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I think it's pretty obvious that California and Texas are towards the top on the list when it comes to having a diverse/varied landscape. However, I think you could make a case for any state. Feel free to post pictures showcasing your states diversity if you can!
I never understand the insistence that Texas has a varied landscape. It doesn't.
Personally, I think the three west coast states win ... Washington, Oregon, and California. Their landscapes range from ocean, to rainforest, to thickly timbered forests of fir and thinner forests of pine, to rolling farmland, to wetlands, to glacier-topped mountains, to deep river gorges, to rocky buttes, to desert. And I'm sure I've skipped over many.
I never understand the insistence that Texas has a varied landscape. It doesn't.
Texas' landscape is extremely "varied" but it is not as drastic and spectacular as the western states. It's also covered by vast expanses of "sameness" that you have to traverse to get to the next "varied" region.
I agree with North Carolina and also Virginia. I just did a roadtrip throughout the Southeast US and NC had the most beautiful mountain and beach scenery in the East IMO. Georgia and Pennsylvania are other good ones. California would be #1 without a doubt.
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New Mexico has mountains that resemble Colorado, red rocks and canyons than appear like Arizona or Utah, and high plains that could be in Oklahoma or Texas. New Mexico is pretty much the meeting point of the desert, mesas and plateaus, Rocky mountains, and high plains. Heading out of ABQ in any direction traverses some very different topography.
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Originally Posted by EnricoV
I never understand the insistence that Texas has a varied landscape. It doesn't.
I'm certainly not a Texas booster but this statement couldn't be more untrue. I'll name off five cities -
El Paso - High Desert and mountains
Austin - Green hill country
Dallas - Plains
Corpus Christi - shores of the Gulf
Houston - Bayous and piney woods to the north
I'd say that certainly defines variation.
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