Hi all, I just recently came across this forum. I am in the NoVa area. I've explored some of the more well known locations, but I am looking for some new places to go. Friends are going to be coming back home from collage over the holydays and we want to plan a trip.
The only 2 "real" urbanex locations i have been to are the reformatory and the nearby farm. I never really did it for the photography, and I almost always explore at night, so I don't have good photos but here are some:
As some of you know, the reformatory location was used as a training for firefighters and swat. This might explain the helicopter chilling on the roof of one of the prison buildings:
There where also a series of concrete sewer pipes laid out above ground to form a "maze"/obstacle course.
As for buildings themselves, they mostly just look like this:
I've also went to a big quarry pit,
which is not abandoned. I specifily brought a DSLR to try to take a nighttime photo, but without a tripod, it didn't turn out good.
This photo is taken on the edge of one of the quarry cliffs. You can see the light from the processing plant illuminating the hill of dirt from the right. Later on, me and my freind walked around the quarry till we where able to get onto the road leading into it. After about 3 minutes of walking down the road, we saw headlights behind us and had to hide behind some conveniently located piles of gravel as a truck drove by. After that we got the fuck out and decided it was best to never return. Its hard to get the scale of the quarry across, but i believe some of the cliffs are around 50 meters tall.
But yea if anyone has suggestions of where to go next I would be interested. I've been looking at some of the abandoned hospitals/asylums around MD and VA, that'll probably be my next trip.