I grew up along that road. Timestamp 5:51, a sandwich shop sat at the corner of Moonshine Road & Rt. 72. Timestamp 7:52, Chapel Road a 'haunted' house sat at the intersection. Timestamp 11:20-we used to pick watercress near this bridge every spring. Timestamp 17:00, straight stretch of road, we lived a long there. Had two big blue spruce trees in the front yard, with a pond next door. Timestamp 19:30, there was at least one house up there. It was one of our school bus stops. Haven't been back there in years. What a great place to grow up! Thanks for sharing.
Really enjoyed that thanks Cliff. Won’t be long before everything will be green and leafy. Looking forward to the flowers. Pleased you found the foundations. Really enjoyed that. Thanks for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care
While I understand some things need to be done for the greater good of society. It is sad and insulting that all those people lost their homes and property for a project that never happened. I wonder who has liability if someone falls in that Well you found. It should be filled, or at least fenced off. Thanks for showing us the area, and telling us the story Cliff.
One of my favorite places. I’ve thought that many times - would be good place to film a movie.. discovered recently one of the side trails connects to the mountain bike trails.
Real nice little adventure. Love those dumps you explored. I'll bet there's older vintage bottles & cans under the ground. Those on top looked like they were found and dropped there.
If that's a state park aren't they responsible if anyone, mainly a child, falls down that well and either gets severely injured, or worse dead? Yeah, I agree it needs to be capped off, permanently!
I was planning to walk up at Swatara S.P. on Monday anyway on my day off, so the release of this video was perfect. I did my own video recording (for my own purposes) and found the sticker. Also met another couple about 5 minutes later named Jeff and Loraine who were looking for it as well. Very nice people and I felt bad I got there first. It was so nice walking up the abandoned highway knowing a history of what I was seeing. I had no idea until I got home later in the afternoon that about 10 miles north of where I was, was the huge pile up on I-81 after one of the snow squalls hit. So very sad and also explained why I heard and saw so many helicopters as well. Cliff, I sent you an email with pictures.
Great video again, Cliff👍 Yeah , that well is seriously dangerous, if it is 20 feet deep, no normal person would have a good chance of getting out again 😳
I was camping, out at Rausch Creek, when things shut down. I was completely in the dark about it and had to text a friend to get some idea what was happening. Felt like the End of Days, really.
@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 cool! In the mid-90's, me and about 10 other buddies rode our sportbikes there. We picked up any bigger rocks and debris, and had drag races through one of the tunnels. It sounded INTENSE, lol. Back then, all of our bikes were carbeurated, and key shots sounded like freaking canon blasts. It was a great time.
I agree that well is extremely dangerous. Some evil individual could camefloge it somehow hoping someone falls in. Trust me there's individuals of that nature.
You just pretty much described what the government did there. Took the land for nothing, then left it for nature to do the camo job. Easy to see how someone could get too close in the summertime with the plants leafed out, and fall in.
Hey Cliff, thanks for the walk and history. I'm thinking they could drive a small skid loader with a blade on it to push some surrounding dirt into that well or whatever it was/is. Wonder if maybe it fills with water and just looks like a puddle at times, or like you said it was covered last time you looked. That's not something you would miss you're a very thorough person.
it's sad to see waste left by humans in the woods but hey, the usa is great , of this side, road abandon, city abandon but still accessible for people. I read some who said that these wells were really dangerous! I agree even if they are in the middle of nowhere, all the more reason to frame them for safety just with 4 stakes around with a sign "danger well" simply excellente vidéo greetings from france and god bless you my friend. 20 foot in mètres in france it makes 6 Meters Wow, it's really deep serious it's dangerous in fact
Cliff, I traveled that road many many times before the state took over the properties. The project was part of Project 70 which was enacted in 1964 Just after the bridge where you hid the sticker, there were a few single homes on the straight stretch and in the dip at the end of the straight stretch, there was a single house where a blind man lived. I think it might have been where you found the deep well. Also, about halfway in the straight stretch, there was a farm and every fall they would butcher and have the steers and pigs hung from 2 leaning poles against the barn. Near the end of the paved section on the right side of the highway, there was a house that sat below the road surface up against the bank. There was a car counter facing south about 50 feet beyond that house as well.
That was really great. I've gone mountain biking on the Swatara Trails before but not for a long time now, and I've found my way onto parts of that abandoned highway but I never realized how long it was before. I wonder if it actually connected to Gold Mine Road at one time, before the modern PA 72 was there?
I love how you weave so much history into your walks. Your stories are great. Well: is it state property? I'm wondering if there's someone you can call so that it can be covered up. I would contact the state department of parks--as you pointed out, it's dangerous. Some kids could be out exploring, hunters maybe, or if it were snow-covered.
