British Couple Reacts to Top 10 most secluded towns in the United States

[@mikelafata1680]

I’ve been to Mackinac (Mackinaw) Island many times in the summer. It is awesome. In the winter, when Lake Huron freezes over, they mark a path across the ice with old Christmas Trees to get to the Upper Peninsula for Snowmobile travel.

[@hollymichele1232]

I was born and raised in Michigan, and students from all over the state would go to Mackinaw Island on school trips. It has a very large hotel and some great little shops for tourists. When iI went, there was a fun haunted house, and they offered bikes and carriage rides.

[@Steve-318]

Pretty popular for Wisconsinites too, our high school band went there years ago and marched down the streets.

[@SGlitz]

The Grand Hotel. Stayed there once as a kid.

[@angelaengler2387]

Mackinac Island is a tourist destination for people from all over the world. There are lots of beautiful houses that are summer homes for wealthy people but most people who work on the island cannot afford to live there and have to take a ferry to get to the island. At the end of August they have the Grand Garden Show and it’s absolutely gorgeous!

[@SGlitz]

@@angelaengler2387 oh no! Wealthy Democrats! Kill them all! (Sarcasm)

[@aeh8446]

One of my nieces worked at the Grand one year...loved it... It remains on my to do list...

[@americansmark]

My dad grew up in Wallins Creek, Kentucky in Harlan County. His graduation class was 3. He had a one room schoolhouse with 33 kids total in all grades.

[@sandragarner3913]

Ahh bloody Harland!! Know where that is. And some of the stories. My parents grew up in Pulaski’s County, Sometset Ky.

[@americansmark]

@@sandragarner3913 I still have family there. Mom was from Honeybee (now Parker's Lake) down by Cumberland Falls. My great grandpa fought in Bloody Harlan. My grandpa was a mine superintendent for Kentucky Coal and later, Peabody Energy for 30 years. Dad was a mine boss, cousins worked the mine, and my uncle also retired as a Superintendent for Buckingham Coal in southeastern Ohio. The Harlan County Wars are a thing we talked a lot about when I was growing up.

[@kevincrosby1760]

I was adopted. My life was spent in the Pacific Northwest. My DNA keeps dropping me in Breathitt County, Ky.

[@teds5047]

I doubt you will see this because you commented a month ago, but I have family from Wallins Creek!! What a small world. Last name is Long. I live in MN but just visited Wallins last fall. It would be amazing if we knew some of the same people. My Uncle passed away last fall and that is why I was there last.

[@melinda2877]

My family has vacationed on Mackinac Island for many years. In the spring they have a lilac festival (the island is covered in lilacs) and several thousand visitors vacation in the huge Grand Hotel on the island. It’s so beautiful. You would love the food, fudge, and homemade ice cream.

[@eMemoryCard]

Mackinaw Island is an amazing little island. It’s in between the Upper & Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. Summer time is the best time to visit for warmer weather. The Mackinaw Island Fudge is their famous ice cream and fudge that’s delicious. Overall it’s a really amazing place to visit.

[@brianormonde2175]

Whittier, Alaska should be on that list. Only a single mile long tunnel into town. I think you can get there by boat too. The big thing is that all 200 residents live in a single building! The post office, grocery store, church, it's all in that same building. It's crazy 😂

[@kevincrosby1760]

Still people living on Adak Island as well.

[@alaskancabin7506]

The entire list should be alaska. The top 50 most isolated towns in the us are likely in Alaska. If there is a road that drives to you, it is not secluded.

[@wesleybush8646]

I worked on Mackinac Island for two seasons. It definitely relies on tourism for the summer months, but has some tourists during a couple winter months. The year round residents live on a small village in the middle of the island.

[@JustWriter]

St. Paul made me think of the Veggietales "We are the pirates who don't do anything" Silly Song. "I've never been to Boston, or St. Louis, or St. Paul," I think the lyrics go. Of course, Larry's "I've never kissed a chipmunk," 🐿 line is hilarious.

[@GilaMonster971]

My town has about 900 people in it. We only have one small store. No gas station, street lights, or police department. Nearest medium sized city is 45 mins away. But I bought a brand new house here on 3/4 acre and I have a river in my back yard. It was dirt cheap because it’s far away from the city.

