What's the most out of the way town you've been to in your own state?

[XemaSab]

I'll start:

Eagleville, Modoc County, California.

[Ava]

1. Santuck, Alabama

For my home state that is... As far as New York it'd probably be Salisbury, NY. I was on a shoot there once and it was tiny!

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Ocracoke Island (to the east), Grassy Creek (north and west) -

both utterly delightful places!

[Sherman A1]

16. Love Ocracoke

visited there a few years back and it was just super.

[onehandle]

3. Philadelphia. Far away from Pennsyltucky. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Bug Tussle, AL.

Though Opp, AL qualifies as out-of-the-way, to be sure.

[chknltl]

8. Wow! I thought Bug Tussle was a fictitious town mentioned on TV's Green Acres

It may have also been mentioned on Petticoat Junction. It neighbored Hooterville I think.

[LeftofObama]

14. I think Bugtussle was from The Beverly Hillbillies.

Supposedly a small holler in Tennessee.

[chknltl]

35. It was! It turns out it features in all three shows.

I googled it and Wiki has fascinating information on Bugtussle. The Clampetts, (Beverly Hillbillies), were from Bugtussle. Both Hooterville, (Green Acres) and the Shady Rest, (Petticoat Junction) were located near Bugtussle. Although heavily speculated on, the actual area in the US is never given for the town or any of the towns mentioned in the three shows. There are good arguments placing it in Tennessee and California and a few other states.

Check it out here under Hooterville: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooterville

[LeftofObama]

44. The only reason I remember it from The Beverly Hillbillies is because

I always tell people that my family is so backwater that they think The Beverly Hillbillies was a documentary.

[Arkansas Granny]

66. Wait a minute, are you saying it wasn't?

[Art_from_Ark]

52. I think the Clampetts were supposed to be from Tennessee

I'm pretty sure Granny mentioned that that was her home state in several episodes

[chknltl]

61. I went back to Wiki n looked. You are right but...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverly_Hillbillies. (see overview)

Granny did indead mention being from Tennessee more than once. She also mentioned Bugtussle as their home a few times. Bugtussle is in Oklahoma. Oklahoma has little in the way of mountains and yet Jed is considered to be a mountain man. Quite often members of the family reflected on life back home in the hills. Their accent is consistent with the southern Appalachia area. The article in Wiki suggests that where the Clampets were really from is up for speculation.

[Art_from_Ark]

63. Oklahoma actually does have quite a few hilly/mountainous areas

The Cookson Hills in the northeast, and the Ouachita Mountains in the southeast can be pretty rugged. Mr. Brewster, the oil man who got the Clampetts set up with their wealth, was from Tulsa. But as you noted. their accents are not Eastern Oklahoma accents.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. See my post below. In AR, we have Bugscuffle.

[Art_from_Ark]

53. There's also a Hogeye

and a Booger Hollow.
Not to mention Toad Suck.

[Arkansas Granny]

57. I knew about Hogeye and Toad Suck, but I had to look Booger Hollow up

since I'd never heard of it.

[Art_from_Ark]

58. I had a friend in junior high

who liked to talk about his kin in Booger Hollow. When I was old enough to explore that part of the state on my own, I took a trip out there. I had thought it was in Boone or Newton county, but I see that it is (or maybe was) actually a little farther down Highway 7, in Pope County.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. I'm not sure if I can accurately judge how far away from everything certain towns might be

but I think it might be Essex, California, a small town in San Bernardino County, way off in the desert. According to Google, it now has a population of only 89, down from 111 in the year 2000. Its neighboring towns are ghost towns now, but once were active and bustling, catering to Rte. 66 travelers. Essex is on old Route 66 which comes into California from Arizona. It was founded when a guy got a flat tire on Route 66 and couldn't find a place to fix cars and the town was built around the service station that he built. I went to Essex in the 1970s when I visited Mitchell Caverns State Park, which is maybe 50 miles away. Essex was the only place to buy gas in the entire area (Mitchell Caverns is really isolated and now the lovely caverns are closed due to state budget shortfalls). I've read that the town has dozens of abandoned homes that are rotting away.

