If You See Orange Paint on a Tree in Eastern Washington, Leave Immediately

Have you ever been hiking somewhere, it doesn't have to be in the mountains, but just off some beaten path and found spray paint on a tree. It could be orange or yellow or even purple?

Well, there's reason for it and it's not very welcoming.

A while back we talked about how Washington State may have purple paint on trees as a sign of trespassing. If you find yourself in a place with purple paint on trees, signs, fences, or anything of that nature it's a warning for you that you're on someone else's land and you should probably leave.

This is for Washington State.

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As it turns out, Idaho uses orange paint for literally the same reason.

While most states are purple, a few use orange as the sign for trespassing and Idaho happens to be one of them along with a handful of others like Nevada.

Though Washington may do purple, I could see Eastern Washington use orange as well since they're so close and many in the Spokane area through to Post Falls could be a little interchangeable.

Not just paint on trees, but it could also be on a fence post, a sign without words (just a piece of wood strung up or posted with a splotch of paint) or anything like that.

Really, at the end of the day, if I see any color of paint on a tree, it means someone else has been there, there must be reason for the paint being on a tree, and I'm not taking any chances. I'm not sticking around.