Posted by Roadwolf on November 18, 2025
Urban Exploration
Urban Exploration. A popular and sensationalized trend on YouTube or Instagram these days. All over the world people are getting into places they shouldn't be, and documenting their deeds for all to see. Heck, I watched a recent video of some guys who climbed a crane, and actually free climbed out to the cranes hook. Gosh... No thank you. But there isn't much I can really say. I too was an Urban Explorer back in my younger years. At the time I thought my lifestyle would lead to my loss of life before I was 35. I knew it was dangerous. That being said I never did anything like that. Read more
Posted by Roadwolf on December 29, 2020
Urban Exploration
Acsys Technologies was a auto plant in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It closed down around the turn of the century. Some parts of the plant were 100 years old, and it was part of the original GM Auto plant. The plant was 2,000,000 square feet, in 46 acres. When I went there the plant still had active security, and it was a wild few hours exploring the place. Sadly I lost most of my photos from it.
The only photo I still have was this one:
You can find the UER location listed here: https://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=22565
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Posted by Roadwolf on September 11, 2020
Urban Exploration
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Posted by Roadwolf on September 11, 2020
Urban Exploration
Many many years ago I got the chance to explore an old Toronto Hydro building. It was essentially a workshop with a large indoor parking and storage area for equipment and trucks. It was being demolished to make way for condos.
Here are some photos! Enjoy.
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Posted by Roadwolf on December 28, 2018
Urban Exploration
The Brighton Gravel Pit was a fun little weekend explore. We ventured out there one weekend on the way to Picton, and stopped to check out the remains of a gravel crusher. I got many artistic photos, and these photos were typical of my more artistic period of Urban Exploration. Sadly many other location's photos were lost with a hard drive failure.
Enjoy the photos!
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Posted by Roadwolf on February 4, 2018
Urban Exploration
When I first came to Buffalo many years ago, it was a run down city. Today, Buffalo is thriving and rebuilding. But this is a window to the past, through which we can see some of the rougher times Buffalo has seen.
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Posted by Roadwolf on February 3, 2018
Blog and Journal Urban Exploration
Believe it or not, I learned to type on a type-writer. Not a computer. Read more
Posted by Roadwolf on August 18, 2016
Urban Exploration
Spaulding Fibre was a plant in Tonawanda, NY which produced a type of unique type of 'bakelite' material. The plant was heavily contaminated with asbestos as you will see in the photos.
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Posted by Roadwolf on August 18, 2016
Urban Exploration
This photo journal brought back some memories, and triggered a bit of a search for information. This Nike Missile base was a fairly easy exploration. The base is privately owned, and has been preserved in its abandoned / unused state for the most part.
This Nike Base was established to house and launch MIM-3 Surface to Air missiles. These were about 33ft long, and weighed 14.6t. The MIM-14's which succeeded the MIM-3's were capable of both Surface to Air and Surface to Surface engagements. Nike missiles could be fitted with both nuclear and conventional warheads. It is my understanding that the missiles located around Buffalo / Niagara, were fitted with mostly nuclear warheads, due to the areas importance.
The find of a 1970's era muscle car in the bunker, was an odd find indeed. There has been some speculation that this vehicle might have a connection to the unsolved 1974 murder of Karen Caughlin, from Sarnia, Ontario. The suspect vehicle was believed to be a Plum Crazy Purple dodge, which was fairly new at the time of the incident. I did try to email the OPP Investigator in charge of this case, about this find, but have not heard back.
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Posted by Roadwolf on July 26, 2016
Urban Exploration
The Buffalo German Orphanage was an orphanage on the East Side of Buffalo, NY. I have been here exploring a few times. This trip was with a bunch of my friends from Toronto. I remember the priest from the church on site was telling us a bit about the history of the place before we went in. We took our time and respected the place. Not everyone did that however... One time I went with a guy who runs a blog called "FixBuffalo". He is one of those hippy types, who bought up a bunch of property in a down turned neighborhood, and then tried to use his political swing to raise the land values in order to basically sell the property off for a return. Anyhow, he claimed to be an urban explorer, but he really wasn't. He would promote stealing and vandalizing the property regularly. He had agendas beyond what a typical urban explorer has.
The following are some photos from a trip there with some of my old exploration buddies. I will comment on the photos as needed.
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