Camp Louis Routh was a former fire Detention center in Tujunga California for Delinquent Minors in the Juvenile Hall and Rehabilitation Programs in Camps for Los Angeles County. Camp Louis Routh was also part of the Probation Department. The camp was built in 1954 and was vacated in 2009. Camp Louis Routh was abandoned in 2009 and was Demolished in 2023.
00:00 Welcome to Camp Routh 01:00 Intro 02:23 Did a lot of research and Shout out 03:18 The bunk house 04:23 Finding a date in the education building 05:36 The showers 06:16 Administrative building 13:56 Pantry, Kitchen and Dining Hall 17:39 Mobile Bathroom 19:13 Fresh Graffiti 20:20 Chainsaw and Axe lock-up 22:38 The work shop 23:04 Please smash that like button
what's going on everybody welcome back to 99 adventures today we're at a youth fire
prison camp so basically juvenile hall um this place was a fire camp for the youth
so basically let's say if you know somebody under the age of 18 got arrested to go to juvenile hall
right this isn't their first stop this is the place that they would send them
if they thought they could be rehabilitated and uh maybe give them a good outlook on life
so they sent them here taught them how to be firefighters if you didn't make
it if you're mounting off if you were just being an overall jackass
they sent sending back to regular jubilee something like uh i think challenger challenger
camp or challenger facility out in lancaster was the closest one to this place um but yeah this
is a pretty awesome place guys so before we get started just hit the like [Music] button [Music]
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all right so last night before coming out here i was doing a lot of research on this place
and uh real quick shout out to uh exploring with nick i would have known about this place if he
didn't make his videos so i'll leave a link in the description down to his video um go check
him out let him know 909 from 999 adventures had uh sent you guys i mean as you can see this place
is already burnt out there's really not much left here to see other than the skeletons of
the buildings that are already pretty much burnt so we already got a burnt building right there
so i mean this place is pretty well known if you know what it is i just noticed there's a
basketball court right there see you guys see it right there let's take a basketball court
but we're gonna we're looking forward to checking everything out here
hopefully we have enough time to check it all out
let's go check this out first because it's the building we're standing in front of
not really sure what this was look at this guys wow it's kind of colorful not that great
but you could definitely smell the the fire from the buildings that are burnt down here
lots of ventilation check it out
got a desk here this is probably like maybe where they ate lunch or something yeah you
could definitely see like maybe somebody was sitting here just keeping an eye on the inmates
oh yeah there you go this is probably where they came and
took all their tests to be there the firefighters that they hopefully turned into what does that say
okay so we're definitely finding a date here guys
2009 seems to be the uh the magic number as you can see there
look guys you get your ged here and
everything
careers start a career here train your punk asses into
well i don't know what's going with that but turn your punk asses into something good right
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oh these were the showers you tell the drains so this is just just a bathroom
i don't know this is a little barbaric to me i guess never been in jail but what do you think
this was like a group shower is that a thing in jail is it really like how they say in the movies
i'm assuming this would be like where you'd wash your hands or something sinks are gone
i don't know how stable this is but dang
let's check it out last thing i want to do is go flying through the floor
man this place is trashed it's nice and cool in here really wow
so if you guys heard that brit said she just found a bunch of court records
this place just tore up
this is a what a bathroom
shower oh yeah yeah no kidding
yeah i don't want to bring that old stuff up there you guys look at this
there's a lot of asbestos in there
this was a bathroom but this is more of an administrative building so it's probably more
like an employee bathroom than the bathroom for the inmates
should really have mashed up for this but you know they just really destroyed this place
it's old uh air conditioner cover like one that you'd find in a lot of cheap hotels
just uh closet you got a blank uh certificate paper right there
yeah this is crazy
off the desk guys check that out it's gonna be a good picture right there
there's another desk destroyed
trying to walk real lightly just because a lot of a lot of asbestos on the floor
old metal desk i didn't realize that doorway was in that
that room oh look you guys come get your cover 19 tester
this is kind of repetitive rooms same thing after the other
yeah so i'm thinking 2009
i found so much paperwork 2009 nothing after that and only before it hey guys check this out
you really have a feeling that this was like a a village more than a prison
or not a prison you know juvenile hall whatever fire camp
other than the uh fact for the chain link fence which is very minimal and the barbed wire
you would think this is like a little village
all right so it looks like you can get under that building that we're just in not that long ago
whacked
so those must been like the living quarters look at there's like a kitchen
type thing maybe a kitchenette
what do you guys think
i don't know
so
and that's as far as that goes back
