Upper Middle Section - Mount Wildwood:
A large mountain that overlooks the entirety of Springdale. It's sprawling wildness is the perfect habitat for many demons and spirits. Once you make it up the series of stone steps and through the winding dirt path, you'll find yourself in front of the Wildwood Shrine. It's here that many festivals take place to honor the past and its spirits. The shrine is run by an elderly couple but they seldom get visitors unless there's a school field trip passing through.
There are two stone staircases that take you to the left or the right behind the shrine. The right path leads to an old large tree where its said the lines between this world and next begin to blur. Taking the left path, you begin down a long pathway into the denser wooded area. You'll pass by Catfish Pond and even be able to spot the Wild Waterfall further beyond the river. Soon you'll find an abandoned house to the left where you're sure something sinister must have happened. If you keep going, you'll find a small bridge that will take you into a series of caves and mines, all abandoned. Following the path to the right, you'll keep climbing up and come across a large wooden bridge that takes you back down the massive mountain, following the river back to Catfish Pond.
Dead Middle - Uptown Springdale:
People park in the parking lot beside Springdale Elementary to get up to Mount Wildwood. Next to the elementary school is the city's preschool, Little Buds. Triangle Park, Everymart and the Community Center are also nearby. At the Community Center, jobs and favors are listed for residents to take. Other events take place like dance lessons and comic book exchanges. Further south along the riverbank you'll see the local garden shop, Beautiful Blooms. The majority of Uptown is filled with middle class and upper middle class homes and walkways. There's also Banter Bakery and near that, you'll find Piggleston Bank.
Down the street from that is the Lambert Post Office and the Jungle Hunter, a place where collectors of fish and bugs congregate to trade, sell and busy for money or valuables. You'll then move up north to the Fish Market. While Uptown is a pretty safe neighborhood, there are some unsettling areas: The Catwalk, Shady Back Alley, and Desolate Lane are all dead-end nooks where unsavory people and demons like to gather. A lot of stolen goods and crime can be traced back to said crevices.
Middle Left - Blossom Heights:
A place for the hardworking lower middle class and lower class. The main attraction is the hill which houses Shoten Temple, it's here you can pray and even ask a skilled old lady for charms and blessings. Still on the left side of the train tracks, you'll find another Everymart down south and Wayfarer Manor where an old factory once stood but has since been condemned. On the right side of the tracks, there is the old mansion where many teens and kids like to hang out by, though it's pretty unstable and has had many odd occurrences happen with injuries.
Next you'll see a Candy Shop, supplying those with a sweet tooth, sustenance. Moving further south again, you'll run into the Springdale Hot Springs where you can soak in a hot rock pool and cool down with flavored milk. There's also Timers and More, where watches and other gadgets get fixed up by the wily old owner. To the left, there's the Sunshine Station which takes you to Springdale Central Station in Downtown Springdale. Lastly, you've got Opal Bike Shop, the best place to get a bike, skateboard or roller blades. Many kids who turn nine get to go down with their parents and pick something out, almost like a rite of passage.
Middle Right - Breezy Hills:
Where the rich and posh live. You'll find this sloping neighborhood is filled with large houses and little else. Up at there very north is the Stone House where the major of Springdale lives. Despite the old fashioned mansion, the major and his wife are very generous and down to earth people. Moving down, you'll find Wisteria Gardens but it's mostly for people to admire nature and classical music, nothing too special really. At the bottom you'll find Gourd Pond Museum which is home to many modern and old works of art, sculpture and artifacts. Classes will often tour it throughout the year to look at its many exhibits that change through the year.
Once outside, you'll be face to face with Gourd Pond itself though it's much bigger than Catfish Pond. There's an Everymart in the lower right section of Breezy Hills and to the left is the Seabreeze Tunnel which lets people walk from Breezy Hills to Downtown. The unmarked six sets of buildings in the bottom right are known as Arcadia Academy where college students reside on campus and finish up their years of education.
Lower Left - Shoppers Row:
This is the place to be when you've got money to burn in your pocket. Springdale Flower Road is the long stretch of shops enclosed under the pink stone tunnel. You'll find North Wind Ramen, Settle In Bookstore, Harmony Boutique, Frank's Butcher Shop, Nan's Grocery, Stylish Bits and Bobs, Al's Antiques and Springdale Records. If you take the east exit in the shopping pavilion, you'll spot Mary's Coin Laundry and Whatta Find. At Whatta Find, you can trade odd items and see what other's are collecting. Maybe your trash is someone's treasure? Across the street is Tranquility Apartments.
There are other small homes scattered around the area but it's a pretty quiet place with little hustle and bustle. Off to the southeast is Nocturne Hospital, an abandoned hospital that was partly destroyed in an earthquake twenty years ago. If you make your way up, you'll find Shoppers Row's Everymart but also not far is a small bridge that takes you over the tracks that lead into the downtown area.
Lower Right - Downtown Springdale:
This is the most busy of all the suburbs. Starting southeast, you have Rolling Waves Park which has two piers on either end, a cafe. Going up north, you'll hit the Seabreeze Tunnel and Arcadia Arcade, a place with many video games. Over the well, overpass, you can reach Nom Burger and the Springdale Station Square. Moving through the station, you'll find Foundation Academy where your education continues after elementary school for another glorious four years.
Northwest you've got Fortune Hospital, the best place for medical comfort and care. A bit below is Frostina's, a little dive bar where the alcohol is aplenty. And down below, you have the construction zone which will open up a new building for shops and offices but at the moment, things are moving slow for some reason. The major said the project would be finish in 2014 and yet it's 2016 and it's barely halfway completed. And at the bottom, you have Springdale's Business Tower where the big choices are made. It's 25 stories high and is home to many companies and important people.
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