What's The Farthest US City From An Interstate?

[@indianapatsfan]

Roswell may not be on an interstate, but it is connected to a galactic wormhole 👽

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

Lol, right 😂👽

[@bradwilliams7198]

There was a secret plan to build an interstate, but the space aliens said no. 🤣

[@ManFaceManYes]

lol

[@silvermineband2719]

My mom was born in Roswell. We’ll be keeping our eye on you 👽

[@originaldcjensen]

And, by extension, to an entire nexus of intergalactic gates and pathways.

[@ladnitnnyldivad]

Back in the day, before cars & trucks, towns died because the railroad missed them 20 miles. They would literally move the County Seat,

[@PCSPounder]

Dude in Idaho sites a cute little spot just into the Boise Mountains and calls it Mountain Home. The plain that separates those mountains from the Snake River is naturally where the railroad got sited, so dude literally yanked the postal meter from the site, parked it by the tracks, simply moving Mountain Home down to the plain.

[@Mattyboy2085]

Ok, if I wanted to be taken seriously as a town, I wouldn't place it in the middle of nowhere. I'm no rocket cosmetologist, but it just seems logical to not place one's self as far from places that actually matter. Sort of seems detrimental to growth, influence and relevance.

[@markmh835]

Unless you have already done so, consider researching and making a video of the largest metropolitan area (population 50,000+) furthest away from an interstate highway. I live in the Lewiston, ID/Clarkston, WA metro area (pop. 66,000+) and we are about 2 hours away from Interstate 90. It definitely hampers our growth.

[@Whothisis1]

We live in Farmington, NM. Almost 50K but we’ve never gone above that mark, even with people coming and going over the years. 120 miles to I-40, 160 to I-25, 218 to I-70.

[@Pc118Gamer]

the closer you get to I-90 the faster the growth, CDA sees about 25-40% growth every 10 years, Moscow experiences 6-12% growth, and Lewiston sees 3-7% growth. Part of that might just be the paper industry, the smell isn't exactly appealing, and there isn't much growth to attract people

[@benbookworm]

I wonder what the farthest cities from an interstate are as the population threshold increases. Fresno, CA is ~50 miles from I-5, but has half a million people. This may change, as there's a lot of construction to bring CA-99 to interstate standards.

[@heistmoney7923]

Finally Beaver talks about MN! International Falls and anything north of Duluth is SO far away it isn't even funny. It feels like when you're up there that stuff just expands far more than central MN

[@Sam101.2]

im from thunder bay and it is so disconnected from the rest of canada.

[@stickynorth]

@@Sam101.2 Thunder Bay is is only linked by a 2-lane road to this day is not? Which surprises me since it's the furthest west oceanic-available port people can ship from which is why it makes sense as a regional industrial and shipping hub.. Just like Duluth down South... You'd think that even with the cost of cutting across the Canadian Shield that we'd at least make the one road connecting Western and Eastern Canada together would get a glow up...

[@Sam101.2]

@@stickynorth only a 2 lane highway and through most of it is horribly mantained and you can barely see the center line and there are no side lines or shoulder for a big chunk of it. our closest major city is duluth which is 3 and a half hours south

[@simonterwee1677]

Talked about it but couldn't pronounce Baudette or Roseau 😂

[@Rthomp02]

So I live in Duluth and my boss who lives in Colorado asked me one morning if I could drive up to International Fall quick to check an account before starting my day… when I told him I’d be back to Duluth in 6 hours he was confused, so I had him map it out.

[@aerohydra3849]

Houghton, MI finally mentioned! Although the mining industry has declined a lot, Michigan Tech being there still keeps it on the map. But if you go elsewhere in the UP or north beyond Hancock the area is definitely struggling,

[@benty444]

I watched this video entirely to see this very thing

[@benjaminwambeke9458]

I’ve done theatre out in Fort Peck, drove through Malta to get there… that whole area is just so unbelievably remote. Barely any people, grocery stores, or gas stations. It’s kinda magical

[@byronbuck1762]

It’s pronounced Tone-ah-pah. And Oakan noggan

[@kurtisburtis]

Also, Ely is “EE lee” …

[@johnclements6614]

@@kurtisburtis A place in a desert named after a place in a marsh.

[@Mattyboy2085]

Beaver isn't big on correct pronunciation. He does great research, so it's surprising he wouldn't research the correct pronunciations of places.

[@Mickolas9]

Bishop and the Eastern Sierras is such an underrated and beautiful spot in this country! Highly recommend a trip through that corridor.

[@kathleenhudson8429]

They do get a lot of folks going camping, hiking, fishing, and skiing. It always seems to be bustling whenever I go through. Schott’s Bakery always has a big line! So I don’t think it’s suffering a lot by not being on an interstate.

