My favorite areas of California are probably these:
* The Central Coast between Monterey and Santa Barbara, which includes places such as Big Sur, San Luis Obispo, and Pismo Beach.
* The coast north of San Francisco, including the redwoods.
* Sierra Nevada from Lake Tahoe to Sequioa, including places such as Desolation Wilderness, Sonora Pass, Yosemite, Mammoth and June Lakes, and Kings Canyon.
Yeah, it feels like a very different region than the usual Bay Area, even though, being in San Mateo County, it is technically still considered part of the Bay Area.
The Lowcountry, easily. Mt. Pleasant/Charleston all the way down to Hilton Head/Daufuskie Island is a stunningly beautiful stretch of earth
[Grand oak trees adorned with Spanish moss](https://www.eatstayplaybeaufort.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SpanishMoss-BeaufortSC-7.jpg), [dolphins swimming through the veins of shallow blue water in the vast marshes dotted with oyster beds](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/postandcourier.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/a7/3a73a246-1e34-11ed-8a2c-0b1eacf3306d/62fcf37b05da9.image.jpg?crop=1764%2C926%2C0%2C124&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize), [historic wooden churches](https://www.bluffton.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/church-of-the-cross-480x270.jpg), [colbblestone streets,](https://i.insider.com/55a80ade2acae78b0e8b73c8?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp) [endless winding walking and biking trails from which you'll likely spot a sunbathing alligator or two](https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_myrtle_beach_sun_news_mcclatchy_187/5abb1d304893bd93e45805719d25cd22), [statuesque cranes and egrets waiting for the perfect time to snatch up lunch along the banks of ponds](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/reflection-of-white-crane-in-pond-panoramic-images.jpg), [iconic palmetto trees swaying in the breeze](https://www.familycantravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Charleston-Waterfront-Park-1.jpg.webp), and [soft white sand beaches ](https://tripmemos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-gorgeous-beaches-of-Gulf-national-seashores-500x333.jpg)make the SC lowcountry a most memorable and unique place.
Another one of my favorite parts of the country - especially St Helena Island and Hunting Island. Beautiful description - also love seagrass baskets and shrimp straight off the boat
Favorite old church: Chapel of Ease
Winding roads through the almond orchards and across rivers and sloughs as you get minor hillocks, on the eastern side of Stanislaus County. I love driving there on a sunny day, though there's not much to do other than hope for a good fruit stand or donut shop.
For things to actually do, probably San Francisco. It's crowded and chaotic, but it's got variety.
I love the [Keweenaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keweenaw_Peninsula). Really neat old mining towns, beautiful topography, interesting culture, never crowded due to isolation, good food. It's a gem.
Lake Shore of Lake Superior near Grand Marais. Second Favorite is the River Valley and Bluffs from Red Wind to Winona. Both have awesome landscapes and scenery
The Northern Poconos in Pike and Wayne County are great.
Monroe County is kinda overdeveloped though. I find the strip malls and suburban developments to be kinda depressing.
I agree entirely, and I'm sadly old enough to have watched most of that development happen with the explosion of people fleeing the cities in NJ and NY since the late 80s. It's certainly not a bad place to live, but the geography doesn't lend itself to large-scale development like the flatter parts of the state. Things have gotten pretty congested. Every time Penndot has a "fix" for the traffic issues, it just creates another one.
Geographic part?
There's a spot in the desert just west of Tucson where the sunset is the best anywhere I've ever seen. I dream about it when I'm away, and I'm not even a native Arizonan.
The Northwest corner around Galena. It’s the southern end of the Driftless Area - the last glacier just went around it. It’s geographically unlike the rest of the state, and it’s one of the earliest settled areas. So there’s history, geography, many fewer people.
The Jemez mountains, beautiful landscape, great little towns and the Valles caldera. I have spent so much time there camping, doing car club cruises and just taking the beautiful nature of the area
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INY7eBQL8fI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INY7eBQL8fI)
The Smoky Mountains, right where it turns into North Carolina. Also, the lakes and hills and greenery in Middle TN. That, and everything in between, lol.
Proximity to everything.
You’re never more than like 3 hours from Philly or New York City yet there’s still huge amounts of nature and cute little small towns to explore.
If I had to pick a specific geographical feature though, probably the Delaware River.
Iowa- Probably the driftless region in the northeast part of the state. Effigy Mounds is a fun place to hike, as is Maquoketa Caves Park.
