Went back to the woods where I used to play about half a century ago..
Posted by HorseyDung@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 339 comments
I think I never realised the last time I was there that I would not return for such a long time.
There are still some faint traces of the treehouses we built and the cycle cross track we made.
There are no longer children here to run riot in the woods; everything is quiet, nature has taken back control.
All that remains are the echoes in my mind..
Kent_Kong@reddit
Beautiful words.
squirtloaf@reddit
I went back home a few years ago for the first time in almost 30 years.
I took my camera to the woods down by the river where we used to run wild. It was just as beautiful and lush as I remembered. Here is the video.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Nice, thanks for posting that..
azhawkeyeclassic@reddit
I grew up in a similar situation had a small forest leading to a small river in Iowa. So interesting to see and compare how I grew up compared to my kids. We still camp occasionally, both kids love nature just a lot harder getting there since we now live in the big city!
Thanks for the memories! š³
dave-rooney-ca@reddit
Nice!! I had a similar place in my hometown - a 15 acre forest with a creek, seen here. Built treehouses, climbed the highest trees, tobogganed down the hills in winter, you name it.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
That looks great!
dave-rooney-ca@reddit
It really is! I was so lucky when I was a kid - I just walked out of our backyard into a park with football/soccer fields, a baseball diamond, tennis courts, basketball court and this wooded area. We really did just say, "I'm going to the park!" and the response was, "OK, be home by supper!"
I haven't been there since I took that picture, which was in 2019. I need to visit it again sometime soon.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Sounds great, thank you for sharing.
dave-rooney-ca@reddit
Thank YOU for triggering the memory!
David_cest_moi@reddit
Dave, where is this?? And are they still there (not victim to "development"šš)?
dave-rooney-ca@reddit
A little town called Almonte just west of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. And, yes, they're still there! The whole park was donated to the town by the landowner with the condition that it never be developed other than as a recreational park.
BigBlueBagger@reddit
This is my old dirt bike riding grounds. It's been thirty years plus. Nature did not take over. :(
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Oh man, another suburb?
BigBlueBagger@reddit
We tried to stop it. :) But when the police got involved, we decided we should just leave the construction equipment alone.
GullibleCrazy488@reddit
Man that's beautiful
sits_with_cats@reddit
I would go play there now if I were nearby!
supenguin@reddit
I don't know why, but I see this and think of the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
Amazing picture. This makes me want to go to nearby parks and explore the woods.
Affectionate_Pace823@reddit
This is so GenX š„°
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Capable_Cook2407@reddit
All of my woods and orange groves that I grew up in in FLare subdivisions now. But ya know, it doesn't matter where you live, it was mother nature at one point before you lived there.
Outrageous_Plum5348@reddit
Awesome. We too were far afield past twilight roaming woods and streams and horse fields. Feel so sorry for kids stuck on electronics and not safe to roam the way we did...
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
We did have a great youth in that perspective.
Few_Carob4293@reddit
That is the most manicured stand of trees I have ever seen. Looks like a movie set.Ā
Camaschrist@reddit
I know right, itās meticulous.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Honestly, I made this because the sun peeked through, I think I didn't even crop or tune that pic.
Camaschrist@reddit
Itās a beautiful photo of a serene tree scape and I love it.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Thanks!
Difficult-Brain2564@reddit
I see a lot of adventurers there.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Lovely innit?
NancyHanksAbesMom@reddit
Looks beautiful! Moved from NY back to the woods where I grew up last summer after buying my grandparents old farmhouse. Goal is to make sure the land stays protected for generations to come.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
That's great, I just read there is drastic decline in the bee population, we need to work on that.
Accurate-Survey6985@reddit
You've written a fantastic passage here.
Thanks for sharing this.
There's a few of those woods I'd like to visit to see the traces and ghosts....... those that ran with me in those spaces are gone now.
And there's a few of those woods I wouldn't really like to visit again.
Great passage and photo.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
It was just a simple train of thought and feels.
But thank you..
Accurate-Survey6985@reddit
You're welcome.
It's a great First person narrative tool for audience relation and it worked well in your passage.
HackedCylon@reddit
About 2 miles by 3/4 of a mile of Vietnam/alien planet/war zone/campground/run-screaming-yer-fool-head-off palmetto and pine forest eaten up by houses.
SheriffBartholomew@reddit
Did you find any porn magazines?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I get this questions way too often.
You teenage dirtbags..
SheriffBartholomew@reddit
I didn't leave those magazines out there!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yeah.
That's what they all say ;)
SheriffBartholomew@reddit
Honestly, I never found forest porn as a kid, but I've heard about it enough to know that it was commonplace in some areas. I did find an enormous stack of playboy magazines in my neighbor's house after they moved away. I was snooping around the empty house and found probably a hundred playboys stacked up in the closet. Jackpot!
grenston@reddit
I grew up on a street where all the houses were on 1 acre lots and there was undeveloped woods behind the yards, lots of trees and scrubby bushes. There were some dirt paths made by the kids so we could get from one corner to the other. Over time, what we were calling the woods was actually extended acreage on some of the lots. As those houses turned over, owners cut down the trees and cleaned out the bushes so that their view off the back deck was more open to the sky. Itās still a big grassy area, but thereās no sense of secrecy or exploration anymore. Iām glad it was untouched when I lived there.
hells_cowbells@reddit
It's interesting. My hometown has actually lost population and shrunk since I was a kid. I think it has lost over 20% of its population since I graduated high school. Last time I was there, lots of places were crumbling and being reclaimed by nature.
David_cest_moi@reddit
When I visit my birthplace, I often revisit the woods I played in as a child. They are an actually town park so are unlikely to be paved over. (Though some other woods I had played in have indeed been lost to development. š Where can kids play freely these days? I feel bad for them. š)
brandysafinegirl@reddit
Oh man this hits home. My brother and I grew up on army bases and we were always in the woods. Especially in Missouri, we were in the middle of the Ozarks. In fact, it was nicknamed Ft. Lost in the Woods. The boundary of the base was about a half a mile from our quarters and we would meet up with our friends and spend all day just playing in the woods. Making up games, hide and seek, building forts or a treehouse. And mostly playing war because you know, we were army brats. Lol
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Great story, thanks!
