Old mining waste rock along the trail is now covered with plants and trees, and an old Morning Star mill smokestack like the one in a 1915 photograph lies nearby. After the mine and mill closed in 1931, the company village slowly disappeared, and by the 1960s Rush was called a ghost town. The story of Rush survives in the recollections of the people who lived and worked there, while scattered ruins across the valley recall the years when Rush and the Morning Star were part of a national expansion in zinc mining. Today Rush is a historic district protected by the National Park Service, where recreation has replaced mining, plants are overtaking the former community sites, and curious visitors and dedicated caretakers have taken the place of the people who once lived there.