Stack Rock (Bedford, Indiana)
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Hidden in the Bedford, Indiana woods, up a rugged dirt path, beside the beautiful Milwaukee Trail, Is Stack Rock. It’s an absolutely enormous stack of limestone, left from an abandoned quarry, and from a distance: it looks like a castle on a hill. But on the other side, is an ever-changing display of colors and opinions, from the political to the profane, only there until the next idea comes to replace it.
This video travels the beautiful Milwaukee Trail, across bridges, through limestone valleys and along a beautiful Lawrence County Indiana creek.
SPECIAL NOTE
Hi! Since I posted this video, I’ve learned that stack rock is on private property. There are no “NO TRESPASSING SIGNS” posted anywhere, and it was my assumption that it was either owned by the town of Bedford, or it was part of the Milwaukee Trail. As it is private property, know that trespassing can have legal consequences for anyone that goes to stack rock.
My intention was not to upset anyone by a video. I make films to document significant historical and cultural places, and that was the reason I made this video in the first place. Generations of people have come here to leave their mark, if only for a season. It’s my sincere hope that it will bring back fond memories, to people that have been there, as well as educate others about the rich Lawrence County history.
I've camped and been to many BJH/BNL year bond fires and teenage parties while growing up in Bedford The stacks interior is also an amazing maze if your brave enough to climb it, that has 5 or 6 varying size rooms. The biggest (12x12) is on the back bottom left side and takes some looking for. The room is a awesome camping spot that my group used to camp in every summer for years. This was a long time before the Milwaukee trail and at the time a good hike. I joined the Navy and left Bedford 30 years ago and haven't ever been back there. It is private Property that's still owned by the Indiana limestone company in Oolitic. Its also the Quarry that contributed to the inner building of the US Pentagon until they switched shades of limestone and starting pulling its stone Ice box quarry in Oolitic. I learned that the stack was reserve stone for future work or repair needs there and always wondered if it was still there after the Pentagon was damaged on 9/11
Your paragraph has amazing history in it, and provides some answers to unanswered questions that I, and others, had.
1. Rumored interior exists
2. Stones were set aside in case Pentagon ever needed additional stone
3. Before the Milwaukee trail, it was a good hike to get there
Thank you for your service in the Navy, and for this history!
@@AdventureswithRoger Its not rumored that theres an interior there is
I'm from Louisville and spent plenty of time with friends all over Southern Indiana. I have always had intense interest in archeology and studied it in college as well as a hobby. There is new information all over the internet from archeologists who have stepped out of the Box. North America had many ancient cultures, including Egyptians. Southern Illinois is known as Little Egypt, Cairo being the best known city. But if you look at a map of that area you will find more Egyptian names. STACK Rock is definitely a pile of megalithic rocks, it looks like it has been restocked from an earlier structure as megalithic structure are never stacked in vertical rows. There is evidence of a huge headway wall that existed at the head of 18 mile Island on the Indiana side. There is a CZcams that shows drawings to scale done by Gen. GEORGE Rogers Clark when he surveyed it around 1800. The stones were later barged to Louisville and used as foundation stones for early big buildings like the Galt House. The Smithsonian is no Saint in our history as it's agenda is to hide any evidence of history not agreeing with Columbus and Europeans being the culture bearers. There are a lot of credible CZcams videos on reexamine the history of our land. ROBERT Sephyr is a great one to start with. I love your videos, you are agreat photographer and your topics are so interesting! I am so glad I found you! Just thought you might like to know there is new research being released on these ancient structures, so don't be afraid to dig outside the narrative. Thanks again for your beautiful work( without annoying ads!)
I bet this hike is beautiful in the fall! Wonderful video tour! Thanks Roger!
My pleasure! I hike just up to snake and tick season, and break until late fall as a rule. 🙂
I fished and swam in the quarry that was near these rocks when I was a kid in the mid 1950s. We did not know there was a name for the rocks nor do I remember much graffiti on them. Kids would swim nude in the quarry. My friends and I lived in Edgewood Addition which was north of the rocks and quarry and reached them by walking through the woods and crossing the Milwaukee Railroad track. We had to be alert for any oncoming trains.