CravenMH@reddit
Lucky you. Every field or forest I played in 40+years ago have all turned into developments. Even the once super secret camping spot on a lake we had to drive on goat trails to wind our way thru to the lakeside is all lake lots now.
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
WHY AMSTART
HELLO,HOW ARE TODAY? I JUST WANTED TO SAY
I USED TO HANG OUT THE BACK OF SEQUOIA PARK ZOO IN THE BURNT HOLLOWED OUT REDWOOD TREES NOW I CANNOT GET TO MY FAVORITE SPOT YOU SEE THEY NOW HAVE A SKYWALK BRIDGE AND THEY HAVE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IN THE PLACE I HANGED OUT OUTSIDE ZOO OH NO NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NOW OH IT IS BIGGER NOW WITH BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IT IS THE NOT SAME BLACK BEARS TOOK MY SECRET HOLLOWED REDWOOD TREE YA CAPS KEY IS BROKE ON COMPUTER I DO NOT OWN A CELL PHONE NEVER NEEDED ONE!
SINCERELY
ALEXANDER ARCTURUS ACHILLES CAESAR I AD MMXXV
STOP
Silvertoner69@reddit
The woods I grew up in got turned into a housing complex. Nature did not win, only memories.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Too many of these responses, so sad..
MushyAbs@reddit
I want to do this. My family moved away from where I grew up almost 40 years ago. I often told myself Iād return frequently but Iāve only been back 2times in 40 years. I need to make the trip. Iām sure it will be like this.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Just go for it, and take your time.
IllogicalLunarBear@reddit
"running through the backwoods bare" just started playing in my head when i saw this post
SatansLoLHelper@reddit
You can't just say that and expect people understand
At least they said thank you.
froction@reddit
Those are some nice woods. Bet there are tons of awesome sticks there.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yes.
Unfortunately no dog for company.
surfinbird@reddit
Did you find, or dispose of, any questionable literature? š
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
LoL..
No.
surfinbird@reddit
Awā¦I guess some things have changedā¦sigh.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I'm not even sure they sell them anymore..
Subject-Ad-8055@reddit
some where out there are 2 burried playboy mags....and 1 bmx bike at the bottom of that lake....
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Many suggested the Playboys.
You're the first one with a BMX.
itgoesineasy@reddit
Isnāt it funny how the trees look even bigger after all that time? š
SheriffBartholomew@reddit
Trees grow.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Heh, they are..
Important-Lie-8649@reddit
That could be Templeton in Dundee.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Could be. But it isn't...
Dutch forest.
Important-Lie-8649@reddit
Templeton Woods, Dundee, Scotland May 2025
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Very nice, it rains as much there as it does here. Luscious greens come at a price ;)
Panem-et-circenses25@reddit
The one I used to ride bike trails in and build treehouses is now an apartment complex
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Happened to so many, it's saddening.
Karthanon@reddit
When my wife and her brother / mom go to Scotland this summer (for a month) I'm planning on driving the few hours to where my folk's old cabin used to be. They sold it off so I'll just go park on the road and look at the land (where we buried our old cat after it passed, where I spend so many lazy summers reading in a hammock, trudging through the acres of woods, and staring up at the stars in the very early morning while trying to avoid mosquitoes) and then go to the nearby provincial park, have a coffee, and look out at the lake. My dad's been gone several years now, and my Mom's health is failing, so it's good to remember those times when you were young and your own parents seemed invincible.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I hope your trip will be great, thanks for sharing your story.
BrickTilt@reddit
Thanks for the post. This is powerful. Iāve done the same, walked the streets we hung out on in the 90ās, and itās a real trip. Hope you enjoyed th experience, and feel blessed for being able to it.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
That's cool, thanks!
Creepy-Selection2423@reddit
My old neighborhood forest is now a nature preserve. I now live many states away. I hope to return one day, if only for an hour or two, and think back. My old friends I used to hike and ride bikes with won't be there. Some of them I've lost touch with over the years. Some of them have died. But I still have the memories of hiking in those woods as a kid. Good times I'll never forget. It's cool that you got to do that.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Thanks for sharing your story.
Yeah, loved it..
InsertRadnamehere@reddit
Lucky. Mine are all subdivisions now. Really hurts to go back. Havenāt been near there in over 25 years.
BrickTilt@reddit
I visited our family house with my very young daughter a few years ago. I expected it to be a core memory but it was so changed, it wasnāt what I expected. I wonāt do it again; I prefer it in my memory.
InsertRadnamehere@reddit
You can never go back.
Phantom-rizz-era@reddit
Your post made me pause and go down a rabbit hole of memories. All the emotions. Thank you. This is beautiful.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
wirefixer@reddit
They tore down the trees and put up a parking lot in my old neighborhood forest. Well, actually, a housing development.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Too much of these kind of replies :(
Justice_4_Scott@reddit
The neighborhood forest I played in as a kid is now a freeway. They converted it when I was in my teens.
nirreskeya@reddit
They turned mine into a new police station.
Background_Ad2778@reddit
You don't know what you're got till it's gone.
theouter_banks@reddit
Oooooh ba ba ba.
genxmom95@reddit
Can I come? It looks amazing. I would have lived there as a kid and made a whole world.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Hahaha, yes.
You're welcome.
Effective_Play_1366@reddit
Man half of us who would attempt this would find a subdivision or strip mall. This is a cool post!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
From the replies here I'd say 80% :(
Thanks..