[@oldvegas926]

My husband, 2 sons and I hiked down to Supai years ago. The hike down wan’t hard, but my sons carried my pack out and it still took my about 1/2 hour longer than everyone else. If the people who lived there wanted to go to town for groceries or doctors appointments they rode horses up to the canyon rim , turned the horses loose to hang around until they came back, took the cars they left parked up on the rim and when they were done reversed the order. It has been a place that hikers like to go to as once you’re past the village you can climb down several cliffs with waterfalls all the way to the Colorado River. It’s been a while, things may be different now.

[@JustMe-gn6yf]

I lived on a little island in Alaska in the Bering Sea as a kid it only had about 300 people and most were either in the Navy or Navy dependants like me and it was a blast exploring the island finding old military stuff lost or left behind by the Japanese army after WW2 I also lived a couple years in Okinawa and got to explore the caves were the Japanese army army retreated to and refused to surrender, there were still human bones scattered around inside it was a little creepy for a 9 year old

[@robertmajka9]

Had to be ADAK. Had the miss fortune of visiting ADAK on the Coast Guard ship I was stationed on. Had to be one of the most depressing places on the planet!

[@JustMe-gn6yf]

@@robertmajka9 not for a young boy and his friends, my father was stationed there in the late 60s and we walked all over that island searching for war relics and combing the beach for glass fishing floats from japanese fishing nets that washed ashore, oh and a good way to get your dad's attention is put a cool looking piece of metal on the dinner table that happens to be a fuse to a artillery shell you found while exploring 😂

[@crazydale1000]

I've been to Mackinaw Island in the Summer. It really is beautiful. They get an incredible amount of snow every year

[@Kenneth_James]

Failed in his home country but blew up in the UK. Poor guys. "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It is about a man traveling to Amarillo, Texas, to find his girlfriend Marie. Written by two Americans with a strong country-western lyrical theme, the song was first released in Europe, where it has become much more popular than in the composers' native country, with a big-band/orchestral pop arrangement sung by Tony Christie. Christie's version was a major hit in Europe and a modest success in his native United Kingdom upon its release, then became even more popular in the mid-2000s when the song was reissued.

[@jimmymapes3411]

Mackinac Island is beautiful. You guys should go when you come to the States. It's actually mentioned in one of the really old Titanic movies.

[@vass0922]

I grew up in MIchigan, but currently living in VA. Wife and I drove up to Mackinac island and loved it. 15 hour drive but worth it! Also a movie made there 'Somewhere in Time'

[@judyjenkins913]

If you are interested in hiking to Havasupi Falls, you have to get a permit and they are done by lottery. It is somewhere you can go from March through October easily and November to February it will be a little colder.

[@kenashburn5473]

I once met a guy from Montana whose hometown was an entire day's drive from the nearest airport.

[@alphabasic1759]

I can’t see how you can say Macinac Island is secluded. In the summer it is one of the most visited tourists spots in Michigan and gets millions of visitors…

[@jackhogston6119]

I've seen lots of mentions of Mackinac Island in the comments, but haven't noticed anyone mentioning the historical sites there and in Mackinac City on the mainland. There are some old forts (British!) there and the history goes back to colonial times, which you won't see very often so far from the east coast. The island was also the setting for the 1980 movie 'Somewhere in Time' starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. It's worth watching if you can find it. Definitely go if you have the opportunity!

[@johnhelwig8745]

Fun video about some of the US boondock areas. Being from Michigan, I've been to Mackinac Island a number of times. Going in the winter has a different vibe than the tourists season. It is eerily quiet. I went there to cross-country ski and other than a carriage ride from the airport to hotel, skiing was our mode of transportation. There are several YT videos about living on the island during the winter. Sorry burst your bubble; "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" is a song written by Americans Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It is about a man traveling to Amarillo, Texas, to find his girlfriend Marie. Although written by Americans, It became a big hit in the UK when sung by Tony Christie.

[@ronclark9724]

While folks living in Amarillo love Tony Christie's song, it is this George Straits song they love better... kzbin.info/www/bejne/raW5lneXj910jtE

[@thressapratt7150]

Mackinaw Island is gorgeous! especially in the spring when they have their lilac festival , to us it's 8 miles around, to you 12 km.

[@manxkin]

I’ve been to Stehekin, Washington. Definitely secluded. Took the boat from Chelan up Lake Chelan to Stehekin. Stunning scenery.

