[PuppyMilk]

By PuppyMilk 19 Sep 2015, 10:28 am

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I have been urbexing for a little while now and have always had trouble finding places, so I was wondering if anyone have any tips or strategies on finding places. How do you guys do it?

[No+Pro]

By No+Pro 19 Sep 2015, 10:38 am

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by asking everyone and anyone where their best spots are, then going there a lot, breaking things and posting pics of it all over the internet and bragging about it, then hoping the next person i ask for stuff hasn't noticed my previously described actions

oh, me? i use nearmap for that sort of thing, google maps are generally pretty old. i drive a lot for work and keep an eye out for interesting places too

[Kto]

By Kto 19 Sep 2015, 11:41 am

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Temp fences can be your best friend.

[spigot]

By spigot 20 Sep 2015, 9:12 pm

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Drive around on a Sunday afternoon or whenever you have time free and look for anything boarded up or obviously disused. Graf on the exterior is not always a reliable indicator, and often when the place is abandoned it's been trashed for a while. You can also keep your ear to the ground online, looking in the news for when businesses go down (especially big industrial types) but this requires sifting through a lot of frass.

Finding places on your own is much more fun than just asking (and irritating) other explorers for locations. Half the fun for me is in the search! Doing laps around industrial areas and trawling through google, for me any way, counts as exploring too, just as much as finding a hole in the fence and slipping into a window.

And it should go without saying, but use common sense when you explore. If you break stuff, tag up, post pictures online and be a loudmouth, you'll not only burn bridges with other explorers but you'll ruin the quality of the location and often risk additional security being placed on site, which isn't good for anyone. Usually when copper scabs and graffers get in, they'll trash the place anyway, but that's no excuse for an explorer to do the same for a bit of fun. Every bit of vandalism counts towards ruining it for other explorers and possibly making it more hazardous than it is.