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
I USED TO HANG OUT THE BACK OF SEQUOIA PARK ZOO IN THE BURNT HOLLOWED OUT REDWOOD TREES NOW I CANNOT GET TO MY FAVORITE SPOT YOU SEE THEY NOW HAVE A SKYWALK BRIDGE AND THEY HAVE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IN THE PLACE I HANGED OUT OUTSIDE ZOO OH NO NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NOW OH IT IS BIGGER NOW WITH BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IT IS THE NOT SAME BEARS TOOK MY SECRET HOLLOWED REDWOOD TREE YA CAPS IS BROKE
BraveLittleFrog@reddit
My story is a little different. I explored the woods on a horse. She was one year older than me and had all the bad habits so she was cheap. I boarded her for $70 per month at a āself careā barn in the suburbs of California. Cleaned other boarderās stalls to pay for her. We worked through her bad habits together until she became the most reliable and bravest trail horse at the barn. She and I explored all the neighboring woods and even visited neighborhoods for treats and pets for her. The barn was closed and turned into dumbass looking houses named after the ranch that was leveled. I had the horse into both of our 30s and I wrote a book about her, told from her point of view. One place we used to ride is a protected sanctuary now. No horseback riding, but you can go for walks and see wildlife. As a kid, that was the first place I ever saw a mountain lion.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Thank you for your lovely story..
LBbird24@reddit
I love this.
BraveLittleFrog@reddit
Thank you. The book is called āThe Buckskin Mare, Ellieās Storyā if you like books about animals. Definitely a Gen X book, lol.
Pielacine@reddit
Good for you. They cut down my woods.
PeppersHere@reddit
My old woods are now made of quickly built suburbs :c
Pielacine@reddit
Mine were in a Civil War battlefield park; they cut them down because they werenāt there at the time of the battle.
PeppersHere@reddit
That's sad. I feel like just because no trees were there during a war \~160 years ago shouldn't somehow mean no trees should ever exist there in the future. Sorry about the loss of your wooded space friend.
Pielacine@reddit
Agreed, thanks.
dacutty@reddit
This looks remarkably like the woods I played in. My Dad passed away about two years ago and my Dad's widow ended up selling the property I grew up in with the woods. About a week before she sold it I took a quick look myself. The same thing had happened. Some remnants of trails and other things but it was very quiet and nature had taken back over.
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
I USED TO HANG OUT THE BACK OF SEQUOIA PARK ZOO IN THE BURNT HOLLOWED OUT REDWOOD TREES NOW I CANNOT GET TO MY FAVORITE SPOT YOU SEE THEY NOW HAVE A SKYWALK BRIDGE AND THEY HAVE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IN THE PLACE I HANGED OUT OUTSIDE ZOO I CAN NEVER GO BACK NOW OF THE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT TIGERS LIONS BEARS OH NO NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NOW OH IT IS BIGGER NOW WITH BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IT IS THE NOT SAME BEARS TOOK MY SECRET HOLLOWED REDWOOD TREE YA CAPS IS BROKE
davidsinnergeek@reddit
The neighborhood of my childhood (ages 5-10) has been swallowed up by an airport.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Well, that's no better than subdivisions :(
ShutYourDumbUglyFace@reddit
Is it smaller than you remember?
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
IT IS BIGGER NOW WITH BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IT IS THE NOT SAME BEARS TOOK MY SECRET HOLLOWED REDWOOD TREE
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
IT IS BIGGER NOW WITH BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT
cnation01@reddit
Used to hunt a beautiful farm. The kind you see in paintings with rolling fields and wooded ridges. It was so beautiful in fall.
Its a subdivision now, heartbreaking to look at
ShutYourDumbUglyFace@reddit
When I was a kid we moved to South Florida and there was a farm that grew green beans. We moved away for a couple of years and when we moved back, it was gone. The adjacent road had gone from two to four lanes, the canal became piped, underground drainage. Now there's a housing development there. It's still called Butler Farms, though. It was literally completely changed in the course of two years. If Florida doesn't calm down soon, the entire state will be paved.
SuddenTest@reddit
I still live in the smallish town that I grew up in. Everywhere I look it is this. Makes me very sad. Itās comforting though to see someone else communicate this emotion.
RealWolfmeis@reddit
I did this a while back and sobbed because they were obliterated by cheap subdivision houses.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
So sorry...
Resident-Ticket9966@reddit
Its beautiful š I bet your imagination was a whole vibration
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
It's strange how I saw us running and cycling as youngsters, the forest was our world..
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
I USED TO HANG OUT THE BACK OF SEQUOIA PARK ZOO IN THE BURNT HOLLOWED OUT REDWOOD TREES NOW I CANNOT GET TO MY FAVORITE SPOT YOU SEE THEY NOW HAVE A SKYWALK BRIDGE AND THEY HAVE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IN THE PLACE I HANGED OUT OUTSIDE ZOO I CAN NEVER GO BACK NOW OF THE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT TIGERS LIONS BEARS OH NO NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NOW
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
I USED TO HANG OUT THE BACK OF SEQUOIA PARK ZOO IN THE HOLLOW OUT REDWOOD TREES NOW I CANNOT GET TO MY FAVORITE SPOT YOU SEE THEY NOW HAVE A SKYWALK BRIDGE AND THEY HAVE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT IN THE PLACE I HANGED OUT OUTSIDE ZOO I CAN NEVER GO BACK NOW OF THE BLACK BEARS EXHIBIT TIGERS LIONS BEARS NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NOW
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Cheers mate..
Your capslock seems stuck.
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
BROKEN CAPS KEY
Repulsive-Yam4722@reddit
You are lucky. The woods I used to play on are now subdivisions and have been for years. The cheap homes they built on them are now aging poorly and falling apart.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
That's sad really..
Djsinestro_techno@reddit
Find any penthouse?
Cold-Pizza111@reddit
Haha. This is too funny. Pubescent boys donāt know how good they have it thatās days.
I be those mags are long gone:
Asses to Ashes, busts to dust.
