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.

I went to Ennis once.

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

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.

The most isolated place I have been recently was
driving from Cripple Creek Co down to Canon City,
Phantom Canyon Rd. 50 + miles of uninterrupted canyon and
bad road. Not a place to break down or slide off
the road. No pavement , no guard rails ,no phone service,
no gas stations. No nuttin ..


MO

It's called Town Bluff, most notably Barlow Lake Estates.

Town Bluff is fine ... mostly fishing camps, weekend places, and assorted white trash(Barlow Lakes). Barlow lakes is actually a couple of miles down FM 92 from Town Bluff and is its own community. I live in the same county but west of there.

Further down the river toward Silsbee are true backwoods communities of Fred and Caney Head. Unique places, classic "river bottom" tribes. Go to town once a month for "staples". Entertainment is dog fighting, hog baying, etc.. Game warden doesn't go in either community (they border each other). The kids from Fred are bussed to my kids school in Warren (15 miles). Now, not all Fred is like this ... just the river bottom areas.

There are several clans that live there (I'll omit their last names). These are rough people and some dangerous. They live off the land in some cases (unheard of nowadays) and I'd guess inbreeding still happens. This area is in the Neches River bottom areas that is encompassed by the Big Thicket National Preserve Neches River Corridor, characterised by sloughs, backwater, hardwoods, and old river channel lakes .

Caney Head, that's the place. My sister teaches school in Woodville and has lots of stories about that area. Lot of backwoods places in the Big Thicket that don't see people very often.

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

The most isolated place I have been recently was
driving from Cripple Creek Co down to Canon City,
Phantom Canyon Rd. 50 + miles of uninterrupted canyon and
bad road. Not a place to break down or slide off
the road. No pavement , no guard rails ,no phone service,
no gas stations. No nuttin ..


MO

Bugscuffle, Tx

MO

Rio Grande City or Falcon Heights would fit the bill.

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.

too many places to list, there are some places in Oklahoma that just downright scare me.

where is that? I looked it up on google maps and it showed two places. one east of rusk and one nw of san antonio

too many places to list, there are some places in Oklahoma that just downright scare me.

too many places to list, there are some places in Oklahoma that just downright scare me.

Talco Tx

What's wrong with falcon heights?

Next time you visit Caddo Lake stop by Karnack.

Try livin' there like I did. The only "normal" there is the government village. The burg itself is pretty much mafiosos or related to mafiosos.

it keeps the rif raf out.

Anywhere in East Texas.

too many places to list, there are some places in Oklahoma that just downright scare me.

this is where they lived

Hell, I can't even afford a trampoline.

Sad picture txtrophy. It really is.

Upper Peninsula in Michigan.
Saw some strange people up there.

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

PS I'm new to this forum, transplanted from the THF

some of you guys act like you don't date your cousins.

if i had one i might

1978. Visiting a friend that had moved from Plano to Gilmer, Texas. Drove out to the county line for beer. No cars in the parking lot. Walked in, 6 or 8 guys playng cards, 8 teeth between all of them. They were drinking warm Old Milwaukee mixed with gin. A pregnant girl with one arm in a cast was watching. She had a horrible cough, I'm guessing TB. While we were waiting for our beer, a friendly discussion took a turn for the worse. Table was flipped over and an 8 inch blade was drawn. We backed out the screen door before things escalated. Up until that point, I had no idea people actually lived like that.

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Dahlonega Georgia up in the mountains. One and only time I had a shotgun pointed at me- and all we were doing was using the first ten feet of his driveway to turn around in our station wagon, but out he comes from his trailer with gun pointed. I was 15 at teh time, scared the #&%(*@ out of me.

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.

Fredonia, TX
Bryans Mill, TX (Thomas Lake)
Neosho Falls, KS

Town Bluff is fine ... mostly fishing camps, weekend places, and assorted white trash(Barlow Lakes). Barlow lakes is actually a couple of miles down FM 92 from Town Bluff and is its own community. I live in the same county but west of there.

Further down the river toward Silsbee are true backwoods communities of Fred and Caney Head. Unique places, classic "river bottom" tribes. Go to town once a month for "staples". Entertainment is dog fighting, hog baying, etc.. Game warden doesn't go in either community (they border each other). The kids from Fred are bussed to my kids school in Warren (15 miles). Now, not all Fred is like this ... just the river bottom areas.

There are several clans that live there (I'll omit their last names). These are rough people and some dangerous. They live off the land in some cases (unheard of nowadays) and I'd guess inbreeding still happens. This area is in the Neches River bottom areas that is encompassed by the Big Thicket National Preserve Neches River Corridor, characterised by sloughs, backwater, hardwoods, and old river channel lakes .

i'm leaving next week for a six month long hike through the appalachian mountains. in a couple of places you're walking, by yourself, and twenty miles from the nearest roads. i guess that counts.

In the backwoods of Oklahoma , believe it or not, you can die if you stumble upon a meth lab. I live to tell the story.

I grew up in a small village named Muniches on the bank of the Itaya river about 2 hours by boat upstream from Iquitos Peru.

Iquitos cannot be reached by land. Only by boat or airplane. There were no roads out of there. In the middle of the Amazon jungle on the bank of the Amazon river which is still about 4 miles wide at that point.

About 8 more hours upstream was a smaller village named Cawidi. That's about as "backwoods" as I have ever been. There were so many mosquitoes that the chickens would get fat just pecking them out of the air. I think we were the first white people they had ever seen.

i only see one business in dryden open when i cruise thru. only a few houses and sanderson seems to be boarding everything up as far as businesses.

Sanderson TX seemed like a metropolis to me when we moved there. I wonder if there is anybody living in Dryden TX now? (about 20 miles from Sanderson)