[Rock Climber]

I am going to guess its somewhere around Mena, Waldron, Ola, or Booneville. Somewhere in that general area. There are some very remote mountain areas there, and National Forest lands dominate.

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by T. DarcyJones

Brits???

Hell yeah, hoss.

As long as you don't show up and start telling us how backward we are and "how we did it back home", everything is cool.

[edmiii]

Originally Posted by mother mammal

Thanks for that map, it confirmed something I thought would be the case, that a ways south of Harrison is a very sparsely populated area (dark green), encompassing southern Newton County and parts of Searcy and Pope counties. Might be a good area for the OP to look into. I think it has a name but I can't think of it.

It does have a name - Ozark National Forest.

[shyguylh]

I've visited Newtown County in Jasper & things like "Lost Valley" in Ponca and the Ponca access bridge. It is a very pretty area. We've even pondered living there, but I don't know if I could tolerate the more hard-core winters there vs eastern TX where I currently am at. (Then again that could mean less hard-core summers, which themselves as of late are a drag.) Also, with seclusion comes more difficulty getting a job, and we're nowhere near retirement age yet. I also in recent years have found myself prone to becoming very irritated when dealing with bumpy roads, and many of the attractions we found require driving quite a distance on such roads, even more than what I've seen in other rural areas. But hey, nothing's perfect.

I will address the "how we did it back home" aspect a bit. I will preface this by saying that I grew up in eastern NC, which is a southern place somewhat, and spent 10 years in Tucson AZ before now living in eastern TX. I do think that sometimes southerners and rednecks etc, and I am one, having spent my 1st 27 years of life in eastern NC, can get a little defensive and touchy sometimes about thinking that someone sharing their experiences is insulting them when they're not. Even during my 27 years (0-27) living in eastern NC, I've always had a curiosity and open mind somewhat about how people do other things in other places, and that doesn't have to mean that we're putting down certain people as being ignorant or forgetting what our core values are.

Sometimes people talk about how things were done in other places, and this is the case with me for sure, simply because they're relating their life experiences (a) just to converse and talk in general and (b) for the purpose of exchanging ideas with others, and in doing so the "others" and the one talking both can often-times learn some new ideas and ways of doing things they would've never thought of otherwise. It is not at all always the case that someone speaking of how they did things where they're originally from etc is "talking down" to someone else, they're just talking and sharing ideas and nothing more. Besides, sometimes there IS a better way of doing things vs how they're currently being done, and it's a GOOD thing to be open-minded somewhat about certain things while still retaining your core value system.

[Teddy52]

Originally Posted by 6.7traveler

Hello, long time lurker on the arkansas forum. My family travels around a loy although we have never been to arkansas. We live in the middle of nowhere in the Arizona High Desert. Completely off grid (solar) 36 miles down a washed out at times dirt road. An hour and a half to a town of anysize. I say this because we love rural areas and the benefits that come with them. So to my question..... what is the most rural woodsy out of the way place in arkansas. From my understanding it is possibly in North Central Arkansas. We want a lot of acreage on the cheap ( with all the problems that may come with it ) and also be within 45 mins- an hour of small hospital. Where is the wildest, most undeveloped hilly ozark type of place in Arkansas?

........" a lot of acreage on the cheap "...

I realize everything is relevant, but I always find that phrase to be an oxymoron ( in Arkansas and in most of the US )

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

This may be the most rural wooded area of Arkansas. Most of the counties along the Mississippi River have lost population since the 1940s.

http://goo.gl/maps/Jnazz

[ashpelham]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

This may be the most rural wooded area of Arkansas. Most of the counties along the Mississippi River have lost population since the 1940s.

http://goo.gl/maps/Jnazz

I could be wrong, but I think some of the film "Mud" was filmed in this area? I wasn't on set much, really only one day.

[latunafish]

Originally Posted by ashpelham

I could be wrong, but I think some of the film "Mud" was filmed in this area? I wasn't on set much, really only one day.

you are correct!

[EricNorthman]

OP, I would suggest you check out Newton County. I think it has everything you are looking for. I think the whole county would fit into the 45 min to 1 hr time frame to Harrison where there is a hospital. The county is definitely rural, with some of the most beautiful scenery in the whole state. It is inexpensive as well.

[Rubi3]

My mother grew up at the base of Petit Jean Mountain. Not the side where Casa is located. We traveled there a lot when I was growing up, going through Centerville, Cotton Town and crossing the Pontoon Bridge, which was very scary to me. I would get in the backseat floor as if I would be protected. I thought the area was the boonie of the boonies, but it was fun to play on the side of the mountain. There was an empty home way up on the side of the mountain, said to have belonged to a physician who died from TB. There was a steep place covered in pine needles and we would sit on pieces of cardboard and slide. Practice helped.

The old bridge was replaced soon after Winthrop Rockefeller came to Arkansas. I've not been there in years, so have no idea what changes have occurred.