Area 51 is testing of the most top secret aircraft the US makes.

People outside of the USA don't understand how massive this country is. It's easy to watch a video but driving across this country is something else. You can drive for hours and hours, and not see a human.

Kabir, consider the usable range from a cellular phone tower: ~25 miles (40 km). In the less populated states, it makes sense to have towers along the main interstate, major highways, and in the few cities and towns. Towers in the middle of nowhere represent cost to carriers and are not going to pay for themselves. As far as Area 51 goes, it is so heavily guarded to protect national security assets. Where do you think they test spyplanes or fighters/bombers in development? Area 51. During the Cold War, they flew captured/acquired Soviet aircraft there to determine their capabilities. If Soviet spies cannot even get close to the facility, they cannot tell what is going on there. Spy satellites have predictable orbits and they work around that coverage.

When my husband and I first moved to Arizona we originally went to Douglas, AZ for a few days before moving to Buckeye, AZ for a few months and while there my husband volunteered for the local senior center. One day he was riding in the senior center van helping to take meals on wheels to the seniors when he jumped out of the van and right into a cacti.

The one I love is the roughly 700 mile drive from Amarillo to Rapid City, SD where you never pass within 50 miles of a city of over 10,000 people, and only pass through a couple of towns of over 1,500 people

Hi Kabir, I know a guy who was a career AirForce pilot. He was stationed for a while at Area 51. He said most of it is underground, and they do a lot of research and development work there. Trying new stuff out and even examining captured or stolen planes and other military equipment. He never saw any aliens there. Or so he said.

There are millions of acres of public lands in the US with no one living there. With few rough dirt unmaintainted roads people use these lands for 4x4 overlanding, hunting, hiking, camping and grazing cattle... This is different than National or State parks but just as beautiful. You need a 4x4 vehicle to access.

I grew up in the south, and the host of the video is correct: there are many places in the south that are rural and not very population dense, but just about anywhere around here, you're never more than 5 or 10 miles from some form of civilization. I remember being a kid and seeing movies or TV shows set out west, where they would show road signs that read something like "Last Gas For 75 Miles" and being flabbergasted. Then I actually drove out west for the first time, and saw them in real life. And let me tell you, it's not just the last gas or services for 75 miles, it's the very last sign of human habitation you will see for the next 75 miles. There ain't gonna be so much as a tool shed or a chicken coop for the next 75 miles, much less a Walmart.

I grew up in southern Idaho, where there are towns and small, but growing cities. We would go across the lava plains towards Sun Valley. There are many beautiful wilderness areas, but once you arrive in Sun Valley, Borah Peak, the Sawtooth Mountains, and the Lost Rivers, the roads end. There you find the most rugged terrain, and steep forested canyons. The only roads between northern Idaho and southern Idaho, inside Idaho are just east of Hell’s Canyon, the deepest gorge in the continental US. It’s easier to drive through Montana to get there. And in that central Idaho area, nobody lives.

I live in South Dakota. And Yk, it's empty when you see wild horses😂.

Look at a population density map and also the map on the "Federal Lands" Wikipedia page. Nevada is the state with the highest percentage (80%) of its land owned by the federal government. This includes national parks and forests as well as the Native American reservations. Much of this land is too dry and rocky for agriculture or raising livestock, or it's forested but is too remote for logging companies to access.

Bears don't like deserts

Might want to proofread your title.

OFF-GRID US TV shows of people living truly in the middle of nowhere. Mountain Men, Bush People, The Last Frontier, Port Protection, ect... Very popular.

The Great Salt Lake and Salt Flats is crazy. Standing on the Salt Flats is like standing on pavement not Salt like in your shaker.

I have areas all around me that have no cell coverage. There's a state park here that has warnings on their site to bring a walkie talkies or ham radio for communication because there is no cell coverage for miles.

