“I know that development, it was Durham’s experiment in Urban Sprawl” was what someone told me who did some work on my house. The development I live was built in middle of nowhere on the farmland just off of I-40 at the end of the 70’s. 30 years later the website says, “Woodcroft is a planned community of over 2,000 homes aimed to coexist harmoniously with nature, We strive to achieve this goal through a well-crafted design, miles of biking and jogging trails, and acres of common area greenways.”

Things have been built up significantly in the last 10 years and the American Tobacco trail which is to be a part of the eventual East Coast Greenway crosses Woodcroft Parkway just a few blocks from where I live. Sometimes websites want to correct my address and say that I live on West Woodcroft, but technically there is no West Woodcroft Parkway, The roadsigns are just Woodcroft and East Woodcroft, however certain institutions add the West for “Clarification” which is just the tip of the oddities in the road name issues with my neighborhood.

Woodcroft is somewhat of a maze for the uninitiated and giving directions is a bit of a trick. If you go to maps.google.com and search for 44B Tingen Ct., Durham, NC, the result will show you an arrow on a cul-de-sac off of St. Giles Drive. However were you to get in your car and try and follow the directions to that address you would never get there. The road signs for these roads don’t exist. I wish they did because 44B Tingen Ct. shows up exactly where my house is. I assume what happened was at some point the roads were made private and the names changed because on some of my tax forms I see Tingen Ct. I’m not sure of the rational but it would be nice if would revert so I could get an address people could actually find.