Which communities in the US have the least contact with the outside world?
I’m interested to hear about some places.
Washington, DC seems to have lost touch with reality completely.
Supai has to be a candidate. Population 468, it’s a village near the bottom of the Grand Canyon on Reservation land. The only ways in are by hiking, mule, or helicopter.
I hope to visit it one day.
Do you count self-imposed isolation? If that’s the case, you might say the Amish.
or perhaps Kalaupapa, the old leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii?
Then there’s Arctic Village!
The website is sort of minimalist too.
There are several thousand islands off the coast of Maine and a fair number of them are inhabited. Many depend on summer visitors and ferries, if they have any, may go to a very limited schedule or stop altogether in the winter. Some parts of Maine itself are remote so I would guess that a remote island off of a remote part of Maine would be pretty isolated.
Here is one example although it isn’t extreme.
Isn’t Yellowstone National Park bigger than some states? I would think that parts of it would be really remote.
Or Kamalino, Niihau, Hawaii?
If my wife’s opinion counts for anything, my study, where me and my computer live in isolation from the world for weeks at a time.
Cool links, y’all. I was interested to find out that, according to Wikipedia, Havasupai is the only Native American language to be spoken by 100% of the living population-- especially because what made me think up this thread was some ruminations on the linguistic effects of isolation.
All these places sound very cool.
A couple come to mind: Nome Alaska probably wins among somewhat more “major” communities. (i.e. ones any of us have heard of… )
Ever drive US50 across Nevada? (“The Loneliest Highway in America”) Pick a town off that road perhaps.
That county in Texas with 47 people comes to mind as well… it’s the least populous county in the US. Of course it’s in the shittiest part of the shittiest state in the union, so no wonder… 
I believe that would be Loving County, which sounds like an awful porn version of the movie “Orange County”, if you ask me.
Sometimes it really feels like Grinnell College is cut off from the outside world. Honestly, I can go for weeks at a time without leaving campus, and months without going beyond a couple blocks into town.
Not really a community (since it’s uninhabited) but Kingman Reef is pretty far-flung.