[@bobdobb9017]

I was abandoned by my commercial fishing boat on St. Paul Island AK. I curled up in my sleeping bag on a snow drift against a tiny motel next to the air strip. The motel was abandoned by an oil company. There was one tiny snow covered plane at the air strip. An old Eskimo (actually Aleut) rescued me and let me into the motel after complaining about the ships leaving their crew members there . I spent the night with another dude who was abandoned and some random ex special forces dude showed us his guns. We were the only three people in the single story dorm style motel. The next morning we helped an Eskimo woman set up decorations in the small room attached to the motel for her wedding, which was the following day. A different boat from the same fishing company docked that day and arranged for us to take the tiny plane to Anchorage and then to Seattle. On the flight to Anchorage we passed a chain of mountains that did not end and all I could think is even if we had a gentle emergency landing we would probably die before being rescued.

[@Diffidentone]

Well at least they abandoned you on land, the other option would have been far less preferable I'd assume. 😀

[@bobdobb9017]

@@Diffidentone About 10% of our 65 crew got injured every 12-14 days; that is, each offload(each time we saw land and offloaded over 100 tons of fish) about 6-7 crew were taken off due to injury. The fishing company(American Seafood) provided for this and two months prior hired about the same number of crew to replace the expected injured.

[@bobdobb9017]

@@Diffidentone The fit late twenties ex special forces guy had CIA-type vibes as no fishing boat would allow a crew member to have a gun and he had several handguns he showed. St Paul is the last stop on US soil; nothing but 300 Aleut Eskimos, the end of the Aleutian Islands, much closer to Russia than Alaska. I had been around some people like him when I was in the army; they grow their hair in a similar manner, just longer than military regulations.

[@Diffidentone]

Damn sarcasm why do you not come hither in text. 😁

[@KerryTylert]

Never heard of the Amarillo song yall mentioned. When I heard them say Amarillo I instantly thought of Amarillo by morning by George Strait lol.

[@vrp406]

My Great-Grandpa lived in Yellow Pine & it's a long way from anywhere, but alot of fun when you're a kid 🧒 🧒

[@NarnianRailway]

# 8 Point Lay is very remote but been to the other village 80 miles south Point Hope AK, slightly larger. Worked for their construction company Tikigaq and had to fly out there (about 16 passenger plane) Fairbanks to Kotzebue to Point Hope. Airstrip is right on the shore with just a maintenance garage. Locals driving out to meet the plane was considered the "terminal." Barren land between the airstrip and village used to be the old village but the government moved them to a more "modern" community. Early June and all the coast was still ice.

[@morrigankasa570]

Even before the video started I suspected Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska would have many places listed. Anyway, I would love to be able to live in such secluded places, especially those Alaskan places.

[@Locke99GS]

The way the guy pronounced Mackinac MI :D

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

I had heard of Dalhart, Texas. Early country singer Vernon Dalhart took his stage name from that town and one other Texas town. His birth name was Marion Try Slaughter. He's best known for the songs The Wreck of the Old 97 and The Prisoner's Song.

[@mikehermen3036]

One of the Victorian cottages on Mackinac Island is the official summer residence of the state governor, although the governor rarely uses it.

[@hyprjay]

when i was a kid, we had moved to a farm in the middle of PA. our closest neighbor was 9miles away... she was the only lady for over 24 miles, not a single other house. it was a lot of fun as kid, as i got older the drive to town was always 45min. my school was 50 miles away, so the bus wld come at 530am and school wldnt start till 9am. lmao i remember the internet came out and it was 5mb/s... and that was fastest possible and it cost $200 a month and this was back in 2010 era. so wild pricing. crazy to see how big america is but also so small and crowded. i remember one summer i only saw my parents for the entire 3 months.. not a single other person, we nvr left the farm. just raised cattle lol

[@boballmendinger3799]

I grew up in western PA, and never cease to be amazed at how freaking long it takes to drive across it!

[@livvyweimar7362]

I grew up in a very small town where everything was a looooong drive away. Our population was 137 people back then. Figure around 40 years ago. Frankly I loved it. I now live across the US in a city of over 2 million people and I hate it so much. The crime alone is enough to terrify me.

[@lynnhauenstein4136]

St Paul AK. Made famous on Deadliest catch as an important cannery to take crab too. Also has runway, to take out injured fisherman.

