Property near open ground, rail corridors or a right of way gets crossed by people who were never invited. A landowner owes a trespasser less than a guest, and less is not nothing.
The duty to a trespasser is limited. It is not absent, and it rises sharply where children are involved.
Three things about uninvited people on your land.
A landowner generally owes a trespassing adult very little: broadly, not to injure them deliberately or through reckless disregard. That is a meaningful protection and it is not immunity, and the moment something on the property is genuinely dangerous the analysis starts to change.
Where a hazard is likely to attract children who cannot appreciate it, the attractive nuisance principle can impose a real duty even though they were trespassing. Old machinery, open structures, water and anything climbable are the usual examples, and they are common on rural lots.
Even where the law is on your side, somebody has to argue it. Liability cover pays for that defense as well as any judgment, which is why the legal protection and the insurance do different jobs and a landowner wants both.
Hazards and access.
Machinery, structures, open wells and water.
That is the question the law weighs most heavily.
It has to qualify and it is usually at a default.
Tell us what is on the land and how accessible it is from outside.
