Hey welcome back everybody, this the world according Briggs and I'm Briggs on
this channel we do lists about locations towns cities states in the US soon we're
getting branching out to other countries. I've been getting a lot of quests about
Canada. So last week while doing research on a
few my lists I came across some very secluded towns in the United States, some
towns in this country are four to five hours away from any other town or city.
We have some in Alaska that are even further all the towns on this list
started in these locations for a reason so we're gonna get into it find out
where they are and why they are so here's my top ten most secluded towns in
America number 10 Red River New Mexico the town of red rivers sprung up in the
1870s when miners were drawn in by gold strikes in the area it was named after a
red tinted stream that flows through the center of town Red River is one of my
favorite town names in the whole country don't know why by 1895 Red River was a
booming mining camp with gold silver and copper in abundance and the population
is estimated to have grown to about 3,000 people mining hit its peak in the
late 1800s and by 1905 the mining for the most part had dried up and most the
people left the town turned into a tourist location and a great spot for
trout fishing and later on skiing last mining extended till about 1931 by that
time tourism had become the real economic force and the town survived
this place is a secluded mountain town and the closest city being Santa Fe
about two to two and a half hours away there's nothing in between Santa Fe and
Red River and before the comments come flying in I know they have some small
roadside towns along the route they're just glorified rest stops quit typing
number nine caribou main the first settlers came to what is now caribou in
the 1820s between 1838 and 1840 a war flared up between the United States and
Canada and the Battle of caribou occurred in December of 1838
the dispute was over the proper use of the word a just kiddin it was about an
international boundary now it delayed a settlement of the area till after a
treaty was signed in 1842 now makes caribou so secluded well for
starters it's one of the most northeastern cities in the United States
it's a three-hour drive from Bangor Maine Bangor Maine isn't even that big
but it's three hours away from that now it does have a few really small towns
along the way but for the most part you're looking at forests out your side
windows on your three-hour drive and if it's winter the trips gonna be even
longer Maine is kind of sparse when it comes to people and towns so it isn't
hard to have a secluded town or two they have a lot of woods out there they even
had a dude living in the woods outside of Rome Maine for 30 years for 30 years
this guy avoided people now there were the occasional sightings and rumors of
him that there was a hermit at what they called North Pond or North Pond yeah
that was that now recently he was arrested for breaking into cabins and
when they interviewed him he said he hadn't had a conversation with another
human being in 27 years 27 years another human being he said human being in that
27 years was he communicating with forest creatures what was going on with
that dude number eight Crested Butte Colorado the East River Valley where
Crested Butte is located was once used as the summer residence for the youth
people the bad news is they were quickly displaced when European Americans first
entered the area and I'm sure at some point that you people thought great
white people there goes the neighborhood the first white people to explore the
valley were beaver trappers and we all know when people start trapping your
beaver it's time to find a new home nothing worse than someone poaching your
beaver Crested Butte is a ski resort town that spans only about a half a mile
maybe a little more it has about 1,400 permanent residents
and is 21 miles away from the nearest small town and Denver and that's about a
four and a half hour drive what also makes this place so secluded is that all
but one of the roads to Crested Butte get closed during the winter and it's
real easy to get snowed in here and being snowed in sucks especially if you
don't have any beaver moving on
number seven point Roberts Washington point Roberts was created when the
United Kingdom the United States settled Pacific Northwest American Canadian
border dispute in the mid nineteenth century with the Oregon treaty both
parties agreed that the 49th parallel would you know basically cut the country
off you know Canada above the 49th parallel the United States below the
downside is point Roberts it's kind of in a weird place it's below
the 49th parallel but separate from the United States that way so you have to
actually go up through Canada now over the years there's been questions about
ceding from the United States and becoming part of the Canadian territory
nothing's really happened with that I know I've talked about this place in
past videos and it's one of the places I'd love to retire to now what makes
Point Roberts so secluded is you have to cross into Canada then back in the
United States for your two-hour trip to Seattle which is the closest major city
so you have to leave the little nipple of land that is Point Roberts go into
Canada I'll kind of get close to Vancouver and come back down through
blaine washington and on to seattle it's just kind of weird that you have to
cross into another country to get here so that's what makes point Robert's so
secluded
number six - come carry New Mexico Tucumcari is the actual inspiration for
this list I was doing a list and saw Tucumcari and how far out of the way it
was it just made me think of secluded towns Tucumcari is truly in the middle
of nowhere now I talked about this one before like I said the one thing I
didn't talk about was how it's part of the historic route 66 if you don't know
anything about route 66 it's one of the original highways in the US highway
system and it was kind of the only way to get to the west coast back in the 30s
and 40s what's neat about Tucumcari they really
haven't moved that town past the 30s and 40s like the rest of the country it's
kind of stuck in a time warp you go there and it's just old buildings and
