Rugged Stretch of Northern Michigan Among Deepest, Most Remote Wilderness in the Nation

While much of Michigan is easily and fully connected by the state's network of highways, there are ample places to get lost - really lost - in the state. That includes a wilderness many consider the deepest, most remote woods in the entire county.

That spot is the Porcupine Mountains of the western Upper Peninsula.

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The question came up on the Geography subreddit of Reddit asking about the most remote woodlands in the United States.

There are several candidates in the mountainous west of the country with a favorite spot for remoteness being the River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. While in the east, there are deep and largely impenetrable forests in northern Maine.

As for the central part of the country, it's the Porcupine Mountains of Michigan that may be the most desolate and remote deep woods in the region.

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One hiker states:

I recently hiked a section of the North Country Trail in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. That's the most remote place I've ever been.

Others were quick to agree:

Porcupine mountains was my last backpacking trip. Picked an awful week for bugs. Thought we were prepared with spray, sleeves and face covers but was truly dangerous with the flies. They crawl in every crevice. When we decided we had enough we were an 11 mile hike from the nearest road

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Porcupine mountains are covered with deep woods and the terrain is rugged. Looking from the top of the mountain above the Lake of the clouds, forests stretches miles in every direction to the end of the horizon. It seemed to me more remote than Maine or Redwoods.

What makes the Porkies interesting is that this is state, rather than federally protected land. The state park that includes the wilderness land includes the largest forest of native hardwoods anywhere on the continent west of New York's Adirondacks.

There are few roadways into or through the Porcupine Mountains. A former state highway Old M-107 leads into the park from the east at Silver City while Boundary Road loops the parkland to the south. Both close each winter due to heavy lake effect snow in the region.