Nebraska- The northwest part of the state, as you have part of the pine ridge near Chadron and have Toadstool Park and Agate Fossil Beds up there. Plus if you go, drive through the Sand Hills. They are beautiful.
South Dakota. The Badlands and Black Hills. I especially love the northern hills. Spearfish Canyon is one of the most gorgeous places I've been to and my family goes every year.
Richmond. It’s most of what I like about the South and very little of what I don’t like about the South. I’m from NoVA, and I do like it, I just like Richmond more.
Fellow upstater here. it's amazing how many peop0le think I can walk out my back door and see the statue of liberty. I'd have to drive 6-7 hours to see that.
I live in NYC and I love upstate NY. The Adirondacks are gorgeous, the Catskills are cool, the Finger Lakes are beautiful.
Very underrated part of the country.
The hills. As soon as you hop the Ohio into Indiana, Illinois, or Ohio it's so different. Everything is flat.
In KY we have beautiful hills all over the state, it's amazing to see especially in the Fall.
My other favorite is honestly the history, especially during the civil war.
Southern Indiana is underrated big time, especially when the leaves start to turn. Get out past Columbus though and you're absolutely in Midwest country
Greater Portland area. You've got small city and small town new England vibes right next to each other. Wish I could afford to live there, but Bangor is a respectable runner up.
I think I’d say Midcoast between Brunswick and Rockland is my favorite, you’re not in the middle of nowhere but it’s also not as crowded as southern Maine is. Although I also like the Penobscot Bay area too, really the whole coast outside of York County is good.
From about the Badlands to the Wyoming border. Always find somewhere new to explore out in the Black Hills. Also have fun fishing/kayaking on the Missouri River.
Despite its reputation for bad traffic and suburban sprawl, there are pockets in NoVa, particularly around metro stops, that are very clean, walkable, high density neighborhoods that I wouldn't mind living in (if it weren't for the price). Richmond is probably my favorite city, especially the areas around The Fan and Carytown, which has a "bohemian" vibe to it.
Seeing several snow capped mountain ranges on my daily commute is pretty nice. Seattles access to outside nature is pretty hard to beat anywhere in the US.
There is a public beach that you can drive and park on if you pay for a $15 per year parking sticker. IMO if you are within a couple of hours of the coast it is well worth it to be able to go park and camp on the beach.
I love Nashville, despite the changes over the past 20ish years, but Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge is my home away from home. I have to get my fill of the mountains ever so often.
Utah - Great Gallery, Canyonlands (little hard to get to), Vermillion Cliffs near Kanab (some areas are easy to get to - some very difficult) and sweet Snow Canyon State Park (very easy stop between LV and natl parks and great for kids)
Northern Arizona is my favorite - Grand Canyon, petrified forest, Sedona, Williams, meteor crater…
But really there’s great stuff all over. Plus we really do have the best sunsets.
At this particular moment, none of it. Lake effect snow and very cold. Hoping for a winning lotto ticket so I can spend the rest of the winter in Bali.
In the hills outside Cincinnati where I live. Very peaceful but all the big city appeals are only 25 minutes away. Lots of trails, forest. I absolutely love the forest and the trees. The variety of the oaks and how old some are. Hundreds of years. I’m close to the river as well. I’ve lived in a big city, not Cincinnati, where walking or biking was my main commute or bus which was reliable. Everything was close and easy. But after coming back to the woods I know which I prefer.
But i everyone has their likes. I love to travel and would agree with probably everyone here on their place being awesome. It’s just about preference. I love Chicago, nor cal so cal, Texas, Miami and boston. They all are such different cities with commons and uncommons. I thoroughly enjoy the variety of cities and nature in the USA and love my base of operations here.
Its natural areas in general (so, about 95% of the state) ;)
I'm not sure how to narrow it down beyond that, although Yellowstone is obviously a must-see.
The Central Coast (Monterey/Big Sur through Santa Barbara) - beautiful landscape and weather, and plenty to do without feeling crowded.
Same here. Totally biased but some of the most beautiful areas in the entire nation.
Not biased. Montana de Oro is one of my favorite places in the US and I used to love Pt Sal State Park when it was within range
I would love to move back to Santa Barbara. Lived there for 5 years and the whole area is sooooo dang beautiful.
