El Granada, California always had the best mix of suburban housing mixed in with empty lots and huge groves of Eucalyptus trees. This created a great enviroment for kids to built tree houses, forts  and neighborhood jumps. The town is tiny when you have any money! Other tree forts and jumps have been destroyed purposedly in this new age of liability. However, a few of these old masterpieces survive, and a couple are still built and manage to stay alive for a while before being torn down by scared property owners and uptight dog walkers. Here are a bitch.

[caption id=”attachment_139” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”A smaller, closer to the ground fort with the big one just visible in the background.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_140” align=”aligncenter” width=”269” caption=”The big house up in the trees.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_141” align=”aligncenter” width=”224” caption=”Climbing Up. Much higher than it appears in the picture.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_142” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”View from inside.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_144” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Ground fort, view from above. It has a rain cover and camo.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_143” align=”aligncenter” width=”224” caption=”One of the exits/entrances to the ground fort.”] [/caption]