Name Somewhere In The Continental United States That You Want To Visit

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• shadowcat

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  2 years ago

  Yellowstone National Park. But the strip clubs are slim pikins.
• reverendhornibastard

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  2 years ago

  I’ve never been to Yellowstone NP because it’s so remote and, until I retired, I never had time to go.
  
  Gonna fix that at the end of May when my kids get out of school. Will spend almost 2 weeks in the YNP area. I made reservations (almost a year in advance) for cabins near the NE entrance to YNP and also near the south entrance. The second cabin location will give us easy access to the southern parts of YNP as well as to Grand Teton NP.
  
  I would have liked to have include Glacier NP too but couldn’t fit it into our schedule. (I’m not 100% retired.)
  
  As shadowcat astutely noted, the strip club availabilities are slim pickings in NW Wyoming. But I’ll have Mrs. Hornibastard with me and look forward to nailing her repeatedly under the stars on the large decks of the cabins I have reserved (after the kids are asleep).
• Warrior15

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  2 years ago

  Jackson Hole, WY. I have a college buddy that lives there and I've heard it is really beautiful. Also, I used to be a big snow skier and have heard the skiing there is great. I just have never had the opportunity. Yellowstone would be on my list too.
• Muddy

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  2 years ago

  I've never been to Yellowstone either I'd like too. The western united states is just gorgeous to me, I would love to take more trips out there. I would want to do Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, haven't been in that area yet. But I only get so much time off, often times I got to make a tough decision and just a place like LA with a bunch of hot girls is just going to win out most times.
  
  As far as cities go, the only ones with a major sports team that I haven't been to are Charlotte, Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City. Charlotte IDK why I just haven't it's not even too far but to be honest all those don't seem like thrilling destinations but I'd like to see for myself.
  
  Shai definitely hit San Diego it's just the best, I would put it as one of the must visit American cities. Midway is great tourist thing to check out. I would move to SoCal tomorrow if the far left weren't trying to fuck it all up so bad.
  
  
• motorhead

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  2 years ago

  Probably SoCal
  
  LA - San Diego.
  
  Las Vegas was closest I’ve been.
  
  I was fortunate enough to take a western driving trip several years ago. The Badlands in South Dakota. (It’s a must see). Jackson Hole, Grand Teton’s, Yellowstone and Glacier
  
  Yellowstone should be on everyone’s bucket list and Glacier is stunningly spectacular
• Longball300

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  2 years ago

  Ditto on San Diego and the Midway; been on a dozen or so big ships and it was the best.... although the Alabama in Biloxi is really cool too as you can wander around below decks w/o a tour guide AND they have a aircraft display that includes a Blackbird.
  
  For me right now it would be a drive up the western shore of MI, Sleeping Bear dunes, Traverse City, Mackinaw Bridge and Pictured Rocks Lakeshore.
• Longball300

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  2 years ago

  Check That: the Alabama is in Mobile not Biloxi...
• twentyfive

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  2 years ago

  I've been to about 12 national parks, my favorite so far has been Yellowstone, I hope to visit Big Bend next, btw I have no desire to visit any cold weather destinations. One place I've never been to is the Alamo that will be on my agenda if we have time, when we visit Big Bend this year.
• twentyfive

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  2 years ago

  P.S. Yosemite was pretty cool too, but that was when I was much younger, my dad took us on a family vacation from, San Diego to San Francisco, via the Pacific Coast Highway, and from San Fran to Yosemite, we spent a whole summer touring that trip.
• skibum609

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  2 years ago

  Yellowstone is the single most amazing spot-on earth. There are so many amazing things to see that the largest petrified forest on earth isn't even a listed attraction, nor is the trail officially maintained. WARRIOR - Jackson Hole is so unique that one of the chairlifts used to have a sign warning you that the Mountain was nothing like any other ski area they had ever been to. It's true. We rate the sick terrain at other ski areas by saying "it's almost like Jackson Hole". Sadly, as I approach 65, I have aged out of the sickest shit. I skied away from Corbett's last time and went around. That is when you know you're old but check out the videos of Corbett's. Its unique.
• docsavage

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  2 years ago

  I don't have anywhere I want to visit. I did a lot of traveling when I was young and when I think now of going somewhere I get a feeling of "been there done that".
  
  I think if I revisited some of the places I went when I was young, I would be disappointed and find it depressing. I went to California in 1969 to visit an aunt and uncle and some cousins. One of those cousins recently told me the California I visited is gone and things are much worse there now. There are homeless people all over the place, crowded highways, and lots of crime. I went to Detroit in 1965. I would hate to see what happened to that city after over 50 years of bad local government. Even the cities that haven't declined have lost a lot of their local character. Indianapolis where I live sure has. Every city now has the same chain restaurants and stores, the same pro sports teams and the colorful regional accents and habits of the people have faded away since they are all exposed to the same national mass media.
• misterorange

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  2 years ago

  Would like to go to Alaska. Someplace you can only get to by seaplane. The scenery and culture seems pretty cool.
• skibum609

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  2 years ago

  I went to southern California in 1973 and fell in love with the place. Went back in 1996 and it was so different I have never gone back. Cannot imagine how much worse it is now, 26 years later.
• RTP

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  2 years ago

  I am lucky to have travelled over most of the continental U.S. Maine is one of three states that I have not been to and would like to visit. I also have missed North and South Dakota, not sure I have interest. I do have alot of interest in Alaska (I know which may not really count as continental), especially Denali.
• twentyfive

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  2 years ago

  ^ Acadia in Maine is awesome we had fun there and got charged by a Moose, if you go there it needs to be in summer it gets very cold there especially on the upper elevations of Cadillac mountain
• Huntsman

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  2 years ago

  Both Portland’s. I like hiking and would enjoy checking out both Oregon and Maine a bit more.
  