As if the state cares about anyone. Would not have taken the land in the first place unless they were sure the project was happening. They don't care if some normies fall in an old well.
COVID-19 hit !! Love ❤️ your videos!! Please let the game. Commission to know about the well! Extremely dangerous! Let them know how to get their!!Great job!!
you know we do have people in the area that disappear... could it be that someone fell in there... maybe someone should be told about that so it could be searched and then covered up
Just a tid-bit. Guard rails, at least in NY state, were renamed guide rails, after a woman sued the state because they didn’t “guard” her from a cliff. So NY Dept of Trans changed their name to guide rails because they are not designed to prevent a violent crash from going through or over them. (Even though they have saved countless lives, they cost a few also). For a similar reason, the ends used to be ended, abruptly, with a metal cap, then they started having a big curled “fist” at the end, now they are bent over and buried in the ground or have those water barrels “protecting” them.
March 2020 was sad. Everyone has a memory of the day lock down came to town. No school therefore no prom or archery tournament for the kids, and husband's work closed for awhile. Interesting comparison with imminent domain/ lock down
Hi Cliff, every time I hear about the government taking properties by eminent domain, it always turns out that they have this big plan for a dam or something similar but lo and behold they take the properties but never carry out the proposed plan, I think that's disgusting. It's so cool looking for signs of what once was in the area and also looking at old historical photographs, if you find any photo's of this type of video could you perhaps include them ??. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💜
@@Huffdanny-p2n hi, the weather has been too damn hot lol, happily it is starting to break now, I just hate heat and look forward to Autumn/Fall and Winter as it's cooler and I love Spring anyway, how about where you are ?? I'm in Cornwall UK btw.
@@SueGirling68 it’s hotter here tho the air conditioner helps being indoor tho the weather gets a bit cooler at night. Am from Germany tho relocated to Vermont Montpelier USA. Being trying to view a clearer picture of you tho it’s as small as a postage stamp but I must say you’re super gorgeous…
Before I forget to ask - At the parking area for the AT at the junction of 443 & 72 there are ruins. Have any idea what was there? If you cross to the other side there is also remnants of what probably was a house. Found a part of the curb, a patch of asphalt from what was probably the driveway, the flat area was most likely the house. What really caught my eye was a big patch of daffodils in the woods. This was a great video. I’ve been that way a few times over the years. I know about the well beside the road but the ones you showed I never knew of. I was there Saturday and went down around the Trout Run and Moonshine Trails. The remains of the wrought iron fence still gets me wondering what life was like there. Back in the woods I did see May Apples (not blooming of course), Trout Lilies, Violets, and Garlic Mustard. I keep wondering if it’s possible, in Winter, to get back in the area off the old road. Guess more of the deep exploring will have to wait until the colder temps again. A lot of poison ivy deeper in and won’t be able to see the snakes. I’ve seen quite a few big snakes in that park. Black Snakes of 5-6 feet are common. That walk on the highway is like a scene out of a post apocalyptic movie. It’s really creepy walking back as the sun is setting and the helicopters are flying overhead.
thorns, thorns everywhere thorns. ..alot of other channels I watch are also talking about all the thorns. So have a question....Are they like taking over? More than there used to be? I keep alot of my property natural, had maybe 2 wild rasberries bushes and now I have some kind of thorny bush spreading all over and these are thorns on steriods! It gets tiny orange berries on it but nothing eats them I guess cause can't get thru the thorns. Last year I did find a dead bird in one of the bushes, you could tell it struggled and was all wound up in the thorns.
That well is horrifying! How irresponsible of the government to leave it like that, but typical.Thanks for the hike, gonna dig the mud from my boots now and have a snack- I worked up an appetite.
@@porkturtle8321 I may start carrying Caution tape LOL not moving anything but me. I wonder if there are any animals down that hole. They be smarter than that right?
That abandoned highway is in better shape than most of our roads in PA.
Just like here in British Columbia. Lol!😖
Tell me about it! Just had a realignment done.
Good point! Ahahaha 😂
You ain't kidding!👍
Same here in #HellAnnoy, ROFLMAO!!!
Reminds us how to earth will take over when we a gone. Take care and be safe.
I grew up along that road. Timestamp 5:51, a sandwich shop sat at the corner of Moonshine Road & Rt. 72. Timestamp 7:52, Chapel Road a 'haunted' house sat at the intersection. Timestamp 11:20-we used to pick watercress near this bridge every spring. Timestamp 17:00, straight stretch of road, we lived a long there. Had two big blue spruce trees in the front yard, with a pond next door. Timestamp 19:30, there was at least one house up there. It was one of our school bus stops. Haven't been back there in years. What a great place to grow up! Thanks for sharing.
