How to Find The Deep Woods in The Sims 4
If you’re hanging out in Granite Falls you need to go to the deep woods in The Sims 4.
The deep woods is a secret area where you can find special bugs and plants and befriend the hermit!
This secret world comes to the game with The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat!
How to Find The Deep Woods in The Sims 4
The first step toward finding the deep woods is to take a vacation to Granite Falls. Once there you’ll want to travel to the Granite Falls Forest lot.

Once there you’ll want to find the building in the center. Position your camera so you can see the house with the higher roof at the back of the building on an angle. Then, travel toward the rock edge until you can’t move any further.

On the rock edge you’ll eventually stumble upon a cave with a bunch of vines around it and you can click on it and choose explore to enter the cave.

You’ll get a series of action cards to answer to get into the woods. You’ll want to answer step forward, keep walking, sally forth and travel toward the sim.

When you do the correct answers you’ll get the option to travel and you want to click OK and you’ll enter the deep woods and have the chance to find the hermit!

Items Found in The Deep Woods
There are so many reasons to hangout in the deep woods and a huge one is how many good things you can find. Let’s go into some of the collectibles you can find in this area! The first category is insects:
- Jewel Beetles
- Luna Moths
- Fireflies
- Will-o-the-Wisp
You can find some outdoor retreat specific gardening items here too:
- Morel Mushrooms
- False Morel Mushrooms
- Chamomile
- Huckleberry
In the deep woods you can also find some regular gardening items from the base game:
- Strawberries
- Sage
- Basil
- Parsley
- Tomato
- Blackberry
- Carrot
- Onion
There are also a number of fish you can find at the deep woods lot including:
- Yellow Perch
- Rainbowfish
- Mountain Lionfish
- Red Crawdad
- Sturgeon
- Blue Crawdad
- Walleye
- Gummie Guppie
- Bass
- Trout
Now that you know how to get to the deep woods you can go off and befriend the Hermit so you can finish the outdoor enthusiast aspiration!