Abandoned Road Leads to Magical Discovery
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My uncle use to live back in there in the area you did the first video in. The state had bought his land and paid to move his house. He now lives not far from the old location in the same house.
It would be wonderful if there were photos of this community when it was alive and populated. So heartbreaking that those folks had to give up their homes. Thank you for taking us along, Cliff.
Those crocuses are gorgeous! You maybe the only person to see them for decades. Thank you for filming the bees. This was wonderful, Cliff! You were in the right place at the right time.
Wow, the crocuses...never have I seen that many. It is magical and one I'd visit every Spring. Thanks for taking us there. Your explorations are always interesting.
Thanks. Interesting to see such relatively-modern archaeology; it's amazing how quickly nature reclaims it.
She's no slouch.
That is one of my favorite places to walk and ride bike. My mom cut off a piece of forsythia back off that v road a long time ago. They grew and my dad gave me 2 plants off the original bush. I still have them in my yard. My dad is gone but I think of him every spring when they bloom. The crocus were beautiful.. Nice video. Thanks Cliff.
I love to be rambling through the woods and find something like that. My favorite thing to do is discover old places that people once inhabited. Good video.
Absolutely fabulous! This is why we wander.
I feel so sad for the people who were made to leave their piece of Paradise. I absolutely loved this adventure! Thank you!
Oh wow! Those little snow crocus really naturalized! So beautiful. Loved the creek too!
It is always nice when you find something interesting when you find something interesting at the end of a road or trail. That was quite the display of crocuses growing wild. Great discovery Cliff.
Gosh I loved that. I remember planting freesias and croqui in my garden and they both spread everywhere and the perfume was heady. Spring is very pretty. That area would have been beautiful to live in. That hike was a real delight. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care
Such a delightful find to end your hike on. Thanks for sharing this colorful forest wonderland. 🌸
Hi Cliff, I used to love going off trail and just seeing what I can find. Those Crocuses were so pretty sat amongst the thorns.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
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Such mixed emotions about that area. Beautiful, but also tragic example of authoritarian governmental overreach. It makes me sick that the politicians who stole that land for no reason probably got voted right back into office. Eh well, we grabbed that land for nothing, let's call it a park and leave open well holes for the serfs and animals to fall into.
Amazing Crocuses. Stay well and be safe.
Saying hello from Lititz Pa
You took this hike on my birthday!
Happy Birthday 🎂
@@Julie-ms9ss thank you!
Love the crocuses, my few little are leaving now and the daffodils are up with buds! Thank you for another wonderful video!
Wonderful share!! Thankyou for letting me tag along. This made my day!😊
Fun.Good one!
Thanks.
You know Cliff a bit of map research would help you out quite a bit in exploring areas such as in Swatara State Park.
Older US Geological Survey quadrangle topographic maps are still available with survey dates going back as far as 1900, and sometimes older. I have had a lot of luck finding old USGS topo maps at some public libraries, but much better luck in libraries at local colleges.
They are typically in the reference materials section of these libraries, but you can make Xerox copies of them though. The great thing about USGS topo maps is that old roads, buildings, bridges, cemeteries, etc. are featured on them.
Just a thought that might be quite helpful for you.
Very thoughtful and obviously quite interested in the subject yourself. Thanks for sharing.
When I went to Hamilton College (Clinton NY) Oh! so many years ago I had a part time job being the curator of the topographic map collection. The college was a Federal Map Depository so we automatically got the new maps when they came out. My job was to file maps that people had used (just like the library - don't shelve your returned books so we can put them where they belong). When new maps would come in I'd pull the previous edition and put the new map in its place (it was a small room so there wasn't enough space to keep the old ones). The old maps were left in a stack so the two geology professors could look for geomorphic features or see if there was some interesting geology in the area. The rest were considered scrap so I would take them with me. I made envelopes from them or cut them up for letter writing on the back side. I even used them for Xmas present wrapping paper.
The US Geological Survey also has a web site were you can download topos. They are trying to include older maps and when I moved on retirement to be near my son I checked out our quadrangle and they had them back to the 30's.
what a great find! just beautiful.
