Hell if you’re in Texas, I would suggest the Big Bend area. Just take I-20 west past Midland/Odessa and go south once you hit Monahans. I took that trip on a three day weekend from Dallas. Gorgeous area if you don’t mind being surrounded by Mexico on two sides. [Reply]
Some of the places we're talking about have no people, but it's apparent that people are on the land. You'll see fences or cattle or wheat fields. In the Navajo Nation you've got only the road and nature. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ntexascardfan:
It doesn't get much more desolate than southeastern Oregon where it borders with Idaho and Nevada.
75% of those counties are federal land and federal land is maintained and guarded by game wardens (and cartel grow operations)...Not the case in Western KS:
Only driven through Western Kansas twice but it felt like I was on mars. It looks abandoned and they're still in the dust bowl.
Originally Posted by MMXcalibur:
I've never seen the stars quite as beautiful and plentiful as when I took the 10 between Tucson and Las Cruces.
I imagine the lack of light pollution would open it up to being rather desolate.
I was on a kibbutz in the desert of Israel. About 100 miles from the dead sea and any civilization. 200 miles the opposite way to the Red sea and civilization.
At night the Kibbutz lights are minimal. I'd go out about 1/2 mile away into the desert. Lay down flat. The sky and the stars looked like they were right on top of you. The crisp and clear nigh sky was amazing. [Reply]
There is large area that encompasses Nevada California Idaho and Oregon that is as remote as it gets in the USA. There is a reason they didn't find the wreckage of that experimental aircraft pilot Steve Fossett for more than a year. It was in the Great Desert Basin between California and Nevada. I was working in that area for an overland pipeline for El Paso oil. Recovering land section corners to describe the new pipeline easement. That the original GLO Surveyors set land corner posts at these section corners is unbelievable. These were extraordinary men not made like that since. [Reply]