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Sheavy
Location: Hoover, Alabama Gender: Male Total Likes: 569 likes
| | | Re: Discovering your own locations, what are some good methods? < Reply # 3 on 4/22/2016 12:45 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Found all sorts of stuff through google earth, along/near railways and rivers can turn up plenty of places. Also historical markers can lead to stuff. Try google searching using other words than "abandoned", like forgotten, vacant, or business/plant closings. Just a few places found using the above. Untitled by Abandoned Alabama, on Flickr Untitled by Abandoned Alabama, on Flickr Untitled by Abandoned Alabama, on Flickr
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| Peptic Ulcer
Location: Katy, TX Gender: Male Total Likes: 839 likes
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| | | | Re: Discovering your own locations, what are some good methods? < Reply # 4 on 4/22/2016 1:09 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Obviously google earth is the easiest method. Here are a few others: 1. Follow the tracks. Railroads almost always yield interesting places to explore. 2. Follow the river or lake. Same as above 3. Every Tuesday I post news articles here that often will give exact street addresses. Maybe some are in your area: http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=120477 4. Ask. Seems simple enough. Many of my best explores have come from just talking to people in small towns. Almost every town has a place that teenagers go to party and often it's abandoned. Also there are usually closed churches, factories, farms or something in these places. And don't discount the cops. It seems counterintuitive but cops are GREAT sources of information. If you are honest and tell them what you want to do they are almost always ok with it. 5. I think there is a website for just about every state that lists ghost towns. Wikipedia also has a huge list of these broken out by state and often lists gps coordinates for the towns. Also look for "haunted" places on the web. Most of it is touristy type stuff but sometimes you find a gem hidden in the dog shit if you're willing to dig deep and long enough. 6. Get in your car and drive. Unplug from the electronics and go drive around. Get out of the city and hit the small towns that dot our highways. Plan on having lunch in a café somewhere. The absolute best explores are ones that you don't overthink and just find by happenstance. Even if you don't find anything at least you got to experience someplace different. No matter where you are, there is probably something closer than you think to explore. With more experience you will start to recognize abandonments in places you would have never thought to look. Good luck and happy exploring!
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| Piecat
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gender: Male Total Likes: 97 likes
| | | Re: Discovering your own locations, what are some good methods? < Reply # 7 on 4/22/2016 5:43 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | It depends what you want to find. Old farm houses can usually be found by driving on back roads or keeping an eye out when on the interstate. These are usually a dime a dozen. Easily found and usually vandalized by local teens. Usually not worth visiting, but there are worthwhile ones out there. Old hospitals/institutions/schools/asylums are usually locked up tight. They can also be a bitch to find on your own. Usually a quick google search is all it takes to find these, but good luck getting in. Every school or hospital I've tried to get in has had security systems or has been trashed. Old NIKE and military installations can be cool, but they're old and most of them are gone or have private owners. Here's a list of NIKE's on Wikipedia: https://en.wikiped...Nike_missile_sites Usually the best way to find these is research, as they aren't meant to be easy to spot from the air. Every abandoned industrial building I've found has either been next to railroad tracks, a river, or both. These are the coolest in my opinion. Follow rail tracks and rivers on google maps, and make note of any buildings that look slightly abandoned. Damaged roofs, overgrown/empty parking lots, broken structures, etc. My favorite way is to look at EPA superfund sites, or environmental remediation sites. In Wisconsin the DNR has an online resource called BRRTS. The "Bureau for Remediation and Redevelopment Tracking System (BRRTS) on the Web". Great resource, I've found quite a few good abandoned buildings with this tool. IMO the best abandoned buildings are the old ones from the early 1900's. Long before they cared about the environment, many of these companies have gone bankrupt by now. The land and buildings still remain, but only because it would be too costly to demolish and decontaminate them by EPA standards.
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| sirpsychosexy
Location: Netherlands Gender: Male Total Likes: 396 likes
| | | | Re: Discovering your own locations, what are some good methods? < Reply # 14 on 4/25/2016 10:44 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've discovered many buildings due to news articles like "-company- bankrupt, -building- has to close" "-abandoned building- thorn in the side of local residents" "Renovation of -building- starting on -date-" (which also rarely truly starts on that date) Then again there are many abandonments you can't find a thing about on the internet. My best discovery was pretty much unfindable online, except some vague history and some exterior pictures on a historic pictures website. Houses you probably won't find online too, unless you can bother to go through real estate sites and filter the good stuff out of hundreds of modern houses. Here in Holland you have something called 'anti-squat', companies that offer temporary rental of rooms in abandoned buildings to protect them from being illegally squatted. They dó know the good stuff, but deliberately don't put it online Another good one, there are national heritage websites in Holland, Belgium, France and Germany. Don't know if the USA has something like that? It often has tons of buildings officially classified as national heritage, but that doesn't mean that anyone is doing anything to save them. You can find a lot of abandonments in great decay, especially industrial.
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