extra wide roads like you'd see in old 50s movies it's weird now it's secluded
the nearest cities are Albuquerque New Mexico that's about two and a half hours
to the west and Amarillo Texas which is about two hours to the east and in
between there you have what appears to be filming locations for Mad Max films
Tucumcari is just desert number five Nome Alaska there's no reason to live in
Nome Alaska unless you're avoiding a subpoena or you've always wanted to live
in an igloo now that's a quote from the Nome City Hall website just kidding I
don't think they have internet much less a web site in Nome Alaska the largest
city in Alaska is Anchorage I can't give you the drive time from Nome to
Anchorage because they don't have any roads that go from Nome to Anchorage
they only have one Road out of Nome and that's to a place called Teller Alaska
why anyone would want to go to tell her is beyond me there's only about 15
buildings in the whole town and when I say town I'm being generous it's more
like a camp but if you are a gnome and you ever contemplate driving to teller
know that the roads are only open about four months a year they closed it down
for winter which if you know anything about Alaska seems to be most of the
year but if you do need to get to Anchorage it is about an hour-and-a-half
flight from Nome to Anchorage Alaska
number four Ely Nevada Ely is the largest city in White Pine County Nevada
Ely was founded as a stagecoach stop along the Pony Express and central
overland route in 1906 copper was discovered it Neeley had a small mining
boom after that as of 2010 the population was about four thousand
people and that's not counting the supermax prison just outside of Ely now
here's a fun fact this little town has a famous past resident first lady Pat
Nixon as in President Tricky Dick Nixon 's wife she was born there in 1912
now Ely has some other little towns around it but for the most part it's far
and away from any real cities Las Vegas is about three and a half hours to the
southwest and Salt Lake City being three and a half hours to the east I drove
through Ely once my impression of the place for my brief time there was that
Ely has a whole bunch of senior citizens and I'm not talking just there was a lot
of them there was a whole bunch as in 90% it seemed like in my brief time
there now I didn't spend a whole bunch of time maybe a couple hours every
single person I saw downtown Ely including a little park there was a
senior citizen I saw one person under the age of 40 and I think he was a cop
so if you like bingo you hate traffic and you like to be near prisoners you
might want to move to Ely number three Neah Bay Washington Neah Bay is the
Makah reservation in Washington the population was about 865 back in 2010
now it's across from the canada-us border in British Columbia this is the
most northwestern town on mainland United States it's the far northwest you
know and before you comment Alaska is not on the mainland
quit typing the local economy is sustained mostly by fishing and tourism
and during the summer near Bay is a popular fishing area for sports
fishermen the big draw to this place is nature this place has some of the best
hikes in the whole Pacific Northwest this place is really out there the
closest town is almost two hours away and that would be Port Angeles and
that's on a really sketchy coastal highway Seattle is almost five hours
away still along that sketchy coastal highway and then you
gotta take a ferry and go through the woods and some other things wear a
seatbelt you're probably gonna hit a deer eventually number two angle inlet
Minnesota angle Inlet is in Lake of the Woods County Minnesota population is
only about 60 people Nets back in the 2010 census this community is part of
the Northwest angle the only place in mainland United States north of the 49th
parallel this place is hard to get to the first closest small town is Warroad
Minnesota and that's about now in half away there's another one those places
you have to leave the United States enter Canada leave Canada and enter the
United States to get anyplace even in that part of Canada there's really
nothing around it now War Road is just a glorified truck stop like a lot of the
places I talk about the closest small city I guess would be Grand Forks North
Dakota and that's almost four hours away from Warroad so we're talking five and a
half hours six hours to get anyplace now I don't know why anyone would really
want to live here at angles Inlet unless you like maybe like taunting Canadians
or something like that you go stand on your dock and yell at passing Canadian
boats hey hey you fricken Canuck Here I am I'm above the 49th parallel suck it
you know I mean if that's your thing why not
number one Barrow Alaska Barrow is the largest US city north of the Arctic
Circle nearby Point Barrow is the country's northernmost point the
location has been home of the Inuit people for more than 1500 years this
place has no roads in or out of barrel boat fly dogsled those are your only
options this is a place where the snow never melts the ground is always frozen
and the snow falls midsummer these are the only people in the world that are
hoping global warming is true and would happen faster than it already is this
place is so far north the Sun doesn't come up for almost three months during
the winter imagine having a one-night stand in the
winter three months of awkward mourning conversations now there's an old joke
about Barrow Alaska this guy walks into a bar talks to a girl she tells him to
kiss her where the Sun doesn't shine so he buys two tickets to Barrow Alaska
Barrow Alaska is a five and a half hour flight from Anchorage Alaska the biggest
town in Alaska and it's about a two to three month sled ride if you don't like
airplanes those are your only options in Barrow Alaska Barrow Alaska is the
second farthest North town in the world there's one in Siberia Russia that's a
little bit further but that's about it Barrow Alaska is the most secluded place
in the United States well that's it that's my list that's the most secluded
and hardest to get to places in the United States if you know of any places
that I may have missed leave them in the comments let me know about it maybe
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