Cobblestone path near Nira Rock which Miles shared helped him find this urban wild, “Basically, what happened was, I wound up on that street up there, and I saw the cobblestone path leading here and was kind of like, that looks cool, then I walk back and see this huge rock and just followed this path,” he said.
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