McCook Adventures.
Can you guess what these buildings off in the distance are? No? They are airplane hangars of the past. Part of the skeleton that remains. The skeleton of this, the McCook Army Air Base from WWII. Trying to find the historical marker for this area was tricky. I took a gravel road at the approximate location only to be led to the actual past air base. The craziest part was driving along and having the gravel road disappear and instead you are on a crazy wide stretch of cement...yes...part of the road is an old air strip!! Crazy!! We made it back to the highway...markerless. At the intersection however, there was what once was a country school. It appears that now it is a private home and located in the front were two telltale poles of a marker:S Digging into my knowledge bank I recalled that historical markers cannot be placed on private property. My conclusion is that the marker was removed when the school passed into private hands. Shucks! Onto inner McCook:) Such a nice dr