# What is the most desolate area in the US and Canada?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 26, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-desolate-area-in-the-us-and-canada/221165 "2003-12-26T21:58:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-desolate-area-in-the-us-and-canada/221165/21 "2003-12-28T03:55:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dr\_Paprika \*  
> \*\*Many of the settlements in Nunavut (and we’ll have none of THAT) or NWT do not have roads connected to main highways – you can’t drive there from here.
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> Certainly, parts of Northern Ontario, Northern Maine, Southern New Brunswick and Sasketchewan feel awfully desolate to me. \*\*

There are no connecting roads in Nunavut.  
The NWT has highways in the south, and a winter road that you can drive beyond Tulita, but other than that, you’ve got to fly.

Oh, and there is a road between Inuvik and Tuk in the winter as well, which you can use to connect to a winter road that will take you to Whitehorse, and from there points distant.

I would never live in the high arctic. Populated or not, those little settlements are desolate, depressing places. Yellowknife was far enough north for me. There is a feeling of desperation that sets in during the freeze and thaw of the Mackenzie, knowing that you _can’t drive out_, not even to Hay River.

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