[gph]

I think that's a perfectly fair description, they didn't say 'remote' they said 'secluded wildness'. And besides Thunder Bay isn't just 'nearby', it's separated by at least 30 miles of Lake Superior, and there's not much in the way of major development on the rest of Keweenaw peninsula.

Or put another way I'd consider places on the opposite side of the Cheasapeake to be secluded wildness even tho they are technically only 30-50 miles from downtown baltimore.

[pasbesoin]

Google Maps shows about 90 miles, on a direct line, between Copper Harbor and Thunder bay. About 180 miles to Sault Ste. Marie. Having been in the area many times, Canada does not feel -- and is not, barring I guess an expensive and international sea plane flight -- a day trip. (And yeah, there's one controversial local magnate I'm aware of who would make that trip -- in his own plane.)

It may not be Canada-level wilderness, but it's pretty empty -- or "thin". IIRC, I was told that the large Ontonagon County, towards the west end of the UP, has one of the lowest county population densities in the entire country.