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     flyor (Flyor) New Member Username: Flyor Post Number: 26 Registered: 05-2003 |
Anyone know where the remotest spot in the US is? The lower 48 states. Land Rover had some kind of publisity thing on it the awhile back. I think they went there in a D90 with Tom Collins at the wheel. | ||
| Jaime (Blueboy) Senior Member Username: Blueboy Post Number: 867 Registered: 02-2002 |
remotest road:  | ||
| Axel Haakonsen (Axel) Moderator Username: Axel Post Number: 762 Registered: 02-2003 |
The end of Hole in the Rock trail in Utah is a good candidate. - Axel | ||
| Andy Thoma (Andythoma) Senior Member Username: Andythoma Post Number: 527 Registered: 01-2003 |
Axel, Your still near Bull Frog Utah at the end of that road. Does lonely refer to the hardest access or relative distance away from established towns? The other side of Lake Powell and between the grand canyon has some very lonely places, along US RT 29(?). Or I'd guess somewhere in Nevada or maybe Montana? | ||
| Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) Moderator Username: Kyle Post Number: 553 Registered: 11-2002 |
South rim of the grand canyon has some pretty remote stuff.... "Blow me" | ||
| Paul D. Morgan (V22guy) Dweb Lounge Member Username: V22guy Post Number: 2393 Registered: 02-2002 |
Does Alaska count, or do you want something in the lower 48. IMO you can't get anymore alone than in Alaska. | ||
| Blue (Blue) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Blue Post Number: 1085 Registered: 04-2003 |
when you're floating down the CO River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you're out of touch unless you catch a plane or satellite straight overhead (and a few degrees either side of straight vertical overhead) south rim GC & AZ in general have some great remote spots | ||
| Blue (Blue) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Blue Post Number: 1086 Registered: 04-2003 |
the actual "remotest spot" is probably some hot, dusty, humid, flat shithole in the middle of Texas (no offense you native Texans  ) | ||
| Andy Thoma (Andythoma) Senior Member Username: Andythoma Post Number: 528 Registered: 01-2003 |
I agree, you don't know remote till you drive through Alaska and the Yukon. Okay that's not the lower 48 or the US but ... My wife and I took a long drive from SLC Utah to Alaska a couple of summers ago. We drove her Audi wagon. It has one of those fuel computers in the dash that would calc the available mileage of your gas tank based on average speed and efficency of the engine. As we drove through the Yukon we would watch those numbers like we were diving in a sub and worrying about crush depth. You get a rush everytime you see a gas station and think, "yes, we made it!" Only thing you see are RV's going 25 mph up every hill. | ||
| Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) Moderator Username: Kyle Post Number: 556 Registered: 11-2002 |
South of GC you have to be a bit carefull of the reservations... Texas ? Isnt it all a shit hole ? "Blow me" | ||
| Peter Matusov (Pmatusov) Senior Member Username: Pmatusov Post Number: 1240 Registered: 09-2002 |
A while ago, I was stuck in a hotel in Albuquerque, and flipping through the pages of a local arts' book. This one had a photo of a painting (a very good one!) with a title that cracked me up: "Mama and Papa having a "going home to Shiprock" Blues" Never mind that this town is at the intersection of U.S. 64 and 666. It is pretty damn remote - very few people will have a desire to drive there. The other such place is Yodaville, AZ. This one is even better. | ||
| Matthew A. Barnes (Discoveryxd) Senior Member Username: Discoveryxd Post Number: 329 Registered: 08-2003 |
I'd have to say highway 50 also. If you come across a gas staition and a couple of houses, does that make it not a remote place? There's some places here in NV (northern parts) that are pretty remote, except for a gas station and such. | ||
| Edward Bibb (Heirless) Member Username: Heirless Post Number: 78 Registered: 04-2003 |