Kesliabeth38@reddit
First time I smiled today - thanks for that!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
ButterscotchFlat9000@reddit
I USED TO HANG OUT THE BACK OF SEQUIA PARK ZOO IN THE HOLLOW OUT REDWOOD TREES NOW I CANNOT GET TO TO MY FAVORITE SPOT YOU SEE THEY NOW HAVE SKYWALK BRIDGE AND THEY HAVE BLACK BEARS IN THE PLACE I HANGED OUT OUT SIDE ZOO
WolfUnhappy9148@reddit
Thanks, Obama.
Hurryupslowdownbar20@reddit
I still want to take my young child to the creek and neighborhood I used to run around in as a kid..
Maliluma@reddit
This immediately began playing in my mind ..
Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
HarryMcW@reddit
All the fields and old orchards I used to play in are all subdivisions now...š
kevville@reddit
Bulldoze all the trees, then name the streets after them.
SGT-JamesonBushmill@reddit
They paved paradise Put up a parking lotā¦
TheInternetHeel@reddit
My old elementary school is a subdivision as well. It's fucking depressing.
smythe70@reddit
My woods behind my house is where we played, got poison ivy, picked blackberries and built forts, now it's houses sadly.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
That's sad..
smythe70@reddit
Yep, lived on a dead end and the woods were our playground so bittersweet memories.
frolicndetour@reddit
Both my childhood woods are gone. The one in my first neighborhood became an expanded subdivision and the one in my second became a highway.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
That's saddening, are they still there in your dreams?
frolicndetour@reddit
No, sadly, I don't dream that far back. But I still have the memories. I was in my hometown last weekend and my sister and I were reminiscing about it, so your post was timely for me.
Mountain_Chip_4374@reddit
The one where my friends and I would play was developed too. Still drive by wistfully looking at the last few trees still standing there and remember the good old days.
Charming-Insurance@reddit
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Impressive-Shame-525@reddit
All mine have turned into neighborhoods now.
5uck3rpunch@reddit
That was very poetic. I grew up in the woods in North NJ. We practically lived in the woods out there building forts, riding dirtbikes & getting into all other sorts of trouble out there. Kids don't really do what we did anymore. The woods were a wonderland to us.
thedog420@reddit
They do! Just not as much. My son and daughter grew up in a neighborhood where there were woods and they tooled around there quite a bit building stuff and finding crawdads in the creeks. Probably not as much as we used to but it still happens. They're teenagers driving around now.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Exactly this..
We would be home late, even miss dinner sometimes, endless freedom..
SmashEmWithAPhone@reddit
The woods we rode our bikes through in the mid-80s were cut down and turned into a high-priced neighborhood when I visited with my son in the early-2000s.
Broke my heart not being able to show him the trails and jumps and forts of my childhood. But to be fair, nostalgia goggles make things much more beautiful than they really were.
TheApple2e@reddit
This is exactly what happened to my trails and fort. All those jumps too. Sad.
Lupi_y@reddit
Same here. The field is now a neighborhood and doesn't look the same at all š
Error262_USRnotfound@reddit
find any nudie mags? lol
theouter_banks@reddit
Love me some hedge porn.
SteveBadeau@reddit
The woods around my neighborhood have grown so much that the whole area looks different. Built in the 50ās all of the trees have become large and full. The tree that my family planted in the 1980ās has grown tremendously.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Thatās much better than all those woods that have been turned into housing estates or car parks. Many here lost their roaming woods.
Comfortable-Pea-1312@reddit
I can smell this picture. šš I needed this today. I need more of this. The wisdom of the trees.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Fight_Tyrnny@reddit
My woods (where you could actually find the playboys hidden in the bushs) was taken out for a big doublewide home park. I still live within 10 miles of it and I as sad to notice that the apartment we lived in for 10 years (80 to 90) which was turned into Condos completely burt down a month ago.
helpitgrow@reddit
This made me sad. I had an awesome childhood. Iām from socal and I use to run through woods and make out with boys in the orange groves. Now itās all houses. No more woods where I played.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I can almost see you running..
Cherish the memories.
Salty_Department925@reddit
The woods I used to play in is now a golf course š
p8nt_junkie@reddit
Iām sad for your loss. That reminds me of the old, abandoned barn my friends and I would ride our bikes to and play in; not there now, just mcmansions.
StinkieBritches@reddit
I still see my childhood woods often. My daughter inherited my grandmother's house. In the years since then, she's gotten married and her husband has carved out walking trails throughout the whole 3 acres for them to exercise and walk their dogs. It's really nice to see them not only still around, but getting regular use too.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Sounds great, enjoy..
rainbikr@reddit
Thank you for this.Ā
Your first sentence is such an amazing sentiment.Ā
When do we ever realize?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
And thanks to you, I think we realise when we take the time to realise what matters, and what is carved in your memory.
These are the things that matter.
rainbikr@reddit
It's hard to do sometimes.Ā
They are indeed the things that matter.
I guess if we can we get to share it and relive it a bit.
It's amazing how much comes up when you think about it.
littlescreechyowl@reddit
The last time I went to the woods where we used to play I was in my 30s. I was shocked at how small it was. To use, it was never ending.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Big imaginations..
No-Ambition7750@reddit
Did you check for ticks?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yes mum.
Crap_Hooch@reddit
It don't remember ever worrying about ticks back then in the great lakes region. Southern Indiana and Ohio now...can't walk within 20 feet of unmowed grass without an encounter.Ā
GrowlingAtTheWorld@reddit
The woods I ran in as a kid now have million dollar houses on the property now.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Vandilbg@reddit
Mine are a golf course. The pond I pulled 2 kids out of after the ice broke under them is a water hazard. The 40ft bluff that was almost vertical our tree house used to stand at the edge of has been bulldozed into a soft hill. If it wasn't for the ponds and dam I wouldn't recognize it.
uwila@reddit
Gold courses are vile. (I mean so is McMansion sprawlā¦)
ZenRage@reddit
I hear those too.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Lucky us..