[@PCSPounder]

For those who don’t know… drive south of Bishop and you go through Owens Valley. The Sierra Nevada are to the west and rise as much as 10,000 feet above the valley. The Inyo Mountains are to the east and are as much as 7,000 feet above the valley floor. Deepest valley in the States and completely stark driving through it. As you can imagine, absolutely no through roads to the east AND west (a handful are east only) for at least a hundred miles. Go north on US 395 from Bishop and you climb towards Mammoth Lakes, June Lake, and Mono Lake, equal parts beautiful and strange (especially Mono). The nearest road that actually goes west is the Tioga Pass Road (just before Mono Lake) into Yosemite National Park, and it’s definitely not built for speed. I do recommend all of that drive.

[@ianlewis4383]

Stopped through bishop once and it was beautiful 😭 would love to go back and actually spend some time in that area

[@Weather_Nerd]

As a Californian from that area who moved to Northern CA, biased or not nothing matches the beauty of the Owens Valley and Long Valley area near Mammoth Lakes

[@kylewhitt587]

Short idea: Furthest state capital from an interstate.

[@bw-leftturnracing7779]

Pierre, SD is my guess

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

​@@bw-leftturnracing7779or Juneau, Alaska

[@kylewhitt587]

@@bw-leftturnracing7779 my guess too. Poor Pierre.

[@Gatorsfan601]

Juneau

[@kylewhitt587]

@@Gatorsfan601 *taps the sign*

[@SamJoex]

8:15 oh hey that's where the northern terminus of US-41 is - that's the highway that really kickstarted my interest in roads it was very epic to know that a local side road i've been using for over 10 years is actually part of an older interstate system

[@jimgorycki4013]

And the southern Terminus of US 41 is in Miami. There used to be a US-94 called the Tamiami trail (Tampa to Miami), but was replaced by US-41.

[@zhihongtan3904]

And Bishop, CA is the modern-day western terminus of US-6, another US route with cultural importance. The eastern terminus of US-6 is Provincetown, MA at the tip of Cape Cod.

[@boblangill6209]

Cool that Frostbite Falls made the list. Give a shout out to Rocky and Bullwinkle when you pass through.

[@rockym9981]

Northern Montana's small towns rely on the Empire Builder Amtrak route as a lifeline since they don't have an interstate or any good airports

[@stickynorth]

Yup. Has the highest ridership of a long-distance train outside major inter-city corridors if I am not mistaken and the people of Montana want their other Amtrak service restored along their southern string of cities too since that's where most of Montana's population lives and is growing fast. As an Albertan, we keep an eye on things next door quite closely... 🙂

[@PlaceandFact]

Exactly, I confirm this

[@JamesHorton-fo3yv]

The towns along US 2, also known as the Hi-Line, have been pushing to 4 lane US 2.

[@JamesHorton-fo3yv]

The towns along US 2, also known as the Hi-Line, have been pushing to 4 lane US 2.

[@J-1410]

@@JamesHorton-fo3yv Something North Dakota did starting in the 1960s.

[@matthewbrown8679]

In 2020 my wife and I were on a road trip from the LA area to northern Utah to see our children. We had decided to go through Bishop instead of Vegas. We only made it to Bishop on the first day because i was quite sick. I had taken a home COVID test before heading out. It was negative. I also took a lab test as a precaution, but didn't have the results yet. On the second day we got to a camp site about 40 minutes outside of Ely. It was that next morning as we were gassing up in Ely that I got the lab results. I was positive for Covid. We turned around and headed home. We didnt want to get anyone else sick, so no hotels. We were still over 100 miles from Tonopah, in the middle if a desert wasteland, when a tire gave out. It was about 110 degrees that day, and i was on the side of the road, sick with COVID, changing a tire. The tire went bad because of an alignment issue. The tire on the other side was going bad in the same way. It was a Sunday, so there would be no tire shops open in either of the great metropolices of Tonapah or Bishop. So after i changed the tire and reloaded the trunk we said a prayer and headed off. So we drove the last 450 miles home that day, sick with COVID, on 1 bad tire, and one spare tire. That next night i checked the bad tire. Flat as a pancake.

[@skurinski]

no one cares

[@joeharris3878]

I care .​@@skurinski

[@yeetandskeet]

@@skurinskiYah, about your useless comment!

[@BeaverGeography]

banger comment

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

why are you posting this???

[@seanmckeownyoung]

Hancock-Houghton and the Keweenaw is really stunningly beautiful. It’s also so empty and quiet.

[@Travelnerd-u5d]

I always think Michigan is lack of interstates but it's also interesting that the us 131, 127 are constructed to be close to interstate standard so it isn't so bad.

[@silvermineband2719]

My only suggestion is that this really should be based on road miles to the nearest interstate. The Bishop example is prime. I now live inside the second area you highlighted NE of Phoenix. We are about 90 miles driving to the nearest interstate. The clip you show at 9:05 is Interstate 5 at La Jolla, CA. One of the bridges in the background is the light rail line connecting UCSD to the University City area. Up until I retired, I worked for that light rail system for almost 3 decades.

