A drought has brought back an underwater Utah ghost town for the first time in 64 years.
In the 1950s the town of Rockport was home to nearly 27 families, according to the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation.
But it was abandoned after the federal government bought the land in 1952 and later built the Wanship Dam to create the Rockport Reservoir, state park historians said.
Some of the town’s buildings were moved and preserved, including the Rockport Coop and the Rockport School House, historians said. The area was then flooded to fill the 62,100 acre-feet lake.
Come present day, the Rockport Reservoir isn’t so much of a lake anymore — with extreme weather conditions bringing the water to “about a quarter of its total capacity,” the Weather Network reported.
That’s the longest boat ramp I’ve ever seen.