Remote Wilderness

[Adirondackman]

Here is a list.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wilderness_areas_in_the_United_States

I would love to hunt most of them.

[centaur]

My close by wilderness is the Cloud Peak. I wouldn't call it especially remote, but it is really rugged and can keep your heartrate up.
The Washakie Wilderness in NW Wyoming is one of my favorite places. The Absaroka Mts. are still fairly wild and wooly.
I love the Ferris Mts in central Wyoming; steep, rugged, windy as hell, but beautiful.
But it all pales in comparison to the Alaska Range near Denali. That will spoil you for the lower 48.

[FarmerMarley]

Let's go.  

[Mark Baker]

Variety is the spice of life.  I think the Frank Church is "biggest", but every wilderness area has it's special appeal.  As one who has the Absaroka-Beartooth literally outside my backdoor...I love to check out other places, and even some smaller "haunts" and hidey-holes all over the country.  New places and new adventures...that's the fun of it.

[ozy clint]

x2 mark

[Ibow]

Would love to do Idaho someday. Northern Alberta is absolutely amazing.

[joe ashton]

Colorado has lots of empty space.

[Phrogdrvr]

I'll join you, just have to retire from the Marine Corps first.

[Roadkill]

Nevada has remote aNd isolated areas.  I drive up to the sign and then hike into the remote areas.  Lots of lazy people on quads  outside of wilderness areas, not many once you are an hour into it

[Dan Adair]

Montana and Idaho are the two states that you want to look at.

Technically, California has the biggest wilderness in the lower 48, but Death Valley isn't anywhere I need to go.

Then you have the Frank Church in Idaho, and right North of there you have the Selway Bitterroot.

Montana has a lot of true wilderness too.  The Bob Marshall Complex (The Bob, Scapegoat, and Great Bear)  Then Like Mark said, we have the AB, and also the Lee Metcalf.

The Bob Marshall is where I hang out.  The whole complex is somewhere around 1.5 million acres.  The "backcountry" districts get hammered in their early rifle season, and game numbers are really low.  But it's some of the most gorgeous country in the world, and I just enjoy being a hillbilly in the middle of nowhere.

[Dan Adair]

Originally posted by Biathlonman:
I went to the Bob Marshall (Montana) last September, a midwestern boys dream.

That was a fun trip.

[Eagle48]

Technically the most remote area is the thorofare in the southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. I believe it's 30 miles in every direction to the nearest road.

[Thumper Dunker]

Upper sierras and our desserts. But you will work your buns off to see deer.

[FerretWYO]

I do hunt it. Where though. I can't tell where  

[Cedar&Flint]

Before I got to old to do it anymore my brother and I would pack into the West Elk Wilderness in Colorado. Absolutely beautiful country and lots of elk! We would be in there 10 days and never see another human. That's been about 20 years ago. I would like to know if anyone could tell me if it's still that way. Best times of my life, really glad I got to do it.

[Mark Baker]

The "Bob" is amazing...I did a two week trip as a teenager across it with a backpack.  And considering that it's connected with Glacier and even up into Waterton Parks makes it all the more "awesome", in scope of size and wondrous beauty!  

I have also longed to do a trip by canoe into the boundary waters area of Minnesota, Wisconsin and into Canada....another great area (from what I've read and dreamed about).

[Outwest]

I've hunted Hells Canyon wilderness in Oregon at least a dozen times and last September I hunted the Weneha wilderness in Washington.
While these areas are not huge by comparison to some others they are very large and absolutley some of the steepest roughest terrain you will encounter anywhere. At one point Hells Canyon is over 7000 foot elevation change from rim to river.Both areas are very game rich with lots of elk, bears and deer.

John