Brit Reacts To THE 15 EMPTIEST PARRS OF AMERICA!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To THE 15 EMPTIEST PARRS OF AMERICA!
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Area 51 is testing of the most top secret aircraft the US makes.
Agreed. Area 51 is military R&D.
Thank you for not feeding the conspiracy nuts.
I am not a conspiracy theory nut, but I heard that in Area 51 is where the Kardashians were created. I don’t know if it’s true, but since some sketchy things happen there, it is totally plausible that that’s why that family is so messed up. 😂
@@ac1888 IT'S ALIVE! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
If your interested in seeing true wilderness in America check out US Overlanding.
Venture 2 roam, The Story Till Now are good content for this
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.
Exactly, on Area 51. I bet the government was the one that originally started the UFO rumors. Get people looking for aliens and UFOs rather than trying to figure out what top secret aircraft you are testing out...
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.
That’s what he would say, isn’t it?😅 I’m kidding…sort of.
@@GenXfrom75 one of the reasons I joined the Navy and told them I wanted to be on submarines (the Navy can't assign to you one unless you say that you want to be on one) is the secrecy. For example, regarding what happened to the Russian submarine Kursk, our orders were that the only thing we can say is "as a matter of national policy, the United States Navy does not discuss submarine operations." 🙂
If there were heavily secretive exotic technologies being worked on there, theres probably only a small handful of people who actually know about it. most of the ppl that work on it would be compartmentalized so they would have no idea what they were actually working on. kinda like the manhattan project
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.
I have made the drive from Washington, DC twice. Driving 17 hours per day, stopping only for gas, it takes me three to three and a half days, depending on weather and traffic. This is on Interstate 80, which has the most truck traffic east to west. That causes slow downs, especially in Wyoming. When a sign says next gas is 150 miles or more, believe it and never pass up a gas station once you are west of Minnesota.
@@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu I've also been on the road like yourself. My longest trip was from El Paso Texas to NJ. And also from El Paso TX to Nevada. I'll never do that again. It seems ok on paper till you're out in the middle of nowhere for HOURS!!
@@dontbother4536 But still be proud that you did it!
Hell, people INSIDE the US don't even realize how big it is. My wife and I live in the Florida Panhandle only ten miles from the Alabama state line, and most of her family lives in California, in the Bay Area. It's hilarious to get a phone call or a text message that says, "Hey, we're vacationing in Orlando - why don't you come have lunch with us or something?" My wife will tell them to look at a map - that's like saying, "Hey, we're going to be in San Diego next week! You should pop on down and have lunch with us!" 😆
@@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu of course. I love my country. I just wished I was in the passenger seat 😂
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.
Totally agree. Although I went to college in Georgia, and folks told me that in some places in southern Georgia not too long ago they would warn people in the summertime not to drive very far without water in your car, either for the radiator or drinking. Because if you broke down in the heat, you could succumb to heatstroke before any other car came down that road. I read a statistic once that as late as the 1960s, you could drive across Georgia without being on a paved road.
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
Los Angeles to Phoenix was emptier than I thought it would be.
LA to Indio, CA is very populated but once you get past Indio it's nearly 100 miles to Blythe, the last town before the Arizona state line. Then between Blythe and Phoenix, only a handful of small towns with less than 2,000 people.
So if you're driving from LA to Phoenix, Indio is your reference point as to whether you're re-entering civilization or headed for a long stretch of basically nothing.
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.
OUCH! A friend of mine did the same right into a patch of Teddy Bear Cholla. I keep a little black comb in my purse to flick the cacti off. 🤦♀️
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.
Might want to proofread your title.
I speak Typonese
Yeah, those parrs are pretty empty!
I'd say, compared to most other people nowadays, he's pretty parr for the course
It's ok mate. Easy fix.
@@dbcooper-alltimehideandsee6223 Yes, it's ok and easy. Just hasn't been done yet, so I could delete this post.
Bears don't like deserts
Arizona and New Mexico are proof that bears live in the desert states.
Unfortunately this is incorrect Black bears live all over the Mojave Desert- California, the deserts areas of Southwest Colorado, Southeast Utah all over Arizona and New Mexico
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.
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.
That’s all privately owned land.
So off grid, they have entire camera crews, producers, wardrobe, makeup crews, and first-aid responders, there to get all the footage.
@rdramos13 Yes I agree, tv shows, but it would give Kabir an idea of how some are "actually" living in the vastness of America .
Or that America even has such large wilderness areas.
Kkabir, you are refreshing compared to some of the other 'Brits' on you tube Thanks 😊
As a Montanan, I love that the whole state is on this list lol
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.
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.
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.
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
Steens Mt, not steam, and the saline basin is the Alvord desert
Area 51 also tests new planes and weapons.
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.
I think a lot of hikers carry emergency location beacons to get emergency help.
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.
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
Kabir , could you imagine setting out on a horse through the western US ?
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.
I agree and have said this many times myself.
