[jedberg]

It turns out there is no where you can go in the United States that is more than 20 miles from a paved road.

[tclancy]

Is there a citation for that? I’d guess there are large parts of northern Maine that only have logging roads.

[jedberg]

There are a bunch of articles about it but nothing scientific. For example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894

And it turns out I was wrong. There is one spot 21.7 miles away from a road deep in Wyoming.

[bdamm]

This is highly dubious. Logging roads might be considered "roads" but some are passable only by heavy equipment. If you have to stop and repair the road every few hundred meters then I don't think it counts as a road.

[soared]

Not sure if that’s true but even if it is, 20 miles is a massive distance.