My Father is buried in Indiantown Gap National Cemetary. We used to fish some of the ponds on the base, shoewie lake was one of them.
Thanks. It's so beautiful there.
Hi Cindy hope you’re okay?
Really enjoyed that thanks Cliff. Won’t be long before everything will be green and leafy. Looking forward to the flowers. Pleased you found the foundations. Really enjoyed that. Thanks for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care
Hi Linda hope you’re okay?
While I understand some things need to be done for the greater good of society. It is sad and insulting that all those people lost their homes and property for a project that never happened. I wonder who has liability if someone falls in that Well you found. It should be filled, or at least fenced off. Thanks for showing us the area, and telling us the story Cliff.
I am fairly sure the first hole is not a well but rather a hole for an old kybo (outhouse). Falling in there would be shitty.
Love all your yappin'!! I learn so much from your videos. Thanks so much!!
Godspeed Woodsman.
living my dreams in your videos! thank you.
Hi Debbie hope you’re okay?
That old highway remains me of the movie the road
One of my favorite places. I’ve thought that many times - would be good place to film a movie.. discovered recently one of the side trails connects to the mountain bike trails.
Imagine walking through their at night and stepping in that well, Bummer Man. Great Video Cliff!
Another amazing trail going on my list of trails to hike. 😊
Real nice little adventure. Love those dumps you explored. I'll bet there's older vintage bottles & cans under the ground. Those on top looked like they were found and dropped there.
I could have sworn I heard a little Barry White near the wood frog pond in the background.
😆😆
Loved hiking here! So much history. And the kayaking was awesome! Definitely easier to see the old homesteads in the early spring.
Thanks Cliff. I said it before I say it again . You are a brave soul. Thanks you.🙂
If that's a state park aren't they responsible if anyone, mainly a child, falls down that well and either gets severely injured, or worse dead? Yeah, I agree it needs to be capped off, permanently!
Hi Sheryl hope you’re okay?
I was planning to walk up at Swatara S.P. on Monday anyway on my day off, so the release of this video was perfect. I did my own video recording (for my own purposes) and found the sticker. Also met another couple about 5 minutes later named Jeff and Loraine who were looking for it as well. Very nice people and I felt bad I got there first. It was so nice walking up the abandoned highway knowing a history of what I was seeing. I had no idea until I got home later in the afternoon that about 10 miles north of where I was, was the huge pile up on I-81 after one of the snow squalls hit. So very sad and also explained why I heard and saw so many helicopters as well. Cliff, I sent you an email with pictures.
did you send the email already? nothing has shown up in my inbox.
Great video again, Cliff👍 Yeah , that well is seriously dangerous, if it is 20 feet deep, no normal person would have a good chance of getting out again 😳
Nice to see you always try to catch you
Hi Kathryn hope you’re okay?
I was camping, out at Rausch Creek, when things shut down. I was completely in the dark about it and had to text a friend to get some idea what was happening. Felt like the End of Days, really.
So true!
I wouldn’t have been able to walk away not covering that well. Plenty of wood around to throw some planks across it. Great video as always.
My thoughts exactly.
That could make it more of a death trap. The wood rots, gets covered with vegetation, it's like a trap, certainly within a few seasons.
@@mgratk so leave it open for now is what you think is best? Poor animals.
@@peterfrancis14 No, I think the politicians who stole the land for nothing should head out there with shovels.
You should check out the old turnpike tunnels in Breezewood, Pa....if you haven't already. I think it would be in your wheelhouse.
I think he has
I have been there several times.
@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 cool! In the mid-90's, me and about 10 other buddies rode our sportbikes there. We picked up any bigger rocks and debris, and had drag races through one of the tunnels. It sounded INTENSE, lol. Back then, all of our bikes were carbeurated, and key shots sounded like freaking canon blasts. It was a great time.
I agree that well is extremely dangerous. Some evil individual could camefloge it somehow hoping someone falls in. Trust me there's individuals of that nature.
You just pretty much described what the government did there. Took the land for nothing, then left it for nature to do the camo job. Easy to see how someone could get too close in the summertime with the plants leafed out, and fall in.
What's that Lassie? Cliff fell down an old well? Oh golly gee.
