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by everforward
875 days ago
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Your mileage may vary, but my experience in the South was that most people (especially people with a few to many acres) don't care if you use their land if you ask. I've hunted or fished on a few strangers' land. I've used land I didn't own without asking, but did live in the neighborhood and the woods were largely considered communal if people weren't jackasses. A lot of people own land because they want access to it, not because they want to deny everyone else access. Just go up to the nearest house and ask if you can walk through their land, or if they know who owns it so you can ask. People are generally nice about it. You can also largely ignore corporate ownership of large swaths of land for stuff like logging or mining. They don't monitor it, and are unlikely to make a big deal of a hiker crossing through if you don't walk directly through the part they're working. There's a greater conversation about private ownership and access to nature, but asking is a practical workaround in the mean time. |
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This doesn't seem like such a great idea these days, with armed people holed up on their property thinking they are "under siege" when someone accidentally enters their property[1][2][3]. People are too unhinged to risk knocking on a random door.
1: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/us/new-york-man-found-guilty-...
2: https://abcnews.go.com/US/gps-mistake-allegedly-leads-deadly...
3: https://www.wrdw.com/2023/11/03/texas-man-convicted-manslaug...