Exploring Evansburg State Park

[@sandraplonka5225]

Thank you for stopping and explaining the foliage. And thank you for talking about being cautious.

[@JeremyHopper007]

I'll address the topic you spoke of...creepy people on the trail. Back in '07 I was hiking in this park and stopped along trail to look at the creek. A few moments later I heard something behind me. Turning around, I saw two men whispering to each other about 30 feet away. They immediately stopped talking and gave me an angry stare. Feeling some bad vibes, I decided to continue walking down the trail. The two men began following me. I walked around a corner in the trail, got off of it and crouched down behind a tree. The men walked around the corner, came to a dead stop, looked in all directions and then ran at a full sprint further down the trail. At this point I concluded these two men probably had ill intent planned for me. I doubled back, walking quietly in the underbrush, parallel to the trail. One of the two men returned but didn't see me. He just kept walking back to the area where the incident began. I made it back to my car without any other incidents.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

That's a creepy story

[@alphaone101]

@@HikeForLife23 I'm with you. Rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. In todays world you just never know, unfortunately.

[@CharlotteFairchild]

I knew a retired police officer who was blindsided, fell on his gun, his ribs were broken when one guy kicked him. They got away, someone helped him. He did spend the night in a hospital. The Buddy System includes safety awareness and self defense.​@@thewanderingwoodsman7227

[@maverick120adventures8]

It's at this point I pick up some nice rocks and the hunter's become the hunted.

[@gw7477]

@@maverick120adventures8 people hunt in that park, don't be stupid. Good way to get shot

[@jennilang721]

I love your vids. Very matter-of-fact, and I like how you think outloud. Very soothing vids. And they remind me of being a kid in the woods of Southern tier ny!🤗

[@rosemarykasper4001]

I love that you share everything that you pass! Never feel cheated watching you vids, so many KZbinrs vids I see things I wish they would have explored, never feel like that with yours! Thanks for being as inquisitive as I am!!

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I'm just too curious.....

[@rosemarykasper4001]

@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 Not at all! It's awesome!!

[@SueGirling68]

Hi, you find the most beautiful areas to hike in. I have been fortunate enough to be raised in the countryside and by smell I can always pinpoint that first day of when Autumn starts. I love the smell you get in the woodland at this time of year of the damp bark and wet leaves on the ground and of course all the nuts and pine-cones everywhere. Thank you. x

[@bahamajim1998]

Awe yes . fall is best when out in woods and it rains leaves.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

That 'smell' is one of my favorite things about fall.

[@SueGirling68]

I also love the smell of soil that has been dry for a while starts to get wet with heavy rain. x

[@WaysideArtist]

I call those stairs the Mayan Ruins. Never know what goes down there. 👀🤣

[@daveyjoweaver5183]

Hello Woodsman, A beautiful park indeed. Even though it has those road apples on parts of the trail. Road apples as we call them here in Lancaster Co. It was cool how you mentioned the feel you get in certain areas. I've been at some places that just feel better or ancient, as if inhabited for centuries. A sacred place to the Native Peoples. If you are sensitive to energies and I believe you are, you know you are in a spot with some kind of energies that attracted people. Like where you ate lunch may well have been one of these places, who knows? It was Jack in the Pulpit and I have many here in the woods where I live and spice bush as well. I must tell you that I have about 80 or so pressed wild flowers which were done by my Grandmother for her 1912 botany class at Elizabeth College. Beautifully done as well. My Grandparents met there and married in 1914. I've often thought that a seed bank might love to have these samples for their DNA. Many do not grow in our woods in these times. My woods here once contained yellow and pink Lady Slippers. Where I was is closed to their farm where my Mom was born. My Grandparents sold their 100 acre farm in 1966 for $36,500. We would collect plants for winter gardens to enjoy in winter. In spring we'd take them back to the woods. Small ferns and partridge berry, mosses and winter green, a few rocks and cover it with plastic wrap so they maintained a no maintainance environment. So Thanks for another great adventure. Taking us to places we may never get to or become aware of to get to. So many wonderful places in Penn's Woods. A Lovely Autumn to You Brother Woodsman! Daveyjo in Lancaster Co.

[@HeatMover144]

I haven't been to Skippack creek for years. Trout fishing across from the golf course. Hunting off Ridge Pike, mile hill.

