One of the Most Remote Places in the Lower 48, Wyoming

Despite Yellowstone’s two million visitors a year, on 310 miles of roads and in nearly 2,000 buildings, the southeastern side of Yellowstone Park is remote. A few miles east of where the Continental Divide leaves the park is an area that is 21.7 miles from a road of any kind, and is considered the most remote place in the lower 48, by some ways of measuring. It is less than a mile from the Thorofare Ranger Station, a few rustic cabins inhabited by rangers in the summer months. A couple of hundred people visit it every year, hiking or on a horse.