[hunter]

43. Kelso California is another good one...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelso,_California

Petrolia and the other "Lost Coast" towns are interesting too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrolia,_California

California's "Lost Coast" is lost because the geology is so unstable it makes road building difficult. The last time we passed through there were many places where the road had simply slid down the mountains and been bypassed by sketchy looking one-lane cuts.

[politicat]

6. I think Del Norte, CO.

If by out of the way means most difficult to get to, farthest away from interstates.

The other option is Pleasant View and the Lowry Pueblo, which is mostly on 491 (formerly 666) except where it's not. On any road.

Southwest Colorado is not quite the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from there.

[chknltl]

7. Washtucna Washington

Middle of nowhere in Washington state. If one travels from Spokane Wa. to the Tri-Cities you take I-90 west to Ritzville then turn South on a small desolate two lane highway that takes you straight to Pasco. If you take a modest detour off of that desolate highway you can visit Washtucna which has a population of 208. When last I was there they had a tavern, a grocery store and a post office. A great place to visit if you like tumbleweeds.

Even more out of the way than that is the town of Deubenreuth Germany. It is so out of the way that Google hasn't even heard of it. I lived there for a year as a child. It had a tavern, a bakery and a bunch of farm houses and that was it. If there were no chickens in the road you could pass through town doing about 20 mph in about a minute.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Kangley, WA, I guess....

Not sure if it really qualifies, but I have known of Kent-Kangley Road my whole life. I finally drove the entire length and found myself in Kangley, a small town in the foothills of the Cascades. I think it used to be a coal town, or maybe a railhead for the coal trains that used to ply those hills. Don't remember much about it, other than I went there once.

[eShirl]

10. Millinocket, Maine

"You can't get there from here." - Bert and I
http://www.islandportpress.com/BIwhichway.html


http://www.islandportpress.com/bertandi.html

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Bugscuffle, Washington County, Arkansas.

It's a small community that isn't much more than a church and a cemetery.

[eppur_se_muova]

40. You've never been to Booger Hollow ? :) nt

[Arkansas Granny]

42. No, I've never been there.

I grew up near Hornet, MO. I don't remember what the populations was (very small), but it was on a paved road so I didn't know if that would count for most out of the way. There were 4 or 5 houses, a community building and a cemetery. At one time there was a country store, but it closed down and the owner started raising chickens.

[Art_from_Ark]

54. I've been there

I can't remember whether it is in Boone or Newton county.

[Major Nikon]

13. Presidio, Texas

[Doc_Technical]

26. I've been there.

Returning from Big Bend Park, we decided to take the more
scenic route along the Rio Grande.
We visited the seismograph station that the USGS has there.

[Major Nikon]

28. All I did was land at the international airport and take a leak behind a bush

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KPRS

[Deep13]

15. Nelson Ledges, OH (adopted state); Shutesbury, MA (native state) nt

[Sherman A1]

17. Pilot Knob, MO

is the first one that comes to mind. State Civil War Historical Site there and it was very interesting.

[MrScorpio]

18. I don't travel to out of the way towns in this state

You're bound to run into a militia that way

[HereSince1628]

19. The towns I've been to in my state are generally 'on the way' not "out of the way".

Nearby to me, I guess I have to say Bakertown, which has no surviving public structures, is pretty much not on anyone's way.

[pipi_k]

20. It's actually

the town I live in now.

Before the Mass Turnpike was built, you had to drive through the area to get to points west on Route 20.

Now the only people who pass through are those who live here, or those passing through on purpose to sight-see.

It's why they call the area the "Hidden Hills" of Western Mass. Nearest turnpike entrances/exits (and any medium to large cities) are 20+ miles away to the east and west, so the area is pretty quiet.

[femmocrat]

21. Probably St. Marys, PA.

It's out in the middle of nowhere, just to the north/south/east/west of God's Country in northern PA.

[hobbit709]

22. Shamrock, TX-the edge of the known universe.

Spent 3 days there in 1990 after my wife's real father died there. Never have I spent so much money to have so little fun.
Walked into the local diner to get the keys to the house from his girlfriend. It was like a scene out of Easy Rider. People stopped eating to look at us.