Lived in Pennsylvania twice, going back! SOON
I always seem to find abandoned roads on my adventures
Hey Cliff, thanks for the walk and history. I'm thinking they could drive a small skid loader with a blade on it to push some surrounding dirt into that well or whatever it was/is. Wonder if maybe it fills with water and just looks like a puddle at times, or like you said it was covered last time you looked. That's not something you would miss you're a very thorough person.
plat maps will tell who lived or owned the property it makes it alot better i enjoyed your videos
That's place looks great, guess I'll be making a trip there to go biking.
it's sad to see waste left by humans in the woods but hey, the usa is great , of this side, road abandon, city abandon but still accessible for people.
I read some who said that these wells were really dangerous! I agree even if they are in the middle of nowhere, all the more reason to frame them for safety just with 4 stakes around with a sign "danger well" simply
excellente vidéo greetings from france and god bless you my friend.
20 foot in mètres in france it makes 6 Meters Wow, it's really deep serious it's dangerous in fact
Thank you for the great videos..
Almost reminds me of Centralia (less the graffiti).
Cliff, I traveled that road many many times before the state took over the properties. The project was part of Project 70 which was enacted in 1964
Just after the bridge where you hid the sticker, there were a few single homes on the straight stretch and in the dip at the end of the straight stretch, there was a single house where a blind man lived. I think it might have been where you found the deep well. Also, about halfway in the straight stretch, there was a farm and every fall they would butcher and have the steers and pigs hung from 2 leaning poles against the barn. Near the end of the paved section on the right side of the highway, there was a house that sat below the road surface up against the bank. There was a car counter facing south about 50 feet beyond that house as well.
That was really great. I've gone mountain biking on the Swatara Trails before but not for a long time now, and I've found my way onto parts of that abandoned highway but I never realized how long it was before. I wonder if it actually connected to Gold Mine Road at one time, before the modern PA 72 was there?
It did connect to Gold Mine road.
Great video.. Perhaps the park should be made aware of the well ?
6:35. That eerie feeling is almost like a car could come around the curve at any time.
I love how you weave so much history into your walks. Your stories are great. Well: is it state property? I'm wondering if there's someone you can call so that it can be covered up. I would contact the state department of parks--as you pointed out, it's dangerous. Some kids could be out exploring, hunters maybe, or if it were snow-covered.
It looks like cesspool construction. Not that it matters. Something like that is a hazard that should be addressed.
@@craigsped I agree, especially because it's part of a state park. All hazards aside, it looks like a cool place to go exploring!
As if the state cares about anyone. Would not have taken the land in the first place unless they were sure the project was happening. They don't care if some normies fall in an old well.
This is so awesome! Great video as always!
You ought to get yourself an ebike to travel trails such as this. It's the "thing" nowadays. : - )
Great idea
31:56 now it's getting spooky. Nah!! Well maybe at night. 😬👀
Welcome to the mountains
COVID-19 hit !! Love ❤️ your videos!! Please let the game. Commission to know about the well! Extremely dangerous! Let them know how to get their!!Great job!!
Hi Sandra hope you’re okay?
they are cool t-shirts!
Just came across your channel, ur like a vacation on TH-cam, but of I'd wanna be there in person though 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
you know we do have people in the area that disappear... could it be that someone fell in there... maybe someone should be told about that so it could be searched and then covered up
I second that motion
Interesting place. It is kind of creepy. I'm glad you saw that well before you got too close.
Just a tid-bit. Guard rails, at least in NY state, were renamed guide rails, after a woman sued the state because they didn’t “guard” her from a cliff. So NY Dept of Trans changed their name to guide rails because they are not designed to prevent a violent crash from going through or over them. (Even though they have saved countless lives, they cost a few also). For a similar reason, the ends used to be ended, abruptly, with a metal cap, then they started having a big curled “fist” at the end, now they are bent over and buried in the ground or have those water barrels “protecting” them.
Hi Ruth hope you’re okay?
Thank you.
March 2020 was sad. Everyone has a memory of the day lock down came to town. No school therefore no prom or archery tournament for the kids, and husband's work closed for awhile. Interesting comparison with imminent domain/ lock down
Hi Michelle hope you’re okay?
Hi Cliff, every time I hear about the government taking properties by eminent domain, it always turns out that they have this big plan for a dam or something similar but lo and behold they take the properties but never carry out the proposed plan, I think that's disgusting.
It's so cool looking for signs of what once was in the area and also looking at old historical photographs, if you find any photo's of this type of video could you
perhaps include them ??. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💜
Hi Sue hope you’re okay?
@@Huffdanny-p2n I'm good thanks.
@@SueGirling68 you’re welcome, it’s nice meeting you how is the weather over there now??
@@Huffdanny-p2n hi, the weather has been too damn hot lol, happily it is starting to break now, I just hate heat and look forward to Autumn/Fall and Winter as it's cooler and I love Spring anyway, how about where you are ?? I'm in Cornwall UK btw.