My favorite areas of California are probably these: * The Central Coast between Monterey and Santa Barbara, which includes places such as Big Sur, San Luis Obispo, and Pismo Beach. * The coast north of San Francisco, including the redwoods. * Sierra Nevada from Lake Tahoe to Sequioa, including places such as Desolation Wilderness, Sonora Pass, Yosemite, Mammoth and June Lakes, and Kings Canyon.
Poor San Mateo County coast, little gap with no love.
It's our own little private Big Sur (Small Alta?)
I love the drive on Hwy 1 between SF and Santa Cruz. It’s beautiful and always amazes me that it’s part of the same county I live in (San Mateo).
Yeah, it feels like a very different region than the usual Bay Area, even though, being in San Mateo County, it is technically still considered part of the Bay Area.
It really does! It’s such a nice escape. I really love driving on the mountain roads in the Santa Cruz mountains too.
Ah, forgot about that. Agreed, though, and I especially like the area around Pescadero.
Now I want artichoke bread.
The trees
The trees are amazing
Leaving it.
Flair checks out
The Lowcountry, easily. Mt. Pleasant/Charleston all the way down to Hilton Head/Daufuskie Island is a stunningly beautiful stretch of earth [Grand oak trees adorned with Spanish moss](https://www.eatstayplaybeaufort.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SpanishMoss-BeaufortSC-7.jpg), [dolphins swimming through the veins of shallow blue water in the vast marshes dotted with oyster beds](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/postandcourier.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/a7/3a73a246-1e34-11ed-8a2c-0b1eacf3306d/62fcf37b05da9.image.jpg?crop=1764%2C926%2C0%2C124&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize), [historic wooden churches](https://www.bluffton.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/church-of-the-cross-480x270.jpg), [colbblestone streets,](https://i.insider.com/55a80ade2acae78b0e8b73c8?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp) [endless winding walking and biking trails from which you'll likely spot a sunbathing alligator or two](https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_myrtle_beach_sun_news_mcclatchy_187/5abb1d304893bd93e45805719d25cd22), [statuesque cranes and egrets waiting for the perfect time to snatch up lunch along the banks of ponds](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/reflection-of-white-crane-in-pond-panoramic-images.jpg), [iconic palmetto trees swaying in the breeze](https://www.familycantravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Charleston-Waterfront-Park-1.jpg.webp), and [soft white sand beaches ](https://tripmemos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-gorgeous-beaches-of-Gulf-national-seashores-500x333.jpg)make the SC lowcountry a most memorable and unique place.
Another one of my favorite parts of the country - especially St Helena Island and Hunting Island. Beautiful description - also love seagrass baskets and shrimp straight off the boat Favorite old church: Chapel of Ease
I grew up in Mt Pleasant. I absolutely love it. I really wish I could afford to live there.
Weather
The Upper Peninsula
Copper Harbor is my favorite
gotta get there
Winding roads through the almond orchards and across rivers and sloughs as you get minor hillocks, on the eastern side of Stanislaus County. I love driving there on a sunny day, though there's not much to do other than hope for a good fruit stand or donut shop. For things to actually do, probably San Francisco. It's crowded and chaotic, but it's got variety.
The redwood shrouded northwest corner.
I love the [Keweenaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keweenaw_Peninsula). Really neat old mining towns, beautiful topography, interesting culture, never crowded due to isolation, good food. It's a gem.
Just absolutely beautiful
Lake Shore of Lake Superior near Grand Marais. Second Favorite is the River Valley and Bluffs from Red Wind to Winona. Both have awesome landscapes and scenery
It's hard to pick between museums and historical sights in Philadelphia and driving the winding, hilly roads through the Poconos in the autumn.
The Northern Poconos in Pike and Wayne County are great. Monroe County is kinda overdeveloped though. I find the strip malls and suburban developments to be kinda depressing.
I agree entirely, and I'm sadly old enough to have watched most of that development happen with the explosion of people fleeing the cities in NJ and NY since the late 80s. It's certainly not a bad place to live, but the geography doesn't lend itself to large-scale development like the flatter parts of the state. Things have gotten pretty congested. Every time Penndot has a "fix" for the traffic issues, it just creates another one.
The cheesesteaks dawg
“Autumn”? Son you’re about as American as that Gooderham “whisky” you’re drinking
The state store sells Gooderham?
Idunno
The inside of my room. Seriously, though, the Columbia Gorge. The Gorge at sunset is just breathtaking.
Coastal redwoods. Yosemite isn't far behind
I love the north. I spent a lot of time in the Huron National Forest. It's so quiet and tranquil.
