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It's kind of interesting, my family has a mountain house and the neighborhood that it's in has this dirt road that goes back up a mountain on neighborhood property. After maybe 3/4 of a mile, it turns into national forest and branches off in quite a few ways with even more connecting to logging roads that are crazy overgrown. It was made by the local volunteer fire department 10+ years ago when there were some crazy wildfires in the area.
My family enjoyed using it and hiked all over the place on it until my dad bought his JK. I remember being 7 or 8 years old and backpacking on the logging roads back there before we had a house. Once my dad got the jeep, we started doing a ton of work clearing it all so that we could drive it. We eventually discovered a really cool creek back there and since we could drive farther and faster than we could walk, we found a really cool view on top of some rocks almost 5 miles up these roads. I found a cool little rock climbing bouldering area recently (that's my big thing, I go climbing 3-4 times a week). There's also a random pond on top of the mountain way up there.
Eventually, some neighbors started taking side by sides and four-wheelers on it and it became pretty established on some of the main parts. Was the first place my TJ went offroad. Now the neighborhood owners just sold all of that property to a couple who put a gate on the road. They'll build a house sometime soon and didn't want to hear the side by sides flying up there to get to national forest. My mom made friends with them and got us the gate code so it's fun to still drive it once in a while and go explore the national forest area of it. Just can't do anymore work on the private area since someone owns it now. Obviously want to be respectful of them and their land as well. I know no one asked for all that info but thought it would be interesting to share... kind of a cool story.
