Went for a drive today......

So I got bored today and drove up a trail not too far from my school. It turned out to be an old gas road. It got kinda muddy and you could see the spots where people kept turning around at so they didn't have to go up the muddy hill.... Well, I have a bit of an ego problem so I locked her in 4 hi and took off... I spun the entire way up the hill. Once at the top, my stupidity paid off.... I came up a very very very old one room house in the woods. I go to school in a very poor area of Kentucky and I would venture to say the house was inhabited until around the late 60's.(i think this because of the addition of a cast iron woodburning stove chimney and the remains of a late 40's early 50's chevy pickup in the edge of the ditch) This house probably dates back to being built during the mid to late 1800's and you could see the home improvements made over the years.... The floor is gone and the house is about to fall down. I'm glad I got to see it when I did. This sort of thing (Kentucky/ American history) really interests me. Although some of you may be bored by this, I wanted to share the pics with you anyways..... so here ya go.....

Looks like a nice find. But I wanna see the muddy hill!!!

Now that's cool! I loved playing around up in the North Country (Adirondacks) when in college with my old '85 S10 4x4. Same kinds of old buildings.

thats like the trail/road i go 4wheelin at all the time, tons of abandoned cars and stuff and old shacks and 40's/50's chevy trucks

see, this is where i get confused... where this house is at is the widest spot on the entire trail... it is no longer a road... the gas company truck around here are 2500 series silverados and rams.... they are lifted and run buckshot maxis mudders.... each one is also equipped with a Grizzly 650 4wheeler in the bed.... the gas roads are jacked and noone drives on them.....haha so this is one of the 4 wheeler trails to an old gas well....... full size would have side-to-side clearance issues...lol but I guess a K5 blazer could pretty much knock down the trees and make its own path.. at least thats what id do.. haha

cool!! I love local history!!! it's so neat to see into the past!

that looks pretty sweet. i think it's cool to find old houses like that and kinda see what they're like.

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ORIGINAL: a_tack

Thats where I parked my car.


anyway, good find!!

awesome pics!

I love stuff like that. It just makes you wonder about the people that lived there and the lives they may have lived. Every wall has a stroy, ya know?

yeah.... I would venture to say (judging by the area) there is an old moonshine still or at least the remains of one somewhere close by... I'm afraid to look though, just in case one is still in operation or there is a pot patch in its place... you can't really walk much through the woods here without a risk of being shot over shine or pot.... It seems to be a big problem in southeastern KY..... now I live in northeastern KY... not as much of this goin on because it is more industrialized and there are more jobs.. people dont have to grow pot where I live to support their families...