[@GKMess42]

San Diego Trolley? I grew up down there as a kid and my family had to rely on San Diego Transit/MTS in the 1990s.

[@silvermineband2719]

@ Yes, I started driving at SD Trolley in 1995. Moved up into operations management in 1999.

[@GKMess42]

@@silvermineband2719 awesome. Working for a transit agency (as a driver) was my dream job when I was a kid. Then reality of what that took hit as a teenager and I went into IT instead. It's a bit longer story than that, but I still wonder some days what it would have been like to drive busses or the light rail.

[@alecerdmann8505]

Michigan Tech has already been mentioned a few times in comments regarding Houghton/Hancock, but also people usually drive through the area in the winter to get to Mt. Bohemia!

[@revinhatol]

Blaine, Wash. and Int'l Falls, Minn. could be the ends of a hypothetical Interstate 100.

[@AaronOfMpls]

Hmm, maybe bend it south from I-Falls to go through Duluth and Superior, then continue it through the UP to end at I-75.

[@revinhatol]

@AaronOfMpls That'll be the idea!

[@THEBIGMG1]

Oroville, WA mentioned !!! I saw my house in both slides

[@mathmage420]

Hello from Marquette. I grew up in a small town just 10 miles north of Hancock. Whenever we would visit family in southern Michigan, it would take us nearly 4 hours to reach i75

[@iboKirby]

It’s interesting to look at eastern Oregon. At least east of the cascades. Despite Bend technically being closer to I-5 than Burns is to I-84 as the crow flies, just doing some quick research on Google maps shows that it actually takes longer to get to an interstate from Bend than Burns because of the mountains. It takes about 2 hrs 10 mins to get from Burns to 1-84 in Ontario. Going from Bend to the three closest points to actually get on an interstate (I-5 in Springfield, I-5 near Albany, and I-84 in The Dalles), it takes about 2 hrs 25 mins to each spot. That also depends on the mountain passes even being open. I grew up in Bend until I was 13 when I moved to somewhere right on an interstate. I truly didn’t grasp the concept of what an interstate was or that they were different from federal highways until moving. I was also 13, so that probably also had an impact… lol

[@clayton97330]

Cities over 100k people farthest from an interstate has to be Bend, right?

[@jpack85]

I visited Bend for the first time last Fall and took the drive through the Cascades to Corvallis. It was NOT a short drive!

[@pizzaboiler]

@@clayton97330 it must be (in the lower 48). the interstates were built to connect the us's largest cities and Bend really wasn't a thing until the 2000s at best and has grown explosively since then. Additionally, it's the only thing out there so there was no reason to build an interstate there before Bend became it's own thing

[@brentboswell1294]

US Route 97 is practically up to Interstate standards through Bend, and is well traveled, especially with trucks. It's definitely much better off than Burns, and well off enough that it attracts a very different demographic.

[@brentboswell1294]

​@@jpack85the quickest route through the Cascades to Bend is Santiam Pass, down Oregon 22/US 20. That connects pretty well with Salem.

[@lowermichigan4437]

Lived in Houghton MI for 4 years. Michigan tech, logging, and winter sports keep that area alive. If I could work remotely forever this is a place I would consider moving to.

[@tobycripe8385]

🤫

[@BenGarrott]

Neah Bay (unincorporated place) is very far away probably over 100 miles. Forks is the probably the furthest incorporated place I can think of. Although Oroville and Republic WA are too

[@petuniasevan]

Used to live in Chico CA. (north of Oroville). No interstate but CA 99 acts like the next best thing. It's a freeway for the majority of its length and well traveled/well populated. Heck, with a little bit of rework it could be made into I-7.

[@BenGarrott]

@@petuniasevan I live in Washington only been through that area once (Redding on I-5). Isn't CA 99 a 2 lane highway? Most of the state highways here have no exits with a few exceptions

[@petuniasevan]

@@BenGarrott It varies. It's a 4 to 6 lane highway from Sacramento south, and north of Sacramento it varies between a 2 lane highway and a 4-lane highway depending on population centers. Eventually CALTRANS plans to upgrade its entire length to accomodate Interstate rules and regs for the future. They did this in Wisconsin, upgrading US 41 to Interstate 41 some years back (I've lived in this part of Wisconsin for quite a few years and saw the change), so the 99 project is a good idea and overdue. When my family moved to Chico in 1979, the town was only 25, 000 people. Now it's over 100,000 and many other towns along 99 have also gained population and thus the usage of the 99 is greatly increased.

