There is an interesting place called Thorofare Ranger Station in the Southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. To get to the station, which is no more than a cabin, a barn, and a corral, Lloyd Kortge, who works as a ranger in Yellowstone National Park, drives about fifteen miles from his home. Then he saddles up on horseback; he then travels 32 miles back into the wilderness, which is for him the shortest route to get to the station.

Now what is so interesting about this particular place in Yellowstone National Park? Well, Susan Boswell, President of Carto Graphic Technologies, in Vermont, was asked by an automobile maker to find the place in the United States that is most distant from a publicly maintained road. Well, the nearest road to the Thorofare Ranger Station is twenty miles …