This is the Most Remote Spot In West Virginia And It’s Positively Beautiful

A family that runs a website called Remote Footprints has been working to calculate the most remote spot in every state. In West Virginia, they found that spot in the Cranberry Wilderness.

The Cranberry Wilderness is a 47,815-acre U.S. wilderness area in the Monongahela National Forest.

The remote spot in West Virginia was calculated as the place that was furthest from any road.

The family hiked for a day, on and off the trails, to get to the remote spot.

The hike took them along the beautiful Middle Fork River.

They came across what was once an old logging road.

After hiking 10.1 miles on the trails, they had to work their way through another .2 miles of untouched forest to get to the remote spot.

Once there, they found that all sights and sounds of other humans were non-existent.

Although there are few people in the Cranberry Wilderness, some black bears call it home.

Project Remote is hoping to bring attention to this area of West Virginia to be designated as the "Birthplace of Rivers" National Monument.

The monument designation would help to preserve this beautiful wilderness.

You can see a panoramic video of the Remote Spot in this video.

For more about the journey to this spot in West Virginia and how it was calculated, you can visit the Remote Footprints page.

If hiking through undeveloped wilderness is a little too overwhelming, take a look at these short hikes you can take in West Virginia.