List of mainland settlements that are inaccessible by road explained

This is a list of notable mainland settlements that are inaccessible from the outside by automotive roads (roads built to carry civilian passenger motor vehicles). These settlements may have internal roads or paths but they lack roads connecting them to other places.

Many road-inaccessible settlements are on islands or are very remote from other settlements.

Asia

• Andryushkino, Russia
• Anadyr, Russia
• Batagay, Russia
• Batagay-Alyta, Russia
• Belaya Gora, Russia
• Chersky, Russia
• Chokurdakh, Russia
• Egvekinot, Russia
• Khonuu, Russia
• Kyusyur, Russia
• Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russia
• Norilsk, Russia
• Olenyok, Russia
• Olyokminsk, Russia
• Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
• Saskylakh, Russia
• Tiksi, Russia
• Zhigansk, Russia
• Zyryanka, Russia

Europe

• Cinque Terre, Italy
• Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy
• Finse, Norway
• Inverie, Scotland
• Scoraig and Carnach, Scotland (linked only to each other)
• Vorkuta, Russia

North America

• Livingston, Guatemala^[1]
• Bethel, Alaska, United States
• Churchill, Manitoba, Canada^[2]
• Cordova, Alaska, United States
  • Dillingham, Alaska, United States Halibut Cove, Alaska, United States
• Juneau, Alaska, United States^[3]
  • King Salmon, Alaska, United States Nome, Alaska, United States
• Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada
• Old Crow, Yukon, Canada
• Point Hope, Alaska, United States
• Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
• Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
• Supai, Arizona in the Grand Canyon, United States
  • • Tyonek, Alaska, United States Unalakleet, Alaska, United States Yakutat, Alaska, United States
• Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States^[4]

Oceania

• Bar Point, New South Wales, Australia^[5]
• Berowra Creek, New South Wales, Australia
• Coasters Retreat, New South Wales, Australia
• Currawong Beach, New South Wales, Australia
• Elvina Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• Fishermans Point, New South Wales, Australia^[6]
• Great Mackerel Beach, New South Wales, Australia
• Little Wobby, New South Wales, Australia^[7]
• Lovett Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• McCarrs Creek, New South Wales, Australia
• Melaleuca, Tasmania, Australia^[8]
• Milsons Passage, New South Wales, Australia
• Morning Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• Teewah, Queensland, Australia (only accessible via offroad driving on a beach)
• Tufi, Oro, Papua New Guinea
• Wondabyne, New South Wales, Australia^[9]

South America

• Iquitos, Peru in the Amazon rainforest
• Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
• Melinka, Los Lagos Region, Chile
• Puerto Williams, Magallanes Region, Chile

See also

• List of car-free islands

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ten amazing places you can only reach by boat. 29 June 2018.
2. News: Feed This Town's Kitty, But Not The Bears. Chicago Tribune. Howard Witt. 8 November 1987. Churchill, Manitoba. 6 November 2012. 27 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150627125656/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-11-08/news/8703230917_1_tundra-buggy-tours-polar-bear-capital-hudson-bay. live. Man, too, has intermittently found the rocky, wind-blasted bit of coast a fit place to settle: The Inuit stayed here in prehistory, European explorers in the early 17th Century and the Hudson's Bay Co. a hundred years after that. The railroad reached the area in the 1930s, to supply a grain port;.
3. Web site: Ten amazing places you can only reach by boat. 29 June 2018.
4. Web site: This tiny US town is suddenly on the radar. 5 July 2019.
5. Web site: Bar Point About . 2023-07-17 . BPCA . en.
6. Web site: Ten amazing places you can only reach by boat. 29 June 2018.
7. Web site: New South Wales For Everyone: Little Wobby . 2023-07-17 . australiaforeveryone.com.au.
8. Web site: 2022-05-04 . Visiting Southwest National Park Discover Tasmania . 2023-07-17 . www.discovertasmania.com.au . en.
9. Web site: Noone . Richard . April 13, 2015 . Wondabyne NSW: The only train station in Australia inaccessible by road . July 9, 2023 . The Daily Telegraph.