[@BenGarrott]

@@petuniasevan Interesting. It should be upgraded to an interstate in my opinion. Chico, Yuba City, Modesto, Merced, Fresno, Visalia, and Bakersfield are all big enough to have an interstate going through it. I also think they should extend it up through Oregon and Washington in the future to hit cities like Klamath Falls, Bend (over 100k people), The Dalles, Yakima, Ellensburg, and Wenatchee and up to Canada from there. Basically replacing the Current US-97 which for the most part is 2 lanes in each direction with a speed limit of only 60 or 65 most of the way and no exits. It would save a lot of time and be a lot safer to build an interstate with exits at least from I-5 near Bakersfield up to I-5 in Redding.

[@nothat0therguy992]

0:49 I live near Gaylord Mi, and it is a great example of a town benefiting from the interstate system. Before the construction of I 75 the entire county had barely over 7,500 people and was hovering around that number for decades, since I 75 was built the population exploded to 25,000 which is massive for up north lol. Now the town of Gaylord is a "big city" of 4,300 people and it feels a lot bigger than it is. It also has a lot of jobs, businesses and economic growth, even when much of Northern Michigan struggled to grow

[@cparkes92]

Even with no freeway access, Grand Traverse County still has grown to around 100,000 people and the airport there (TVC) is larger (in # of annual passengers) than the airports in Saginaw, Flint, Lansing, and Kalamazoo

[@nothat0therguy992]

@cparkes92 yeah Traverse City is probably the only metro in Michigan that is not well connected to a Freeway system, be it an interstate or a divided US highway

[@aria.vega5]

I'm near Alpena, and it sucks

[@TheParadoxDestroyer]

@@aria.vega5 Yeah, the road from Alpena to Gaylord and I-75 is slow and lonely.

[@GrantDouglas-hp7ul]

Small world​, I live in Indian River.@@TheParadoxDestroyer

[@coltonyesney]

Living in Negaunee, MI for 18 years, a city of 4.5k and about a 3 hour drive to the nearest interstate, I knew I lived in a remote area but you never truly realize it until you move anywhere else. Hancock recently closed its university to a lack of enrollment which will definitely take a hit. Farther north Calumet and Laurium are classified as “villages” so they would be incorporated areas farther away.

[@bernier42]

7:00 - bo-DET and RO-zo Great video!

[@hunterbunnell1954]

Keweenaw peninsula is incredible. Love Copper Harbor ❤️

[@tyleraeschliman1852]

HOUGHTON AND HANCOCK MENTIONED LETS GO HUSKIES

[@BrandonDBaxter]

Enough with the caps

[@ryanfischer4865]

I live 30 mins from Houghton/Hancock, and though I'd like more industry, we like the quiet up here

[@skysthelimitvideos]

Bishop, CA is gorgeous. My experience there makes me want to visit more of these remote cities.

[@kiefferciullo8561]

I drive trucks for a living, and I have been to Montana and driven I-90 all the way across. Once you get past Missoula, you really get to appreciate just how isolated much of Montana is. Many towns are home to more cows than people up there.

[@hk33michigan]

I think it’s also worth noting that while these UP towns are “small” they aren’t as small as some of the aforementioned places around the country. Like several have metro areas of 20,000+ and are 2+ hours from a divided freeway connection to the rest of the country.

[@penskepc2374]

Once you get a little ways away from the interstate in Maine, suddenly people are doing 75-80mph on twin lane state routes.

[@TheHomerowKeys]

We know, we've seen Pet Sematary.

[@jordaneggerman4734]

​@@TheHomerowKeys Yes, but do _not_ bury me there!

[@ErinS06]

Reminds me of my neck of Upstate NY that's an hour from the nearest interstate being one of the few places I've seen people actually use the passing zones on those kind of roads

[@penskepc2374]

@@ErinS06 yeah, I assumed it was pretty much like that in the more rural Northeast, as we all seem to have a fairly similar culture. They fly in NH too, but the speed limits are lower because the roads are so windy.

[@chanelking4203]

Omg Oroville mentioned!

[@Nanohertz109]

Moved from near Hancock, MI, to near Bishop, CA. Bishop is at least serviced by a somewhat busy divided road (US 395).

[@revinhatol]

Btw, Barrow just changed its name to Utqiagvik.

[@BeaverGeography]

Yep ik

[@keroxity2327]

@@BeaverGeography So why not say it?

[@BeaverGeography]

@keroxity2327 i can't pronounce it, that's totally reasonable

[@revinhatol]

@BeaverGeography q = "ng"

[@J-1410]

@@keroxity2327 Because instead of complaints about saying Barrow, he'd get 100x more with 100 different ways of saying that.

[@brookebrashier6847]

0:15 my house is literally a few hundred feet away from I-40

[@alejandromarmolejo13]

i will be there

[@DaGravy]

I’m 2.5 from ih 10

[@brandonguild1666]

That’s got to be incredible annoying to listen to that traffic 24/7

[@markeastridge9649]

3 miles from an intersection of I-80 and I-35. Giving directions to Laredo, Duluth, San Francisco and New York is easy.