that's crazy though
don't know what i was expecting but
i guess i wasn't expecting this to be under here everything looks all caved in further down
and check it we're gonna check these buildings out see if you guys can see that oops
that's what we're doing this is about the uh the other half that's left we just came out of
that building right there
it was kind of repetitive i mean it's like the biggest building here but
it's a lot of offices a lot of asbestos too but uh let's check here
nothing very much in this building
either
as you can see
you can tell this is like maybe a check-in window or something
come here to check out your uh your gear for the day maybe kind of stage up in here
just a little storage closet
not much to see
very cool though
what look at that
this must have been like the bunks or something where they uh they slept it's crazy
can you imagine
have a sleep here
no thank you all right so this looks like another spot where they would have uh slept maybe
this looks like it was just pushed here so this is probably maybe um not here maybe right there
damn this is crazy
i mean there's so much here you almost don't even know where to begin or where to finish
there's not much left
i have a feeling this is going to be a long video or maybe there'll be two parts
we'll go back and check this hole in the the ceiling off real quick what's holding the ceiling
what what is this oh you know it's probably the ac unit now i was saying we'll go and check this uh
hole in the ceiling real quick oh look it refrigerator had been refrigerator
yeah that's what this was
insulated yep so this was probably their uh their mess hall the kitchen the cafeteria probably line
up over there grab your food somewhere right around here then take it in there and probably eat
let's look at this real quick though
dang it's all tore up looks like it exploded honestly
look it you still got a uh
a bunk bunk pad wow that looks real comfortable
maybe if i get caught trespassing in here maybe they can let me take that with me huh
dang
i just hope i'm doing a good job filming this you know if you guys think i'm doing a good job
please leave a like and also comment say hello let me know what you think of this video if you
don't let me know what you think at least just say hello let's interact somewhat guys
oh so you know if this is attached to the kitchen did you know what this probably
was this is probably a pantry it just hit me because nobody's gonna sleep in the mess hall
or the kitchen whatever you guys want to call it so this was a pantry we'll just call it that
see that's another reason why i don't do a lot of um investigating before i come
out to a place i like to have the place come and you know speak to me speak to us
and tell us what it is instead of you know looking at like a old blueprint to a building or
you know i think it's a lot funner to come and explore and figure things out for ourselves
i'll take my sunglasses up here so i can actually see what i'm doing sorry panned down a little bit
this place is a little creaky of course we gotta see
oh that was a shower if you guys can tell
and in the end another shower hot water heater strap so that was uh oh so this
was just all showers then he had a single wide mobile home dedicated to just showers
cool
do you think this was a shower no not this one or that one so two offices and uh shower
the two offices and three showers sorry see if i can get down here without stepping look at
that's where i gotta jump down so i really don't see a good spot to jump down
don't want a nail to go through my shoe so see we can do it yes no nail made it all right
oh i smell fresh paint and that's here it's actually not too bad of a piece
that's all that's in here what do you think this is it's an old cabinet
i thought this floor felt kind of funny there's still carpet in here you guys see that carpet
all right just for the sake of time guys i might
thought i heard something just a car but just for the sake of time i'm gonna kind of
start scooting through this a little bit faster if you guys don't mind
well i guess i won't know until uh somebody leaves a comment says hey
i'm going too fast man i'm unsubscribing um this looks kind of sketchy
see what we got going on in here wow
this one's pretty bad in here i don't know what that is though
what was this guys i mean
i don't know handles maybe this is where they stored the equipment at night maybe
i don't know untouched fresh paint
or fresh paint should i say blank canvas
see what we got going on in here
nothing storage shed it's got that same funky smell at the uh that other building had
hmm which way to go all right guys so i can only assume
this was a garage maybe they have a fire truck here i don't know
but uh as you can see there's a big driveway this thing's wide
enough to pull in maybe a standard car in here standard truck it's maybe not a fire truck but
you know like a small van or something all right so here's a maybe another garage type thing
i don't know i don't think you'd be able to fit a
car or anything like that in here maybe it's like where they kept the
landscaping equipment i don't know your guess is as good as mine uh another good reason to
comment let me know what you guys think it is i'm gonna go check that one out now all right
you can see you guys can see there's not much in this one oh look it's still got the uh
so this is like their tool shed or something because they got blocks nails
drywall stucco it's all still labeled pvc so there's a repair that needed to be done here
you come here all right guys that's going to just about do it for this episode if you like this guys
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