okay I googled it.
Couldnt find documentation of an abandoned railroad project because Grant couldnt stay sober. Anyway, I asked the guy who brought me there why this road went nowhere...I mean it was like a 5 -10 mile long driveway to a few houses... and he says it was an old railroad from the 1800's. And this wasnt like other parts around Pikes that look like the moon landscape or something. This all was forest and wildlife.

It seems I was in that town years before they started fixing the place up. Still I thought it was a cool place, I didnt realise the history until reading tonight