2003 or so, and am glad it still up and going. From what I see, the author still provides regular updates and there is a really good amount of information on a MASSIVE list of (2,574 according to the author) unused airfields in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. This was the site that I sourced much of my info about the Hurricane Mesa test facility yesterday, and it has far more info than I was able to provide on it. 

Despite the list being what I would call "exhaustive", some fields just don't have a lot of info available about them, as he may still be looking for info on them, or there isn't much into to find in the first place. Most others however, will have some very fascinating and lengthy write ups on their history with a litany of pictures of the airfields in their prime, and what they look like today, some of them not even existing anymore. The place is not only a great historical resource on these sites, but also a great safety resource for pilots to know of places to make emergency landings at places with a lessened risk to pilots, the plane, and potential bystanders.

The site is a one man operation, and is primarily supported by visitors like you, so he does have an option to make paypal donations. It's also neat that the site is partially supported by the American Aviation Historical Society as well.

Since the site has been in operation for almost 23 years, I wonder if is there is any way to gauge if it's one of the oldest personally owned and still operated/updated sites on the net. 

The places he talks about are all arranged by state, and his long-form write ups are very well written, so go check it out and see if you have something interesting near you, or near any place you have an interest in!

As an added note, the AAHS website is another fantastic goldmine full of interesting stuff worth checking out, despite looking a little dated.