As a Montanan, I love that the whole state is on this list lol

That area of Southeast Oregon has just been designated a dark Park so no lights incredible views at night and it is a saline Basin that's all dry there's the steam mountains there which really are quite spectacular that rise out of the middle of it

I'm sure there are many more places in Alaska than central Idaho where no human being has set foot on. And Canada is ten times more empty.

Kkabir, you are refreshing compared to some of the other 'Brits' on you tube Thanks 😊

I think a lot of hikers carry emergency location beacons to get emergency help.

It’s crazy to think that area the size of Texas has 3M people yet a state like Connecticut has 3.7M people and you can fit 48 Connecticuts in Texas. It shows how truly quiet areas like Montana and Wyoming are!

I've been to ghost towns in Arizona. Those people were so short. The doorways I had to duck to go through.

Those salt flats in SE Oregon you were admiring were the Alvord desert, with Steen's Mountain -- that ridge of snow-covered high mountains -- behind it. I think that area is gorgeous. A little bit southwest of there, just over the border of Nevada, is the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, which is one of my favorite places. It's so remote as to be a little bit frightening -- you really want to make sure that your car is in good shape and you've got plenty of water in it, just in case -- but the night skies there are just tremendous.

13:41 As a kid I use to camp and dirt bike ride up near Death Valley in Mojave Desert. Man, the star gazing was mind blowingly beautiful. Every few minutes you'd see a shooting star.

Area 51 also tests new planes and weapons.

As an Australian who has travelled my country a lot, this has a certain familiarity to it.

The dustbowl area of the center of this country was named that because of actual dust making many parts of those states barren, where farming was considered no longer worth it. those states used to be heavily farmed, but many died while trying to make their farms still work. many others left for other industries. The center/west of the country is not occupied as it was for that reason.

I also did that drive - went thru Yosemite park which was stunning. Drove down to Bakersfield for an O/n. Then drove out to Vegas. One v v v long empty road, littered with car accidents where people forgot to drive cause of cruise control! Vast amounts of the US are uninhabitable deserts, or vast mountainous areas. So much of the US that isn’t east coast is desert/hot as hell. I can promise you, I live in Cornwall and there’s plenty of areas down here without phone reception! It’s better than it was but there’s so much coastline without signal. Vast amounts of rural areas too. It’s a big area geographically, which a hugely long coastline

Most of the people in northwestern Utah probably live in either Tooele or East Wendover. Other than that, there is Dugway Proving Grounds, where the government does top secret weapons testing. And there is also the Salt Flats, where a lot of ground speed records are set.

Coolest camping trip ever was in north western NM, Chaco Culture National Park (a world heritage site). Zero cell service for almost an hour drive but incredible hiking and the indigenous ruins are surreal

Kabir , could you imagine setting out on a horse through the western US ?

Years ago some friends and I were on a road trip across the western states and stopped in the middle of an interstate highway to take a bathroom/smoke break at like 2 am and didn't even pull off the road. We hadn't seen another car in 30 minutes and couldn't see a headlight coming in either direction. We we're on the high plains which are flat and treeless with visibility for miles so we would have seen another cars headlights with tons of time to move out of the road if need be. We probably hung out there for 15 minutes and still didn't see another car for quite a while after that. This country has some really wide open spaces in the western states. Where I live in the Midwest you can't get very far away from people no matter where you go. I always laugh when I hear about hikers in the tiny state park by me calling for a rescue because they got lost. You can literally just walk 2 miles in a straight line anywhere around here and you're going to come across a house or a road at the very least. The amount of resources used to "rescue" these people is a total waste when all they usually need to do is just keep walking for like 20 more minutes and they would come out to a road or a neighborhood.

I love the fact that there are parts of the US with no one. I would hate to see everything developed for tourism and industry. I wish I could return to the 1980s when cellphones and the internet did not exist. Being connected to everyone and everything 24/7 is killing real life and destroying the enjoyment of the small things in life.

As a nomad that goes into public lands often. Technology is at the point that it's not hard to get connected. Even iPhone is starting to just include satellite connectivity when no cellular signal exists. Jobs are no longer geographically limited. Lots of jobs can be done remote but farming and ranching is usually in very rural areas.

