Cimarron

Cimarron is another fair sized little city with lots of modest homes and a number of businesses, including a motel, gas station, insurance company, and a grain elevator, of course. 

There's also a high school, several churches, and a city pool with a waterslide and some diving boards. 

The cemetery has a suspicious number of pine trees also growing there. we wondered if it was a cemetery and tree farm combined? 

There are a couple of neighborhoods that have some really nice houses, as well as a retirement community, a senior center, and a really nice golf course. 

Downtown, there are lots of businesses and a few empty storefronts. This is the home of the Gray County Courthouse.

Ingalls

There is a large feedlot between Charleston and Ingalls. Ingalls is larger, with churches, lots of homes, and, of course, a grain elevator. It is the home of the Bulldogs. Some other things we found in Ingalls: 

• The Santa Fe Trail (again)
• A museum 
• A cute little park across the street from the museum 
• A healthy looking main street
• A city office
• A public library
• A post office
• A couple of cafés

Charleston

In Charleston, we saw a grain elevator, a few small houses, and a gas station that seemed like like it was on the border of cancellation. The tech was old, and there wasn't much indication of activity around the place, but there were no weeds, and the numbers on the pump seemed like they could have been recent.

At any rate, it seems like not much has been going on in Charleston since they closed the post office (for the second time) in 1944.

Copeland

Copeland is a nice, with lots of small, tidy homes, and some newer, bigger ones on the edge of town. We saw a city hall, a community sand pile on Main Street, a library, a cafe, and several small parks. There was a cemetery with a conrfield growing up right to its edge, as well as an elevator and a railroad., of course.

Montezuma

Montezuma is a bustling little town with many nice, tidy homes and yards. The sign says "Clean, Safe, Friendly, Peaceful," and it was right, from what we saw here. 

A few highlights of the town for us included Little Rebels Daycare ("Why would anyone want their kids to be rebels, Dad?"), antique vehicles parked in front of an old gas station, and Brianna's Cafe, home of the best pie we've had in months. 

Haggard

In Haggard, all I saw were an elevator, a ruined train depot near the tracks, and a family that was trying to abandon me. To the south, vast fields of wind turbines brooded on the horizon.

Ensign

Row upon row of wind turbines lined the hill just down the road from Ensign. Fields of ripened milo (less vulgarly, grain sorghum) stretched for miles between the mighty wind-titans. Spare blades lay at their feet. It seemed like maybe Gray County would allow wind turbines when Meade wouldn't; they appeared to be clustered right near the county line.

In Ensign itself, we saw an old gas station, a bank, modest homes, gravel roads, and some ruined buildings. There was a cemetery south of town, and a really small park along with (of course) a grain elevator and a railroad.