[@Euler71]

10 miles from I-5

[@miked31784]

2:25 there is a road that goes up there and the town name is no longer Barrow. It is Utqiagvik now.

[@InciniumVGC]

People who live there still call it Barrow.

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

There is no direct road from Utqiagvik to mainland Alaska.... Prudhoe Bay does though..

[@scottlovesyoutube3763]

You were close with Malta. (Malta is at least 2.5 hours N from Billings) In 2018, Harvard identified Glasgow, MT as "the middle of nowhere" for the contiguous United States. The article stated "Of all towns with more than 1,000 residents, Glasgow ... is farthest - about 4.5 hours in any direction - from any metropolitan area of more than 75,000 people".

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

I've been to Hancock and Houghton so it wasn't a surprise to me. But it was when I went there.

[@Gatorsfan601]

What’s the university in Hancock that’s closing? I know Michigan Tech better not close. I have a cousin that graduated from there.

[@aerohydra3849]

@@Gatorsfan601 I believe it's Finlandia. Michigan Tech is definitely not closing anytime soon, it's a significantly larger college with a lot more faculty and research and also a state public university whereas Finlandia is just a community college.

[@ryanfischer4865]

​@aerohydra3849 they moved most of the majors (nursing mostly)from Finlandia to Tech.

[@marsgal42]

I’ve seen real estate videos about towns in the Okanagan valley and one of the minuses they mention about places like Wenatchee is how far they are from I-90.

[@arcadeshift5071]

6:58 FYI, it's "Baah-det" (like the word debt) and "Rose-oh".

[@uPilot]

really informative. good job

[@kaymiller77]

Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, CA

[@NewenEliscu-Saraza]

Still an hour away from I-5

[@michaelbrown7430]

Yes, but as a truck driver today I am going from Kansas city, KS to Birmingham, AL and over half of that trip will be on US and state highways going through Missouri and Arkansas because it cuts about a hundred miles from the trip. It also takes me by the largest fresh water spring in the USA

[@shootermcgavin4999]

Love your channel

[@Moredread25]

I've driven from Albuquerque to Carlsbad. It's a long way with not a lot of things. But the road, despite not being an interstate, seemed more than enough highway.

[@RedRaiderLobo20]

Long drive, but at least it’s four lane divided highway. But that stretch from Vaughn to Roswell is brutal. You got the pointing cowboys and that’s about it.

[@calebbenedict5587]

I went to MTU in Houghton, cool to see it getting some attention! It is very isolated, I think if you proposed building an interstate up there people wouldn’t like it. Fun fact, when you get off I-75 in St. Ignace, at the start of US-2 there used to be a huge freeway-sized sign saying “US-2 is NOT a freeway” because it’s the main east-west corridor for the UP despite being only 2 lanes for nearly its entire length. It got a bit more tolerable after they raised the speed limits on most highways to 65. Also, at one point in the 60s, US-2 was planned to be converted to a freeway and potentially an interstate, a vestige of this can still be seen with a short stretch from Gladstone to Rapid River that was built to expressway standards in anticipation of a freeway that was never built.

[@toweypat]

Huh! I'm from Michigan, and I wasn't expecting the answer to be there. Especially since (last I heard) Michigan had the most miles per capita of roads. Very interesting :)

[@Chris-ut6eq]

I've been to Hancock, MI 👍

[@MrNickAch]

Cool video! Lol the “Tonopah” pronunciation got me. It was awesome to hear Nevada pronounced correctly though

[@tyleradams6048]

"TOE-nuh-paw" (at least according to Little Feat)

[@mattbosley3531]

And Ely, Nevada too. Eelee, not Eli.

[@MrNickAch]

@@tyleradams6048 that’s correct. I had family out there at one point

[@edwardrhoads7283]

Was totally expecting a city in Alaska or maybe tricky some city in Hawaii.

[@Bu11etSp0ng3]

I think you missed the part where he said those answers would be boring

[@edwardrhoads7283]

@@Bu11etSp0ng3 You are correct I did. He could have given an honorable mention at least...

[@ASMRPeople]

Don't worry about Hancock, it has a great University with 3 miles. Not a big ten school, but almost 10k students.

[@BS-vx8dg]

I have no idea if this video is any good, but this is definitely one of the catchier titles I've seen from the Beaver; I will definitely watch and analyze. EDIT: (0:49) "Being close to an interstate highway can have a serious impact on cities, especially in rural areas". 🤨 EDIT: (5:02) Props for your _excellent_ legwork on finding Bishop in that "polygon". But then I have to take you to task, Beaver. *_Why_* are you apparently using distance as the crow flies? If you have to drive 175 miles to get from Bishop to an interstate, that is _far_ more relevant that a straight line that magically ignores both mountains and deserts. I think you've missed an opportunity for a superior video. Driving distance, not bird distance, would be a better play. EDIT: Wonderful surprise ending. I wonder, given how new I-39 is, whether it might be extended in the future and thus upend this list. Pretty good video, but I have to take issue with your decision to go straight line for the distance.

