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Go to the boundary waters. Huge (1million sq acres) Easy to navigate (canoe), sparsely visited, very remote, and no engines allowed. I don’t know what the furt

Go to the boundary waters. Huge (1million sq acres) Easy to navigate (canoe), sparsely visited, very remote, and no engines allowed. I don’t know what the furthest distance from a road is. But I would warn against using that as some definitive measure of remoteness. Especially since not all roads are equal. There are lots of rarely used dirt roads. Additionally, the boundary waters are far from any significant metro (5 hours to twin cities) and very far from a large metro (9 hours to Chicago). The people that go are in driving distance, and there aren’t that many. Compare that to Denver which is not only 1-2 hours away, but has an airport which receives tons of people from the west coast and beyond. There is also virtually 0 traffic from the north because it’s an international border and more remote wilderness.

justinator 4y ago
>I don’t know what the furthest distance from a road is Looks around 11 miles, https://www.peakbagger.com/map/bigmap.aspx?t=W&l=CT&d=10&cx=-91.0631&cy=47.9896&rad=10.52&minx=-91.2906&miny=47.8373&maxx=-90.8356&maxy=48.1419&hj=0 https://www.peakbagger.com/map/bigmap.aspx?t=W&l=CT&d=10&cx=...
mauvehaus 4y ago
You're probably aware of this, but motorboats are allowed (up to some size and power restrictions) on e.g. the Moose Lake chain to Basswood/Prairie Portage, large parts of Basswood, and Snowbank, among others. They'll also land the forest service's Beaver on any lake big enough for a medical evacuation (I facilitated one from another group from Alice years back). Not trying to pick nuts, I'd just hate for someone to show up up there and be very disappointed by the presence of motorboats. If you're planning a trip, it's not hard to avoid them. Talk to your outfitter and do a couple of portages and you'll see none. Do a couple more portages and you can go a couple of days without seeing other people. Oh, and get up-to-date maps. I was using ones from the summer I guided some 15 years later, and found a campsite or two that had been closed since mine were printed. Some bonus paddling resulted. Hol-Ry!

justinator 4y ago

>I don’t know what the furthest distance from a road is Looks around 11 miles, https://www.peakbagger.com/map/bigmap.aspx?t=W&l=CT&d=10&cx=-91.0631&cy=47.9896&rad=10.52&minx=-91.2906&miny=47.8373&maxx=-90.8356&maxy=48.1419&hj=0 https://www.peakbagger.com/map/bigmap.aspx?t=W&l=CT&d=10&cx=...

mauvehaus 4y ago

You're probably aware of this, but motorboats are allowed (up to some size and power restrictions) on e.g. the Moose Lake chain to Basswood/Prairie Portage, large parts of Basswood, and Snowbank, among others. They'll also land the forest service's Beaver on any lake big enough for a medical evacuation (I facilitated one from another group from Alice years back). Not trying to pick nuts, I'd just hate for someone to show up up there and be very disappointed by the presence of motorboats. If you're planning a trip, it's not hard to avoid them. Talk to your outfitter and do a couple of portages and you'll see none. Do a couple more portages and you can go a couple of days without seeing other people. Oh, and get up-to-date maps. I was using ones from the summer I guided some 15 years later, and found a campsite or two that had been closed since mine were printed. Some bonus paddling resulted. Hol-Ry!