[@calvinc7548]

Dual purpose post office is too close to home! My aunt actually owns a small restaurant in Huntley Minnesota here in the US that doubles as the post office.

[@jsrcamp]

It's so funny cuz I just watched the video you are reacting to lol like a few nights ago. Love watching you guys, Kabir considers and lost in the pond. I originally found you because of lost in the pond and also found Kabir from Lawrence too lol.

[@Xman_supreme]

My family used to visit my grandmother in Amarillo every summer when I was a kid.

[@jeffmande4671]

OMG I can't believe you said Stehekin. I used to go camping there when I was little. If you walk up the road a couple miles you will see this really high waterfall.

[@natemalnaa1]

What's funny is the most secluded city in the US is Glasgow Montana, it's 4 hours away from any city in every direction lol

[@timlamb6196]

Mackinac is a beautiful place. Yes you must visit.

[@robertlemmon4408]

That’s a classic song about Amarillo. There are others starting with “Amarillo by morning” by George Strait through to “When you leave Amarillo turn out the lights” by Bob Wills. Lots of other songs reference Amarillo. From Robert from Amarillo

[@babyfry4775]

Just drove from Pennsylvania to Colorado (about 1,400 miles). Lots of remote places on our trip. Lots. I mean some farming communities are so remote. Just a few homes and not much of anything else. God bless those people.

[@DHARK1873]

Aww! Dalhart! Loved driving through there!

[@2nicnag2]

We are moving to 180 acres a few miles from the closest village of under 80 people in Nebraska in the US, no other home in sight and I can’t wait!!!

[@elainablake3030]

My brother used to live in a place in North East Washington state called Curlew. As of the 2020 census, it had 51 people. Has two way out of the town one is up and into Canada.

[@bobdobb9017]

Both Mackinac Island and nearby Traverse City are a must to visit when you come to the USA. Nothing like it.

[@SPACEB0YZER0]

Mackinaw Island is amazing to visit

[@rhiahlMT]

LOL, I've been to Kremlin, MT. It's only 19 miles (21 minutes) to Havre, MT for a store. Big Sandy is past Havre. There are places in Montana that have no mail delivery. So, the volunteer fire departments could possibly be delivering your mail. It's on one of the top 10 most dangerous highways in the country.

[@JPMadden]

1) For the first town of Kremlin, Montana, it says the nearest gas (petrol) station is 45 minutes away. I cannot imagine that. You had better plan ahead. People must store some for emergencies. 2) Mackinac (pronounced "MACK-in-awe") Island was a summer resort for the very wealthy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, in the days before air conditioning. The no-cars rule was created around 1900 because the few cars scared the horses! Emergency vehicles and police cars are permitted. Several U.S. presidents have visited the island. When the Vice President went in 2019, an exception to the no-cars rule was made.

[@jLutraveling]

MCKINAW island is a major tourist destination. It is on my travel list. There are around 13 fudge shops on the Main Street. People smell the aroma of fudge. In the air. Maybe you can react to a video on Macinaw island.

[@peterstergios]

The best is Joann’s fudge (comes in a maroon box with a horse and buggy on the front), and get the peanut butter or Espresso flavor! It’s incredible!

[@shanericketts5799]

That's funny.I lived in Haines Alaska for 6 months. Nice people and beautiful country.

[@isaacfrost3928]

Matinicus island Maine. I grew up there and love it. I would move back there if I could.

[@magicalminty6203]

1:45 "Yellow number plates." Wyoming, Oregon, New Mexico, Florida, and Wisconsin all have yellow variants of their license plates.

[@JustWriter]

No, I've never heard the Amarillo song you've mentioned, but singing about far off places is kind of a staple in the music industry, and it used to be one of the only ways of advertising vacation destinations.

[@briansohr2319]

I lived in Montana as well... My dad loved the remote joints...

[@xo2quilt]

Mackinac Island is a great place to visit. Do stay at the Grand Hotel! You will feel as though you have been transported back 150 years!

[@ryano9520]

Small towns generally keep a volunteer fire fighting force and those guys work other jobs the postman is probably A fire fighter.

[@williambranch4283]

A Dutch travel logger, just completed a drive from Mexico City to Prudhoe Bay (Eva Zu Beck). She loves isolation. Skinny dip in the Arctic Ocean? Yes!