@@SueGirling68 it’s hotter here tho the air conditioner helps being indoor tho the weather gets a bit cooler at night. Am from Germany tho relocated to Vermont Montpelier USA. Being trying to view a clearer picture of you tho it’s as small as a postage stamp but I must say you’re super gorgeous…
Reminds me of Blair Witch Project. Stay safe out there.
Maybe you could have put bigger branches that have fallen over the well?
The helicopters are looking for zombies! lol
Wow so cool.!!! 🙄🙄
Is there someone you can call to request that old well be properly covered? A park ranger, or someone?
Before I forget to ask - At the parking area for the AT at the junction of 443 & 72 there are ruins. Have any idea what was there? If you cross to the other side there is also remnants of what probably was a house. Found a part of the curb, a patch of asphalt from what was probably the driveway, the flat area was most likely the house. What really caught my eye was a big patch of daffodils in the woods.
This was a great video. I’ve been that way a few times over the years. I know about the well beside the road but the ones you showed I never knew of. I was there Saturday and went down around the Trout Run and Moonshine Trails. The remains of the wrought iron fence still gets me wondering what life was like there. Back in the woods I did see May Apples (not blooming of course), Trout Lilies, Violets, and Garlic Mustard. I keep wondering if it’s possible, in Winter, to get back in the area off the old road. Guess more of the deep exploring will have to wait until the colder temps again. A lot of poison ivy deeper in and won’t be able to see the snakes. I’ve seen quite a few big snakes in that park. Black Snakes of 5-6 feet are common.
That walk on the highway is like a scene out of a post apocalyptic movie. It’s really creepy walking back as the sun is setting and the helicopters are flying overhead.
I wonder what coins could be found metal detecting. Around the old home sites.
Abandoned/desolate; spooky movie territory.
thorns, thorns everywhere thorns. ..alot of other channels I watch are also talking about all the thorns. So have a question....Are they like taking over? More than there used to be? I keep alot of my property natural, had maybe 2 wild rasberries bushes and now I have some kind of thorny bush spreading all over and these are thorns on steriods! It gets tiny orange berries on it but nothing eats them I guess cause can't get thru the thorns. Last year I did find a dead bird in one of the bushes, you could tell it struggled and was all wound up in the thorns.
No more than usual.
i might get one of your t-shirts!
That well was scary.
I mean that should be covered up by some State agency.
That's crazy that those wells aren't close the city or county are responsible for that
Did they remove this abandoned highway or reopen it for traffic?
Would a reliable laser distance measurement tool show the well depth?
Went for the channel sticker first thing this am
Too late
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
That well is horrifying! How irresponsible of the government to leave it like that, but typical.Thanks for the hike, gonna dig the mud from my boots now and have a snack- I worked up an appetite.
You don't know if it is irresponsible or not. I think it could've been covered up like Cliff mentioned, but it eroded away.
@@porkturtle8321 not covered properly then.
@@superditdit48 I agree with that too. If I came upon this in the woods, I at least would cover it up with a large tree limb or two.
@@porkturtle8321 I may start carrying Caution tape LOL not moving anything but me. I wonder if there are any animals down that hole. They be smarter than that right?
@@superditdit48 I dunno, our gentle deer friends ARE rather dumb.
Check out the tocks island town
Eminent Domian; just another way oif saying legalized theft.
I was born in 1970 where you are used to be full of life all the way to pine Grove little shack or homes
Since all this land was taken and never used for anything, is any of it available for purchase ?
Used as Swatara State Park
Those copters are black hawks
Where you've been hiking would have been covered by water if the reservoir had been finished?
how long has this road been abandoned
About 15 years or so.
What do we get. If we find the sticker? Is it worth looking for?. Just asking is all
So when they shut your county down, we’re you forced to leave the state park and go home?
No
Maybe there's any abandoned cemetery or graveyard near by .
I don't believe there are any in the park.....but I could be wrong.
Nice vid but I hate the term eminent domain. Theft by government is more apt.
You should advise the proper authorities as to that well.
Yeh March of 2020 the beginning of the biggest wealth transfer began, and it goes on.
There goes my life. There goes my future. My everything.
Froggy
I would have just found some dead limbs laying around and covered it up that way it be known to others.
What if nobody finds a sticker
Hi Karen hope you’re okay?
@@Huffdanny-p2n you didn't answer the Question
@@karencharny1497 you can actually create yours, or find one.. it’s nice meeting you how are you doing??
were all the steeps are wonder if it may have been A school at one time
Why do you set your camera down and walk away ? Jp does same thing. It would be nice if you do another video with up again some day .
Hi Julia hope you’re okay?