Read a post on another forum about some towns around the Appalachian mountains....pretty amazing read. Didn't know places like that existed. Anyone have any neat stories?

i've been all over the appalachians, run across several dumpy shanty towns way back in the woods. just kept driving

never been anywhere too backwoods but the place i felt most likely to get stopped on was the Cotton Boll out side of Vernon. Thems is some mean ol country folk when you get drunk and dance with their wimmins.

Lake Fork Marina? I saw some creepy dude playin a banjo there and his buddy was making squeeling sounds......

Picked up and delivered freight to a lot of small seemingly back woods places in eastern Tenn, W. Va, N.C. Back woods settlement that got a block grant to develop and industry.

Been to some very backwoods places in deep E. Tx. and Louisiana. But the most unusual backwoods place I've ever been was Intercourse, Pa.

Some back roads late at night around Loranger, LA can be pretty damn spooky. Best not to linger and look at some of the goings on.

Heck I grew up in a place so far in the backwoods we thought the movie Deliverance was a documentary.


Been in some remote places in the USA but outside of the USA would be the most noteworthy.

Talco Tx

I went to Ennis once.

Next time you visit Caddo Lake stop by Karnack.

possum holler west virginia

Holdenville Oklahoma.

Fishing camps on the Sabine River south of Carthage.

I want to visit Hotshot, Louisiana.

There is a little community below the dam at Dam B (Lake Steinhagen) outside of Jasper that you can hear the banjo music for a mile before you get there.

That little convenience store at the intersection of 17 and 182 in Alba. More meth heads and inbreds there than just about anywhere.

I lived in LaPlace, LA for a year back in the 80s. It's about 25 miles up river (Mississippi) from New Orleans. It wasn't too bad, but most of the smaller towns around there were full of French speaking Cajuns, some of whom lived in the swamps.

i'm here now - Midland....another reason why i rarely ever venture out...except to LEAVE!

My wife is from W. Va. Her parents now live in Wise, Va. I've been to several really backwoods towns in that area. Paw Paw, W. Va. one of the leaders of the pack.

My wife's grandmother passed away several years ago. I was the only male there that wasn't A) drunk; B) wearing Sunday's best NASCAR cap; C) wasn't wearing a 70's leisure suit from Goodwill.

Hope, AR is right up there too. Birthplace of Bill Clinton. All I can say is, "Wow".

Intercourse is very backwoods, right along with Blue Ball and Paradise Nothing but Amish country there.

Just don't make eye contact with the locals

There is a town in NW PA in the mountains, called Renovo. Old coal mining town that is pretty much abandoned. A buddy of mine has a cabin near there. That is backwoods. Any store in town that is open closes around dusk, and is closed on Sunday except during hunting and trout season.

Bugscuffle, Tx

MO

Y'all forgot about Bird in Hand PA.