I used to live in NW Colorado. It’s beautiful, and I loved living there.

About 25 years ago 4 U.S. census workers were lost for a week in East central Oregon. In Eastern Utah (Not even mentioned.) I would spend 3 days in the oilfields never seeing a paved road or in cellphone range. In Montana, I was miles from the closest town of a hundred people. My closest neighbor was 2.5 miles away in the next county. Where I live currently, it happens that a winter snowstorm closes all roads in and out of the valley. A whole county is isolated for a few days.

Kabir, I was born and raised in Colorado and still live here. Over by the San Juan area hardly Anyone lives there. There are quite a few abandoned Mining Towns there though. I live in Northern Colorado, it’s beautiful,but is getting way too crowded! I lived in a tiny little town in Wyoming called Medicine Bow, it was Population 14, but I think they were counting house pets! If we wanted to make a phone call, we had to go up by the railroad tracks to make a cellphone call! Trust me He wasn’t lying. I also lived in Idaho, my Son was born there. The land is beautiful but if you want solitude go Northeast and Northwest, Young Man! We, Coloradans joke that if there’s life in Wyoming they came from rocks! Wyoming and Colorado people, not really friendly with each other! 😁😁😁😁

The region of Maine he mentioned in the beginning of the video holds an area that has been designated as one of the International Dark Sky Parks. I'm from Maine and feel absolutely spoiled to be able to camp, hike, kayak, stargaze, and hang out in the North Maine woods. Yeah parts of out west are crazy uninhabited. For some reason Utah and Nevada stick out in my memory particularly as empty. And when out hiking in the backcountry of Montana I can go long stretches without encountering anyone else (except for my hiking partner of course). As for areas without cell service. If you are going to explore these areas, such as hiking or whatever, you need to plan. Part of that plan should include a satellite device for emergency. I have a Garmin InReach myself. And you need to prepare with the right gear and skills before heading out. Of course, there is never any guarantee but with these things you at least have a fighting chance if you run into trouble.

Northeastern Minnesota is about 90% public land. It includes Superior National Forest, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and a bunch of state parks. The two counties that make up the eastern half of the Arrowhead have about 16,500 people, at a population density of about 4 per square mile. It might actually have a few of the earlier places on the main list beat, especially once you really get deep into the BWCA.

This is why satellite phones are important.

Highway 50 ("America's Loneliest Highway") across Nevada is the most accessible US route through the "middle of nowhere".

When i First drove to Montana from Twexas Three were several Places where I woúld og through for up to 4x hours and never see a Car, House, or Even had cell service. For angir from the city, it was´ quite scary.

The number 5 area first shown in Oregon is the Alvord desert.

Drove through Wyoming in 1974 and survived. No such thing as a phone signal back then.

I've driven from Los Angeles to Phoenix a handful of times. Once you get past Indio, CA the rest of the trip to Phoenix is largley empty. Indio is 90 minutes from Blythe, the last town in California before the state line. Afterwards there's a few small towns until you reach the Phoenix area.

#4 that’s where I live. And there isn’t a lot out there. I always tell people that I live about 4 miles from the middle of nowhere. The people that live there are ranchers meaning they raise cattle and sheep. Some friends and I went out to see the scenery and actually found a small Russian cemetery with 4 graves.

Craters of the Moon NP is in Idaho. Lots of volcanic rock.

I can honestly say when New Mexico had be detour for road work when driving through I was on back roads for four hours with our seeing any other cars

I have been in two places where I was more than a day's hike from the nearest road: northern Maine and Wyoming. In both places, it was not possible to provide emergency services by land and, in fact, in Maine we had to evacuate somebody out with a float plane, as we were camped by the side of a large lake. As for phone service, there are still plenty of places even in the East where there is no signal, although I have to say those are filling in pretty well lately with 4G and 5G in recent years.

I retired to the Sonoran desert. But there are many beautiful homes and we're only about 20 miles from Tucson.