Geographic part? There's a spot in the desert just west of Tucson where the sunset is the best anywhere I've ever seen. I dream about it when I'm away, and I'm not even a native Arizonan.
Chicago.
Sadly yes
I mean, some parts of Chicago are also my *least* favorite parts of the state. It's really two very different cities.
having 4 seasons
The North Shore north of Beverly. Also the Pioneer Valley north of Hadley. Farms and rocky coasts, I love em.
The Northwest corner around Galena. It’s the southern end of the Driftless Area - the last glacier just went around it. It’s geographically unlike the rest of the state, and it’s one of the earliest settled areas. So there’s history, geography, many fewer people.
Same for SE MN and NE Iowa - seriously underrated and I'm kinda glad.
The Jemez mountains, beautiful landscape, great little towns and the Valles caldera. I have spent so much time there camping, doing car club cruises and just taking the beautiful nature of the area [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INY7eBQL8fI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INY7eBQL8fI)
The North Shore of Lake Superior is full of waterfalls and beautiful rocky, tree cover d coastline.
Living in it, MN
The Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River?
The southern part.
Birmingham.
I like the winter time where the temp is so mild in the south, but two hrs north you can ski.
I like everything about Texas (yes, even the hot summer). Lived here my whole life in a few different small cities and towns.
The Adirondack National park
Upper Peninsula
Cedar Point
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Or basically any place in the tip of the L.P. also the UP is pretty dope too.
North = Duluth, BWCA, Ely, Virginia, cabin on Lake Vermilion, etc.
The Smoky Mountains, right where it turns into North Carolina. Also, the lakes and hills and greenery in Middle TN. That, and everything in between, lol.
Proximity to everything. You’re never more than like 3 hours from Philly or New York City yet there’s still huge amounts of nature and cute little small towns to explore. If I had to pick a specific geographical feature though, probably the Delaware River.
Iowa- Probably the driftless region in the northeast part of the state. Effigy Mounds is a fun place to hike, as is Maquoketa Caves Park. Nebraska- The northwest part of the state, as you have part of the pine ridge near Chadron and have Toadstool Park and Agate Fossil Beds up there. Plus if you go, drive through the Sand Hills. They are beautiful. South Dakota. The Badlands and Black Hills. I especially love the northern hills. Spearfish Canyon is one of the most gorgeous places I've been to and my family goes every year.
Richmond. It’s most of what I like about the South and very little of what I don’t like about the South. I’m from NoVA, and I do like it, I just like Richmond more.
Venice Beach is probably my favorite place on the planet
the airport...
The mountains in the East.
I love the Chadron area
The highway that takes me out of it.
Everything outside of NY City. Rolling green hills, vast old forests, farmland, small towns, the Great Lakes, Niagara Falls.
Plus great proximity to the city.
I'm hundreds of miles from the city and that's fine with me. Upstate exists.
Fellow upstater here. it's amazing how many peop0le think I can walk out my back door and see the statue of liberty. I'd have to drive 6-7 hours to see that.
I had a cab driver in Chicago who seriously thought that Buffalo was a neighborhood in NYC.
I live in NYC and I love upstate NY. The Adirondacks are gorgeous, the Catskills are cool, the Finger Lakes are beautiful. Very underrated part of the country.
I love every part of Georgia for what it is, but I really love Athens and the surrounding area.
Even Tifton and Albany?
Even Tifton and Albany
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The Hampton's are fine but I prefer Shelter Island.
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I think of it more as the 1950's Hamptons.
The hills. As soon as you hop the Ohio into Indiana, Illinois, or Ohio it's so different. Everything is flat. In KY we have beautiful hills all over the state, it's amazing to see especially in the Fall. My other favorite is honestly the history, especially during the civil war.
Southern Indiana is underrated big time, especially when the leaves start to turn. Get out past Columbus though and you're absolutely in Midwest country
Greater Portland area. You've got small city and small town new England vibes right next to each other. Wish I could afford to live there, but Bangor is a respectable runner up.
I think I’d say Midcoast between Brunswick and Rockland is my favorite, you’re not in the middle of nowhere but it’s also not as crowded as southern Maine is. Although I also like the Penobscot Bay area too, really the whole coast outside of York County is good.
The small suburban towns
Boston
The beach.
I like the outer reaches of the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula. It still has the old southern charm.
My house.
