What is the most remote woods or forest in GA

[roundhouse]

The Okefenokee swamp in the extreme SE corner of the state is probably where you can find the largest area of undeveloped and uncultivated land, not seeing farms and farm buildings and dirt roads.

I've driven around there and flown over it in a small plane.
But I've never been on the water in any kind of boat.

I think the North Georgia Mountains are more isolating, simply because the terrain is so rugged.
You can't just walk or drive wherever you want. It's too steep in many places. You have to follow the contours of the land, or stay on trails.

For a pretty remote-feeling area, try this: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.852715,-84.4844264,13z

Look where Glimer and Fannin counties meet. That's some serious wilderness, even though, as the crow flies, it's hard to find a spot that's not within 2 miles of some kind of road, even if it's a dirt road or "forest service" road.

It might be two miles from a road , but it will take you all day to hike over there

No one will claim ownership of the land The secret waterfall is on
State highway dept said it wasn't on their right of way
USFS said it wasn't theirs , even though almost all the surrounding land is
The state parks dept said it wasn't theirs even though they maintained the parking area and emptied the trash cans

On the county GIS map that plot of land says "United States of America " as the owner

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[DirtySouth]

I've done some hiking up in the Cohutta Wilderness, and depending on which trail you choose, you may not see anyone for days. The area is beautiful but brutal, and I seen the biggest rattlesnake of my life up there.

 

[speednut]

Cross the imaginary line into NC
There plenty of very rugged terrain

Most people never go more than a mile from a paved road

I grew up in Rabun and Union county in the 70s
We rode our motorcycles just about everywhere they would possibly go

We would be miles and miles back in the woods on the side of some mountain on a deer trail
Thinking "wow, I might be the first person ever to be here "
Then a mile further in you'd see a beer can ....


Kids explore, that's all they do , well at least before video games and Facebook , that's all I did all summer long , pack a lunch and fill two half gallon soda bottles with extra gasoline and tie them over the back of the seat and met up with a couple friends and explore the mountains with my Honda Trail 90 , and my best friend on his Honda XL-70
And his brother on his Yamaha YZ-80

We didn't take water , we just drank out of creeks

But if you want to locate something in the woods like an old home place or cave with Indian carvings or whatever, you ask the local kids.


On 129 between near Neels Gap between X and Y
Is a secret invisible waterfall
Formed by the creek the creek when it runs under 129 and off the cliff

Step over the guard rail just downhill from the creek and you will see a trail

And a sign telling how many people have been killed trying to get out on the cliff and view the waterfalls

Hiking into a spot on the next ridge over where you could see and photograph the falls would be a tough tough hike down that cliff and up the other side

There used to be a pull off and a sign directing people to the falls
It got removed after the 9th person died slipping off the cliff

My father was the local ranger that rappelled down to bring up the bodies

It's impossible to see the falls , so don't kill yourselves trying.

You can glimpse them in the winter where there's no leaves , from a spot a little further north on the road

This was also the spot where before the sturdy guardrail was installed, the locals disposed of all the stolen cars after they were stripped .
The bottom of the cliff used to be littered with 57 Chevys , Corvairs, old trucks etc




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I know where this is and have read the sign.

 

[carver]

Wife and I got to canoe through the Okeefanokee way back in 1970. Newly weds and arguing about the 'gators swimming and bumping the canoe. Not a good afternoon. We've laughed about it for 47 years now. Wasn't funny then!

Sent from here to there by me using smoke signals

Sounds like its time for a 47th honeymoon

 

[Torn]

If you want to feel isolated in a foreign, uncivilized, untamed, devoid of modern society environment try the Greenbriar Mall or Underground ATL.

 

[CardsFan]

If you want to feel isolated in a foreign, uncivilized, untamed, devoid of modern society environment try the Greenbriar Mall or Underground ATL.

LMAO. I'll take my chance with bears, ratllesnakes, and steep rocky terrain.

 

[Dingo]

We use some the quotes from that movie at work on a regular basis. LOL
I'm also a true Georgia native so I have been known to tell transplants that Deliverance is required watching to live in Georgia.

I thought it was required doing?

 

[Dingo]

Looking to dump a body?

Unabomber?

 

[Dingo]

I hope this is not a "good meth lab location" thread.

I walked up on meth labs in the most remote locations in nowhere Kansas while hunting.

Don't anybody make moonshine any more?

 

[Lionheart]

Don't anybody make moonshine any more?

Not much...it's pretty much all legal now. The fun is gone.