ZenRage@reddit
Youth is wasted on the young.
jeffreynya@reddit
I have not been back to my wooded area for a long time and this is a great reminder to get back. I remember all the work of taking wood and supplies to try and build a really nice fort. That was a lot of work, but so much fun. I am sure that fort is likely gone now. But sure would be fun to find out.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Go check!
Get back at us.
Individual-Trick3310@reddit
The wooded lots have been turned into house. The basketball tree is gone, the hoop with it. The Big Rock was probably too expensive to move (size of a VW bug) and is now covered with vines, the paint long obliterated. All of the parents who lived there are gone, most of them dead.
So it goes. What can you say?
WuTangMountain@reddit
Wtf is the point of life? Born to just fade away into oblivion, leaving behind the people and things we love...feels kind of cruel at times.
OttawaTGirl@reddit
You are the universe experiencing itself. We leave so that every generation after allows the universe to experience itself with childlike wonder again and not the burden of years many of us carry.
Sidehustlecache@reddit
For me, its a time to inhabit a physical body, to interact in a physical world before I expand back out into the void. I woke up to find out that I was the eyes of the world. There is alot of things going on outside of your regular bubble of life, both inside and outside of yourself. You can expand your perspective and therefore your reality, you just need to know its out there to find and you have to be curious.
nomnomyourpompoms@reddit
This picture is fucking haunting.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Nah, it's lovely..
Recordeal7@reddit
Youāre lucky itās still there. Where I used to play itās all concrete and low income rentals. In the late 70ās, my parents paid $60,000 for the home I grew up in. Today, a home in that same subdivision is still about 60k.
nborders@reddit
Some of the parents in my neighborhood have finally seen the light and kicked their boys out of the house. I see and hear a pack of them every nice day in the woods near my home.
Some are getting outdoors and up to no good. š
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Smorsdoeuvres@reddit
What a beautiful place. Thank you for sharing
jaimebuggie@reddit
Looks so peaceful & nostalgic š
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
The serenity was bliss.
matthewscottbaldwin@reddit
Thanks for sharing, this was nice to read.
The other day I heard "Come Dancing" by the Kinks on the radio, a song about the dance hall (palais) in the singer's hometown. Near the end there's the line:
It reminded me of the day I stood on the doorstep of my childhood home and watched them raze the woods across the street, including the treehouse where we used to hang out.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Such a sad story, and so many of them here..
Crap_Hooch@reddit
One of our secret underground forts and part of the connected tunnel system was eventually unknowningly paved over by a driveway. They didn't know it was there because the entrance was collapsed. I still wonder what we left down there and if voids will eventually be a problem. We were definitely not supposed to have an underground anything so we didn't say shit when they paved over what was once a 6 foot deep trench and room system covered by tree trunks and then clay.Ā
It stands as a small victory for the ages. Still part of the plan to repel enemy paratroopers.
It's amazing how many dreams I've had about the fort over the years. Always about accidentally connecting it to a deep cave system.
Great post. Most have no woods to go back to.
WhatRUaBarnBurner@reddit
Our fort was a key point in all of our youths. Watching it get bull-dozered would have been traumatic.
BeerJedi-1269@reddit
Fuck man this made me tear up. I never knew the last time I was "back the strip mines" would be my last time. I sometimes look at sat image and remember the old roads and the lakes where I used to skip school to fish, and the scrub we used to hunt rabbits in.... thanks for that. Theres a well pad back there now, but appears the old roads remain.
BackgroundLetter7285@reddit
Two roads divergedā¦ did you take the one less traveled?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I like to think I did..
Commercial-Novel-786@reddit
Google Earth has been a godsend for areas I now live far away from. While I can't walk the trails, I can fly like a bird over them. Some areas have been developed, of course. I rode my bike a lot, so I can go down the roads.
One area that stands out... I was a terribly shy and timid kid when I was younger. I was also drawn to dark things. One house I temporarily lived in on the eve of a big move had a huge back yard, but I never made it off the steps. Years later I discovered that just over the hill at the back of the yard was a grave yard. That would have been great for the young me.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Cool story, thanks..
Server_Administrator@reddit
I use the street view to look at my old house from when I was a kid.
buckinghamnix@reddit
Whatās that line? āI wish we knew they were the good olā days when we were in them.ā I probably got it wrong. Youāre so lucky you were able to return to the place you played, and that itās still there. And peaceful!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yep, as kids you don't realise, it was nice to be there, thanks.
gowiththeflow82@reddit
Fuck I gotta do that too one day. As long as theyāre still there
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Please do, I love doing this.
WarpedCore@reddit
Are you trying to make me cry?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
No, I just want to take you for a stroll through the woods of your youth..
marcduberge@reddit
Did you find the hidden pile of penthouse and playboy magazines?
A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit
Can you really have woods porn these days, if you canāt quadruple-wrap it in plastic grocery bags?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Can you buy pr0n on paper anymore?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Those were in the old barn, it's gone I'm afraid.
MartoufCarter@reddit
Did you find any woods porn?
Crap_Hooch@reddit
At some point you have to assume some of it is naturally occuring.Ā
The beer and stolen cars too. Nature is wild.Ā
wwhijr@reddit
Literally right outside my back door. My kids love it.
Jerking_From_Home@reddit
Came here to ask the same question š
Subject-Stuff-2829@reddit
Did you see Pooh and Piglet?
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Deer, roe deer, wild boar, buzzards, hares, rabbits, squirrels.
elnath54@reddit
Lucky perdon. The equivalent place for me is now a shopping mall and suburban development.š
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Like so many here, I noticed, unfortunately.. .
Conscious-Safe-9768@reddit
Same hereš
CrazyLoucrazy@reddit
Gorgeous.
All the woods and farmland we played in are all now track homes.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Like so many others here, I notice, unfortunately.
the_dark_viper@reddit
āAt some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew itā
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
This āš»
clickfind@reddit
Metal detecting is fun, I still play in the woods at least a couple times a week.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I lost my bucknife there..
kperry1270@reddit
Looks like a great place to get lost and be a kid
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
It's not big enough to get lost really, and we knew every tree and bush...
