jump-off point

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a place, usually a town, where one leaves the railway or other link with civilization to proceed into the wilderness.

Quotations

1958

[Grande Prairie] has been the jump-off point for many seismic and drilling crews pushing the search throughout the south Peace and on its fringes.

1966

Oxtongue Lake . . . was once one of the main jump-off points for canoe trips into the great preserve [Algonquin Park]. . . .