How to Find Local Places to Take a Break

With COVID-19 ongoing, long vacations and plane trips are not happening like before, this means many are staying around their towns and cities during the summer. But this does not mean there aren’t places to check out, even if you feel your area is boring and lacking outdoor spaces.

Here are some websites that are good to start looking for places in your area:

ShotHotspot: This site is great for finding unique abandoned, landscape, and hiking places locally, it has pictures and detailed information on places you’d never know existed. The only drawback is that some stuff is very old (date posted) and will not exist anymore, but this is usually mostly for abandoned buildings. Also, since anyone can post here, some things especially abandoned places could be unsafe or private, please use caution and common sense if exploring an area like this. (URL:https://www.shothotspot.com/)

Only in your state: This site gives you recommendations on parks, hiking trails, swimming holes, waterfalls, and anything else unique in your state. It’s updated about twice a week in a lot of states. These places are hidden gems, that little people knew existed. Also, restaurant recommendations here are great! URL:(https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/)

Google maps/earth: This is simple, go to google maps satellite view and zoom in to an area you want to explore, you’ll find parks and restaurants that populate the map, google earth will also give you street views of the area. The good thing about the satellite view is you can see the actual landscape and its easy to find parks, woods, or urban spaces. Then research that places more on your own before venturing out. Also, when using Google Earth, look out for photos on the map, this feature can help you find parks where photos have been taken. , URL:(https://www.google.com/maps) (https://www.google.com/earth/)

Drive around!: Right, what better way, take an afternoon and drive around towns in your area, you’re bound to find parks and exciting places along the way!

In addition to these, there are many other ways to find cool places in your area; obviously there’s word-of-mouth or asking people around town and friends and also joining things like meet up groups for things like hiking, adventuring and stuff like that. Jetzy is perfect for finding this kind of information! Take this summer to explore your area extensively. Sure you may not be able to take that vacation to Cancun or Hawaii, but you can spend your days driving around the region and finding hidden gems that you never knew about before, right in your backyard.

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