I’m glad I did this video! So many good memories from so many people. That’s what makes it worthwhile! 🙂
I was there a few months ago, and by accident fell off of the top onto a limestone rock at the bottom. Luckily I survived with nothing more than a couple broken bones in my leg, a fractured wrist, and fractured thumb socket, so lucky to be alive. It’s a good 40-50 foot fall. I would recommend it to anyone to see Stack Rock, just be careful
Excellent testimonial, Trent!
I've only watched two videos so far, this one and The Lost Castle in the Woods. I love history and have always enjoyed meandering and exploring. One can find so much interesting sites if taking your time while traveling about in the countryside.
New subscriber and looking forward on viewing all of your other videos and new ones!⁵
Welcome to the channel! I love hidden histories, quirky roadside attractions and the unexplained. There’s plenty of those things down here in Southern Indiana!
And of course you have a video on Stack Rock too! Wow! I tagged these rocks myself when i was young! All the times I trecked out there in my adolescent years (on a different path from a shelter house in the same park), I never thought about looking at Stack Rock from the back side! These videos have made my day! Fantastic stuff! I think I'll take my kids on a hike soon and visit these areas of my past. Thank you for this journey!
It makes my day to hear people have enjoyed the films I’ve made! Below is a playlist of the 28 I’ve done about Lawrence County. I have a few more ideas for this fall, but if you recall something that was a big part of your childhood, it might make for a good one!
czcams.com/play/PLs79BVReZPlRXYUiIQKrCKrlRzOGYV2AZ.html
I've been on that stack! It's been a few years, but it's really cool- fun to climb, too! I live about 30 feet from that water tower at the beginning.
After we got passed the, “it’s private property, but Roger didn’t know that”, there were so many cool comments from people that had been there as kids.
I filmed the water tower on my older camera, a year or so ago. I was standing at the body shop and struck up a conversation with the owner. That’s what I love about this CZcams thing! Finding interesting places, developing a story and meeting good people along the way.
That's a beautiful place. Thank you. My Dad liked the music museum. So did my Mom. She had a minnie stroke last week but she's fine an i had to wake my Dad up 2 times during the video. He's 93
I’ve got a little more filming to do next spring, but I hope to get both a southern Indiana highlight video together, in time for the 2023 tourist season, and another about places people can go, with limited or no mobility. I know a lot of people that are either in wheel chairs or care for someone that uses one. For all the ruggedness of southern Indiana, there’s also many flat places where people can get out and enjoy some interesting things.
Tell your folks I said “hello” and thanks for watching!
Hello, from Northeast, Indiana. I'm doing a Roger tour tomorrow on my way to Hawesville, Kentucky. Our first stop will be Medora brick plant. We will be stopping in Bedford at The Dairy Treet for lunch. Next stop will be Jasper's geode grotto. I'm excited to see the St Meinrad shrine. I had no idea there was so much to see until I started watching your videos! Thanks, Roger!😊
While in Jasper, look up “City Mill” and the Dubois County Museum. The museum is the largest county museum in Indiana, and has an entire city reconstructed underground! Also in town is the humongous St Joseph church, which has bern renovated recently. It looks like something transported from Europe!
Monastery (of the) Immaculate Conception is a great tour of a beautiful place. St Meinrad has a self-guided one at the moment. Across the road is Monte Casino shrine. You have to drive up a hill to see it, but the interior is other-worldly beautiful. 🙂
Roger my man..holdin down southern Indianas archeology game
Raised and lived in Btown until 1973 never knew about those rocks. Cool
My relatives lived in Lawrence County for generations, I had went to reunions in that park for years, and I didn’t know about it either!
I've been going to Bedford every year, my family is from there. I've never heard or seen this place. My grandfather use to work in the quarry. Love it there. Thank you for showing this but to late for me to see it.
Six generations of my family lived and worked in Lawrence County, I’d been all around it, and had never heard of it until this year!
@@AdventureswithRoger That is so cool. Would be a great adventure with children.
I have both a lot of viewers with kids, and people that aren’t as nimble as they used to be, so I always tell if something is rugged or dangerous, after I’ve experienced it first hand. There’s a lot of ways to trip, along that trail going up, and once you reach the top, there’s only a few feet separating you from a 70 foot drop. It is sketchy! Once you get to stack rock, it’s open and safe as long as you don’t climb the blocks and fall. Before I went up there, I saw kids all over those rocks!
