This is a tourist map of Gumption, TX from around the year 1998, meant to be a caricature of the cit

This is a tourist map of Gumption, TX from around the year 1998, meant to be a caricature of the city’s “historic” downtown area. Gumption TX, pop. 11,500 at its peak, is a small town located approx. 22 miles north of the surface orifice of the Mystery Flesh Pit. Throughout the discovery and development of the park, Gumption served as an important staging area for explorations of the pit before full facilities were set up, all the while eagerly selling any and every vice imaginable to the thousands of roughneck workers who flooded into the region to build the infrastructure within the pit. By the middle of the 1980s, families were the primary draw of the unique national park, so the city pivoted to keep up with the demands of tourism. Today, some 14 years after the closure of the park, the city of Gumption is an almost empty town, a fraction of its former size. The few hotels and restaurants left cater mainly to the routine droves of specialist workers and crews which labor to keep the slumbering superorganism contained, its empty streets haunted by the spectre of a golden era gone by.