What outside plates do you see most in your State? (shop, beach)

[Bert_from_back_East]

In my area of Southern California, the out-of-state tags I observe most frequently are Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Texas in no particular order.

[snj90]

Arizona is probably quite common throughout the USA and Canada, since U-Haul trucks have Arizona license plates.

[mvpsharky]

In Rhode Island, besides the bordering states of Mass and Conn, I see TONS of New York plates, followed by New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California. I have seen plates from just about every state here ... and also Quebec.

[Bluefox]

In Seattle it's California.
In Kansas City, outside of Kansas plates for obvious reasons, it was Texas, Illinois and California.
In San Diego it was Arizona and Nevada.

[Stylo]

In southwest CT, it's NY, MA, and FL. Sometimes NJ and RI.

[Katzpur]

In Utah, I see mostly California and Idaho.

[Pincho-toot]

Originally Posted by snj90

Arizona is probably quite common throughout the USA and Canada, since U-Haul trucks have Arizona license plates.

This is true! I have ridden in cars that have plates from the following states;

Florida
Texas
California
Nevada
Iowa
Minnesota
Oregon
Arizona

Only one of those that I haven't been to is California and Arizona. Arizona cuz of U-Haul and California because we borrowed someone's car in Texas for spring break, and they were from California.

[cat1116]

In the Eastern Panhandle of WV, we see the bordering states of: Md (most frequently), Va, and Pa and DC. Then: NY, NJ, DE, OH, Ky, Sc,
TN, NC, Fl, Ga, Tx,

Occasionally Ontario and Quebec, Canada plates, Calif, Maine, & Michigan

[Kar54]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Thanks for bumping the thread!

Out of State plates are an indicator (not a pure indicator) of those who have moved to your area or are traveling. In the summer the latter is in play more than not. Rental cars are the wildcard, and don't mean much.

I find this topic interesting as it tells its own story in many ways. Even though it is very unscientific admittedly.

For the most part, Colorado Springs would be an exception. We probably see more TX plates than CA. And then we have your surrounding states, like KS, NE, AZ and NM.

Because we have so many military institutions, most of those out of state plates will leave with a soldier relatively soon. We probably have more out of state plates as anywhere I've lived.

[WildWestDude]

Here in southern NV it's mainly CA with also UT and AZ. Pretty wide open spaces here in the west with big states.

In the touristy areas it can be a bit of everything even from Mexico but its still mainly western states and TX