[@randoliof]

I grew up in Klamath Falls, south of Bend, and that was 70+ miles from the closest interstate. Amazing place to grow up - town was not bisected by a freeway, you could drive from one side of town to the other on surface streets. Incredible place to grow up, ngl

[@sams3015]

Love these type of videos especially now trying to fill up a tedious tourist visa for a totally unrelated country…once I don’t put my place of birth down as Interstate system or something 🤣

[@gregboike]

1:42 is a real deep cut… proposed rebranding and signage for the city where I live from more than 10 years ago that was never adopted or implemented! 😂

[@GeoHolms]

Woo! Hancock! I grew up there and, yep, it be pretty out of the way. In fact, I usually describe on how out of the way it is by referencing how far the nearest freeways were. The main thing that brings anything up there (besides tourism and mining and forestry) is Michigan Tech University, located in Houghton, Michigan. (The much smaller college in Hancock, Finlandia University, recently closed down.) No longer live there, but miss it greatly. Just yesterday I was looking up webcams on MTU campus to check out the snow. Thanks for making the video. I always was aware of how far it was from an interstate, but didn't quite realize it one of the furthers from (in lower 48). Even in watching this video I thought for sure it would be a spot in the west.

[@ryanammenheuser4788]

I've been to Bishop! It's a pretty important refueling stop if you're traveling from SoCal to Mammoth, which is a pretty big ski resort.

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

Bishop is also itneresting because while it's far from a interstate as the crow flies, Fresno has several California routes passing through it that are interstate capable, just not labeled as such. But even if you include that, the driving distrance is incredibily long because Bishop has no direct road west of it so you have to drive several 100 miles to get to Fresno.

[@brandonmcclain6476]

Being a "Troll" Michigander, and having been to the up several times, I figured it was who's probably somewhere near Houghton or Copper Harbor. I totally forgot about Hancock being a city and Copper Harbor not being a city. Good video!

[@AbuGrave365]

I love your channel dude. Since I was a kid I used to look at maps. Now I do it all the time on my phone. Putting my favorite spots in my phone notes and looking up pictures of the local geography. It would be awesome if you made some videos that focus on the local nature !

[@BeaverGeography]

Hey man, Thanks for the comment! You're exactly the kind of person that I want my channel to appeal to, so it's great to know it actually works out that way. I would love to go into more detail on nature and the environment, and I might try to dive deeper into physical geography, but currently those videos don't do as well so there's not as large of an incentive to make them🙂

[@Kearneymort]

1:20 I see your using Sidney, Neb as an example

[@xHadesStamps]

My state!

[@MLampner]

Its worth mentioning Salisbury, MD, a city with a population over 33,000, is 80 miles from an Interstate and located in the Mid Atlantic. Ocean City, MD is easily over 100 miles from an interstate.

[@Dangic23]

I lived in Cheyenne Wyoming right at the intersection of two highways, I80 and I25. Still was practically disconnected from the world. 😂

[@88KeysIdaho]

Butte, MT at I-90 and I-15 says hold my beer.

[@Banom7a]

Fort Collins is my favourite Cheyenne suburb 😂😂

[@Dangic23]

@ 1000% without Ft Collins, Cheyenne is unlivable

[@88KeysIdaho]

@@Banom7a That's where the nearest Costco to Cheyenne is, and there are none in the whole state of WY.

[@PCSPounder]

@@88KeysIdaho Butte is too much of a cheat code for this kind of conversation.

[@davidmatheny1993]

I live within the gap between interstates that exists in southwest GA and southeast AL, and the U.S. Highways through here basically serve as interstates with speed limits set at 65 between towns. More specifically, I live along the Fall Line Freeway that may become I-14 down the road.

[@MikeV8652]

Barrow, Alaska, (for better or worse) was renamed as Utqiagvik over eight years ago! The new name is almost as old as the Interstate map shown at the beginning, which lacks many of the newer routes.

[@BS-vx8dg]

I was thinking about making the same point; I had a friend visit the place about five years ago and brought me back a bumper sticker that says Utqiagvik, but I think the name Barrow is going to stick in the popular mind for a long, long time. Why? There will never be a critical mass of people who are comfortable pronouncing Utqiagvik. Now I will grant you that the spelling is perfectly aligned with the English phonemes, and anyone who really tries should get it down in about two or three tries, but it just doesn't come up often enough for people to really learn it. And then there's another factor: While the _town_ was given the indigenous name, *Point Barrow* has _not_ been renamed, giving another excuse for people to not learn the new name.

[@semineil]

The way things are going now, the name could be switched back.

[@BS-vx8dg]

@@semineil Ha. That hadn't crossed my mind. Well, even if he changes Denali back to Mt. McKinley, the next Dem will just change it back.