[@stevenwoodruff6087]

I am from Dalhart Texas and it is pretty isolated,for instance a 4 or 5 hour drive on a bus to play high school football is a normal occurrence 2 or 3 times a season.

[@TreyM1609]

Yup This play is huge. I live in Tennessee and a crazy fact I always think about is of your in Bristol Tennessee, you’re close to Canada than you are to Memphis Tennessee

[@KayeWhye]

If you want a nice American written and recorded song about our Amarillo, try "Amarillo By Morning" by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, recorded by Terry Stafford in 1973 and years later by George Strait.

[@SGlitz]

Mackinaw Island is world famous for FUDGE

[@sandylee9564]

The Patette National Forest is beautiful. McCall has a very nice Winter Ice Sculpting Festival in the Winter which is a lot of fun. Check it out.

[@MrDcwithrow]

For years Stehekin only had a single pay phone operated by the Forest Service, now they have radio linked land lines paid for by federal rural infrastructure assistance, at something like $15k per line to install. Lake Chelan is 50 miles long and Stehekin is at the head of the lake deep in the Cascade mountains, most of the upper part of the lake has no usable shoreline as the surrounding mountains drop straight into the lake, much like a Norwegian Fiord.

[@MrPenguinLife]

Wow, I have actually been to 2 of these towns #6 Dalhart, TX (multiple times actually even though it is about 800 miles from where I live), as well as Stehekin, WA, which I visited once by the ferry many years ago when I was a teenager, and have always wanted to go back.

[@ronclark9724]

I recall in my youth a train ride through Dalhart riding on the Burlington Zephyr which was a legendary sleeper train running daily from Houston to Denver. Amtrak, please bring this train back...

[@mtdreams72]

Jordan, Montana is my home town. Population 300. 16 in my graduating class. 85 miles from the nearest McDonald’s and Walmart and 165 miles to the nearest mall. We would sometimes travel 200 miles one way for high school sports. During the FBI raid on the Montana Freemen the population almost doubled with all the FBI agents and media that came to town. Is often the hottest and coldest place in the state with summer temps reaching 110 F in summer and -40 F in winter.

[@colleenmayes1537]

When I heard you mention Amarillo. I thought of "Amarillo By Morning" by George Strait I believe.

[@chloesophia9445]

Right, they apparently don't know about this song

[@abpob6052]

I was in Hulett Wyoming sightseeing not long ago. Their "golf course" is actually a private country club and members fly their private planes to Hulett to play golf and hang out for a while.

[@dicktracy4326]

That song actually was written by 2 American songwriters about Amarillo, Texas haha

[@graceomalleygrimm9776]

We do have yellow plates. Each state has their own colors, plus special plates for organizations and such. And they are changed every 10 years, I believe.

[@alfrede.neuman1257]

I lived in Alaska for two years. Not only was it cold, in winter the sun was up for only a few hours each day. 15 degrees below zero F was just another day. Snow falls in winter and stays until 'break up" in the Spring. Summers? People put aluminum foil over windows if they had a day job....so you could sleep. Because the sun did just the opposite than winter. Hard to go to sleep when it looks like 5pm and it's midnight. ..having said that, the summers are warm and AK is beautiful. (just watch out for the mosquitos and moose!) But yes. Your body does adjust. Amazing really. Can't speak for heat though. Went to Florida once and the heat and humidity was unbearable. I don't think I could ever get used to that.

[@hkjuhucampbell4005]

Amarillo is my hometown, as someone said it was written by an American. Amarillo, TX has several small town within 50 to 100 miles.

[@stevedietrich8936]

Dalhart, another city I have been through. Feedlot city, and it has an odor.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

Peter Kay has no presence on this side of the Atlantic. That song DID have release in the US sung by Neil Sedaka, who apparently originally wrote it.

[@curtiswilson3569]

Mackinaw island.. and northern Michigan in general are gorgeous. I have a summer home about 40 minutes from the island and it’s my favorite place on earth in the summer. Though, I spend the winters in Florida.

