Holidays, especially Christmas can open the gates and doors to sites normally hard or impossible to do. Many companies partially or completely shut down. Security is at a minimal or even none existent. Police tend to be tied up with other concerns as well.
Only downside is more people are home. Predawn Christmas is a golden opportunity for tight sites. If you have one in mind this is the time to give it a go.

While this may be true, I have better things to do on Christmas morning.

I guess security would probably be nicer as well (if you get caught). The main problem I find in winter is that you leave a very visible trail in the snow.

I love New Years Day explores. Misjudged security at a location last year though. Luckily the snow kept him in the vehicle and his eyes weren't scoping too far from his heater controls.

Obligatory holiday leftovers pic

ME RRY CHRTS MAS by No Stone Unturned Photography, on Flickr

Super bowl Sunday's also a fantastic day, security guards love sportsball. While holidays are great be weary of the type of location you may be spending your holidays at if you're in the northeast though, generating stations and subways might not be the best of ideas given the recent trends in news. Don't want some hero calling you in to the cops ;)

its been dead in SF this week. even my friends that do uber and lyft have been commenting on just how much of a "ghost town" it appears to be.

thanks for the heads up!

A few years ago on Christmas Eve I explored a local site that was only ever going to be possible on a holiday day, due to it's very active conversion taking place and lots of cameras dotted all over the place. Ended up having a great time and me and my mate who I was with are the only people who ever got to explore the place, admittedly only two of the buildings that weren't sealed up but I take it as a win.

On either Boxing Day (December 26th, big in the UK not so much in America) or New Years Day coming up I am going to have a proper go at a local leisure centre which closed earlier this year but is situated a few hundred metres from the police headquarters and backs onto a still open Library, got to be worth a shot...

Ditto on what anatomic says about Super Bowl Sunday. There's a couple places I've been to that were only ever doable during the Super Bowl.

Timing is everything...

Posted by blackhawk Holidays, especially Christmas can open the gates and doors to sites normally hard or impossible to do. Many companies partially or completely shut down. Security is at a minimal or even none existent. Police tend to be tied up with other concerns as well. Only downside is more people are home. Predawn Christmas is a golden opportunity for tight sites. If you have one in mind this is the time to give it a go.

I've turned Christmas into a ritual over here for foreign urban explorers who have no family and whichever Koreans aren't Christian enough to spend all day in church. We load up with booze and go underground every December 25, though we've missed a few years. Here's last year.

New year's day exploring properly hung over of course


Christmas eve exploring properly bundled up


Day after new year's exploring so glorious


Got busted there 6 days later re-visiting

Posted by Retro_Chick Got busted there 6 days later re-visiting http://i.imgur.com/sUlnUDe.jpg

What was the outcome of this? Just a fine?

What a bummer :/

Posted by matis What was the outcome of this? Just a fine? What a bummer :/

Haha! Cop ripped up our ticket during the drive to get my car that had been towed during the ordeal! Lucked out big time!

Posted by Retro_Chick Haha! Cop ripped up our ticket during the drive to get my car that had been towed during the ordeal! Lucked out big time!

holy shit, dodged that bullet!

Posted by Steed I've turned Christmas into a ritual over here for foreign urban explorers who have no family and whichever Koreans aren't Christian enough to spend all day in church. We load up with booze and go underground every December 25, though we've missed a few years. Here's last year. http://www.daehanm...stchristmas/92.jpg

That looks like a lot of fun. Beats gospel.