Language Use Question

[jennythereader]

Inspired by A Way With Words, the podcast I'm listening to today, I have a question for everybody:

How do you refer to an out of the way part of something? For example, you're at the mall and the parking lot is full enough that you need to use the outermost part of the lot, and end up with a long walk to the place where you're meeting your friends. When you meet up with them you say "I'm so sorry, the lot was packed and I had to park ________."

How do you fill in the blank?

I'd most likely fill it in with either in the back 40, or in the north 40.

Edit: If I was really annoyed, I might say in the back of beyond.

Comments

[siderea]

Huh. Apparently, as someone without an actual car to park and dependent on shank's mares I have an exceptionally rich native idiom to express the sentiment, "I've got to warn you, it's going to be a hell of a walk."

Halfway to nowhere.
To hell and gone.
Out on hell's halfacre.
in Rhode Island. (In Boston.)
out in West Bumfuck, Nowhere.
in Outer Guam.

There were others that lept to mind and now I can't remember. Let's see if they come back to me with more caffeine.

ETA: Are you looking for diversity of examples (brainstorm) or prevalence (endorse previously raised exampes if you use them too)?

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Actually what I was curious about was how the phrases used related to where people were from. Of course, if I really wanted to find that out I should have remembered to ask it in the original post...