[@DiamondPreston1234]

Can we all agree number 5 seems like a dream town, but to buy or rent a house is probably too expensive 😫💕😂

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

It's nice and yes expensive,most houses are victorian mansions priced over 4 mill

[@FEARNoMore]

@@license2kilttheplaidlad640 That's what I figured just from the look of it. No slums or even middle class homes there it appears. haha

[@ericburton5163]

@@FEARNoMore What makes it even more interesting is that there are alot (relatively) of overseas workers living on the island in the summer and late spring/early fall. There is some sort of visa that is like a short term worker visa and they help provide workers especially when schools are in session (and therefore no students). But all seasonal help whether overseas or student workers basically are tucked away in cabins and apartments out of tourist sites. And a majority of the island is a state park with most of the buildings in one little corner.

[@mikehermen3036]

Or you can spend $2500 a week to stay in the Grand Hotel, free breakfast and five course dinners, live orchestra ballroom dancing included as well as lawn games like croquet. Dinner jacket required, of course. I know someone who tried to come down to dinner in only a shirt and tie and he was kindly provided one of the waitstaff's jackets before being seated.

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

Essentially you have to be able and willing to spend multimillions on a house that's only really useful for visits and that being not the winter months as it's nearly cut off. Like a Steven King Novel!

[@quackersna]

When I was a kid my parents bought some land in Floyd, Arkansas. The town had about 36 residents at the time. The whole town consisted of a gas station convenience store with mail slots behind the counter and a softball field in the back. There was one 1950s gas pump that registered 0.10 when you turned it on. There was no school. The couple of kids that lived there were road a bus half an hour to a small town called Rosebud.

[@jLutraveling]

Amarillo is the home of the Big Texan Steakhouse. There is a challenge if you eat a salad , baked potato shrimp cocktail and dinner rolls along with an 72 ounce steak within a certain amount of time you get a free meal. 8 ounces is a pound. In imperial weight. We are breakfast there one time. steak and eggs. It was delicious.

[@beckycaughel7557]

Wow that sounds like quite the challenge lol! By the way 16 ounces is a pound not 8 ounces

[@jLutraveling]

@@beckycaughel7557 ooops I momentarily blanked out about 16 ounces. Thank you.

[@Suprachiasmatic]

A lot of these people living in remote Alaskan communities are indigenous people, their families have lived on the land for generations. And they probably don’t have wifi in most homes but may have it via satellite in a centralized location in town.

[@mcm8737]

Mackinaw island Michigan or the upper peninsula for that matter is beautiful, well worth a visit.👍🍀

[@maureenl5255]

License plates are all different colors and designs. Most states have multiple plates.

[@suralos]

I spent a night in Hulett, Wyoming before going to Devil's Tower National Monument. Devils's Tower was named a National Monument years before Yellowstone was named the first National Park. It was on the way back from Yellowstone and about half-way to Wall Drug in South Dakota.

[@Hokieredneck]

Amarillo by morning, is a really good song by George Strait

[@ericbogerd5306]

I HIGHLY recommend Mackinaw Island... in the summer. It's a fun place to visit, rent bikes and ride all the way around island, visit the fort that switched hands several times between Britain and the US. Lots of history, horse riding or you can rent a cart or buy a seat on a carriage for a tour. I recommend staying at the Chippewa Hotel and eating at their restaurant, the Pink Pony. But seriously, don't even try in the winter, not that you really can unless you are a resident, there are only a couple of things to do and one, heavy drinking, often leads to the other, you can probably guess what.

[@shawnpriest2119]

"The World According to Briggs" is a great site. His humor and total lack of concern for haters is awesome.

[@brymstoner]

too bad he doesn't realise starlink is a thing though. internet wherever you want as long as there's no obstructions between you and the satellites.

[@rich_t]

That has to be England. Yellow license plate is the dead give away.

[@robertstuart480]

There was a hit song in the U.S. years ago called "Amarillo By Morning".

[@csulb75]

Check out Catheys Valley, California, between Merced and Mariaposa, CA. It's a very spreadout community on the route to Yosemite National Park.

[@Plastikdoom]

I’m half Alaskan native…we lived in those parts. At least seasonally…long, long before electricity, or internal combustion engines. Lol. But some of them say up north. We didn’t ‘live’ there. Only hunting trips, etc. in the last. Sure people would stay there, for short term.

[@DougPowell01]

Unplanned water landing is a politically correct way of saying they crashed. Not unlike hospital workers referring to a "negative patient outcome".

