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The Detroit area has many lakes as well, especially the NW suburbs. The MSP area has the Mississippi River as well, but the Detroit area also has the areas you mention as well. To me that is a push between the two.
Detroit is unique in that it offers inland lakes and big water, Lake St Clair and Detroit River. If you are a boater, you need to choose your boat size appropriately.
I ended up voting Wisconsin, but the differences aren't huge.
I disagree. Minnesota, being further north on the whole, has much more land area with too short a growing season to have been cleared for agriculture. In Wisconsin you have to get north of State Highway 64 to be in consistently wooded/forested area. in Minnesota, about 2/3rds of the state is above that line.
I disagree. Minnesota, being further north on the whole, has the most amount of land with too short a growing season to have been cleared for agriculture. In Wisconsin you just about have to get yourself north of State Highway 8 to be in consistent wood/forested area. in Minnesota, over half the state is above that line.
I live in Wisconsin and have seen a good portion of Minnesota, even the northerly parts.
Even looking at satellite view, Wisconsin has at least as much wooded area.
Minnesota's farmland reaches all the way up to the Canadian border along a sizable portion of its western side.
Wisconsin also has more Great Lakes shoreline to consider.
Regardless, I think it's close in reality. Michigan has more shoreline by a very wide margin, but overall I don't know that I'd find that much more to do there but that's a personal thing.
I like all three.
Minnesota is the most diverse containing the North woods, prairie, the driftless, deciduous forests in the twin cities metro, and the most inland lakes between the three.
I think the Porcupine Mountains give Michigan the edge.
Minnesota has the most diversity.
Wisconsin is great too. To me, it's Michigan with a coin flip between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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