Winoka Lodge Again

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Winoka Lodge Again

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She wanted to go see Winoka Lodge, so we made a quick trip out tonight. Most of you have seen it before, but I guess the place is changing over time as well. Here is how it looked today.
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We got caught as well, and asked to leave. People on the bridge started shouting at the rent-a-cop, "And who are you." The next question was to us, "Did you see the cool stuff up there, you know there is a cave called Wildcat Cave on that property, did you see that too?." Springfield is an urban ex community.
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Has anyone been out there lately? I haven't been in years (most of my exploring is just rural anymore - not so much revisiting places I've been tons of times), but I drove by there tonight and the entrance is definitely different. I have a friend who'd like to see it, so just wondered if this whole getting asked to leave business is the new norm there.
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graffitifetish wrote:Has anyone been out there lately? I haven't been in years (most of my exploring is just rural anymore - not so much revisiting places I've been tons of times), but I drove by there tonight and the entrance is definitely different. I have a friend who'd like to see it, so just wondered if this whole getting asked to leave business is the new norm there.
Explored it last spring and the property has not changed at all.
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To clarify, I probably haven't been out there since 2008. The entrance I always go in (the one I think pretty much everyone goes in) appeared different - some signs etc and I didn't see the barbed wire fence anymore. But, I take it you didn't get chased off, which is really what I'm looking for information-wise.
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I will say that the last time I was out there, last spring I think, the only weird thing I noticed different was that if you got to the far back end of the property to Wild Cat Cave, if you walk out of Wild Cat Cave into that little valley that leads down to the river (Fun Fact: that valley is called Butternut Canyon) there are a bunch of trees that have been cut down with an axe. You can clearly tell by the markings on the tree that an axe was used. Some of the smaller trees were stacked up as a kind of lean-to shelter, and some other were just left where they fell, some fairly large (for being chopped by hand anyway).

So either some kids were going out there and playing Bear Grylls or there was a hobo building himself a little home back there at some point. I think it was the kids playing Survival because I don't think a hobo trying to make shelter would unneccesarily cut down trees way to big for his purpose and leave them there. That sounds more to me like kids enjoying the novelty of using an axe and just cutting a tree down for the fun of it.
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What kids cut down trees for fun?

Except in Minecraft.
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