We had a nosy squirrel that spied on us..
kperry1270@reddit
I miss those days in the seventies and eighties!
Last-Relationship166@reddit
I've lived in a house in the woods for 21 years. My wife bought the house 34 years ago. There used to be soo much wooded land around here, but mfing developers have clearcut a ton of it. Our property is like a gd wildlife preserve, because species have nowhere else to go...and people on next door whine about coyotes, etc. My wife has degrees in ecology. It's all driving her insane.
RussellAlden@reddit
My woods are townhouses now
rtdenny@reddit
My woods are miles and miles of suburbs with tiny non-native trees replacing the old Texas live oaks that were mostly bulldozed.
Certain_Departure716@reddit
I grew up outside of Anchorage AK as a kid in the 70s, and I went back 2 years ago. My family left Alaska in the 90s and so I hadnāt been there since 93. Everything had changed, even the woods. It brought back so many memories but was also very sad. I spent my teens in Frankfurt GE and will be heading over next yearā¦I dread the change I will find..
Cute_Marzipan_4116@reddit
Hell! At least yours are still woods mine is a housing development. š
MTheadedRaccoon@reddit
Same! So sad.
OGBullyninja@reddit
This hit hard for meā¦.my parents sold the house I grew up in a couple years ago. But I did just this too, I went into the woods where me and my 4 brothers and countless best friends spent our entire childhood. Tree houses, ground forts, paintball course. I could still see some of it, it most the cleared stuff had grown back in. I sat there and had tha same thought, I one day left those woods never knowing it would be another 20 years before I stepped back in š„² what I would do for 1 week of summer vacay with my friends on bikes again
uwila@reddit
Iāll never be able to buy my momās house when itās time and it will break my heart to let the pond, the woods, the long gone forts, the mysteries, & secret places of my childhood go.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Those were the best days..
Present-Ambition6309@reddit
š¶Orange Kool-aid go good with Patronā¦
Present-Ambition6309@reddit
Oh and here I thought you were gonna say you went back to pick up the nailsā¦ lmao jk, Iām playin. It is an odd thing when we reflect back on those moments in life.
Ksqd_Squid_103@reddit
Where we had our makeshift BMX track is all a subdivision and park. The orchard is gone as well used to go pick apples and ride.
bjb8@reddit
Most of the woods or fields I lived near are gone to housing. I moved a lot as a child so saw a lot of areas, but still most are gone.
The one place that still exists is the park across from my grandparents house, who are no longer there but the house is. There is a steep hill on one side of the park and I spent a lot of time there. The tree on the hill I used to climb is gone and the old park rides like the spinny ride you held on and spun is gone, replaced with safe but no fun alternatives.
I always found interesting stuff on that hill, people from the past must have dumped their garbage there, I would find little old perfume bottles and other old household items. A few years ago I took my kids there and found an old visa card that was partially melted, so stuff is still surfacing.
Subject-Chart7371@reddit
My woods no longer exist, sadly. They were leveled years ago, along with the old baseball field they were behind, and turned into a housing development that was never completed.
Gloomy-Bridge9112@reddit
I have a place like that too. Itās all houses now, where there were farmerās fields and a small pond to skate on, and trails for mini bikes and our tree house.
stuhstutter@reddit
Be careful of that old well in those woods. It's practically invisible. Obscured by the foliage and leaves. No one will hear your cries if you fall in it.
That's what my grandparents used to say about the woods behind their house. Later I learned it was just a thing that was said to scare kids from exploring the woods alone.
MattDinOC@reddit
We called ours the āwitchesā wellā. Good place to find some forest porn. š No idea why there was an old disused well in the middle of the woods.
stuhstutter@reddit
I didn't question why the well was camouflaged deep into the woods. I imagined there used to be a house next to it. A creepy old witch house. We used to make up stories about the witch house and her fancy artesenal water source, the rundown remains of which claimed lives of curious children. Little did we know there was no witch and no well.
Adept_Friendship_795@reddit
Had a secret place like this with my best childhood friend. We would build castles( my perspective) or houses(her perspective) and pretend. She has passed. There is a song by Keane āSomewhere Only We Knowā that can take me back fifty years in an instant to such a simple place of magic.
Commercial-Novel-786@reddit
Sorry for the loss of your friend.
I looked up that song and just from the lyrics, I can tell it's gonna turn the faucets on. Will listen later. Thank you for sharing that!
amccaffe1@reddit
You are lucky, the woods where I played as a child are now homes.
Plastic-Ad-5171@reddit
That looks so ā¦ manicured. Whereās the underbrush? There should be scrub, ferns, something!
Fish-Weekly@reddit
Yes that is being actively cleared and maintained by someone
dcamnc4143@reddit
Nice. I still live in the town I grew up in (I did move away, but came back later). Much of woods we played in has been developed, but there is still some left. It's on private property, so I can't go looking around very much.
stuhstutter@reddit
I have no idea who owned the properties containing the woods in which we played as children. Nobody ever said anything about it. Endless woods to explore carefree.
It was much more common and well-accepted to just be wandering through the woods with your friends as children in the 80's. Nowadays people want to have you cited for trespassing just for trying to rebuild that sweet BMX bike jump down in the ravine. Furthermore, if you try and make up for it in a gesture of good will, you get mean and skeptical looks when trying to pass out candy from your vintage windowless van.
dcamnc4143@reddit
Haha nice š. We did know who owed "our" woods. A super rich guy whose great grandfather founded the town and had a bunch of land. He even had a private airstrip on the property. Needless to say, we kids completely ignored him.
stuhstutter@reddit
Well I'm glad the town founder had the foresight to cover up that old well so you kids didn't fall down into it.
dcamnc4143@reddit
I am too
jumpinjimmy789@reddit
It was always on private property. We just had no concept of that when we were kids.
dcamnc4143@reddit
True, it was private property when we were kids too. We didn't care though.
smokywater50@reddit
I did that a while back and I could barely recognize the place we played at. It was cool, nature took over my place also, and I donāt think people played there anymore
Fast_Green_6731@reddit
The woods I used to play in are now a damn high density apartment complex. Killed the property values of the entire area.
