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Originally Posted by aka123
We have this.
"The freedom to roam, or everyman's right is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness or the right to roam."
"Ancient traces provide evidence of the freedom to roam in many European countries, suggesting such a freedom was once a common norm. Today, the right to roam has survived in perhaps its purest form in Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Here the right has been won through practice over hundreds of years[1] and it is not known when it changed from mere 'common practice' to become a commonly recognised right."
Freedom to roam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
There is freedom to roam in the US as well but ironically it's not in the places whom love to scream about their freedom.. Take Texas for instance.. One of the biggest states in the union and very little public land and everyone has this "get off ma land" mentality.
Meanwhile in the evil socialist New England.. places like CT for example every lake in that state has a public access point. In both MA & CT you can legally walk off in the woods and even hunt as long as there are not any "no trespassing or no hunting signs".
In FL it's kind of the same way. As long as a lake is not land locked by private land you are allowed to access it, even if it's just by public right of way using a ditch line. There are very few places in the state this doesn't hold true.
Undeveloped land is much the same way in FL, as long as it's not posted no trespassing you can go on that land with out fear of being arrested for trespassing. The owner has the right to kick you out at any time, but unless it's posted no trespassing he can't have you arrested unless you are damaging something.
It was quite a shocker to me to see how stingy much of the Western states are being I've grown up mostly on the East Coast. You always see people in many of the Western states rambling on about freedom and shit, but after visiting quite a few of them, it's amazing how oppressed they have made themselves under their own state govt's.