The Tobacco Barn. The only original building left on what was the Calloway Farm (raised tobacco) now known as the Carolina Horse Park. This iteration is no longer there but current course designer has had the upper levels go through the barn to jump a skinny on the other side.
Flying Cross (KY) they used to have a ride thru barn. Early a.m. Prelim pic of my ‘two homebreds’ jumping it. They also had an amazing Irish bank fence. I’ll look for that. I miss the old challengers. Now every course seems ‘styled’ with whatever is deemed the new popular, alot of sameness on the courses. And I’ve even heard the words from a course designer that banks are ‘out of style’ so a flat terrain course doesn’t get anything.
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Flying Cross is also one of the few places I’ve seen a true sunken road with a jump, bank down, a few strides and then a bank up! Really cool property and terrain, plus the nicest people ever run it.
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I remember when they started Flying Cross, the goal was to build everything you would see somewhere else, all in one place. And it was AMAZING, the first time I rode it back in 2002. The prelim course had an Irish bank, permanent closed-top corner, a bounce (! set up beautifully by a twisty path through the woods), a friendly wannabe broken-bridge drop, double bounce bank, sunken road, coffin, picture frame, mounds, tiger trap, trakehner… and those were all PERMANENT fixtures, not portables. Every question may not be used in one course, but most of them were. The questions were so inviting, not trappy, well-built and well-designed. It was such a fun course to ride. Each level had something appropriate, that logically prepared for the next level (training level had a one-stride of log rails in the woods, next to the prelim bounce, for example).
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Loch Moy in maryland has a sunken road as well!
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So does Wingreen (in VA): it’s a fantastic schooling facility, though no HTs there. It also has steps, along with every other conceivable x-country question you can think of!
Gordonsdale (alas, closed awhile ago) had a Helsinki - one of the rare places in Area 2 that did.
Frying Pan Park (whose cross country course has fallen into disrepair since the horse trials left) has an Irish Bank, and so does Seneca Valley. Morven Park has a tiger trap (I jumped it in a Jimmy Wofford clinic) and the late, great Rubicon had what they called an elephant trap for Prelim - along with a sod bank and a stone wall (and a lot of other cool things 
), and Surefire has stone wall jumps.
Elysian Hills has a legit sunken road (the road you drive in on is flanked by two brush jumps, and you can jump the brush, then cross the road in two or three strides, I think?), but between the inconsistency of the levels there and the lack of good organization – I won’t go back.
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There IS a Combined Test (Dressage and cross country) there.
Oh Ho! I did not know this - but it’s been awhile since I was down there.
Too bad it’s so far away from me, I would be over there all the time if that were not the case.
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I love this thread! I instantly recognized the last picture! It was from Longwood in Ocala, FL which used to be the home base of Ralph Hill. They were a schooling facility and on occasion had a schooling show. I scored my first low twenties dressage score at one of those- a 26. I was so proud, then found out there were several low 20s and I was in 8th place with a 26. LOL Longwood is no longer open to XC schooling. I think a local eventer rents part of the place, though. For reference, I never tried that last jump! We were solid BN competitors at the time!
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I think I jumped out of a barn at Dunham QC in the 1990s?
Oatlands has a sunken road still.
Circa 2013 and after, the Millbrook slide for Advanced had the skinny of all skinny’s at the top just before the slide, and then after going by a tree at the bottom it had a decent table or something like that.
Turtle Hill had a jump through the barn at P in the 90s - I don’t remember what town it was in. Was so excited to do it but my horse walked out of the stall lame that day. Argh!
Lots of cool jumps at La Criniere in Napierville QC back in the 90s/2000s - legit sunken road (drop, cross road, jump up), a complex that was a log jump, up and over a bank, and a log jump off - what’s that called again? - are two that come to mind. Never see bullfinches anymore.
Moon Rock HT in Wyoming had a slide for Novice to Prelim. They all went down the hill, but Novice had 2-3 strides after the jump, Training 1 stride, and Prelim was Snowy River-style, over the jump and straight down. It was too bad XC got snowed out the year I went.