MattDinOC@reddit
Mine has been replaced by a massive commercial distribution / logistics center. And some houses. And a tollway. Funny how so many of us have similar stories.
PowdurdToast@reddit
Youāre so fortunate to be able to do this. Iād love to do the same, but those woods are long gone and replaced by houses now. That fact makes me really sad. Thatās a beautiful place by the way. š¤
TacticalPurpose@reddit
This was my first thought.
Thunder-Fist-00@reddit
Those are awesome looking woods.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
They do be awesome, yeah.
Background_Wrap_4739@reddit
At least you still revisit it as it was. The one I grew up exploring is now all develoepdz
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yeah, I see that happened to many..
Sad.
Possible_Shoulder_50@reddit
My old woods area was cleared for houses š¢. It was between 2 neighborhoods and we would have ābattlesā with the kids in that neighborhood. It would be full on war type activity. We would have hidden caches of dirt bombs and weād use sticks as swords/ staffs. Injuries were never reported to the parents. Ahhh, the good old days š
MattDinOC@reddit
Sounds amazing. Dirt clod wars were fun for sure. Summer version of snowball fights. š
SR70@reddit
I do this almost daily. I live at my childhood home where we have 45 acres of woods and trails behind our house. It is so cathartic. I happened to take my grandkids hiking the other day in this pic. Hopefully theyāll remember.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Wonderful..
Nuclear-poweredTaxi@reddit
Is everyone just going to ignore the green forest pixie?
goldenratio1111@reddit
Thank you for making me go back and look.
Don't follow the lights. OP!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Ohhh.
But it's so beautiful!
Friendly_Tell6664@reddit
Itās been 19 years since I was here
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Oh man.
Looks great!
Friendly_Tell6664@reddit
With my cousins & their kids ā¦
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Youāve got a proper raft!
Historical_Project86@reddit
I bet there are less "erotic art" magazines there now. ;-)
I actually live back in my home town, so I regularly run past the houses I grew up in, and yes past the woods. I used to get a little nostalgic, but not anymore.
fireforge1979@reddit
Awesome spot!! A fort and Tarzan swing would be sweet in there!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
We had both.
Also, tree fort. And underground too.
AZPeakBagger@reddit
I went back to my old hometown for the first time in about 35 years over the past summer. Retraced a number of my old walking routes to school or to friends houses and that was weird. Thinking that I used to wander the same streets and play at that playground almost 50 years ago. Took pictures of my friend's old house and sent them pics. Which they liked because for a few of them they hadn't been back to their old house in a decade or two.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Thank you for your story
Siren_of_Madness@reddit
Bittersweet.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
A bit, happy it's still there.
Remember those endless summer days?
KermitTheMawg@reddit
Aging = time speeding up is my thought at 40yo. It sucks ass
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Aye..
Unkindly-bread@reddit
Iāve not been back to āmyā woods for some time. Last time there was no evidence of the bike paths that we used to ride every day. Maybe I should go look again.
A friendās daughter and her husband moved into the house right next door to where I grew up. Sheās due with a baby this month, so I may need to introduce them to āmyā woods!
I remember in 1990 when my parents moved to a new house, and backed up to a commons area of woods. 90-91 was my senior year, so I didnāt explore like when I was younger. Later I brought my in-laws to the house to have dinner w my family after my wife and I got engaged. I walked around a bit w my father in law and he looked around nostalgically and said, āI used to hunt these woods when I was youngerā!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Thank you for your story..
OneMustAlwaysPlanAhe@reddit
Bet it seems much smaller now, my old stomping grounds sure did
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yes, it did,
But also kind of not..
IYKWIM..
Present-Ambition6309@reddit
Waiting for Robin Hood to show up, myself.
KermitTheMawg@reddit
Orā¦HIM!!
Present-Ambition6309@reddit
Yea but then Iād be asking āwhat did I eat that caused me to see cartoons irl?ā š¤£
Capybara_Chill_00@reddit
My woods had an old hollow tree, half alive and full of wild honeybees. Right next to it was a unique rock outcropping about five feet high that weād scramble on top of, listen to the bees, and chuck acorns into the creek. After college I went back once, bees were still there buzzing away happily but our trails had disappeared and there were no kids in the woods.
A few years back I looked on Google Maps in satellite view. The rock got split or dynamited as it was obscuring the lines of sight out of someoneās new drivewayā¦I could barely recognize it but the shape was the exact same, it looks like they just took the top off. The creek now runs in front of the houses and crosses under the road in a new concrete culvert; a wall of riprap stones keeps everything where it should be. The bee tree is gone.
I wonder if they even bothered to have a beekeeper out to capture the hive and harvest the honey, or if they just bulldozed the whole thing.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Ah, the hollow tree. My buddy got stuck in it.
Shame it's gone..
ImaginaryVacation708@reddit
Pave paradise put up a parking lotā¦.
Adiantum@reddit
My mom sold her house and land in 2017 and moved into assisted living. The last time I drove past the house, the entire hillside was logged, it made me cry, it was such a beautiful forest.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
People are horrible...
ChessieChesapeake@reddit
Good to see it's still woods and not a development.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Yeah, many are not so lucky..
Maleficent-Adagio150@reddit
Did you play? I want to hear that you played.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
All sorts of things ā
Ee built forts in the trees, fought whole battles with wooden swords and shields, made our own bows and arrows,
And we had an obstacle course with jumps that we raced over on our bikes.
And of course, hide-and-seek, tag..
