Is this the northernmost house in the lower 48 US states?

Crafter_Man · December 30, 2015, 10:52pm

I’m trying to figure out how to drive to that house.

It looks like you can only drive there from Canada.

Would the following be the way to drive there?

Starting in Canada,

From Route 308, take Provincial Rd. 525 east toward the Canada/U.S. border (49.259613, -95.279040).
When you get to the border (49.288146, -95.153394), head north along the border.

Bryan_Ekers · December 30, 2015, 10:57pm

That’ll change once we annex the Turks & Caicos.

Qadgop_the_Mercotan · December 30, 2015, 11:41pm

Not sure that would work; closer looks via google satellite maps show some problematic rock outcroppings and stream crossings along the border north of Rt. 525.

Muffin · December 31, 2015, 1:40am

They now have a couple of private Canadian hospitals and are moving forward with medical tourism. http://www.imtj.com/news/turks-and-caicos-caribbean-island-takes-next-step-developing-medical-tourism/

rbroome · January 1, 2016, 4:12pm

Diceman:

Once, on a whim, I Mapquested directions from my house to Juneau, AK. It turns out you can drive there. You just have to drive all the way up into the Yukon Territory, and take a couple of ferries down an inlet to get there. Easy-peasy. Remember to fill the tank before you leave. And maybe bring an audio book.

To complete the geographic hit list, the northernmost structure in the US would be the road leading to the end of the breakwater in Barrow, AK. but that’s a tropical paradise compaired to the farthest-north structures in Canada, which would appear to be Alert, Nunavut, on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island. No permanent inhabitants, but there are government stations there. (I wonder how badly you need to fuck up to find yourself listening for Russian radio signals at 82 degrees north latitude, at a place whose motto is “Beyond the Inuit Land”?)

Fun fact about Alert-it is so far north that it can never see geo-synchronous satellites. It receives it’s satellite communications via a > 100 mile microwave link to a satellite ground station further south. You know it is north of everywhere when you can’t even see the equator 22000 miles up!

Leo_Bloom · January 1, 2016, 4:29pm

Pene-exclave. A very romantic verb.

enipla · January 1, 2016, 4:52pm

No kidding.

I keep a Dodge shortbed with a plow chained up on all four with a 10,000 lb winch on the back here in the Colorado Rockies. The FIRST rule, is to not become a victim too. That goes for all search and rescue.

Crafter_Man · January 1, 2016, 7:27pm

While there’s no street view, there are a couple interesting “Photo Sphere” photos at that location. One shows a bunch of shotgun shells littered on the ground. Clay pigeon shooting at the northernmost structure in the US? The other shows two people sitting on the quad. One is a young-ish woman.

Crafter_Man · January 1, 2016, 7:31pm

So this got me thinking… what the northernmost road with Google Street View, for both the U.S. and the world? In other words, what’s the farthest north a Google Street View vehicle has been?

Muffin · January 1, 2016, 9:49pm

My best guess is that the most northerly road on streetsview is the one north of Piramiden on Spitsbergen, shot from a snowmobile 78.659626, 16.291330 , and for photosphere the most northerly sphere photo is a bit north of there in the Greenland Sea 79.873024, 11.577757 shot from a dingy.

For the USA, possibly the most northerly road on streetsview might be the security hut at 17 Spine Road, Prudhoe Bay, Alaaska 70.242808, -148.392149 , and for photosphere in the USA the most northerly sphere photo might be the end of Stevenson Street on Point Barrow, Alaska 71.386762, -156.470786 shot from a quad.