Texas may have some remote spots, more than likely you are on private property, so if you are DISCOvered, you will likely be shot.... eddie | ||
| Martin Tuip (Ajax) Member Username: Ajax Post Number: 64 Registered: 06-2003 |
What about Montana or North Dakota ? | ||
| flyor (Flyor) New Member Username: Flyor Post Number: 29 Registered: 05-2003 |
This was something where LR went to some research firm to have them determine the furthest spot from civalization in the lower 48. Then they used GPS coordinates to navigate to it. Is was some kind of PR thing. Utah sounds right. Although that river in Deliverence might be close too. Those hillbillies didn't look like they got around too much. | ||
| Phillip Perkinson (Rover4x4) Senior Member Username: Rover4x4 Post Number: 638 Registered: 02-2003 |
nah thats the chatooga north Ga kinda. I know people that boat there. | ||
| Axel Haakonsen (Axel) Moderator Username: Axel Post Number: 770 Registered: 02-2003 |
I know of a couple of spots in NJ that are right out of "Deliverance", too. But Deliverance was fiction....... - Axel | ||
| DW (Dcw) New Member Username: Dcw Post Number: 5 Registered: 01-2004 |
Thorofare region of Yellowstone is as far as you can get from a road in the lower 48 states. | ||
| Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Leslie Post Number: 2847 Registered: 02-2002 |
Hmmmm........ Roseann, Virginia, sure doesn't look like Richmond, Virginia. I'm not saying it doesn't have a road going through it or that it's even that remote, I'm not saying that you can't eventually get to somewhere else, but, when the next largest "town" is Hurley, well.... Sometimes you don't have to be *that* far away to be *too* far away.... -L | ||
| thom mathie (Muskyman) Senior Member Username: Muskyman Post Number: 554 Registered: 11-2002 |
the area south of the maze district in western canyonlands is pretty seldom traveled | ||
| Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) Moderator Username: Kyle Post Number: 557 Registered: 11-2002 |
That is the most perfect quote ever... "Blow me" | ||
| Jack Quinlan (Jsq) Senior Member Username: Jsq Post Number: 532 Registered: 10-2002 |
Kant git theyah frum heyah. (as spoken in the northwoods of Maine) | ||
| Andrew Maier (Newman) Senior Member Username: Newman Post Number: 521 Registered: 04-2003 |
Eastern Wyoming, between Gillette and Cheyenne. Nothing but rangeland and the western edge of the Black Hills...no towns, no cell service. | ||
| Todd Nash (Nash) New Member Username: Nash Post Number: 30 Registered: 02-2003 |
Andrew, I respectfully difer! Between Gillette and Cheyenne are two of the biggest towns in Wyoming! (Douglas and Wheatland) http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/WY1.htm Still Eastern Wyoming is right up there. Maybe between Gillette and Douglas. Todd Nash Wheatland High School '88 | ||
| gil stevens (Gil) Senior Member Username: Gil Post Number: 373 Registered: 02-2002 |
81 out of Iowa to Badlands NP S. Dakota, there is absolutely nothing. South out of Moab into the four corners is pretty wideopen as well. Speaking of Texas, the winds coming across those plains were some of the most frigtening ive ever encountered... and the texas cops were scary. I hate that state. | ||
| Andrew Maier (Newman) Senior Member Username: Newman Post Number: 522 Registered: 04-2003 |
Todd, you're right -- I was thinking of Gillette to Douglas along Hwy 59 (???). Cheyenne and Douglas are quite nice -- I assume Wheatland is too... | ||
| Robert Pate (Racerx) Member Username: Racerx Post Number: 66 Registered: 08-2003 |
"You may all go to HELL and I will go to Texas" Davy Crockett | ||
| carl seashore (Drcarl) Member Username: Drcarl Post Number: 106 Registered: 07-2003 |
top of devil's tower, wyoming. (certainly has never seen a rover, anyway). can't recall seeing anyone else up there... cheers, carl | ||
| gil stevens (Gil) Senior Member Username: Gil Post Number: 375 Registered: 02-2002 |
I watched a guy climb to the top, and his 2 friends quit halfway up. You dont realise how tall that thing really is until your 10 feet away from it. | ||
