Most remote areas

[CatCaretaker]

If you wanted to be a hermit (or at least, take a vacation from humanity for awhile) as a vehicle dweller, where would you go...?

 

[brahmon]

the slab

 

[CatCaretaker]

??

 

[wagoneer]

Some of us (me included) would choose southern Nevada/ northern Arizona, alone is a frame of mind you are always alone even when you are with people embrace being alone among people. I said that??? Where are you located.

 

[wayne49]

The "slab" in a morgue?
Or "the slabs" near Calpatria?
Then we can wander off into categories of "humanity" to be avoided.

Places very hard to reach would keep most of humanity away. Most like to park close to the storefront.
Places with climate extremes. Hot days and frigid nights.
Places that are not "destinations".

 

[MrNoodly]

I prefer the West. As my father said, it's miles and miles of miles and miles.

But for me, getting away from humanity is mostly a state of mind. I can be alone and happy in a crowd.

Here's a link to a blog post I did about where the people aren't: http://rollingsteeltent.blogspot.com/2019/02/where-people-arent.html

By the way, in the lower 48 you're never more than 107 miles from a McDonald's. http://www.datapointed.net/2009/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds/

 

[Seminole Wind]

I prefer the West. As my father said, it's miles and miles of miles and miles.

By the way, in the lower 48 you're never more than 107 miles from a McDonald's. http://www.datapointed.net/2009/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds/

 you wouldnt have similar data on walmart would you. i wonder which is more invasive...

 

[Seminole Wind]

If you wanted to be a hermit (or at least, take a vacation from humanity for awhile) as a vehicle dweller, where would you go...?

as you just said vehicle, i will step outside the box and retreat to my sailboat. the gulf islands and inside passage in summer, or sea of cortez in winter.

if i've gone tofar and must pick a rubber tired vehicle to get there. then in my short bus skoolie i have found that once i get 10 miles off the paved road. i am quite alone and away from people as long as those 10 miles are not along the path to a marked destination, like verde hotsprings. then even if i happen to see someone, they are vary likely to not be normal humanity... also i am careful to observe the "seasons" and avoid the forest in hunting season, the beach in the summer, the southern desert in the winter and so on...

 

[MrNoodly]

 you wouldnt have similar data on walmart would you. i wonder which is more invasive...

In the US there are:

14,000+ McDonald's
4,700+ Walmarts 
27,000+ Subways
14,000+ Starbucks

 

[Seminole Wind]

lol, looks like walmart is the easiest to evade

 

[maki2]

If you wanted to be a hermit (or at least, take a vacation from humanity for awhile) as a vehicle dweller, where would you go...?

Northern Canada

 

[Dingfelder]

Terrestrial, or sub-marine?

 

[bullfrog]

I think if you combined the McDonalds map with a cell phone coverage map you would come close to seeing where people would tend to stay away from. Even these areas are now often visited by hunters, hikers, rock hounds and ATV/UTV 4x4 groups not to mention all the Border Patrol and drone youtube nuts. Just the other day I went as far as I felt comfortable on some remote trails that ended in a high ledge to enjoy the view only to find a camper parked 50 foot down on a lower ledge! Five or ten miles of empty is nice and still out there but it is usually off a side road that doesn't go to something and not near a maintained road.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

If you wanted to be a hermit (or at least, take a vacation from humanity for awhile) as a vehicle dweller, where would you go...?

Limiting to someplace you can take your van and minimizing the chance of contact with other humans: in North America:

Remote Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories.  The most remote road I have been on is the Canol Road in the Yukon.
In the lower 48 I would look for BLM land that nobody has a lease on (or at least only oil & gas leases with no active wells).
Otherwise, look at the cell coverages maps; anyplace that doesn't have coverage doesn't have many people around.

There is a good reason why these places don't have people around; they are very uncomfortable places to live.

 

[MrNoodly]

The general rule seems to be, if you can get there, so can others. And if you want to be there, so will others. You could go places no one wants to be, but then do you want to be there yourself? "Man, this is an awful place, but at least I'm alone."

 

[MinnieVan]

Northern Canada.

 

[lenny flank]

Meh, when I was a kid I could easily spend two weeks or more up on the Appalachian Trail (or just off it) in Pennsylvania without seeing any other human beings the entire time. And that was in the middle of the most heavily-populated section of the USA. The entire center of PA is virtually empty (we call it "Pennsyltucky").

Just about every state has areas where there is virtually nobody.

 

[RollingOm]

If you wanted to be a hermit (or at least, take a vacation from humanity for awhile) as a vehicle dweller, where would you go...?

I would say The Yaak in Montana is pretty isolated, and there's no cell service
RollingOm

 

[michaelwnoakes]

??

I saw your ?? about the person who wrote the slabs. They were referring to slab city in ca. It's a place in the desert that has no rules or law. It is a very dangerous place, if you have an argument with someone, they just kill you and nobody cares. Bob Wells who runs this website doesn't advise people to go there anymore.

Get a New Mexico state park pass and bounce from park to park every two weeks. Or if you don't mind the heat, go to coyote howls in Why, AZ. They charge $500.00 a year for a private spot in the Senora Desert.

 

[VanForNow]

Northern Nevada has many sparsely inhabited areas, often with spectacular views. And northern NV has large areas at high elevation, so the spring and autumn temps are often more pleasant than Las Vegas, for example.

But to avoid disaster before going to remote areas in northern Nevada, calculate the distance to nearby "towns" to insure they have a functioning gas station. A number of places on the map of rural Nevada, such as McGill, have no gas station. Plan accordingly.