Most remote / depopulated areas in the UK

[DieterVH]

Hey guys

If you're looking to get lost on a several day tent/bothy hike and you want to go to the most remote wild place you can imagine. Where do you think of? The less people around, the better!

[walkingpoles]

How accessible does it have to be? North Rona comes to mind. Not sure whether it's legal to stay there though.

The place I've been to and where I consider it unlikely to meet or even see somebody is Glenbeg bothy. It's not maintained by the MBA anymore so it got off the radar. Bothy code applies nonetheless.

[malky_c]

Pairc, Isle of Lewis.

[Robinho08]

Letterewe/Fisherfield Corbetts and Grahams.

[innkeeper]

Depending on time of year Kearvaig bothy may be hard to get to when Cape Wrath ferry is not going.
So remote someone even sadly starved there after falling in and no one passed by.
Not been her my self.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/dec/11/scotland

Or maybe Sourlies bothy Been here a few times and love it. But that may be because I know its my stop off before a wonderful stay on the Knoydart

[Essan]

Knoydart (and Sourlies) are not really that quiet and remote these days. Though back in February 1989 I managed to go 7 days without seeing another human and 10 days without speaking to one, whilst walking from Glenfinnan to Glen Shiel. Admittedly, a couple of those days were spend festering in bothies due to the rain and gales outside ....

Even in summer I've not actually met anyone to talk to whilst walking the west coast of Jura - though you do see plenty of passing yachts.

And if you can dodge the Munros, wind farms and grouse shooters, then the Monadh Liath is surprisingly accessible yet remote and rarely visited. Though admittedly there is possibly a reason for that .....

[Essan]

Though if you're seeking wild, remote, unpopulated country, suitable for a multi-day trek, then the Atholl Forest up to the Geldie would possibly be the best area to look. Start from Blair Atholl, north via the Minigaig path to Glen Feshie, then east to the Geldie and finally back to Blair Atholl via Glen Tilt. For example. You will see other people. But very few signs of human habitation at all. It's a very lonely land.

[rabthecairnterrier]

Easter Ross to anywhere between Ullapool and Elphin. Blair Atholl to Tomintoul. Kintail to Achnasheen. Strathconon to Kilillan. If you really want to do a Greta Garbo steer clear of summits (Munros in particular) and bothies.

[John Doh]

The west coast of Jura might fit the bill.

[Caberfeidh]

The Galloway Hills are very much an unfrequented corner of the land; if you avoid roads and bothies you could wander for weeks without meeting anyone.

Galloway ~ a lonesome place

[Brian Mcculloch]

Gwern Gof Uchaf, Snowdonia, North Wales.

[Kevin29035]

Knoydart (and Sourlies) are not really that quiet and remote these days. Though back in February 1989 I managed to go 7 days without seeing another human and 10 days without speaking to one, whilst walking from Glenfinnan to Glen Shiel. Admittedly, a couple of those days were spend festering in bothies due to the rain and gales outside ....

Even in summer I've not actually met anyone to talk to whilst walking the west coast of Jura - though you do see plenty of passing yachts.

And if you can dodge the Munros, wind farms and grouse shooters, then the Monadh Liath is surprisingly accessible yet remote and rarely visited. Though admittedly there is possibly a reason for that .....

I suspect going to Sourlies/Knoydart in winter was the difference. I've always seen Sourlies pretty rammed every summer everning I've been in the last few years. I went last December myself and didn't see anyone for three days.

[Sgurr]

I agree with malky_c. We have now managed to get to most of the Scottish Marilyns, but Pairc so far eludes us. However, if you want somewhere you can stay the night, you can hire the bothy on the Shiant Islands. It was wildly overpopulated just for a morning when we visited by a party ringing gulls, an island bagger, us and two other Marilyn baggers, but this time of the year (if the boatman reckons it's safe to land you, I guess wou would have it to yourself. That i me, wondering how the heck I am getting back down the cliffs




Scarba off Jura isn't bad either and it has a bothy

[Sgurr]

On second thoughts, you would be hard pressed spending 10 days on Scarba or on the Shiants, so it is back to Pairc and the surrounding hills.

[Kevin29035]

I made a little challenge of climbing all the Lewis and Harris Humps over successive summer holidays, probably about 60/70% the way there. The Shiants have so far eluded me!

In July I went to do a two day backpack around all the Pairc hills when on summit 3, Beinn Mhor, the sole of my shoe fell off. Properly unlucky, never had that happen before. So headed back to the car. Four hills in that far corner still to go, hopefully next year!