"I wish I could return to the 1980s when cellphones and the internet did not exist." I'm pretty sure that there are still places in the US that don't really utilize internet and/or cell phones. There's an area in West Virginia, and there are probably a decent number in states like Wyoming and Idaho.
@@JosephRussellStapleton You need a phone for everything now. Sadly.
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
I used to live in NW Colorado. It’s beautiful, and I loved living there.
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.
Yeah, farming isn't easy in good areas, so trying to survive in places that often get little rain, can have severely cold winters and severely hot summer, then throw in things like tornadoes, locusts or other disasters that can pop up...
@RogCBrand the costs of locusts on an area has to be one of the greatest problems. They can strip an entire swath of vegetation across several states, in a very quick time. And the offspring come back yearly until there is no vegetation left. Then they move on to more plush areas and the cycle repeats itself. The chemicals used to ward off the swarms can often be toxic to humans, so it is used sparingly. Locusts infest NY every few years and the state uses melathion. But they tell people to stay inside while they spray it, to limit toxicity to humans.
@@tenjed4224 I can't imagine the sinking feeling, after putting all the money and work into that year's crop, to see a horde of locusts come in and wipe it all out! At least with a lot of bad weather events, you can hope for some of your crop to survive, rather than being completely erased!
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.
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.
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.
This is why satellite phones are important.
The number 5 area first shown in Oregon is the Alvord desert.
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.
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! 😁😁😁😁
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.
Highway 50 ("America's Loneliest Highway") across Nevada is the most accessible US route through the "middle of nowhere".
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.
Drove through Wyoming in 1974 and survived. No such thing as a phone signal back then.
lol
As an Australian who has travelled my country a lot, this has a certain familiarity to it.
Craters of the Moon NP is in Idaho. Lots of volcanic rock.
#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.
I retired to the Sonoran desert. But there are many beautiful homes and we're only about 20 miles from Tucson.
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 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.....
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.
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
_Frank Zappa_
Thats why they call Montana "Big Sky Country" because theres very little light pollution and a lot of stars visible
and oddly, Montana is full. Wyoming is nice I hear.
Actually been to most of these places including living in Alaska for 5 years.
That freaks me a bit when driving through completely empty places.
Az has a lot of areas that have nothing seeing as we are the last state on mainland the 48 state Feb 4,1912
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.
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
The south west part of Arizona is also a bombing range for the Navy, so be careful.
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.
Nearly everything this hack says about the Nebraska Sandhills is wrong. It's all ranched, and is one of the largest intact wetland complexes in the world, with thousands of lakes, marshes and seasonally wet meadows. The Hills are sparsely populated because the ranches are very large and don't take that many people of run.
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.
I-5 runs the length of the West Coast - nowhere near Houston.
@@markhamstra1083 Yeah, that was an oopsie. I meant I-10, I was thinking about the time I moved from Houston to Seattle and my fingers were faster than my brain. (That move also had the easiest directions possible for such a long journey - I-10 to I-5, get off at 128 just south of Everett, WA, and take two turns to my new place.)
Alaska is one of the most beautiful states, but it is really far and really remote.
Ohhhh, places I wanna move to! 😂
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.
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 ?
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
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.
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.
Lots of the US doesn't have great signal, and a huge portion doesn't even have good internet.
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.
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.
We have it all. Good, bad, big and small
Can we get more Yoel and Mari, please?
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.
The video claimed no phone signal, not no WiFi. The coverage maps of the major phone networks lead me to believe that he was, indeed, exaggerating. That guy puts out a lot of misinformation.
You can have a satellite phone. With that, you can phone from anywhere.
I believe I’ve sent the statement before find the video, American Amazon. It will be quite impressive.
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.
Just for fun. Type in Salt Lake City, Utah. Get an idea what people do there.
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.
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.
This link is a video you would absolutely love to check out
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 stealth bomber was created an area 51 in total secrecy until it was ultimately unveiled.
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.
The US government owns a ton of Nevada, so it's not surprising that nobody lives 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
I like my parr.
Dude, the mind cannot fathom the miles and miles of empty roads, empty spaces in the US. I would say that less than half is inhabited.
A lot of the land in those empty spaces is owned by the Federal Bureau of Land Management, or BLM. Parcels can be bought from the BLM if you can get your project approved by several different departments that would have interest in it.
East KY here, area 51 is where the Government tests guns and tobacco
Supersecret national defense testing. No aliens.
He left out the upper peninsula of Michigan. Not many people there.
Europeans don’t understand how big the US is. Even though the US has a population of over 300 million people, more than half of the land is unoccupied. That is according to a report from Business Insider. Most of the population is huddle around several metro areas, with the rest being dispersed around smaller communities. Take Montana for example. Montana is about 10,000 square miles larger than Germany yet it only has a population of less than a million.
It's almost as bad as Canada. 80% of people live in and around City's. Every State will have vast open land
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 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
Kabir, people don't go out in those areas of New Mexico alone without a gun. Crazy not to be able to defend yourself from wildlife or other people.
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