Originally Posted by Ocotillo:
I am looking for places in the lower 48 states that are the most desolate. Ones you go to when you want to get away from people.
A place where you might only see one other car drive down the highway every 30 minutes. An area with minimal paved roads and mostly gravel ones.
A place that's at least 200 miles from the nearest McDonald's or other chains.
A place with minimal cell phone service.
A place where if you get into an emergency, you have to be a man and toughen it out. You can't rely on first responders to bail you out.
What places come to mind?
When we took the scenic route from Palm Springs to Vegas last summer it was the most desolate place I've seen. For about 3 hoiurs we didn't see a gas station, a convenience store, and maybe like 5 or 6 cars. About ran outta fucking gas. [Reply]
The backroads between Route 50 and Las Vegas is the most desolate place I've ever been. Even the Lunar Crater park was spooky because I was the only one there. Look out for speed traps if you go. The cops are total dicks.
Originally Posted by MarkDavis'Haircut:
Route 50 in Nevada.
We came up on a guy who ran out of gas about an hour and a half west of Ely once. I offered him a ride but he had a box trailer and didn’t want to leave it so he asked us to call the highway patrol when we got service. We were almost to Ely before we had service. Not a good place for car trouble. [Reply]
I would suggest the Navajo nation. It's just you and your car. You can't even see signs of civilization off on the horizon.
In the pre-internet days, I accidentally got off the main route and took some County Road across a big chunk of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. You don't see anybody there. I think I eventually found people making primitive spearheads in Clovis, New Mexico, or some place like that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Otter:
Eastern CO is the same way. There are parts where civilization hasn't reached just yet.
Yep I've passed through there 4 times on the way to other western locations over the years, definitely barren... its just as flat and boring to look at as Kansas [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Yep I've passed through there 4 times on the way to other western locations over the years, definitely barren... its just as flat and boring to look at as Kansas
LOL
No.
If I was going to murder and bury someone, East of Punkin Center Colorado is my choice. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Otter:
Eastern CO is the same way. There are parts where civilization hasn't reached just yet.
Eastern Colorado is awful. Actually worse than western Kansas, especially if you've been driving through Kansas for hours waiting to hit the Colorado border, thinking about trees, mountains and anything but the vile, monotonous misery of western Kansas, only to have shit get worse, not better. Once you get past Denver, though, goddamn that drive on I-70 is magnificent.
But my first thought was central Wyoming. Desolate country is okay if it's interesting/pretty to look at (Utah, for example). Central Wyoming is nothing but flat desert with some rocks. At least there are living things and hints of civilization in the bad areas of Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Eastern Colorado is awful. Actually worse than western Kansas, especially if you've been driving through Kansas for hours waiting to hit the Colorado border, thinking about trees, mountains and anything but the vile, monotonous misery of western Kansas, only to have shit get worse, not better. Once you get past Denver, though, goddamn that drive on I-70 is magnificent.
But my first thought was central Wyoming. Desolate country is okay if it's interesting/pretty to look at (Utah, for example). Central Wyoming is nothing but flat desert with some rocks. At least there are living things and hints of civilization in the bad areas of Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota.
I will be making that drive in 10 days. Been six years since Ive done it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Ocotillo:
I am looking for places in the lower 48 states that are the most desolate. Ones you go to when you want to get away from people.
A place where you might only see one other car drive down the highway every 30 minutes. An area with minimal paved roads and mostly gravel ones.
A place that's at least 200 miles from the nearest McDonald's or other chains.
A place with minimal cell phone service.
A place where if you get into an emergency, you have to be a man and toughen it out. You can't rely on first responders to bail you out.
