Chesterfield, Idaho: Ghosts in the Snow
Snow crunched under my feet as I stood at the edge of Chesterfield, a Mormon ghost town in Caribou County, tucked away in a part of Idaho that seemed to be forgotten. It had snowed more than I had expected or prepared for, lacking proper boots, and when I stepped off the pavement and sank knee-deep, I knew I’d have to be content photographing the sagging cabins and red-brick buildings from a distance. Stepping back to Chesterfield Rd., I took in a clear view of all 27 buildings still standing—dark silhouettes of log cabins and brick homes frozen in time like sentinels of the pioneer spirit. The crisp air felt heavy with stories of pioneers whose lives were memorialized beneath the frost.