Thats why they call Montana "Big Sky Country" because theres very little light pollution and a lot of stars visible

I'm a U.S. archaeologist and pretty much always work without a phone signal. There are patches of no contact, up in National Parks and Forests. Not necessarily huge areas like this video (though I've also worked in those places), but a bunch scattered around. I like tuning out of phone contact now and then. I've never been to the UK but would like to, even with all the phone signal 😅

Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon _Frank Zappa_

Yeah, it's huge! Takes days to drive across.

i have driven across Kansas and New Mexico----yeah when you get gas, get a drink and go to bathroom, cause it might be 3-4 hours before your next stop.....

Az has a lot of areas that have nothing seeing as we are the last state on mainland the 48 state Feb 4,1912

Re: Nebraska, if it were just the fact that the land is kind of rolling, we can fix that. [wry smile] It's the "Sand Hills" he said, which means you can't grow crops there. And I'd guess that if you grazed animals, they'd eat the grass and it'd be slow to regrow, and might not regrow at all, because the sand suggests a deep water table. Nobody lives there because it wouldn't be worth the effort of trying to drag a living out of that land, so people don't try. If that were fertile land with plenty of water, you watch how fast those rolling hills would've been levelled.

The south west part of Arizona is also a bombing range for the Navy, so be careful.

Actually been to most of these places including living in Alaska for 5 years.

Alaska is one of the most beautiful states, but it is really far and really remote.

I drove around New Mexico to see Carlsbad Caverns, Roswell, and then White Sands missile range. And that drive was empty. You could drive 100 miles and never see anyone

You couldn't even buy an iPhone in Wyoming until 2011, five years after they hit the market, because there wasn't appreciable service available in that state until then.

There is so much empty land. I have a home by Mike Tyson in the Catskill Mountains N.Y. There is literally so much wilderness. You never know you were in NY

556 round standard military NATO round for NATO nation rifles and it is semi automatic as someone else stated not fully automatic but other than that basically the same rifle that NATO military carries. And yeah, I think they did a great job. They tried something whether they liked it or not is irrelevant. Seems like they had a decent time trying it exciting to do anything and give it a shot so good for them.

Even driving on I-5 west of Houston, you hit large stretches of "miles and miles of miles and miles". There's just nothing there except the occasional truckstop. And, yeah, parts of SE Oregon looks like Mars. Large areas of bare red dirt. Even the mostly empty parts of Utah south of there had some sage bushes.

That freaks me a bit when driving through completely empty places.

and oddly, Montana is full. Wyoming is nice I hear.

A mini-empty spot is across northern Alabama and Mississippi. The interstate was completed there (you used to have to take roads with cities and stop lights), but very few businesses have built up along the interstate (I-22), and the Bankhead National Forest is on the north side of the interstate. Get gas in Birmingham if you headed west, and Memphis if headed east. Because that stretch of road has nothing, including good 5G/wifi/internet. But to the east of Birmingham is a Buc-cee's, so stock up there.

We have it all. Good, bad, big and small

Ohhhh, places I wanna move to! 😂

There are hidden gems in these areas and we don't want people to know about them. So, yes, these are desolate empty places that no one should travel to.

Speaking of Montana, do you know that it's almost the same size as Germany? As an example of the remoteness of Bush (no roads) Alaska, the town of Gambell on St. Lawrence Is. NW of Nome in the Bering Sea, is 705 mi./1134 km. from Fairbanks Intl. Arpt.--its closest access to the outside world.

Back when I was a cross country mover, I would see a house sitting alone miles from anywhere . I would think to myself , what do they do for a living ?

On I-80 west from Nebraska, thru Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada to Reno is miles and mile of just miles. The only thing is Salt Lake city.

You can have a satellite phone. With that, you can phone from anywhere.

Lots of the US doesn't have great signal, and a huge portion doesn't even have good internet.

you said, "he must be exaggerating". Oh nay nay Kabir. Wyoming doesn't have very good internet anywhere. My car has wifi and it didn't work the whole trip through the state. Took 6 hours to drive through too.