ParticularBed6338@reddit
I did this with my teenage son to go on a hike. We got to the bottom of the hill and the trail just stopped, all over grown and no walking path. I turned to him and said āI blame the internet for thisā. We carried on trying not to get poison ivy and made the best of it. It was still a fun hike.
Western-Calendar-352@reddit
Did you find the porn stash still in the same place?
Spidergawd68@reddit
Came in to make sure someone asked this.
Leaving satisfied.
cocosailing@reddit
Same!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Nah.
That was in aan old barn that's gone now.
Kanya_Mkavry@reddit
In the words of Martin Q Blank, "you can never go home again. But I guess you can shop there."
Prudent_Baker_2851@reddit
The woods we went into are no longer accessible, at least not through the way we accessed them. A part of them got developed for an office park, and it changed the drainage around the area, so what was once our access point got swampy and impassible. My parents still live nearby, so I'm in the neighborhood at least once a week. I still visit the nature preserve that's not too far from the neighborhood. My daddy and grandaddy started taking me in there around the time I was five years old, so many great memories tied up in the place.
Do any of you ever come close to having a panic attack when you get nostalgic about stuff? Sometimes I do. It's never a full-on attack, just comes close. I'll start thinking about the past or trying to remember something, and it ends up making me feel anxious. I had a good childhood, so it's not like I'm bringing up memories of the times I suffered abuse or anything like that.
Klutzy_Doubt_6048@reddit
I grew up in a neighborhood by the Saluda River in SC. 40+ years ago, I spent my childhood free time with my friends playing there. Now itās a county park with sidewalk trails and boat landing. My wife and I go there all the time.
Nostalgia with an upgrade
Klutzy_Doubt_6048@reddit
I grew up in a neighborhood by the Saluda River in SC. 40+ years ago, I spent my childhood free time with my friends playing there. Now itās a county park with sidewalk trails and boat landing. My wife and I go there all the time.
Nostalgia with an upgrade
Banana_Prudent@reddit
Lovely :-)
SMJR07@reddit
This hit me hard. Iāve been dreaming about going back to the patch of woods that me and my brothers would play in. I think about the last time we walked out of those woods together and how we didnāt know it was going to be the last.
JuJu_Wirehead@reddit
The woods and desert I grew up playing in have been paved over and turned into neighborhoods or parking lots.
Sensitive-Elk7093@reddit
I would be too scared, or smart, to trounce around where we ran around playing as kids. It was a large swamp in Louisiana that did have all the critters, good and definitely bad, there but kids are fearless (and a little dumb)! As someone once said, you can never go home!!!
doctor-rumack@reddit
I had to do a double take and make sure I wasn't in r/golf.
No-Economics-8239@reddit
We built what we called a tree fort in ours from lumber scavenged from built sites. It wasn't much of a fort. More just a platform between two trees. The subdivision was new, so there weren't a lot of kids yet. And we all hung out there.
At some point, they started clearing the woods to make more subdivisions. When they got to our 'fort', they stopped for a while. Out 'secret' now laid bare for anyone to see. I presume someone got confused or worried and didn't want to cut it down without getting an okay from someone important. And since we didn't ask permission from the land owners, I doubt they had any clue what it was doing there or who had built it.
A few months later, the march of progress resumed, and now the fort is long gone, and the trees are replaced with houses. You don't grow up all at once. But there are certain moments you always carry with you.
SmokedLimburger@reddit
Itās funny. Iāve lived a bunch of different places and when I think back about the good times, I remember the woods, the lakes, the sports fields, and the bike/hiking trails that were the base of so many of my experiences. Iām remembering many of them right now, thank you for your post OP!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
I salute you..
Good travels!
flaginorout@reddit
My woods are gone. Subdivisions now.
But I knew those woods like the back of my hand. Probably 250 acres of them. I can still visualize my way though those woods, and every feature.
ribbit_ribbit_splat@reddit
I never lived near the woods, but I still have the layout of my summer camp in my mind. Sometimes I dream Iām there and I know where everything is. I love those dreams!
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Now that's a mindmap that speaks to me..
WelshRarebit2025@reddit
Omg I have a couple of places like that. I havenāt been back yet and guess I will try to some day. I will brace myself to them being destroyed. Our house was.l destroyed by a completely ugly 1980s renovation.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I walked past my dad's old fort, that turned into my cousins and I's fort when we were kids. All that remains are a bit of the rafter boards and some shingles. Even the rocks that it once sat on are not almost completely covered back into the ground. I get memories from it every time I walk past it.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Our underground shelter and the trenches have become nothing more than a few vague pits..
Nature takes back what belongs to her.
NoUniqueNameNeeded@reddit
My woods were a ravine and it has been 39 years since I visited them. Loved going down to play in the creek and catch any creepy-crawly I could find.
I am afraid if I go back, I would be hit with a trespassing violation.
I really miss those days.
MaryK007@reddit
Thereās magic hereā¦
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
It was as if the forest recognised me, held its breath for a moment, then embraced me..
I_Am_The_Zombie_Woof@reddit
Did you find your dads saw? You know heās still pissed about it
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Heh, he gave me an old one. And a hammer, bag of nails, big ones, and rope.
My dad knew things..
HighSideSurvivor@reddit
Virtually all of the āwoodsā where I once played has been developed into suburbs. My parents have lived in the same house since 1981, so I have seen the transformation as it unfolded.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Sorry to hear that..
pocketdare@reddit
Well at least they haven't paved paradise and put up a parking lot ... yet
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
Will not happen here, it's a forgotten corner of a very old and protected estate.
REDDITSHITLORD@reddit
My woods are now a shitty subdivision full of McMansions.
HorseyDung@reddit (OP)
They're still there, just close your eyes..
Nervous-Rooster7760@reddit
This. Last time I went to them they were gone an houses were there. Sadā¦
Typeonetwork@reddit
I lived within 30 min from mountain woods but lived near farmer's fields catching grasshopper and catch and release water snakes near the cannel. Now only the cannel remains.