Salmon Fishing USA

From the NY Times: And so it dawned on him that to locate the antithesis of such strip-mall sameness, it makes sense to find the remotest point from any McDonald’s in the lower 48 states, as the crow flies. And to do that you need to plot the locations of each of the roughly 13,000 of them across the land, as Von Worley does in the illuminating (some would say alarming) map above. As the map suggests, you then need to go west, young crassness detester. Von Worley writes: For maximum McSpa

A few years back, your humble correspondent was staying in Independence Virginia. Imagine my surprise when I couldn’t buy a bottle of whisky in the towns supermarket & had to make a 50 mile round trip to do so ! Similarly...Stephen Von Worley has plotted the position of every McDonald's in the United States. All 13,000 odd of them. While it turns out that those Golden Arches can be seen from most street corners on the East Coast, French Fries fans in the West often have to go the distance. Still

Stephen Von Worley , who created this map, writes: “As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia. For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged

Stephen Von WorleyIn the lower 48 states, the farthest you can ever get from a domestic McDonald’s is 107 miles.Stephen Von Worley, who blogs over at Weather Sealed, created the map above of the contiguous United States. It is colored by the distance to the nearest pair of golden arches. Some immediate patterns emerge from the map, including that East Coasters love them some Mickey D’s. Mr. Von Worley writes: As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. Ea

Behold “a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest [of the about 13,000] domestic McDonald’s” developed by Stephen Von Worley at Weather Sealed : Von Worley writes: As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid.  East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia. For maximum Mc