[lastlib]

23. Jetmore, Kansas--

A more God-forsaken, useless wide spot in the road may not be found in the continental United States. Ran out of gas there (actually eight miles from it, but it was the closest sliver of civilization I was going to find) at 4:30 a.m. on a Sunday. After an hour of walking, I managed to catch a farmer going out to feed cattle, who gave me a ride to town. But at that hour, no open gas stations. Had to wait another two hours for one to open, then get a gas can, fill it, and hitch a ride back to my car. Fortunately, the station owner called his brother and got him to take me to it, or I might still be wandering around Jetmore, Kansas.

[PasadenaTrudy]

24. Hyampom, CA

[mrmpa]

25. In Pennsylvania................

Shickshinnie, east of Wilkes Barre.

[Ptah]

27. Dragoon, Arizona

[Kali]

64. !

[Doc_Technical]

29. Lockwood CA

We lived there for 5 years.
Close to Fort Hunter Leggett.

[kurtzapril4]

30. Buda, IL n/t

[kwassa]

31. St. Marys City, MD

Way down in the southern tip of Maryland. Historic, too. Long, long drive.,

t. Mary's City is the fourth oldest permanent settlement in British North America. It is considered the birthplace of religious tolerance in the United States, as the colony passed the Maryland Toleration Act (1649). Until 1695 St Mary's City was the capital of the Province of Maryland.

A section of the community, Historic St. Mary's City, was declared a National Historic Landmark on August 4, 1969.[2][4][5]


St. Mary's City was founded on March 27, 1634 by a group of 300 English settlers. They arrived on the ships "The Dove" and "The Ark". Governor Leonard Calvert, (1606-1647), a Roman Catholic and younger brother of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, (1605-1775) the second Lord Baltimore, the "Lord Proprietor", led the group of settlers,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_City,_Maryland

[eppur_se_muova]

41. Hey, I taught at SMSU for a year !

Actually lived in Lexington Park; couldn't find housing any closer.

[kwassa]

46. Pretty area, but remote.

At least you were close to the Solomons.

[Initech]

32. Probably either Half Moon Bay or Big Bear Lake, CA.

[Iggo]

33. Bishop, CA

And of course all the little towns out there like Big Pine and Lone Pine and a couple I can't remember.

In another life I used to make the L.A.-Bishop run, the Bishop-Laughlin run, and then the Laughlin-L.A. run, then turn around and do it all again.

Bishop was my favorite part of that whole experience. I really felt like I was someplace else.

[kwassa]

48. I like Bishop.

A landmark on the way to Mammoth Lakes from Los Angeles. The Owens Valley, with the aqueduct, all the volcanic features, the Sierras right next to you.

[KamaAina]

34. Mendocino, CA

not really that far out of the way, but when you don't drive, it's hard to get out much.

I did participate in an archeological dig while I was there, though.

[Xyzse]

36. No clue...

Though name a town in MD, I probably have been there already in one of my day trips.

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Probably Circle

on the banks of the Yukon River at the end of the Steese Highway.

[Shrek]

38. Atwood Kansas

Near the shared border of Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.

Nothing around for many miles, and nothing much in town, either.

[Smickey]

39. Neah Bay Wa.

Roads end and Most NW corner of the lower 48. Great place to scuba dive.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

45. The Family Truckster broke down in Atlanta, IL back around 1970.

I don't know what it's like these days but back then it made Mayberry look like a thriving metropolis.

[bigwillq]

47. Thompson, CT

Had to go up their for a Little League tourney. It's in the upper East corner of the state. I drove through dirt roads and farms to get to the field. Had to go up three days in a row. Took about 1 and a half hours one-way from where I live.

[hopemountain]

49. my honeymoon in eagleville!

i love the surprise valley ...

[Incitatus]

50. Key West, FL

[Callmecrazy]

51. Same here...

Only one way in and out. Three hours at 45 MPH.

[Art_from_Ark]

56. Old Alabam? Nail? Deer? Kingston? Booger Hollow?

Arkansas has lots of out-of-the-way places

[rug]

59. Hop Bottom PA

[Arctic Dave]

60. A toss up between Egegik and Pt Hope.

Arctic Jodie has been even more remote.

[mwdem]

62. Liberal, Kansas...

Took the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas to New Mexico. Stayed at the Flamingo Inn there. It was the last town on that highway.

[Angleae]

65. Maple Falls, WA

Lived there for several years as a kid.

[greendog]

67. Yaak, MT.