I believe I’ve sent the statement before find the video, American Amazon. It will be quite impressive.

A lot of these places aren’t good land for farming. If they were you’d see the farm land. Mostly it’s a good place for ranchers to raise cattle.

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the empty parts of the US that aren't beautiful woodland and rolling hills are very depressing to be in. its nice to have four major hospitals within a ten minute drive, I'd hate to have to drive up to an hour or more to get to a hospital in case of an emergency.

I've been to the Salmon river area of Idaho and I can confirm, there's nobody. The people who do live there don't want any development, so in some cases they've taken big chunks of land and said no septic tanks or utilities can be put in.

Can we get more Yoel and Mari, please?

New Mexico has 17 people per square mile and most of our 2.5 million people are in the cities. All that empty space is federal land and ranches. While the black bear is our state animal, your chances of encountering one are about as high as the chance of encountering another person.

Just for fun. Type in Salt Lake City, Utah. Get an idea what people do there.

The stealth bomber was created an area 51 in total secrecy until it was ultimately unveiled.

No, he's not exaggerating. It makes absolutely no sense economically to build cell towers in unpopulated areas. Montana and Wyoming combined are 2.5 times the size of the UK but only have a population of 1.7 million. UK is 67 million. Montana has a population density of 7 people per sq mile. Wyoming has 6 per sq mile. Ii only makes sense to build cell towers in cities and towns; and along major highways in those states.

Americans don't exaggerate about no phone signals in the US.

Area 51 is mostly hype. Basically, it's a test area for Top Secret experimental aircraft and a base for "Black Operations". The SR-72 prototypes are likely to be some of the aircraft being tested there.

1:24 The East Coast doesn't have any empty areas? North Carolina has the greatest separation between residents than any other state. The entire state of West Virginia is very rural due to the mountains. Yes, there are people living there so it's not no man's land but there are tons of areas without paved roads. You can easily spend an hour driving just to get to the nearest gas station or grocery store. That's not an exaggeration and I haven't even been to the really remote parts.

It’s called the Wild West for reason. Cuz it’s nothing but country and the Wild. Surprised West Texas didn’t make it in the list. I live in Texas and I travel Across a lot of these states for work a lot. There’s nothing in west Texas. Should’ve been an honorable mention at the very least

When my sister went to Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. They is a long stretch of highway from getting off I-20 connecting to US Highway 84 which you take to go to Lubbock, they is some long stretches of nothingness. Extremely boring drive!

The US government owns a ton of Nevada, so it's not surprising that nobody lives there.

I live in North Central Washington 😊 our town has 2,000 people... it's a little too big for me. I'd rather live in the next town east of here - its population is about 350 😁

I grew up in Prineville Oregon and a few people a year go missing in rural Oregon on hikes or camping or just drove too far down the wrong back road. I used to joke with my Dad that I loved living in a state rugged enough to kill people ;) ...dark, I know, but I thought it was funny. I own land in the southern part of the state in rural Klamath County, so VERY middle of nowhere, 50 miles from the nearest street light on the border with Lake county specifically because its the southern end of the Oregon Dark Sky reserve. the best stargazing in the country. 300 clear days a year, 5000' elevation, low humidity. Im currently saving for a small telescope dome, like an 8 or 10ft dome for a serious telescope. anyway, I wouldnt have it any other way. *edit for his No 5, you were looking at the Alvord Desert, its a dried lake bed

I recently took a 4-wheeling 3-day outing in Idaho & Montana with my brothers. We did find that much of our galavanting had no cell coverage. The exception was dozens of little towns and villages, usually ranch and farm land. 100-700 people. Each one had 5G and at least 2 bars on our phones. We were confused by this but realized that Elon Musk probably was to credit. His satellite internet is evidently everywhere booney in the US.

I like my parr.

He left out the upper peninsula of Michigan. Not many people there.

East KY here, area 51 is where the Government tests guns and tobacco