[@Chris_at_Home]

@@BS-vx8dgI’ve done telecom work there for a few companies many years ago. I also worked over 20 years in Prudhoe Bay and many of the flights I took going home went through there.

[@MikeV8652]

@@BS-vx8dg I never said that Utqiagvik was a good name. 😵 I agree with your criticism of the choice, but it is what it is. As a geographer, I would say, "Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow)..."

[@kevinforgione3938]

Interstate 11 may eventually be extended to pass near Tonopah when it finally connects Vegas and Reno. Also Key West, FL is quite far from I -95 though I think it’s actual geographical situation is similar to that of Hilo, HI since Key West is on a separate island from the part of Florida served by interstate highways; plus US RT 1 connects the Florida Keys to the peninsula.

[@mattgaumond4188]

One day I’m gonna go on a road trip and drive from Gaylord Michigan to Gay Michigan

[@TheParadoxDestroyer]

What a festive idea. Used to live in Gaylord, heard the jokes. Did not know there was a Gay, Michigan.

[@tumultuoustenets1228]

6:58 your pronunciations 😂 Bah-debt Rose-oh

[@markmh835]

Thank you SO MUCH for using a REAL voice (your own, or someone else) instead of a dreaded A.I. voice. AI narration has taken over so many channels on KZbin that I have quit listening to those sites. I am now a new subscriber to your channel. 🤔😀👍🇺🇸

[@ELMS]

I’m probably not the first person to say this, but that town in Nevada is pronounced ‘TOE-naw-pah’. Keep up the great content!

[@geraldheston1335]

And EE-Lee.

[@devingraves8044]

I have been through Hancock/Haughton, and it was very pretty and the downtown area was neat. But you could tell in the surrounding areas judt outside of the city that there was a lot of desolation. Many mostly empty and abandoned small towns/houses

[@brandonguild1666]

Hey I actually knew this! The stat actually also applies to just the furthest area from any interstate, not even a city. Didn’t realize it until the end. I grew up in Wisconsin and up north (UP included) always just seemed so far away from anything. People in lower WI usually own or know someone that owns a cabin up north and go there for hunting, fishing, boating, or snowmobiling. Living up north is rough and disconnected for sure. My aunt lives in Northern WI and for her to travel anywhere requires a connecting flight to Minneapolis first from a small regional airport. Or 5 hour drive to Milwaukee/Minneapolis. But I live in Colorado now and I guess that’s the same case for anyone in a mountain town like Aspen also.

[@Rayinator]

Spent some time in burns when I was a kid, fun fact, the lower half of it is technically a different town called Hines, but they’re so small that people just combine them into burns and hines

[@redpandaz5146]

Bishop isn't on an Interstate, but it's along highway 395, which isn't exactly a rural road either. I stayed there quite a few times when going skiing at Mammoth Mountain

[@geraldheston1335]

What isolates Bishop is that the roads over the Sierra Nevada are closed in the winter.

[@TomBuskey]

When i89 was created in NH, Senator Cotton diverted it from Claremont to have 3 exits in Lebanon, NH, his home town. It greatly helped the economics of the area.

[@ugojlachapelle]

More generally, accessibility to convenient and rapid transportation is key. In Montreal, where I live, the closer you are to rapid mass transit, the richer the area. So it's really about connectivity.

[@S_Over_Street]

If I-11 is extended well north of Las Vegas towards Reno NV or somewhere in Northern NV, it’s tracked to go near / by Tonopah. However who know when that’ll happen.

[@williethomas9953]

My initial thought was Houghton, MI because the UP is so sparcely populated, and the only Interstate I-75 goes along the eastern edge.

[@Sir_Austin_T_Gee]

This map makes it look like I could drive from Levelland, Texas to Roswell, NM in 30 minutes. 4:15

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

In Maryland, the furthest town from an interstate is also it's busiest tourism site, Ocean City MD

[@TheRomaniBanks]

0:02 I-85 doesn’t exist according to this map 😢

[@goGothitaLOL]

And neither does I-30

[@EthanNeal]

Eh, Atlanta would probably be better off without it

[@Keppyboi]

"There's rural areas not connected to an interstate" And then there's Fresno, Bakersfield, Modesto, and other cities on the Central Valley 100 miles away from I5

[@DanielS-lg4kp]

Great work! I like your videos So much thank you ❤❤

[@BeaverGeography]

thanks for the support dnaiel!

