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Also consider that many suburbs end up rather forested 30-50 years or so after they are built. The subdivision where I grew up ended up that way to the point that looking sideways you could barely tell there are houses amongst the trees.
Birmingham, Alabama. Only the downtown area and major shopping areas are treeless. So, basically, you'd look out and never guess that about a million people live there.
I see this thread has been resurrected and your post here cpg is quite old, but will chime in anyway.
As an Atlanta area native, will agree with the praise it has gotten on this thread, but Birmingham needs mention as well. Spent five years there during the 80s at Samford. Birmingham might even feel more forested than Atlanta as it has not had the explosive growth the Atlanta area has had with the loss of much tree cover, especially in suburban areas.
All of the over the mountain suburbs (Homewood, Vestavia, Mountain Brook) are set in dense forests with massive mature trees. Even the newer suburbs like Hoover and down into Shelby County are still very forested. Much of the city of Birmingham itself is dense with trees.
Birmingham is also home to one of the largest wilderness areas inside a large city's city limits.
I wonder if anyone's been to Cuyahoga National Park. That definitely seems like it should be up here with the best urban forests. I haven't been but I've heard it features it's own heritage railway and historic sights along the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Atlanta qualifies in general, after all it's called the city in a forest. Checkout Chattahoochee national park, as well as the East Palisades trail which has a giant bamboo forest
Wissahickon Park in Philadelphia. Some parts of it remind me of the New England woods I used to run around in as a kid.
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