i have looked and looked and looked. there are none around me. i have made great progress alone using the suttas as my base, modern authors and some ancient ones as outposts and my intellect to tell which ones are appropriate and match up with the suttas.
i imagine having a teacher would be nice. with a really good teacher you would be fine. but with a bad one you might be lead astray. if for example your teacher is deluded and tells you to only practice mindfulness of air on mondays and do no other practices whatsoever and you believe them and do this then you will make zero progress. this is a silly example made to be extreme to make it clear what i'm talking about. in reality if a teacher is deluded it would be much harder to tell if they were leading you in the right direction. there is less risk of this as long as one does not become lazy. once a teacher is found one should still read the suttas and study the dhamma, that way one can do the same as someone working alone and always have a base to compare to. if the teacher is teaching in a way that will hinder progress or is downright wrong, you will know.
alone it has been a long and extremely difficult road. i have had to piece things together through a great deal of effort, constantly refining, reducing, combining, until i made a cohesive practice.
this is because the pali canon is arranged by length, not topic or order of practice. so to find out a progression and proper practices and not do redundant stuff takes a lot of work! looking to the visuddhimagga and other commentary traditions helped. however i don't agree with a lot of commentary stuff but there is a ton of great stuff to be found within it as long as you know the canon well enough and can decide what fits in with it and what does not.
if you want i could recommend some books.
also have you checked online? usually there is a temple somewhere nearby. buddhanet
has a temple locator thing.