What is the most beautiful part of your state? (best, places, life)
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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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What part or region of your state you reside in would you consider the most beautiful? What are the most scenic points of interest in your home state (be it native or the one you have relocated to)? What are the biggest draws that make the area you chose so attractive? Try not to be bias by including your hometown but rather an area of your state that you would like make a weekend getaway or vacation.
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Most beautiful part of New Mexico is definitely up around the Taos area. Where the forested covered mountains and high granite peaks of the Rockies meet the sagebrush covered high desert along with the Rio Grand Gorge which is a very impressive deep chasm in the earth. The highest peaks in NM are in the area with Wheeler Peak at an elevation of over 13,000 feet. The town is pretty cool as well with a traditional small town New Mexican plaza and a lot of art galleries, decent skiing, and up the road is Taos Pueblo which has been inhabited since around 1000 AD.
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What part or region of your state you reside in would you consider the most beautiful? What are the most scenic points of interest in your home state (be it native or the one you have relocated to)? What are the biggest draws that make the area you chose so attractive? Try not to be bias by including your hometown but rather an area of your state that you would like make a weekend getaway or vacation.
I think that the shore region of NJ is the most beautiful, though I'm sure others would also pick areas like the Palisades along the Hudson, the mountains of Sussex County, the Pine Barrens, etc. NJ is actually a very beautiful state, don't buy into stereotypes.
Although they got absolutely wrecked by Sandy, NJ's barrier islands are beautiful. Our sand is white, water is a nice blue or green color, usually clear as well. The thin strip of land is surrounded by the ocean on one side and the bay on the other, and sunsets on the bay are beautiful. The sky turns into amazing colors as the sun sets over the bay. Some islands or peninsulas have turned coastal land into state or national parks, like Island Beach State Park and Sandy Hook (Gateway National Recreation Area), respectively, preserving the wildlife and nature present with little to no building, and no residences. Island Beach State Park is one of the most beautiful places in the state, IMO. Cape May in extreme southern NJ is also beautiful in itself, but I'm choosing the whole shore region.
Man, that would be a tough one. I'm very partial to Southeast Alaska though, the inside passage. The northern portion in particular. Am amazing place to live. Southeast is roughly the size of Florida with roughly 70,000 residents. Inland waterways, soaring coastal mountains, glaciers, incredible forests and an abundance of wildlife. Alaska is a beautiful State, but the SE is it's most scenic area.
I'd say the Finger Lakes with its nice communities, wineries, nice fall colors and the lakes themselves. I like the 1000 Islands and the Adirondacks around Old Forge and Blue Mountain Lake.
Best known tourist region in Wisconsin is probably the Northern Uplands ("up nort'") or the Great Lakes (Door County on Lake Michigan, Apostle Islands on Lake Superior), but I think the most beautiful area is the Driftless ("Coulee Region," "unglaciated," "Western Upland"), especially along the Great River Road. It's a geologically unique area of the country that's practically unknown, even amongst a lot of Wisconsinites, the bulk of which live near Lake Michigan and vacation up north on a lake and don't go west of Madison.
Florida the Florida keys, but there are soo many beautiful places though...
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