It's part of the mural on the side of the Times Mail building, not exactly a secret.
Seriously? 😮
The exact moment at the beginning when the camera begins to move is the corner of 22nd and Washington Ave ... where I grew up lol 2201 Washington ha ha 😊
The creek is city run-off water. You can follow it back into town where it goes under an old stone mill and under R street. Keep going to O street and it goes underground.
I just discovered your channel and it's awesome. Keep up the great work! New subscriber here.
Welcome to the adventure, Zack! Lots of cool, hidden places ahead!
Wow! I’ll be checking this out! Thank you for always sharing your adventures with us! So interesting!! Ps. I like your voice! :)
It's private property and illegal to trespass there
@@LisaG523 Now we're all going, since you informed us it's forbidden fruit. ...A variant of the Streisand effect.
@@LisaG523 This is my home town and EVERYONE goes there Ive never heard of anyone getting in trouble for being there
Thank you I love the sound of the creek
My pleasure, Debbie! I filmed a place today, in Crawford County, that also had a great creek running through it. I have no idea how I didn’t get wet, as I had jump it several times to get to where I needed to be!
Indiana has so many neat places especially Southern Indiana on of these days I would like to do some road trips myself until then thank you for sharing yours
I started off posting videos, as friends and co-workers wanted weekend ideas. I thought I would cover Southern Indiana in a few months: it’s now going on 5 years!
I’m thinking about creating some general travel videos, that group what a person could see / do in a day, based on interests (scenery, history, walking, landmarks, etc)
Roger, watched video early this morning but didn't comment till now. There are alot of places we used to go when we were young that are posted up now days. Used to if there wasn't a posted sign or a fence you could pull over about anywhere and nobody cared. As a veteran of several criminal trespass cases in several different counties I can attest that is the way no longer.
The Milwaukee trail is probably cool, it's probably an old railway track turned into trail like between Bloomington and Harrodsburg. We have something similar running parallel to highway 3 all the way from Otisco to Charlestown. I wish they would turn it all to trail my family could ride bikes or hike back and forth.
Nonetheless, great video, keep up the good work!
No worries. I had several people say “private property”, but no one could tell who actually owned it. I’m still not convinced it’s not now Bedford public property.
@@AdventureswithRoger You would probably have to check Lawrence county plat book to be sure. Thanks for video again, keep up the good work!
Thanks Gerald! I always like to hear I’m doing something right with these videos. Some videos, that I think are interesting, just flop; and ones I think will be nothing, do pretty well. I should do the opposite! 😀
@@AdventureswithRoger I loved the Squire Boone video. Southern Harrison is such beautiful country
I didn’t know if anyone else would like that one, but I made it as if I was never going back, and wanted a memory of all the good things I’d seen there, and stories I’d heard. Every year, that spiral staircase gets a little harder to climb! 🙂
I remember Dad taking us all there, back in 1979. That road from 135 is a long, twisty one, and if someone’s never been, there’s likely some doubt as to if they’re still going the right way, after a mile or two. Back then, they had these signs along the way that said things like, “You’re on your way”, “Almost there”, “Just a little bit further”. They were silly funny, had sort of a hillbilly / Gatlinburg feel to them. But it was a great time with my parents and brother, and it hooked me on showcaves.
I used to set on my back porch and be able to see other kids at the park before the new tan house was built
I love it when I can bring back a good memory or two. 🙂
Good ole " Stack rock" 👍🙂
I love stack rock I have memorized the entire lay out of it and I go there a lot
I’ve heard about the interior, many stories, but did not climb into it.
Private property or not…. MANY kids still go there to this day. I think it might be a little less of a walk if you hit the trail from S street. I’ve never been all the way back to it myself but I have heard it can be dangerous so to anyone that goes to visit it, just be careful.!
Lots of limestone nuggets all over the place. It took me under 8 minutes to get up there. I asked two gals that were already up there, how they got up there. “We climbed!” 😀 It wasn’t that bad, but the path was way too close to the quarry, and that’s probably the biggest concern for whomever owns it.
I’m really curious, after all the comments about “private property”, about who actually owns it. If I didn’t want a known teenager hangout, where I couldn’t control who came in and out, I wouldn’t buy such a place.
Lol tony burns done drug my azz up that mound of rocks probably 10+years ago... shid, glad a kept it pushin. 😆
Thanks, I really enjoyed that.
