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National Forests are a nice balance between the two. Most trails are lightly trafficked, especially when you get more than a couple of miles from the trailhead.

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Last week I camped for the entire week in a national forest and didn’t see another camper the entire time. The issue is we have high demand national parks that “everyone” visits and lots of national forest and BLM land that is very sparse.

That's true I forgot about the third designation.

And there's more! Many government agencies are responsible for managing our huge amount of public land.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_land#/media/File%3AUS...

Don't forget National Wildlife Refuges!

And the National Grasslands.

And the Wilderness Areas.

One of my personal favorites: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters

If you portage in far enough, you can be the only person/people on a lake, with no cell phone service. On the other side of the Canadian border is Quetico Provincial Park, which is a Canadian canoeing wilderness. The million acres of BWCA and 1.2 million acres of Quetico join to form a massive wilderness full of lakes and wildlife. Native Americans left pictographs which are still visible, and French Voyageurs used this area extensively to travel from Canada to Lake Superior. I highly recommend a trip if you ever get the opportunity.

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