IMO< it can be both good to know what the area is like, sign and all, but at same time your actually pushing game out of the area and you move about and leave scent behind
if your having luck hunting this way, stick to it, if your not, I would suggest scouting area's before hunting season gets here and or scout a few area's in mid day IN season and go to a different area to hunt that evening maybe and come back to better area's you found after a day or so , to allow time for things to return to more natural like , less disturbance
you also didn;'t mention if this was archery season or GUN season, which can matter,a s come gun season it might matter less, as after opening day in many states deer are bounced all over all day long and things might not matter as much, unless a more private less pressured area, then back to the above would be my suggestion!