Have a National Park as Your Backdrop
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Nice. Your link makes me think of the "house with an incredible view" which we always pass while driving up an unpaved mountain road to Dolly Sodds in WV's Monongahela National Forest. I've always dreamed of living in that place. It was for sale for years, but I never priced it knowing it would be a penny or two above my affordability range. 
The Water Gap has many homes with incredible views. I know of a few homesteads, lost in the mountains, that are empty shells, ready to collapse. The views from them are just breath taking. Walpack and the surrounding areas hide them away. When you see them, atleast for me, I think that if I could fix this place up... it would be my Graceland.
I'll confess to daydreaming about some of those places up in the DWG myself. I think I prefer the weather down here though; I got my fill of long snowy winters after 20 years in upstate NY.
As an affordable alternative, look for a place on the edge of a State Forest or WMA in the Pines. I've got one, and my "incredible view" is just trees but that's fine with me.
As an affordable alternative, look for a place on the edge of a State Forest or WMA in the Pines. I've got one, and my "incredible view" is just trees but that's fine with me.
Sweetpea actually called about that house Bill.She got the woman who owned it but she said her son was in charge of selling it.Pea called him and he never called back and she didn't pursue it knowing it had to be outrageous.The house can no longer see the road because of the untended trees growing in front of it and it looks like it needs repair from what can be glimpsed through the trees now.Nice. Your link makes me think of the "house with an incredible view" which we always pass while driving up an unpaved mountain road to Dolly Sodds in WV's Monongahela National Forest. I've always dreamed of living in that place. It was for sale for years, but I never priced it knowing it would be a penny or two above my affordability range.
Many of those places in the DWGNRA are to be razed by the NPS, I believe its something like 25% of them. They were the booty of the failed Tocks Island dam fiasco. Its been discussed here quite a few times.
Yeah, 46er, I was aware of the plans to demolish many of the buildings. I saw a few that needed to be razed. The outer walls folding out like a collapsing accordion, a danger only to hikers foolish enough to venture close. Arson and time will remove most of the buildings before the NPS. Anyway, I still enjoy the area.