[@tweet-tweettweety9704]

Love the video and all the names like Turkey Tail! That looked like a Jack-in-the-Pulpit with it's Autumnal berries. Glad you don't swell up when you get stung by a bee. Red wasps' had built a nest in my car door frame last Summer and I didn't realize it until I got out of my car. One stung me on my left elbow. My left arm was swollen double from my shoulder to my fingers. My fingers were so fat they couldn't even touch each other. My Mother's nurses said I needed an epi-pen in case I ever got stung by more than one wasp. lol I got in the car from the passenger side and drove to a Tractor Supply store where I bought a can of wasp spray and a customer behind me said he would be happy to spray them for me if he could have the nest full of larva for fishing. lol That was a fast deal. You are right about creeps in the parks. That's why I don't go hiking outside my own neighborhood woods.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I usually don't swell up to bad, but that sucker nailed me good.

[@extremersfreak]

Yeah, Evansburg is definitely a safe place... I grew up around there, never had any creepy vibes from it. I used to run the loop there all the time. The area around it, Worcester, is so safe it literally doesn't have a police force because there is just no crime. It is full of successful, wealthy suburbanite families who want a bit more land than the average lot. The area schools, Perk Valley and Methacton, are excellent, and there is a high end liberal arts college in the nearest town over, Collegeville, called Ursinus with tuition of $65K. On the weekends, it is normal to see fathers fishing with their children and horseback riding from local horse farms. The park is at least an hour, no traffic, from Philadelphia, and usually more like an hour and a half with traffic. Absolutely zero riffraff from Philly. Maybe try Wissahickon Park if you want to feel afraid. I found a literal crack pipe on the ground there. Do not recommend going there. But if you think Evansburg is unsafe, you just have some anxiety... or apparently some one-off weird shit happened to some of the other commenters. Hate to hear about it, but it is not the norm in Evansburg.

[@WaysideArtist]

True! I'm one of the horse riders. My scariest moments have been - only occasionally - with a couple hunters from Philly who clearly felt the park should be devoted to them. There are people who hate horses going through and set up traps to hurt them. That spot where you see the orange cone was covered over by sticks, leaves, and rubbish by some guy hoping one of the horses would break a leg. What people don't know is the local horse farms are the ones working to keep the trails open. If you didn't have us looking for, reporting damage and changes, clearing trails, etc. it wouldn't be such a great place to hike. I'm happy to hear you enjoy the park as much as I do.

[@maverick120adventures8]

@@WaysideArtist Totally safe park have never had my truck messed with, now hunting season is extremely dangerous i have bow hunted there 30 yr"s BE CAREFULL!

[@patcheslove5139]

Very nice view . The trails were good , the plants were interesting . Thank you for taking us along

[@ratking2346]

I’ve seen those stairs that are in the thumbnail! I ride my horse on that trail and he’s spooked quite a few times!

[@WaysideArtist]

Lol! Mine too. I call it the Mayan Ruins!!

[@nickroy2921]

Rode the Skippack Trail on my bike and made it really far, maybe check out the Struble Trail in Downigtown, a lot of cool ruins and iron forges on the trail, also an old paper mill at the end. Also another cool park is Warwick Park near French Creek, iron furnaces and a lot of other stuff their.

[@BornN2Grave1]

So you broke park rules?

[@maverick120adventures8]

Was legal back in my hard tail days, elitist horse riders messed that up. Way out in the hinter lands they set some crappy mountain aside for us, full suspension required of course.

[@Catlife247]

You're awesome man! When you said you didn't know what happened back there when you got off trail, I was cracking up lol

[@karenpacker8862]

Another beautiful hike. Stay safe out there.

[@bahamajim1998]

Always good to have map and compass . nice relaxing 🚶. Been a month since i been out hiking . Withdraws lol

[@nickroy2921]

Great video! Evansburg is a good one!

[@fuzzwack1]

That was a awesome walk!!

[@JamesRobertSmith]

Some parks are not safe, as you say. I long ago learned never to camp on the Appalachian Trail (or any other trail) within two miles of an intersection with a road. Most people who would commit crimes in parks or wilderness don't tend to expend a lot of effort walking. So the farther you are from where those scum can park their ride, the better off you will be. When I was a kid there was a trail shelter on the AT at a place called Tesnatee Gap in Georgia. The state put a road through the gap and thereafter the backpackers would get harassed and assaulted in the night by local assholes because they could drive their cars right to the shelter. Eventually the shelter was dismantled and a new one was constructed a good distance from the road, and the assaults ended.

