Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 What are some little known, maybe hard to get to places you have been in the continental US? I’ll start off with Crown King, AZ. In the mountains of central AZ, more than forty miles from the nearest paved road. It was a mining supply village that managed to hang on when the mines dried up. It doesn’t require a 4X4 to get there, but it helps. Sometimes the 4X4 won’t save you though. The saloon. I very nearly dropped my then-three-week-old Kimber 5” CDP into their outhouse one time. It tottered on the edge for what seemed like 5 hours, before falling to the ground. The general store. That is the only gas pump for 50 miles or so, in any direction. The locals, there are a couple hundred of them, get around mostly on ATVs. So, what do you have? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Pretty much everything around here is off the beaten path. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Sent from my Jackboot using Copatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 2 minutes ago, SmokeRoss said: Pretty much everything around here is off the beaten path. That’s why I said the lower-48?. Everyone expects everything to be hard to get to there. It is interesting to find pockets of frontier left here in the middle of wall-to-wall civilization. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 minute ago, Eric said: That’s why I said the lower-48?. Everyone expects everything to be hard to get to there. It is interesting to find pockets of frontier left here in the middle of wall-to-wall civilization. In that case. Holden Village, Wa off Lake Chelan. Take the Lady of the Lake ferry to Lucerne. Hop a cattle truck for the ride up into the mountains to Holden Village, an old mining town turned summer church camp. Great deer hunting and hiking in the mountains. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogieman Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 6 minutes ago, TBO said: Sent from my Jackboot using Copatalk Who's the gay couple? 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Beararms Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Where I live is out there. 50 regulars and 250 weekenders. Everyone carries and we all look out for each other. We have our own gun range, our own fire deparment, our own patrol and we can go for miles from our community to other communities on UTV trails. The 13 mile trek to the liquor store can be done on the trail. We have no Wal Mart, no red lights, one franchised eatery and its on a floating dock and that’s how we want it. Taken on top of one mountain overlooking 40,000 acre lake in our community. Edited July 12, 2018 by Will Beararms 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) brit cemetery not far from our beach house on Ocracoke . land in cemetery british owned . not so off the path but i got too many to list . Edited July 12, 2018 by ASH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBull 301 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Winston, NM. Way in the **** out in the middle of no where. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Piper going off the beaten path , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 4 minutes ago, BigBull 301 said: Winston, NM. Way in the **** out in the middle of no where. I’ve found myself in the wilderness in the middle of Albuquerque. There are some spooky places in that berg. Anyway, there are definitely some very desolate areas in NM. I’ve spent quite a bit of time there. It is interesting to fly from the southeast, west over Texas, then NM and AZ. You go from ground that is broken up into a jigsaw puzzle of land parcels, to untamed landscape in West Texas. You are over a whole lot of nothing for great tracts of land after that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gun Shark Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Crazy Horse Monument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 minute ago, Gun Shark said: Crazy Horse Monument That would certainly count. Why couldn’t they build it someplace more convenient? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 I'm old and forgetful so I go off the beaten path quite often! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gun Shark Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 5 minutes ago, Eric said: That would certainly count. Why couldn’t they build it someplace more convenient? Because sometimes history is inconvenient... I’d much rather they put it in Arizona or NM. I haven’t been since 2007/2008... I would love to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 FT AP Hill, VA. I learned to hate that ******* place. Pic is just a stock photo I found on Google. I recognize several of those trees though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 3 minutes ago, Gun Shark said: Because sometimes history is inconvenient... I’d much rather they put it in Arizona or NM. I haven’t been since 2007/2008... I would love to go back. Yeah, only the Democrats get to rewrite history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 5 minutes ago, Eric said: FT AP Hill, VA. I learned to hate that ****ing place. Pic is just a stock photo I found on Google. I recognize several of those trees though. This kind of swampy crap can be found in just about every training area of that damned military reservation. I used to hate slogging through that **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Schultz Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 19 minutes ago, Gun Shark said: Because sometimes history is inconvenient... I’d much rather they put it in Arizona or NM. I haven’t been since 2007/2008... I would love to go back. Odds are that it will look exactly as it did in 2007/08 as the work on it is progressing VERY slow. The Ziolkowski family has very little incentive to finish it quickly because they don't want to lose their high paying jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G26S239 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Gray Rock Lake was a great place to hike to for camping and fishing back in the 70s. Apparently it is still off the beaten path. hikemtshasta.com/tag/gray-rock-lake/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted July 12, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 12, 2018 Anyone from Northern Idaho or Montana that has heard of Upper Glidden Lake or Military Basin? We used to hunt there. Also on some of the ridge lines near the northern end of Moon Pass, a few miles south of Wallace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Hiking off the beaten path somewhere around Death Valley, in January 2009. My little rock formation is most likely still standing. Well, probably not, that nasty wind will have knocked it down eventually. Edited January 26, 2019 by crockett 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airmotive Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 A slight deviation from the topic...but definitely the most off-the-beaten path for me. Kiunga, Papua New Guinae: International arrivals, “budget accommodations”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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