Man you are just full of interesting facts
Just listen to your Channel and you do all the homework far my next adventure out
From magical gems in the woods to Sasquatch to UFOs.. ect
A very open mind leads to awareness and an interesting life!...
Lots of beautiful and weird things in Indiana, for sure! I’ve been doing this for over 5 years, and have not ran out of material. 🙂
Thank you so much
My pleasure!
Great channel.
Hate the graffiti- but love the story!
If you are thinking about going here, especially as someone from out of town, I urge you PLEASE to NOT go. Stack Rock, though it has been a favorite in Bedford for a long time, is on private property, and the owners really are not too pleased by the level of activity here as it is a huge liability for them.
How cool! We love trails like this!! How did you ever find this?
Another tip from one of my viewers!
Stack rock is a legends place for teenagers to go. As well as blue hole and footes tomb. Footes tomb is between jiffy treat and the gas station before jiffy treat should be a small green sign that says footes tomb. Blue hole should t be far from that should be north east. There’s a CZcamsr who does drone views of Bedford as well. But no commentary.
You talking about Dejae? We’ve talked a little over the last year. He’s a cool guy and knows how to fly! We spoke about doing a collaboration project, but I haven’t gotten back to it.
I got you covered! I did a three part series on Dr Foote, working with an author that’s been writing a book for two decades! I even have photos taken in the 1970’s of the graves interior. In the video I show the grave back when it was new, how it is now, and the blue hole quarry that’s just down the way. That project was a monster! 🙂
I love folklore and legends! Would love to hear about any cool sites with interesting stories! I’m working on three more Lawrence County segments, then I am out of new material. If you haven’t seen the segment about Tunnelton, check it out! That tunnel legend is either legit or someone did an outstanding hoax. I zoomed in with the computer and no one is holding the light in the tunnel!
@@whitedrgnsupra3575 I'd like to see some of the drone shots. Could you send a link please?
@@darlaballenger2357 I’d have to look for it but yea I can
I like this, how long or how old is this?....thanks
As I heard it, the stones were quarried in the 1940’s, as a backup for the Pentagon, in case they ever needed to make repairs. However, after the Pentagon was attacked in 2001, other stone was used, as this quarry was well out of business.
As far as how big it is, I guesstimate it’s at least 4 and half stories tall, and nearly the same wide. Local kids say that if you climb to the top, there’s a way to crawl down inside it, and there are voids that people have used as rooms.
Seems a lot longer than a 20 minute walk to get there........I call Spider Creek sewer creek..........It gets ripe down there when the heat hits.
It appears that the concrete highway separators and rock were placed at the entrance of the trail to keep trespassers off of private property.
While I’ve had a few people, this morning, tell me it was private property, that didn’t even register in my thick skull. 😀
Rocks in the path don’t say a thing. You must have signs saying Don’t enter, no trespassing, keep out, private property, etc.
What a shame that people would deface such a beautiful piece of history
The crazy thing is that the graffiti IS the history. So much so, that the local newspaper building has a mural with stack rock and it’s graffiti. The quarry name, and why the blocks were stacked in the first place, is forgotten by almost everyone.
When I was a kid, Spyder Creek was full of lime dust
I bet it was! I saw some green algae, but nothing like a quarry
About 45 or 50 years ago, could this be seen from the highway. I remember a couple of places like this when I was a kid but it was just from passing by. My grandparents all lived in Martin county or Davies’s county and we went to Martin county every weekend
This is in the middle of the woods, and up against a housing addition: I don’t think you could have seen it from the road. But for sure, there’s limestone outcrops along old highway 37 in Lawrence County, and also in Martin county. You might’ve seen one on a tall hill in Martin County, that looked very similar from a difference. Lots and lots of limestone in these parts!
Roger left out that it is ILLEGAL to trespass on this property.
I didn’t know it until this morning. Posting disclaimer
@@AdventureswithRoger No prior knowledge, and no signs/fence/locked gate = no crime
Only warrants a verbal warning when no sign/fence/locked gate/etc. is in place. And if you immediately leave upon receiving that warning, they (cops) can't even so much as demand your ID. ...However, many cops either don't know the law, or will proceed to bluff you even if they do know it, by threatening to (unlawfully) arrest you if you don't at least ID yourself. In reality, next time you're caught there, only after the first "freebie" warning, is when cops can legitimately start demanding things.
