Adjective modifier

• American: Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court.

Modifies a noun

• cooking: Two teams from the Troop took part in the District backwoods cooking competition.

• town: But the uneasy peace of his new life in the backwoods town of Ross River can't last.

• family: Where do the members go if the backwoods family gets broken up?

• horror: I mean, I thought that other backwoods horror travesty from the same year- NIGHT OF THE DEMON, was inept.

• folk: Isolated by the swamp lands around them, the Louisiana backwoods folk have learned to make their own entertainment.

• hick: It is also worth noting that John Washington Butler, the author of the Act, was far from being a narrow-minded backwoods hick.