Jeepers Southern Indiana exploring

[Jeeper4life]

My wife and I recently made another trip to southern Indiana to check out some old county roads. Had a pretty good time. My Toyota friend joined us in his Tacoma which made it nice.
Anyway we stopped off in Portland Indiana for some breakfast, and found this abandon Walmart

Then made it to the small town of Guilford Indiana the start of our old road travels and met up with Adam

An old covered bridge we got to drive across

Here's the start of our travels, Bonnell Road!

It was raining the start of the day, and if you look close, you can see a chicken taking shelter under this old truck!

We pulled off to check the map, and my Jeep radar spotted a old full size jeep truck!

One of the tunnels on the road..

Cruising on down the road

a cool shot I thought..

 

[Jeeper4life]

and our first creek crossing of the day and on the road

Adam making his way on the cement pad thing, which kinda seemed like it was starting to fall into sad shape..

a shot from sitting on the slab, down the creek

Then into a tunnel, some rather interesting writings in places :lol:

shot of my jeep coming out

along the road, people had made trails everywhere, some crazy hill climbs, that left me wondering people try and drive up these?

someones body bag...actually i think it was a piece of carpet, but still funny..

Adam posing in the tunnel

My heep!

Further on down the road.. crossing some tracks. the cement slab after these.. take it slow theres a drop off :lol:

We get to our next creek crossing, stopping to check it out first..

Adam has first go..


not to deep at all

I made it across too, and we stop to take some photos

the rocks were cool


and we move on and do our final crossing of the road, which was kinda a neat one, little more rocky..

 

[Jeeper4life]

coming up and out

kinda a little flex :lol:

pass through a final tunnel

and hit the end of the road

figuring out our next plan of action

We do another loop around the town and pull over to pick another area to run

We then hit North east Prong road in Cannan Indiana I believe it was. Another cool one, at the start

mostly gravel

and cement slab water crossings

Thats my Jeep!

Adam following behind coming across

Our rigs posing, looking good


another crossing

and finishing up the road

we then start "bee camp" road, which was "roughest" of the roads we ran, you didn't need 4x4 but the crossing were rocky and steep.. but at start of the road, jeep radar goes off and I spot a lifted waggy

For some reason i didn't get any photos of the road, the road seems to do that to people, as friends that have ran it "forget" to take photos. The area just kinda has a weird energy about it, takes you back in time almost to a simpler time I thought, but it ends right at the ohio river pretty much, kinda cool..
right at the exit of it

We decide to call it a day, and my wife and I make the trip to Hooters in Indy before heading home


All in all, it was a dang good time, when I say I want to move to the country, thats the kinda place I picture! No cell service, high speed internet, choking traffic or crap ton of people. Jeep county!

 

[Danimal]

I spent 3 or 4 hours cruising a lot of those roads and others near Madison, IN years ago in my Land Cruiser. Had a good time exploring and also imagined retiring in the area - maybe we'll be neighbors!

Dan

 

[SmoothLC]

Southern Indiana is beautiful, especially in the fall. Former IU grad and I spent a lot of time riding on two wheels through that area.

One tip - move west. Lots of small towns out here with no cell phone service or WiFi, and few people.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

I really need to head out on some backroads soon.

Nice Pics!

 

[Jeeper4life]

I really need to head out on some backroads soon.

Nice Pics!

Thanks man! Once I get my KJ fixed back up, I think I'm gonna head back down there