Reminds me of the off-limits quarry featured in "Breaking Away". Even the (real) local cop said he went there when he was young, and that if it was his choice people would still be "allowed" to go there. But (mostly just one) local Karen lady raised a fuss and eventually got if "filled in" to destroy the interest in even visiting.
I go out a lot of times with a tank of gas, a viewer tip, “you oughta come see ________”, and just see what I find. Sometimes I find nothing that tells a story, and many times I get lucky. But as a rule, I have nothing to go on, no tour guide, just a place on a map. If I’d seen a “no trespassing” sign, that would have been the end of it. But there were none. It looked like part of the park.
In the nearly 5 years I’ve been on CZcams, I’ve only had a handful of times when someone told me I’d accidentally trespassed. One lady told me a place was on her property, she didn’t care who visited it, but didn’t want it publicized on a video. And that certain landmark was published by her town tourism board! But, if someone says it’s trespassing, I don’t go back.
I’ve followed a lot of other CZcamsrs that, unlike me, have trespassed and knew they were trespassing. One guy did over 2,000 such videos, and only had one police officer say to “move along”. One property “banned him for life”, and later unbanned him when they realized it was free publicity. 😀
@@AdventureswithRoger Perhaps you're talking about "adamthewoo", when you mention a CZcamsr being banned then unbanned. Disney parks did that with him. Regardless, that happened to him too.
Yep! I started following him after he visited his sister at Kokomo, Indiana. Found out he’d crashed TONS of places! 😀 But, he is a reformed man now.
DONT get stuck here at night
Question. Can you get to it by entering the other way, from the highway?
You can, but it’s a much much longer walk.
1000 years from now archeologist will marvel at the mysterious paintings we call graffiti. Johnny how many times I gotta tell you; don't be painting on the cave walls! 😜😜😜
Do not go there! The owner of the property is a very rude man. He kicked my dog when he found us on his “private property”. My dog is only a puppy too. A little shitzu… what a jerk!!
How long ago was it? The property was sold, not too long ago, and I hear the new owners are very nice, just don’t want people getting hurt on their property.
Someone also told me that they encountered a man that was either high or mentally ill, that scared them and their grandkids.
No lol what there nice people
🤝🇰🇿👍👍👍
Supposedly in the center is the entrance to the devils gate.
Someone mentioned finding a little cubby hole down there, that wasn’t very big. I wouldn’t like it either way!
You failed to mention that stack rock is private property so if you visit you are trespassing and could face legal trouble if caught.
I didn’t even know it. I posted a disclaimer identifying it as private property, though I still believe it’s good history that should be documented
Isn't it just waste from the limestone quarry?
Limestone piled-up for a project that will never happen. The limestone company is gone and it’s now privately owned. The people that were earlier identified as owning it, have admitted they sold it some time ago. I will be rolling my eyes if Bedford owns this.
😂taking the "Milwaukee" trail before it had a name was way different for our the trail was about two feet wide and no markers st all
What is that rock formation in Shoals called..
Jug Rock
I have never understood the mentality behind graffiti. Destroying things of beauty with paint. Who walks around with cans of paint?
I don’t either. It’s a shame how people continue to graffiti the historic covered bridges, on the western side of Indiana. The ones on the eastern side are virtually pristine.
I've been here...not many know about the murders that occured here tho 😮
Over the last 6 years, people have told me about occult sacrifices, murders and other mayhem, associated with places I’ve covered. No one can produce a single police report to prove it. “It was covered up, police report was never filed, police report was shredded,” just no proof. Milltown, Brown County and Utica have similar stories.
The graffiti are simply ugly vandalism of nature.
I’m not a fan of any graffiti. I’m not. But if I had to chose between the side of my car, house, business, other places I have to see every day, or some forgotten stone blocks that I don’t have to look at, I’d choose the latter, and be happy that immense young adult emotion and anger is staying there.
I love that kind of outdoors attractions, but man this narrator needs to talk faster
I’ve been doing this for nearly five years, Jimmy. I use my usual voice and people say I talk too fast. I talk like I’m the guy from Dateline NBC, and people say it’s either too slow or they absolutely love it. Make an awesome video and show me how it’s done.