wooded areas near the city

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tell me about wooded areas close to your city, or close to where you live

and, also, tell me about wooded areas in and around nyc

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Epping Forest dude

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

two of the nicest bits of woodland near Oxford are actually owned by colleges of Ox Uni and strictly speaking you're not supposed to go walking in them without getting a permit from the colleges concerned, tho I've never heard of anyone getting done for not having a permit. Wytham Woods have muntjac which are these little barking Chinese deer. Bagley Woods have a sawmill in the middle of them.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Forest of West London, surely you've heard of it?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ruislip had some fine woodland, Mad Bess Wood (Mad Bess being supposed ghost who roamed at night) and the surrounding area of the Lido. I haven't explored or really noticed any in my new area yet.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mystical And Ancient Forests of Bloomsbury? I don't think so... well, actually, there's that strange wooded little rectangle behind our flock of bats which is always locked lately cause the Duke of Bedford is a cnut.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew this'd be Gareth, first time I've done that. I live in one. It smells great.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Shotover is another wooded area near Oxford. It's up on a hill and has a radio mast on top of it. I can see the woods out of the window at the end of the office (only just at the moment as it is very misty). The gaps in the trees allow a perfect view of Didcot Power Station, but you can't see the spires.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

There be Oxleas Wood, which lies between Welling, Kidbrooke and Eltham, which is ancient woodland and home of many a geography field trip when I was a nipper.

Unfortunately, ancient and beautiful as it may be, it is also slap bang in the middle of the toilet of London and should be avoided at all costs in the assumption it'll be full of flashers, rapists and murderers.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oxleas Wood seemed pretty nice when I went there.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and this is not near where I live at all, but it's near where we stay all the time... there is a strange patch of woodland along the base of the downs where obviously it's too steep to clear or farm in places. (Doesn't stop the cows, but still.) In places, it's very thick, like it's never been cut since Neolithic times or something. However, we walked a little bit further on and there was a genuine logging camp, right in the middle of the wood!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ruff is this small remnant of woodland just outside town. It has excavations in the middle of it, the grey squirrels have just recently successfully driven out the red after many years of stout resistance and it's great for wandering around when you're blitzed, also.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Is charltonlido disposing of corpses again?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What I thought, too.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Gah, Nick AND Tracer beat me to it. I hate that.

Barnes Common. It IS near the city, it IS.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

which one? Reading?

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugger off back to Chelmsford, you old grouch.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oxford circus to Walthamstow = twenty minutes

Oxford circus to Barnes = 210 minutes plus ;op

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Waterloo to Barnes - 14 minutes
Waterloo to Walthamstow - just don't bother.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

about half an hour to Waterloo, that's not bad considering you have to go south of that infernal river

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Barnes is only about 4 miles from Kensington isn't it?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I rest my case, Walthamstow is miles away = good thing

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Prospect Park has some neat woods called "The Ravine," which was built because most city dwellers would never have the chance to visit the Adirondacks. they've just finished a rehabilitation of it, and there are park rangers w/information and stuff

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

As ILM's ambassador to SF, I have to point out that the Golden Gate National Recreation Area is one of the largest urban national parks in the world. The total park area is 75,398 acres of land and water. Approximately 28 miles of coastline lie within its boundaries. It is nearly two and one-half times the size of San Francisco.

The three largest wooded areas are:

Golden Gate National Forest
Over 100 square miles of forests and wooded land in San Francisco and Marin County incorporating Muir Woods which American conservationist John Muir deemed "This is the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world."

The Presidio
Former US Army base on the Northwest corner of San Francisco. A forest of transplanted eucalyptus (cultivated as usage for telephone poles) and native pines, oaks, and redwoods. At 1500 acres, represents almost 5% of land mass of SF city proper.

Golden Gate National Park
Man-made urban park covering over 1000 acres (over 3% of SF proper landmass) dominated by Monterey Pine, Monterey Cypress, Blue Gum Eucalyptus trees among others, broken by many fields and over a dozen lakes.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

See #9. Also, Sterling Forest.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, but Wittenham Clumps is far cooler than the lot! Its a hill with about nine trees at the top, but its the coolest wood evah. It was also used by the RAF during WW2 as a marker (since the radars were a bit rubbish, and they couldn't use churches or cities in case ze germans had bombed it)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

In Washington, DC just two blocks from where I live there is Archibald Glover Park. And I forget how long it's been since I went there, which is a pity. There's also Rock Creek Park.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Pelham Bay Park?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas-appropriate and/but Mt. Vernon-related, there's apparently a "delicate, milelong" holly forest at Sandy Hook. It's near the Visitor's Center. You're supposed to call to schedule a hike?

also, Palisades Interstate Park

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the area where I live (and I was the museum yesterday where they reaffirmed it) is called grasslands. So, the nearest woods are about 6 hours north.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(the Palisades are also home to the Kearney House)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Prospect Park is sadly neglected by me, seeing as how it's blocks away...

Central Park on the other hand...

...Flushing Meadows is a wasteland...

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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