While the path behind certainly didn't yield very much, how lost can a person get by following a path in a park forest? You decide that today is your day to be adventurous (or at least as adventurous as you can be within the city limits) and stride forward to see what you can see.
The path beneath your feet is hard-packed soil so it seems that others have come this way before. However, as you go, you find the the foliage around you becomes darker and more overgrown. In fact, the path itself gradually becomes littered with dried leaves and fallen branches ... much of it looking as if it had fallen in years gone by.
Still, the path you're on has only twisted from side to side a couple times; you are still generally going in the same direction. How deep could this wooded area be?
A sudden crash catches your attention from behind and you turn rapidly to see a large branch has fallen across the path behind you. The silence of the wood becomes oppressive and you begin to feel that your jaunt into the park forest was a bit foolish. Afterall, you've never been here before and people *do* get lost, now and then... A low creaking echoes from out of the tightly knit branches overhead and the dim, shadowed light of the forest around you makes the sounds seem all the more threatening.
Even though you squint your eyes, you can't be certain of what's up there, if anything. Whatever is making the noise, whether some animal climbing on the branches or just years of wood-rot finally gnawing through the branches, its clear that standing underneath the canopy just there is probably not healthy.
Slowly, you back up and turn to continue on your way, contemplating where to go if the path behind is as dangerous as you think it might be.