[@natemalnaa1]

6:15 that's called "The Devils Tower" and some believe it used to be a massive tree 🤔

[@ephennell4ever]

I agree with others here - these kind of places can be *really cool* places to hit, if you get the chance when you come for another visit! I'm surprised that some town(s) in Maine didn't show up. There are a number of towns in the northern-most 1/3 of the state that are remote from any semi-decent-sized town; we're talking about places that, in the summer, you get to via a 30-mile long dirt road. In winter? ... well, the road is 'closed', for regular traffic, so you use a snow-mobile or 'snow-cat', generally, it seems. There's 'Chesuncook Village' on Chesuncook Lake; primarily it seems you get there by float-plane, on the lake. There's a 'seasonal' road (probably dirt, but possibly graded and in decent condition [?]) that is likely connected to the village by a (12 mi. or 20 km.) trail through the woods! I wonder, if you go there, not in good health, it seems you could easily die if 'something happens', as it seems like it'd take them *hours* to get you to even a decent *clinic!*

[@vniesky]

Those small towns in Alaska are largely native villages. Most of the natives above the arctic circle are Eskimo's. They live fishing, hunting animals.

[@scottmorris9798]

The Hulett, WY one is inaccurate. It's under an hour from my town. It gets lots of tourists because it's next to Devil's Tower and that's why it has the golf course.

[@gleep24]

I had to laugh at the >100 people rule. I grew up in Vermont. For privacy's sake I won't say exactly where, but one of the towns I lived in had 86 residents once my family of 5 moved there. I brought home some friends from college on a ski trip and mentioned our town's size, and my mom corrected me - 85. "Who died?" I asked without sarcasm. "Our neighbor." We had to drive through another town with 50 residents to get to ours. Most of that town is a nature preserve. You're more likely to come across wildlife passing you on the road at night than another car. My friends were incredulous when my mom advised us to duck our heads between our knees if she spotted a moose approaching. She wasn't kidding. If a moose decides to charge your car, it will probably be able to walk away from the collision, but you might not. I think my friends were starting to get concerned about this visit to a remote cabin in the woods. 🤪 Last anecdote: As I was in an out-of-state college when my family lived in that town, I voted with an absentee ballot. The clerk had never processed an absentee ballot for the town before.

[@VEGAFLICKS]

I made the solo trek to Supai (#2) a couple of years ago. I lost a couple of toenails because of it, but it was the BEST thing I've EVER done! 🤘😎🤘

[@HemlockRidge]

St. Paul, Alaska is built around a seafood processing plant. Everyone works there, or works to support those workers. Most are Aleut (Unanga) people. They were brought to the island from the mainland by Russian seal hunters to process the seals. They were used and abused by the Russians, and when the Russians left, they were just left there. During WWII when the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands, the US evacuated them to the mainland. Many didn't return, but some did, and made their lives there.

[@spencersteva3786]

"Amarillo by morning" 🎶

[@marxmaiale9981]

You do want to go to mackinaw island. It's a great place for tourists, many movies are filmed there as well. It isn't secluded during the tourist season.

[@AzaleaLala]

There are a lot of old building on the east coast of American that look English or European because those are the people who settled here back in, what the 1600s, 1700s. Do you mean "Is this the way to Amarillo"? I had to google... From Wikipedia: "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It is about a man traveling to Amarillo, Texas, to find his girlfriend Marie. Written by two Americans with a strong country-western lyrical theme, the song was first released in Europe, where it has become much more popular than in the composers' native country, with a big-band/orchestral pop arrangement sung by Tony Christie. Christie's version was a major hit in Europe and a modest success in his native United Kingdom upon its release, then became even more popular in the mid-2000s when the song was reissued. As Christie's version failed to make a major impact in the U.S., Sedaka released his own recording of the song in 1977, which narrowly missed the top 40 but was an easy listening hit in the U.S. and Canada." I found a video of Neil Sedaka singing it at the Royal Albert Hall. The audience loved it and sang along. So fun. You should listen to "Amarillo by Morning" by George Straight. Good song.

[@garysullivan4432]

I live in Virginia, and we have a specialty plate that is all yellow with black lettering.

[@arrobrewer2730]

I live 7 miles north of a town of 1380 ppl, and its 45 minutes to a semi- major city and there is plenty more towns north of me more secluded.