This reminds me of something I saw on a backpacking blog sometime last year. Project Remote, a family that's finding and hiking to all the "most remote" place in each state of the USA.
Here's some of the statistics:
The most surprising one to me is: Least Remote: Kansas (0.8 miles from a road).
As someone who lives in the very densely populated greater Boston area, Kansas doesn't exactly strike me as a prime candidate for not being able to get away from roads.
Their website seems to have been commandeered by some Indonesian online casino scam thing in late 2024 and is now offline. I'm unsure of the ongoing state of the project.
Kansas is mostly a gigantic farm and there’s farm roads every mile or so. Laying out roads along section (square mile, 640 acres) or quarter section (160 acre) boundaries is probably how Kansas developed its road network. 36 sections make up a township, 6 sections by 6 sections. Most (?) land between California and the Mississippi River is surveyed like this, probably excluding Texas since that was a country and originally held by Spain/Mexico.
The Wikipedia article for section (survey) has an aerial photo of Kansas in it, naturally: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_surveying)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_su...
Uncle_Brumpus · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240621094642/https://www.projectremote.com/remote-statistics/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20240621094642/https://www.proje...
The most surprising one to me is: Least Remote: Kansas (0.8 miles from a road).
As someone who lives in the very densely populated greater Boston area, Kansas doesn't exactly strike me as a prime candidate for not being able to get away from roads.
Their website seems to have been commandeered by some Indonesian online casino scam thing in late 2024 and is now offline. I'm unsure of the ongoing state of the project.
quickthrowman · · focus · HN ↗
The Wikipedia article for section (survey) has an aerial photo of Kansas in it, naturally: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_surveying)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_su...