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Which state has the most overall natural beauty? I feel like Washington state but would like to here other opinions.
I haven't been to many states, and of those, I stayed in the city for two of them. So I don't really have personal experiences.
Of those I visited & saw some of the natural landscape, Tennessee was beautiful. N. Texas was very unattractive (altho I love Texas).
I loved the appearance of Boston, MA. Didn't see the nature part.
I've always wanted to visit two areas that seem beautiful in movies & pictures: the northwest (Washington, Oregon) and Maine in the NE. I'd love to stand on the shore and say "There's a Nor'easter comin'!" Wearing a yellow slicker, of course.
Born & raised in south louisiana. It has some really beautiful parts & parks. But it's so hot & humid & full of bugs that it's not pleasant much of the year.
I haven't been to many states, and of those, I stayed in the city for two of them. So I don't really have personal experiences.
Of those I visited & saw some of the natural landscape, Tennessee was beautiful. N. Texas was very unattractive (altho I love Texas).
I loved the appearance of Boston, MA. Didn't see the nature part.
I've always wanted to visit two areas that seem beautiful in movies & pictures: the northwest (Washington, Oregon) and Maine in the NE. I'd love to stand on the shore and say "There's a Nor'easter comin'!" Wearing a yellow slicker, of course.
Born & raised in south louisiana. It has some really beautiful parts & parks. But it's so hot & humid & full of bugs that it's not pleasant much of the year.
RE: Lousiana. I spent little time there, but the cypress knee swamps at one park where I huddled two nights instead of just one (to avoid driving into tornadoes) cast a spell on me with the shades-of-gray-and-green spookiness! Beautiful in a strange way.
I live in WA state, on the Western Side. Some say the trees and all the green are grand but to me it makes me feel confined and there is a big price to pay for the green as its cold and wet half the year here.
Same for me. It’s green but the trees and the low-hanging clouds close me in.
I love Montana, at least everything west of Great Falls.
Alaska is amazing, OMG.
Maine is beautiful.
But I miss the desert, especially the Sonoran desert.
I’ve been traveling thru much of the US in the last couple of years plus many trips earlier in my lifetime, but I just absolutely love my own state the best, which is Missouri. If you’ve ever driven thru but only on hwy 70, the one that runs from KC to StL, then you really haven’t seen the best of what’s here.
Favorites in other places though are the Columbia River Gorge and the Columbia River is the prettiest river I’ve seen. Olympic NP in WA. White Sands NP in NM. In LA, I visited the Tabasco factory and saw the gardens and that was jaw droppingly gorgeous. And while I never thought that I would like the desert, I changed my mind when I got to AZ.
Not only does it have many of the most beautiful places in the United States, it have far more geographic diversity - and thus a variety of beauty - than any other state.
It has a long and spectacular coast, from the Mediterranean climate and its chaparral-draped hills and coastal mountains in the south to the temperature rainforest of the north coast. It has high alpine mountains (seven ranges topping 10,000 feet, with glaciers, and the highest peak in the lower 48) and many dozen minor ranges, from the coast to the deserts. It has wild deserts - from the high desert of the basin and range to the low desert of the Colorado. There's the lowest point in all of North America (the stunning Badwater Basin in Death Valley), rolling grasslands, pine mountains, wild coasts, volcanoes, a vast inland sea. Its diversity extends to flora and fauna. The most tree species? The most mammals? Reptiles? Wildflowers? California. It has the largest trees in the world (sequoias) and the tallest (redwoods). Whales and dolphins and bighorns and mountain lions and wolves (recently, again!) and rattlesnakes and black bears and deer. This biodiversity is, of course, a function of the state's geographic diversity.
It's no accident that California has the most National Parks, the most National Forests, the most extensive state park system in the country. It has almost everything to look at.
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