Recently, KJZZ radio featured the long-abandoned Two Guns site — best known for its stone structure inscribed with the words “Mountain Lions” near the entrance — for its “Untold Arizona” series.
You can hear the 4 1/2-minute segment below, or so to the station’s website to see pictures of Two Guns, including an image of a vintage brochure.
Sean Evans, a longtime roadie who lives in nearby Flagstaff who knows a lot about Route 66 lore in the region, said something to the radio station that proved startling:
In Two Guns today, we find fresh footprints in the snow, graffiti, a boarded up window and a door, where someone has spray painted the words “smoke meth.”
Evans says this is probably his last trip.
“It doesn’t feel like this will be here very much longer,” Evans said.
In hindsight, it probably should be a little surprising Two Guns held out this long from vandalism and graffiti, as it’s been abandoned for at least 30 years and probably longer.
I’m not a superstitious person. But given the macabre history of Two Guns — complete with homicides and massacres — it’s seemed as if Two Guns remains a cursed place that never was meant for any sort of permanence. More about Two Guns may be read here and here.
(Image of Two Guns, Arizona, in 2016 by Nate Loper via Flickr)
The headline makes it sound like we won’t be able to access it in the near future. I thought someone bought it. If a person is scared of graffiti there’s plenty of places on 66 they should avoid.