[@anthonyloguirato8006]

The great thing about Pennsylvania is that you can carry a firearm anywhere in the state. I always carry in state parks! Great video!!

[@R.C.1161]

I'm not so sure you can carry handguns anywhere in PA. State parks are concealed carry only, which requires a license to carry. Class one cities (Philadelphia) prohibit concealed carry, however open carry is permitted with a license to carry. Many government buildings (state and federal) are also off limits, however should be posted as such and maintain the ability to store your firearms while conducting business inside prohibited building (i.e. courthouse). Also any location considered private property can prohibit the carrying of firearms. Sorry to be long winded, but anywhere is a big red flag for me.

[@anthonyloguirato8006]

R. C. You are correct, about federal buildings, and some other buildings, but you can absolutely conceal carry in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania constitution overrides local laws.I carry whenever I go to Philadelphia. As far state parks you can conceal carry. You must have a concealed carry permit to carry in PA. Thanks for the correction.

[@janecharlton6780]

Love the turkey tail mushrooms. Great place to visit , thanks .

[@daveyjoweaver5183]

Some of those trails are quite beautiful. Looks like a very nice place in nature to get away from the city. Of course I wouldn't be in the city anyway and thus me lives in the woods. Thank You Kindly WW and indeed, it was Jack In The Pulpit. Peace Cliff! DaveyJO

[@joshperry7236]

Never go up steps you find in the forest, bad stuff happens

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I've been told that before

[@jennilang721]

What about pissin' in the wind, though? 😄👍

[@maverick120adventures8]

Was there yesterday rode my Ebike 14 miles on park roads and explored for hours! but only scratched the surface. This park has miles of pristine trails in a remote landscape total silence other then the sounds of nature. Now hunting season is another matter, wear orange and stay low.

[@mamasgonecreating1967]

I thought of you last weekend. While we were hiking I found several different fungi. I took pictures. Do you have a Facebook page I could post them to?

[@crystalfabulous]

Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@pickinduck]

Teasel was used for carding wool I think. If you look how the leaves are and act I've always thought this to be a carnivorous type of pitcher plant.

[@squidgameisaliarisawnosqui5341]

Catching up 👆 yes ty Steve

[@brideofdankinstien]

Hey man! I know a couple abandoned houses in evansburg, one deep in the woods, that are definitely worth checking out! Let me know and I'll send you the location!

[@zeevon9]

Ran a 6k trail run here. Thanks for showing me what I missed.

[@nunziociuridda]

Very nice video, i subscribe your channel 5852, greetings 🙂

[@ravenswp64]

People do live in some of the houses..my daughter just signed a lease for one of them

[@brianketterer9189]

Ice cream!!! I would want a steak and a beer.

[@bahamajim1998]

Lol after doing a section of A T i had pizza and beer .

[@ravenswp64]

I live in Philly..that park is 40 minutes away from Philly

[@darlenegood4101]

I think those teasles look like what's in Michigan and we call it thistle weeds

[@primrozie]

The rock with hole in it looked like you could start a fire in it with a stick, ya know what I mean?

[@maverick120adventures8]

Nothing but Mennonites and farmers mixed in with Hipster's. very safe place my man don't believe the hype. Many miles of pristine country, give me a shout we can hike all day and never see the same trail.

[@nickmad887]

thanks

[@catman7153]

Do you do any fishing? I love fishing small rivers and streams like the one in your video.

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

I do fish.....but never ended up getting my licence this past summer.

[@catman7153]

Thanks for the reply! I love your videos, and hope someday to do something similar. I live in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas, and there are many, many places here to explore..

[@billiefloyd7106]

Turkey tails is a good name for the one mushroom. I thought we weren't going to see any today. It would be nice to see some benches on the trail above the creek sonyou could sit and watch the water, so peaceful.

[@EnVee215]

I just got back from a hike there and there we're these 2 guys in a car, when i was walking toward my car from below the trail i saw one of the guys was outside his car just looking into my car. When i got closer they both got in their car but just looked at me. When i would look back they would pretend to be talking. What's up with that area? I always hear incidents dealing with 2 men following people.

[@R.C.1161]

You are about a mile from SCI Phoenix, near SCI Graterford and your running into creepy people. Go figure. Like the tourist always looking up in the city. The wolves were watching. They just weren't hungry that day. Lucky for you! BAD place!!