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Location: Mission Control Total Likes: 3986 likes
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| | |  | Re: So you've asked for a location! < Reply # 104 on 5/31/2016 1:15 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by fradd Well what about a guide to finding places then? People say "just go look". Okay, I can drive around in my town on ALL the different streets for about 5 hours or probably more, but I won't find anywhere to explore. I can drive around the entire state for weeks. It's too big to "just go look", especially because I'd have to come back home every night. I assume many of you who say to "just go look" live on the East coast where there is a metric-f*ck-ton of locations just because it's very old. But out in the West it's rather hard to find anything besides mines and other tourist destinations. In Denver, places get demo'd rather fast. So yeah, a guide would be nice. A detailed guide.
| So where do you live? Can't be much worse than W TX. There are places everywhere, jeeezse. I drove 100 miles to get into Atlas F sites. Didn't ask anyone where or how. Took me a day or so to plot out possible ones and two days to scout and explore them. You want a winner every time by riding on someone else back. No free rides from me unless you're damn fine... never mind. You're suppose to contribute here not panhandle. Posted by Steed
How much are you willing to pay?
| He better contact Master Explorer Seph Lawless
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| |  | Re: So you've asked for a location! < Reply # 106 on 5/31/2016 2:50 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by fradd Well what about a guide to finding places then? People say "just go look". Okay, I can drive around in my town on ALL the different streets for about 5 hours or probably more, but I won't find anywhere to explore. I can drive around the entire state for weeks. It's too big to "just go look", especially because I'd have to come back home every night. I assume many of you who say to "just go look" live on the East coast where there is a metric-f*ck-ton of locations just because it's very old. But out in the West it's rather hard to find anything besides mines and other tourist destinations. In Denver, places get demo'd rather fast. So yeah, a guide would be nice. A detailed guide.
| My guide: When going to or from work/store/family/etc. keep your eyes open and try different routes. It always worked for me. <===midwesterner
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| Dee Ashley
Location: DFW, Texas Gender: Female Total Likes: 1378 likes
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| | |  | Re: So you've asked for a location! < Reply # 111 on 7/26/2017 8:44 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by laurel Does anyone have any recommendations for locations in Arkansas or Tennessee they would recommend for a new explorer? I would love to see some pictures too!
| The Delta region (both the TN/MS and the AR sides) is truly a historic and exploring gold mine if you just look around. I drove all the way out there from Dallas, Texas - simply based on what I found by looking at Google Earth/maps and a little bit of research. Once I actually got there, I found a ton more than I had even initially discovered by way of those methods. I believe that a lot of this is due to multiple factors that are mostly tied together: 1. this is one of the poorest economical regions in the country 2. there are residual effects still felt from the Civil War era - both in the economy and in the demographics of that area. 3. *Shrinking populations. *That last one is a great indicator of towns with a high rate of abandonments. I've recently had a lot of success by simply researching areas with shrinking populations. Edited to add the photos:
The first photo is from the foyer of a country club - part of a larger parent facility that was closed in recent years:  Distance Learning by Dee Ashley, on Flickr The last three are from two or three different schools in the Delta region:  Because I Can by Dee Ashley, on Flickr  Distance Learning by Dee Ashley, on Flickr  Forgotten corner of a forgotten town by Dee Ashley, on Flickr There are tons of things to see out there, these are just the first ones I came across that were actually tagged accurately (I suck at organizing this kind of stuff).
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| Dee Ashley
Location: DFW, Texas Gender: Female Total Likes: 1378 likes
 Write something and wait expectantly.
| | |  | Re: So you've asked for a location! < Reply # 113 on 7/26/2017 10:47 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by laurel
Good idea, Ashley! I never thought about it that way. What is usually your plan when it comes to looking for new areas?
| I was never very good with plans, lol. That said, there is a ton of information right here on UER. Here are a couple links I've found very useful. http://www.uer.ca/...=125246&currpage=1 http://www.uer.ca/...d=83183&currpage=3 http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=119211 http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=117818 Like I said, there are tons of them (check in the Tutorials, Rookie, and Main forums for many of these types of threads). I included some specifics in the first couple of links that I don't want to re-type, but it's pretty much all there. Lastly, For those of us in the US, our own .gov websites can be extremely useful (I'm really thinking about the Census bureau and best one is the EPA site). I'm willing to bet most other countries have useful government sites as well...
| I wandered till the stars went dim. |
| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1736 likes
 Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| |  | Re: So you've asked for a location! < Reply # 114 on 7/27/2017 12:11 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've also found that keeping my ear to the ground can help me find locations. Set up a Google Alert system for terms like your city's name, your county, and words such as "abandoned," "derelict," "blight," and "redevelopment." Buy a daily subscription to a local newspaper, and keep an eye out for abandonment slated for redevelopment- bureaucracy talks a lot before it acts, so you may have months to explore before construction or demolition begins. Discreetly ask around your town hall and local historical society.
Don't be afraid to look outside the box when it comes to finding information. The best locations are the ones you have to dig the deepest for.
| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
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| |  | Re: So you've asked for a location! < Reply # 118 on 11/15/2017 4:11 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Avius Property Owners, Security Personnel, and Law Enforcement Officers are known to frequent this site in order to passively and actively prevent further exploration. Vandals, Scrappers, and Arsonists are known to frequent this site in order to find places to Vandalize, Scrap, and Arse.
| I don't think that's entirely true. The frequenting part anyways. (If it is, hi FBI! Hi NSA! Hi Trump!)I think a lot of people saw a few videos and stumbled here to learn more, browsed the DB to see if that shopping center down the road is on there and only sparingly returned once they found out it wasn't. I'm sure that a handful departments and security agencies have a few guys that keep track of an abandonment or two but that's about it, usually it's those old big power plants and factories (Like Bailey Power Plant in Winston-Salem was, it's undergoing renovations and looks really nice) that people could get seriously hurt or killed in. As for the scrappers any building with shuttered windows is fair game, including those on here. Taggers/vandals just paint on anything abandoned or not. Abandoned buildings are a magnet though. Arsonists... just do arson-y stuff. Probably totally wrong, but it is possible that there is an inaccuracy there.
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