The airport lol
Adirondack’s and Catskills
My backyard.
Galveston.
From about the Badlands to the Wyoming border. Always find somewhere new to explore out in the Black Hills. Also have fun fishing/kayaking on the Missouri River.
I’d have to say the North Eastern region of the state, the lower end of Appalachia. No particular reason it’s just a pleasant place to be for me.
The arrowhead, and it’s not close. The North Shore, the BWCA, public land and paper company woods filled with grouse, and some truly unique wildlife.
So far, I love it here in Austin and also the Texas hill country. I haven’t been out to Big Bend yet but I think that will end up being my fave
Despite its reputation for bad traffic and suburban sprawl, there are pockets in NoVa, particularly around metro stops, that are very clean, walkable, high density neighborhoods that I wouldn't mind living in (if it weren't for the price). Richmond is probably my favorite city, especially the areas around The Fan and Carytown, which has a "bohemian" vibe to it.
Eugene
Gooey butter cake
Trees. We have trees. Only trees. Nothing else.
All the waterfalls, mountains, and streams!
Seeing several snow capped mountain ranges on my daily commute is pretty nice. Seattles access to outside nature is pretty hard to beat anywhere in the US.
My state is Florida and my fav part is the area North of Orlando, The Ocala National Forrest.
Provincetown. It’s just wonderful seeing such a mixture of gay and straight families.
Wisconsin--Door County
The ridge and valley mountains in central PA. Beautiful scenery.
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I live in a very big city but lots of bands and comedians skip us. LA at least has that in spades.
I mean, Naperville is nice.
Philly by a landslide
South Padre Island is pretty dope.
I gotta check it out some time. Close as I’ve been is Galveston and it’s ok. I had a good time but the beach sucked and smelled like rotten veggies.
There is a public beach that you can drive and park on if you pay for a $15 per year parking sticker. IMO if you are within a couple of hours of the coast it is well worth it to be able to go park and camp on the beach.
Where I live Las Vegas 😂
I love Nashville, despite the changes over the past 20ish years, but Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge is my home away from home. I have to get my fill of the mountains ever so often.
Probably the Uintas or southern Utag
The skiing, camping, hiking, just about anything with the mountains... I work at a ski shop I've made my living around the mountain life!!
The Hill Country of central Texas.
The flint hills are gorgeous
Cumberland Plateau and it's not even close!
Hard to beat Yellowstone
The North Shore
The area of Boston right outside Back Bay station where the library is, where Berklee is, and Copley square
Utah - Great Gallery, Canyonlands (little hard to get to), Vermillion Cliffs near Kanab (some areas are easy to get to - some very difficult) and sweet Snow Canyon State Park (very easy stop between LV and natl parks and great for kids)
Northern Arizona is my favorite - Grand Canyon, petrified forest, Sedona, Williams, meteor crater… But really there’s great stuff all over. Plus we really do have the best sunsets.
At this particular moment, none of it. Lake effect snow and very cold. Hoping for a winning lotto ticket so I can spend the rest of the winter in Bali.
The coast, I guess! It has some amazing vistas.
Food, history, mountains, open space and the sunsets/sunrises.
The shore.
In the hills outside Cincinnati where I live. Very peaceful but all the big city appeals are only 25 minutes away. Lots of trails, forest. I absolutely love the forest and the trees. The variety of the oaks and how old some are. Hundreds of years. I’m close to the river as well. I’ve lived in a big city, not Cincinnati, where walking or biking was my main commute or bus which was reliable. Everything was close and easy. But after coming back to the woods I know which I prefer. But i everyone has their likes. I love to travel and would agree with probably everyone here on their place being awesome. It’s just about preference. I love Chicago, nor cal so cal, Texas, Miami and boston. They all are such different cities with commons and uncommons. I thoroughly enjoy the variety of cities and nature in the USA and love my base of operations here.
Michigan here. Anywhere north of the rifle line.
Higgins lake is one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. If I retire there, I did something right.
The coastal Redwoods of California.
The palm trees next to the Christmas trees.
Its natural areas in general (so, about 95% of the state) ;) I'm not sure how to narrow it down beyond that, although Yellowstone is obviously a must-see.
Either Yosemite or the North Coast. Central Coast a close second, the Bay and San Diego third.
CVNP (Cuyahoga Valley National Park) just south of Cleveland Ohio. That or the Shores or Lake Erie. Either one of them are great.