Most remote place you've visited in Canada

[harls]

I will start.

um... Edmonton.

[Bishop2047]

Uranium City SK. Went for work a few times. Got to take the ice roads once !

[harls]

Originally Posted by Bishop2047

Uranium City SK. Went for work a few times. Got to take the ice roads once !

Nice. I know another forumer that did some stints up around there.

[MonctonRad]

Furthest east - Cape Spear NL (easternmost point in North America).
Furthest west - Victoria, BC
Furthest north - Edmonton, AB
Furthest south - Point Pelee, ON (southernmost point in mainland Canada).

I wouldn't consider any of these places particularly remote.

There have been places along the way that have seemed remote. Probably the most remote feeling one was Cape Race and Trepassey in NL. When you get into the southern barrens of the Avalon peninsula, you are essentially passing through subarctic tundra, complete with caribou and ptarmigan. There isn't a lot of people who live there. You could easily pretend you are in northern Labrador.

[MolsonExport]

Nothing too remote. The farthest north I've been is Fart McMurray. Eastward, I've been to Cape Breton Island. The farthest west would be Tofino/Ucluelet. I've been to Point Pelee.

[HomeInMyShoes]

The most remote place I've been would be Besnard Lake, Saskatchewan. It's a little further north than La Ronge and less accessible. At least at the time I was there it was more than an hour and extremely rough gravel road to get there.

Also in the running, but easier to get to, but it feels ridiculously remote.

Bauline, NL


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[jonny24]

For me it was Moosonee for a week. Well, for a day then we were up-river at a camp for a week.

That was part of my summer in Ontario Rangers, we were based at Wade Lake in between Cochrane and Iroquois Falls, which was pretty remote itself. But Moosonee is ~10 north on the train from there!

We also did a week long canoe-portage trip somewhere along the Abitibi river system, I have no idea where exactly. But we saw no roads, bridges, or any other signs of civilization except a few makeshift campsites from where we dropped in the water until we got picked up somewhere else a week later.



Honourable mention to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac, in Quebec near the NB border. Not remote in terms of access to roads or anything, but we were driving to Nova Scotia in December 2020. It was a snow storm, we were out of gas, it was late at night with nothing open, and we couldn't cross into NB in the morning when the checkpoint opened.

Ended up sleeping in the car in a parking lot, and getting woken up by the snowplow clearing the lot at 4:30.

[Nouvellecosse]

Probably the northern tip of Cape Breton. It's not exactly Ellesmere Island, but it definitely felt remote for me as someone who has lived and spent time in rural and wilderness areas before. Last time I was there was maybe a decade ago and there was a point when heading north past Cheticamp where the sign says last gas station for 100km or something. First time i ever saw a sign like that. And when exploring the areas off the Cabot Trail there were many time when there was no cell signal whatsoever. It's common for signal to be weak in NS if you're on back roads away from a town or city and sometimes for it to drop intermittently. But that was the first time in NS that I had it just disappear entirely for an extended time.

[Nashe]

Great Harbour Deep, NL. Had to get to it via coastal walk-on ferry, and the town was shut down in the 90's and it's now abandoned.

Not in Canada, but also:

Shipwreck Beach, Lanai, HI feels pretty remote once you get there.

Drive up Mauna Kea or Haleakala it also feels like you're kind of on the moon and in space at the same time.

[nname]

Can't decide whether it's Carcross YT (northernmost town) or Bennett BC (least populated and most isolated) for me... They're from the same trip, stayed for less than 1hr each.

[drew]

Eureka, NU

hoping to get up to Alert next year.

(All work based travel)

[CanSpice]

For me the most remote is probably Prince Rupert, at the end of Highway 16, a scenic eight hour drive west of Prince George, which itself is an eight to nine hour drive north of Vancouver.

[Blitz]

I drove the entire length of the Trans-Labrador Highway. One stretch is over 400 km between gas stations.

[SignalHillHiker]

It's either Oxford House (Bunibonibee Cree Nation), Manitoba - or any from a handful in this province. St. Anthony, La Scie, Epworth, Lamaline, Bay de Verde, Cappahayden, Rose Blanche, Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Perhaps St. Pierre et Miquelon to the extent they're neighbours.

[giallo]

It was Stewart, BC, until I visited.....

Gingolx, BC






































I've also been to Bella Bella in the Spirit Bear Rainforest. That's pretty remote as well.

[hipster duck]

Nothing too crazy for me, either.

The most remote place in terms of distance from a major road was probably this marina/corner store in the 30,000 Islands of Ontario.

Other than that, maybe Tofino.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by drew

Eureka, NU

hoping to get up to Alert next year.

(All work based travel)

super cool. Any photos to share?

[MolsonExport]

For southern parts of Canada, that Road to Renous in New Brunswick (Route 108 (Plaster Rock-Renous Highway) ) seems very remote...aside from a crappy service station halfway, there is nothing along the road but trees and lakes and moose. I've driven it maybe 10 times over the years.



the only sign of civilization on this road (EDIT: I don't think it is still operating):

[1ajs]

kinoosao sask raindeer lake about 2hr drive on a good day from my house up one of canadas worst kept highways pr394

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Winn...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

[drew]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

super cool. Any photos to share?

Unfortunately no. But it is in a very stunning (arctic) environment.

I am lucky that I have been into a lot of communities in the far north for work (Iqaluit and Pond Inlet as well - both stunners).