The crocuses were stunning .
Beautiful hike, I live in a desert so all the trees and water are so lovely to see. Thanks for the video, be well, stay safe and enjoy the great spring weather. See you next time !
Beautiful place! enjoyed the hike, thank you for sharing!!!
I really enjoyed this hike. It's amazing how different the woods can be at different times of the year. I bet the area you were in would be impossible to find because of the brambles and thickets in a few weeks.
Nice to start seeing some signs of spring!
So pretty ! 💐 Thanks for sharing. 💐
What a lovely sight!
Beautiful day. Beautiful place.
That tiny bit of 💜 lavender color in an otherwise brown, dead area was showing you It's coming back to life. That was beautiful. 🌺Someone had to leave that gorgeous piece of nature with a babbling Brook. I'd love to have land like that. The bees were busy pollinating! 🪄 🐝 🐝 🐝 How cute!
thanks for the hike! 🌲
Thank you.
find some old wells on my trips from time to time had A dream one time about falling in one hope I never do
Perfect place to metal detect.
I think that white basin you were looking at was a bedpan. The crocuses are beautiful.
Old fashioned crocuses would multiply by spreading new bulbs. The untouched area is perfect for them to reproduce. Beautiful!
If you ever get out Pittsburgh way I would love to go hiking to some of our weird abandoned places in the woods. It's my favorite thing.
I'm in Verona PA
Observatory Hill/Nor'side Pittsburgh!
Fun stuff. Thank you.
I used to live on the old Rt. 443. The old road still has the macadam and lane lines on it last time I was there back in the early 2000’s. There were two big spruce trees in our front yard. That is the only way I can tell where our property was. It is LOADED ticks back there! 😖. Yes, it was a lovely place to grow up! The only place where I think there could have been all those crocuses is where old Rt. 443 curved off to the right. There were some houses back there. Might have to get the family back there for a hike again. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful find !!!!!!🌸🌸🌸🌸
What a delightful find. Over time crocus naturalize and spread.
How sad for those people to have lost their homes for a project they ended up never doing.
Awesome video!
It’s like a secret garden! Loved this!💖
Those pieces of tile look like the well tile we used when I was a kid about 70 7ears ago.
Cliff,
That's proof that Crocus' don't Croak:)
It amazing to me how, long after the people and homes are gone,
so many types of plants survive and continue to spread.
I'm getting older and "spreading" also, but a bit differently
Cheers,
Rik
That was great! Thank you!
once crocuses start, they do become wild and go everywhere they can (except in my latest yard - they all died). Great exploration, I love old homesites...thank you for the video.
I love your videos. Love from Leesport PA
The flowers multiply just by nature....that is why so many!!!!
Crocuses will Bloom through the snow 😁 that is how people would know spring is coming, they would be the first to show up 🌹
Both bees and rodents love to eat crocuses, ours are just blooming today here in illinois. Also blooming is iris reticulata, my snowdrops aren't even up yet, lol.
WE call those crocuses "rain lily" in South Africa. When they flower, it is usually about 3 days before it rains.
Keep it up.
The crocuses left on their own went wild.
Those are WILD CROCUS ! 😊😊😊
It's hard to believe that just 10 days after Cliff recorded this video, a snow squal moved through and 30 miles up Interstate 81. This happened (following is part of a tweet from a PA trooper)
confirms 6 fatalities and 24 injured in the I-81 N pileup crash that occurred on Monday, March 28.
Really enjoy your history videos. I’m in my mid 70’s and enjoy visiting history of PA. Getting old=shorter wandering. Anyway, when you show your map locations, would be nice if you show on a PA map of the location before you tighten it up for a closer map view. Just for a perspective of where in the state the location is located. Great job WW! I’m a history nerd, so your videos are great! Thanks!
Thx 4 sharing another cool adventure 😎 🌵🌴🌾
They were going to build a huge reservoir but first they said there were endangered turtles there and then they couldnt figure out how to keep the mine water out of the reservoir either so they scratched the project. Had a relative that lived on the other side of the swatty who the government strongarmed out of it.
