Recreation & Sports
563 sites
Subcategories:
- Gardening (38)
- Hobbies (110)
- Sports (15)
- Travel (59)
- Outdoors (36)
- Collecting (166)
- Model Building (139)
https://people.well.com/user/arturner/heath.html
Alan Turner built a detailed Excel spreadsheet cataloging over 1200 varieties of heaths and heathers, tracking bloom colors by month, hardiness zones, and plant heights. It's a practical gardening tool for planning seasonal color combinations, and even earned praise from the chief programmer at eBay and a public radio garden show host.
https://countrysidegardenclub.org/
The Countryside Garden Club, established in 1949 in McHenry County, Illinois, is a long-running community gardening organization with an impressive range of civic activities including a Triangle Garden, Monarch Waystation, native plant resources, and a Little Seed Library. The site offers newsletters, photo galleries, event calendars, scholarship information, and member resources, making it a rich hub for local gardening enthusiasts and club members alike.
http://trainpix.com/bnsf
Charles Biel's BNSF Photo Archive is a massive personal collection of railroad photography featuring over 3,600 images of BNSF, Burlington Northern, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway locomotives and rolling stock. The archive includes a motive power roster, caboose documentation, scenic action shots, and contributor credits, making it a serious resource for railroad photography enthusiasts.
https://kungfuarchermaster.neocities.org/
Kungfuarchermaster's Neocities homepage covers an eclectic mix of interests including combat robotics, vintage item trading, stamp collecting, and music production on a Polyend Tracker Mini. The site is still under active construction but already features webrings, a stamps gallery, and hints at a personality-driven space celebrating retro web culture.
http://pwmrc.org/
The Prince William County Model Railroad Crew is a 501(c)(3) club serving Northern Virginia for over 30 years, showcasing transportable NMRA-standard modular layouts at 10-12 public shows annually across the Washington and Baltimore metro areas. The site covers club history, upcoming events at county libraries and train shows, member layouts, module building clinics, and membership information for hobbyists of all experience levels.
http://wargames.cat/
The Catalan Wargames Resource, maintained by LluÃs Vilalta, serves as a hub for wargaming in Catalonia, featuring links to projects like Soldadets, Defiant Principality, and Minairons miniatures. It connects enthusiasts of historical miniature wargaming with Catalan-language resources and locally produced miniature lines.
https://www.ncogtrains.com/
The North Central O Gaugers (NCOG) is a model railroad club based in Mundelein, Illinois, dedicated to running and displaying O gauge trains on their operating club layout. The site features club news, membership info, photos, schedules, and videos, and proudly notes their 2012 MTH Blue Comet Award honorable mention recognition.
https://conniesue.me/
Connie Sue chronicles her decade-long nomadic lifestyle, blending van life, extended-stay hotel adventures, family moments, and reflections on living with long-term health challenges. Equal parts travel diary and personal journal, the site offers an honest and quirky window into life off the beaten path.
http://artifaxbooks.com/
The ArtifaxBooks Museum is an online tribute to Tom French (W1IMQ), a renowned telegraph key collector and author who passed away in 2016, preserving his extensive collection of hand keys, bugs, paddles, and historic telegraph instruments in photo form. Originally a publisher of reference books for telegraph collectors since 1990, the site now serves as a virtual museum showcasing pieces from French's collection including Brown Bros company keys, Vibroplex bugs, and instruments tied to legendary telegraph operator Ted McElroy.
https://woomie.neocities.org/
Woomie, a British collector named Luka, has been amassing retro games, consoles, controllers, and computers for over 13 years, and this site catalogs the full collection with sections for VR, Steam favourites, and video content. What sets it apart is the thoughtful perspective on PAL vs NTSC versions and the preservation philosophy behind why physical game collecting matters beyond simple emulation.