| carl seashore (Drcarl) Member Username: Drcarl Post Number: 107 Registered: 07-2003 |
looks even taller as you prepare to rappel down it! what a view, though! | ||
| R. B. Bailey (Rover50987) Senior Member Username: Rover50987 Post Number: 708 Registered: 07-2002 |
There is a map that USGS puts out that shows color coded areas of "remoteness" based on the amount of people per square mile. (I think they might have one for roads too.) But if I remember right it was areas of NM, NV, and AZ, followed by SE Oregon - I know that I have been in parts of Oregon where I will not see another sign of another human for 4 days straight. | ||
| Ronnie McKinney (Ronnie) Member Username: Ronnie Post Number: 90 Registered: 08-2002 |
I don't know about the most remote to get to in your truck, but the desert town of Baker, CA feels like you're on another planet. It is truly in the middle of nowhere but you do have the World's Largest Thermometer there... | ||
| Mark Sager (Msager007) New Member Username: Msager007 Post Number: 38 Registered: 05-2003 |
Highway 50 is the main road in my town. | ||
| Peter Matusov (Pmatusov) Senior Member Username: Pmatusov Post Number: 1254 Registered: 09-2002 |
Ronnie, it just happens to be on the way from LA to Vegas... It may have 100 people living there, but 50 thousand drivers pass through every day | ||
| Pugsly (Pugsly) Senior Member Username: Pugsly Post Number: 258 Registered: 11-2002 |
The Saline Valley is one of the most remote spots, the largest virtually uninhabited desert valley in the US. | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 887 Registered: 02-2002 |
This is Saline Valley: http://www.expeditionexchange.com/deathvalley/salinevalley.JPG "virtually uninhabited" This is a funny statement, because while Saline Valley is indeed desolate, it's hardly uninhabited. The Saline Valley hot springs were PACKED when I passed through the Saline Valley over Thanksgiving 2003. | ||
| Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) Moderator Username: Kyle Post Number: 562 Registered: 11-2002 |
LOL , home of the "Bun Boy" motel , (Yes , I have spent the night there). The thermometer is a sight to behold... NOT "Blow me" | ||
| Peter Matusov (Pmatusov) Senior Member Username: Pmatusov Post Number: 1258 Registered: 09-2002 |
Bun Boy? Ouch... | ||
| Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) Moderator Username: Kyle Post Number: 566 Registered: 11-2002 |
3AM , Tired as hell and just as hungry. Axle bolts loose on both sides and grease streaming out of them. The bun boy looks pretty damn good.... "Blow me" | ||
| William C. Leek (Onionman) Member Username: Onionman Post Number: 120 Registered: 07-2002 |
Or as they say in New Mexico: "Poor New Mexico; so far from Heaven, so close to Texas." | ||
| Ronnie McKinney (Ronnie) Member Username: Ronnie Post Number: 91 Registered: 08-2002 |
Yeah, Peter, that's actually how I found it. I was with friends in Vegas and decided I had never been to LA so I rented a convertible and hit the open road. I just thought it was an interesting little town when I stopped. | ||
| gp (Garrett) Senior Member Username: Garrett Post Number: 2410 Registered: 10-2001 |
Blue's bedroom on a Friday night. | ||
| Blue (Blue) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Blue Post Number: 1111 Registered: 04-2003 |
now THAT was funny | ||
| Grant Lawson (Grant) Member Username: Grant Post Number: 94 Registered: 01-2003 |
Idaho is supposed to be the last frontier south of ALASKA/YUKON there are roads there that are only open for 8 weeks a year or something | ||
| gil stevens (Gil) Senior Member Username: Gil Post Number: 382 Registered: 02-2002 |
after you go thru British Columbia and Alaska nothing in the lower 48 feels remote. Alaska changes your perspective on everything. | ||
| flyor (Flyor) New Member Username: Flyor Post Number: 37 Registered: 05-2003 |
I'm begining to think you're all wrong, it's my cube at work. HELP ME! | ||
| Martin Tuip (Ajax) Member Username: Ajax Post Number: 69 Registered: 06-2003 |
*visions of Office Space* Do you have a red stapler ? |