[@Hobotraveler82]

I35 ends in Duluth and becomes Minnesota hwy 61. Yes, it’s very isolated here. I live and work at Gunflint Lodge 45 minutes from Grand Marais. Duluth is three and half hours away. 😊

[@baraxor]

There's an area in central Kansas that the Interstate System has bypassed, containing towns that were important back in the days of the Wild West and the railroads, but are now more than a hundred miles away from the nearest interstate highway. Unlike many of the places in the video that have only a few thousand residents at most, these places still have a decently substantial "small city" population. Dodge City: 27,788 at last census Garden City: 28,151 at last census Liberal: 18,743 at last census

[@JakeHandschin]

Cool video

[@teakivy]

0:01 incase you plan to use this map again, I85 should connect from Atlanta to Montgomery 😉

[@kjyost]

Awesome, love the UP! Driven through Marquette & US 2 routes. My favourite sign though was the really odd title of “UP State Champions”, as though they were their own state :)

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

Tonopah isn't considered a city? What does Nevada classify it as? Btw, great job as usual 😀🙌

[@BeaverGeography]

It's an unincorporated community i believe! Not sure why, but my guess would be lack of like things to form a full city government

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

​@@BeaverGeographyah, I see. Thank you for answering that for me!

[@gregconrad6634]

I do wish that a geography video could pronounce geographic names correctly

[@CraigRohn]

Tonopah was settled where it is because it is the closest place outside Clark County to Las Vegas, specifically settled by a large number of libertarian-minded people who want nothing to do with government, which is why it is unincorporated despite having a population in the many tens of thousands.

[@andypham1636]

@@CraigRohn only 2,179 people live there as of the 2020 census

[@PatricenotPatrick]

Before finishing the video my guesses are Fresno CA and Atlantic City, NJ

[@BenGarrott]

Fresno is the biggest city with no interstate access

[@kathleenhudson8429]

@@BenGarrottit is on CA 99, however. Although not an interstate, it is a good freeway going from I-5 in the south to meet up with it again in Sacramento and continuing further north. I don’t think it’s hurting by not being on an interstate. Hwy 99 runs through the most populated areas of the Central Valley.

[@mushroomsteve]

Atlantic City is right on the Garden State Parkway, and while it's not technically an interstate, it is built to interstate standards for the entire length.

[@yohoyoho13]

@@mushroomsteve @MickV8652 Yep. Also, it's only about 50 miles from I-295.

[@pizzaboiler]

he misses Bend, Oregon, which while in a straight line is closer to an interstate than Burns, Oregon, the roads from burns don't have to move around the mountains while they do for bend, and Bend has a population of over 100k so it's WAY bigger than any mentioned and way farther

[@Hawgwild97]

I wonder if along the southern portion of the Oklahoma/Arkansas state line comes close to this list. From west of Mena, Arkansas into Oklahoma is completely National forest and true mountain people excluding broken bow, Oklahoma which the Choctaw Nation made into a resort for north Texans to visit and gamble. I-49 is scheduled to go through Mena eventually but it’ll be at least 20 years in my opinion before we see that. US Highway 71 is the lifeline down there for sure. The Talimena drive is amazing in that area. Would make a pretty neat video I bet!

[@texanfournow]

I have been to Hancock. Not sure why he chose Hancock when neighboring Houghton is larger and is also the home of Michigan Tech University. The entire Keweenaw peninsula is beautiful. Copper Harbor is a favorite. I nearly ran over a bear (or perhaps he nearly ran over me) on a local highway. The key is to visit in summer, because winter can be overwhelming, with up to 300 inches of snow possible. Bonus: the only public access from Michigan to Isle Royale National Park, one of the least visited national parks, is from Keweenaw (by boat).

[@thomasrinschler6783]

No, you can get to Isle Royale from Grand Portage MN as well. And it's a shorter boat ride! You can also fly in on a float plane from Grand Marais MN as well (as my brother and his wife did; I was going to go on a different flight, but it was unfortunately cancelled due to poor weather)

[@texanfournow]

@@thomasrinschler6783 Right. I meant from Michigan. I will edit my note.

[@AleksandrIlchenko-vw3py]

Drive through Artesia and Carlsbad this tuesday. Was been in Tonopah many times, I don't like a deserts but Tonopah and Goldfield has a unique charm. Also I was been in Baraga, MI and it's definetely extremely remote from interstates) I guess Monument Valley or some cities in CO-UT-AZ-NM intersection can be in this list, like Cortez,CO

[@christianwillis4492]

The best ski area for experienced riders in the Midwest is 40 minutes past Hancock and a great reason to go out there!

[@Michael-rr7um]

"Improve travel everywhere" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

[@acnavigate]

Fun fact: the cruise ship in the picture of Hilo at 2:28 is called The Pride of America and goes around the Hawaiian islands every 7 days I used to work on it when I worked for Norwegian Cruise Lines.

[@petuniasevan]

Capital of South Dakota. Pierre (pronounced "peer") is a good 40 miles from I-90. I know that's not THAT far but it's definitely off the beaten path, and none of the other roads in its area are much more than 2 lane old US routes.

[@cvr24]

My Father-in-law used to live in Ontonagon, that region is truly the sticks and the middle of nowhere

[@KRich408]

Ironwood Michigan is over 300 miles from a Michigan Interstate and just over 100 miles from a interstate in Duluth MN 2 states West of ironwood Michigan.