Cool, thanks Cliff.
In Colorado we have Crocuses, Columbine state flower, and wild Iris, lavender and heather 😁🌹 they're easy to transplant
You videoed this on my birthday, lol, your videos are interesting and very educational. Thanks for showing your videos
That was lovely 😍. I really enjoyed our walk. Thankyou 💖
Amazing that the telephone/power pole lead is still running along the abandoned highway.
looks like spring beauties
That was magical indeed. Your video of the bees in the crocuses is phenomenally beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing. ,
And the yellow part of a crocus is called saffron you could make a huge amount of money saffron is very expensive by collecting those stamens
It is sad when the state decides to purchase someone’s land, they decide what is a fair price & you have no say in it. It was someone’s home, the flowers you pointed out let you know it was a pride & joy homestead.
This is sad because nothing was done but the government got the land anyways. 😢
Where I live in Farmington NY we have a bunch of crocus we didn't plant and the next door neighbor has alot too .so beautiful....
Cliff this you tube video was made on my Birthday. I just wanted to mentioned this
The road goes on so we will. - Cliff
PSA Crocus will naturalize easy & fast. First food for bee's... Look how heavy his legs are with pollen
Appreciate your background music, courtesy of the song birds 🌹... Thanks for sharing...
Looks like there chould be some good camp spots there
What a beautiful secret surprise! I've been trying to naturalize crocuses in my front lawn, but the squirrels get them, so constant replanting....doesn't look anything like that!
Really nice hike and discovery. Could the crocuses have spread out naturally to such a large area?
I wrote the above comment when paused on the clip earlier. Then you explained the spreading of the crocuses a few minutes later. Thanks.
5/18/2023 - Cliff, I enjoyed the video on Swatara State Park, the ‘crocus’ edition. We had a trip down to Lebanon today and followed the highway from Lickdale to Suedberg. Stopped at the old bridges (and new replacement), crossed over the bridge to old Rt 72. Turned left and went up to the remaining old bridge at the trailhead. Was it from this spot that you hiked parallel to I-81 to find the old abandoned roads? I’m going to go back and give it a try. Thanks for your video; I see you have a wealth of videos to view! - Dick Ague, Sugarloaf.
Boy would I love to swing a Metal Detector over some of these places you find.
Great video.
Cliff I was just wondering if you ave heard or seen anything that scared you like you just went nope and walked the other way???? I love yer content coming from a PA boy myself it's really cool to see the old stuff
Nope.
nice honey bee shot
that was a huge amount of pollen on that bees legs
terra cotta pipe. those groves are for o-rings
Beings of the forest took it back!? I can see their glyphs!!!
looks like yrars ago the home was built nr the stream....smart....always had fresh water
Crocuses do tend to spread out. I think they could have been spreading for a long time.
I swear that little bee turned and looked right at you "there's no cameras allowed in this forest bro"
Around this small town here all there is is no trespassing signs steel fencing around the river. Know where to walk they make it that you can't go nowhere you can't even swim around here cuz they took all the swimming from the quarries away from everybody. So all that's in this town is churches and bars and that's it.
Maybe the people that once lived there liked saffron a lot and they grew their own crocus to get the Saffron.
Maybe the thorns are the remnant of a rose garden?
I enjoyed your video except when you mentioned emminute domain. That gave me shivers. We came from the land and while it didn't happen to us the threat was there.
What a BEAUTIFUL spot to live ! ❤ Have u researched it ??? ☺
Around when did the state acquire the land?
If I remember correctly they started purchasing land in the 70’s by the middle of the 80’s all the properties were bought. When I was a teenager there were still a few houses left in the woods.
Reminds me of where I grew up in Ohio. It was magical.
wonder if the field of flowers was for honey bee hives
I am trying to visualize the " old highway " .. how many lanes would it be ?
And what years would you say this highway was in use ?
I very much enjoy your work.
You need a drone to expand your search.