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There is no campsite open north of Batona campground in Wharton. The Brendan Byrne campsites are closed until April. They are not far from Pakim Pond but closed for the winter. You would have to hike trough to Batona about 20 miles for the first open campsites.

In the days of my silly youth, on the Sunday after Christmas I walked up Allen Road to the Oswego, crossed it waist deep where the pilings of the old bridge still stand and then crossed the canal. From there I walked through Simm Place and startled about a dozen deer. About a half mile east from...

That's a good idea woodjin. I did look at the aerial and the old road appears running SSE from the west corner of the Clay Works at Pasadena. The spot where the rusted out car used to be is at an intersection with a road curving south and east from the railroad at Bullock, The next...

Good idea Woodjin, it shows there clearly. It is the white line running SSE from the western end of Brookbrae. After crossing the railroad tracks, the intersection with the road curving south and east from the Bullock crossing is where the rusted car used to be. The next intersection is the...

Al, if we are talking about the same road, the car was on end in a hole, heavily rusted and peppered with shot. I first saw it about 10 years ago as well. About a year ago it was gone and had been replaced by a pile of about 20 tires. When you follow the road to the south, away from Pasadena...

Thanks Guy, Do you think the road we stumbled on may have had something to do with the works on Pasadena Road?

A friend and I were mucking around in Greenwood a week ago and came upon what I first took to be a series of small cellar holes. After noticing they were all in a row on either side of a raised treadway, I realized that they were probably mini-quarry holes used to mine material to build up the...