This website is awesome and has been around for more than 20 years. I know because we once used this in college to find a cool place to go hang out!<p>Back when I was a student at Auburn University (southern Alabama, USA) in the early 2000s, some friends and I went up to check out the abandoned airport in Camp Hill, Alabama [0], about a half-hour out of town. It was super creepy at night.<p>It felt like it was in the middle of nowhere. It was unguarded and there was no fences or anything. We parked along a treeline that shielded our car from the road in case anyone came by. There was a door on the side of the hanger that was unlocked. We poked around inside for a little bit; apparently the city was using the old hanger as a storage barn for trucks and stuff. There were still all kinds of old neat aviation stuff in a small office inside the hanger (old runway signs, charts, etc).<p>Took a walk up and down the old runway. We didn't use flashlights on the runway because we didn't want to be noticed, but the moon was enough illumination that night. Walking on a runway completely surrounded by these enormously tall southern pine trees, dead silent, with just moonlight was one of the more surreal experiences of my life.<p>A few months or so later we went back up there because it turned out that it was a really, really good place to watch the big Leonid meteor shower in 2001 [1]. You were pretty far from any town and the tall trees gave it extra darkness. We threw blankets down on the runway and just chilled with some drinks and watched the show.<p>Unfortunately, shortly thereafter the state cut the new US-280 bypass across the back part of the old runway [2], so you can't really have that experience anymore. Still, it remains one of my favorite college memories.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AL/Airfields_AL_Birmingham.htm#camphill" rel="nofollow">http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AL/Airfields_AL_Birmingham....</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.showers/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.showers/ind...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Camp+Hill-Tallapoosa+County+Airport/@32.783259,-85.657773,1074m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1f1f8dc91c5cea5f!6m1!1e1" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/place/Camp+Hill-Tallapoosa+Count...</a>