Colorado Has “Most Remote”County
Colorado, Geography, United States, Wilderness
The most remote area in the United States’ Lower 48 is:
A) Inyo County, Calif., home of Death Valley.
B) Park County, Wyo., which includes part of Yellowstone National Park.
C) Hinsdale County, Colo., 95 percent federal land.
D) Piscataquis County, Maine, with Mount Katahdin.
The answer, according to a new analysis of roads and people, is C) Hinsdale.
The southwest Colorado county, the U.S. Geological Survey says, has more wild and roadless land per capita than anywhere else in the contiguous U.S.
Kings County, N.Y. – better known as Brooklyn – has the least roadless land per capita.
Hinsdale also is one of the few places a person can wander more than 10 miles from a road, according to the study in today’s edition of the journal Science.
Pay attention for planning our next move, Karen.
