i'm in OR, we moved to the southern border last year, and a few miles east is some incredibly rugged wilderness. the opposite end of the state is also very rugged in parts of the blue mountains, as well as hell's canyon. very southern Oregon certainly has the gnarliest part of the coast range though... not very impressive compared to the ruggedness in parts of BC and AK, but still pretty impressive big country.I am in California and the north coast area is extreme. steep, always wet, and about as rugged as it gets.
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Running into Mr Smiley a few miles off the river might keep folks out too! That & the freaking cottonmouths.....
Would love to spend time in those swamps. Saw the edge of the Everglades a few years ago and I was smitten.
It's like a different world, where literally every direction is identical. GPS is absolutely essential. There are 3 plants; cypress, pines & palmetto & you learn (or don't...) to navigate by trees! Total elevation change is maybe 3 feet. You can wander off an 'island' and into dark swamp in a heartbeat & whilst only 3 miles from a road, you could wander around lost until you die.
It's the only place I've ever been that genuinely scares me.
Thats where I hunt pigs at!!If throw Altamaha into the mix there too. Not ridiculously remote, but there are times you could believe you're the only person left alive while in there. It's also terrifyingly easy to get lost.
SE Oklahoma... Small mountains, pine timber land.
Dotted with small towns, but overall a wild, lawless place.
There's still a lot of subsistence hunting (year round poaching), fields of weed, meth cooking, little cell service, and not hard to spend days without seeing another human.
I love it. I'm also kinda terrified of it.Ya, I spent some time in the Ouchitas across the border. Wild place. Terrain and culture, for sure.
I love it. I'm also kinda terrified of it.
True about the boundary waters but is possible to “get away”.Minnesota it has to be the NW part of the state north of Red Lake. The Boundary Waters is loaded with people and I don’t consider it wild at all. In the winter it probably is.
Hell the Sods is practically over-run these days. Cranberry less so only because its a little farther from DC...WV- Cranberry wilderness and dolly sods
SC- Francis Marion NF
FL-everglades national forest
On the other hand wild in different way Boone and Logan county WV, find a trailer park and enjoy shake a pill bottle if your really frisky that is the known mating call.