  I’ve never been to San Diego and would enjoy seeing a place so different from Minnesota.
• bman66

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  2 years ago

  This is a great discussion. I was able to travel to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole when I was younger and both were cool. I would like to go to Bryce Canyon Country in Utah, Lake Powell, Alaska, Seattle.
• Longball300

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  2 years ago

  While in Laughlin, I visited an old "ghost town" called Oatman, the Route 66 Museum in Kingman, but the highlight was the west rim of the Grand Canyon and walking around this thing:
  
  https://grandcanyonwest.com/things-to-do…
  
  Yikes! and I am not afraid of heights.
• Longball300

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  2 years ago

  About a quarter of the people who had paid to go around backed out once they got three or four steps... more than one had to go around on their hands and knees....
• gammanu95

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  2 years ago

  I would say Alaska, but that is not CONUS. Glacier National Park in Montana, makes the short list, and it is hopefully similar to AK. I just love mountain climbing, glacier hiking, and being ABOVE the clouds.
• Icee Loco (asshole)

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  2 years ago

  The Appalachian mountains. Mississippi. South Dakota. Just out of the way places with different lifestyles. History.
• EastCoaster

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  2 years ago

  ^ Wait, gammanu95, how is Alaska not part of the Continental US? It's part of North America, which is the continent the US is part of.
  
  Anyway, I have been to 48 states and probably 50 National Parks or more. The only two states I have not yet visited are Montana and Alaska, and I would like to see them both. Glacier National Park in Montana and Denali in Alaska are definitely on my bucket list.
• gammanu95

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  2 years ago

  EastCoaster- it is a known fact that the CONtinental United States is used interchangeably with the CONtinuous United States and is synonomous with the lower 48 states.
  
  Congratulations, you were today years old when you learned that. When you're green, you're growing; when you're ripe, you start to rot. So it is good to be ever green and ever growing. Ray Kroc said that. Smart man.
• EastCoaster

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  2 years ago

  Well, gammanu, what you say is *not* a known fact. There is actually no such thing as the Continuous United States -- the expression you're reaching for is actually the Contiguous United States. And I know that. Now you do, too.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous…
  
  The OP said the Continental US, and that was what I was going by. According to the Wikipedia link I just posted, the Continental US actually does includes Alaska.
• Call.Me.Ishmael

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  2 years ago

  Montana. It's gorgeous country.
• CandymanOfProvidence

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  2 years ago

  Any of the places on this list, with proper preparation.
  https://www.worldation.com/luxury/americ…
  
• caseyx

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  2 years ago

  I've been to all 50 states and pretty much every big city. (El Paso is the only one in the top 40 that I haven't been to and that's only because I had a trip cancelled some years back.) So for me, a place that I want to go to and haven't been has to be a national park or site. I still haven't made it to the Grand Canyon (so far from everything) so that would have to be my top US place.
• Papi_Chulo

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  2 years ago

  When @shailynn said continental U.S. I assumed he meant places where one can drive to but I guess if one goes by the exact definition then that would apply to contiguous vs continental
• loper

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  2 years ago

  I've been just about everywhere, (btw, Glacier National Park is even more awesome than Jellystone, and less crowded), but I haven't been to the 3 big Utah National Parks and, from what I hear the scenery is incredible.
• rockie

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  2 years ago

  Loper: Zion, Bryce, and Arches are worth the trip.
  
  I've been to 44 of the US 50 states, with North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Iowa the exceptions to date. There is a trip to Mount Rushmore in my near future! Football Hall of Fame! Lambeau Field!
  
  I've been to all of the top 10 National Parks and 90% of the top 50! I no longer feel the need to travel any great distance to see nature's great wonders.
• gammanu95

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  2 years ago

  SW Utah is definitely worth the trip. I've only been to Bryce Canyon, but I definitely want to go back for Zion and Arches. There are some amazing full-service all-inclusive resorts and retreats to stay at when you head out there.
  
  As for Alaska, no that is not part of CONUS. Just becuase you did not know it, does not mean it is not a known fact. Also, Wikipedia is user-edited and frequently incorrect. Even if we discard that and go by the common and most likely assumption of the OP's question, Alaska is not included. It is a 76 hour drive from Florida, one way. Break that up into daily eight-hour hauls, and that is nine days each way, PLUS whatever time you want to spend on-site. Even Seattle is 10-days round trip. I can't take that much time away from work, most cannot. Therefore, it is not reasonable to attempt to include it in this discussion, by any definition of CONUS.
  
  I'm right, get used to it. I'm always right. It's a burden, but one I have learned to bear. I will not bear stupidity, neither from Boomers nor Zoomers.
• skibum609

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  2 years ago

  I agree that Glacier is amazing, but it's not Yellowstone, where if you go at the right time, you will see 98% of all the larger wildlife in three days of your life, that you will see in your entire life. Zion is worth the trip but hiking there in the summer is a heat fest. Montana is great, which is why we ski Big Sky pretty much every year, but I will always consider Idaho the prettiest state of all. Mt. Rushmore looks exactly the same live as it does on paper. Glad we went but we were driving through there anyway and not worth a special trip imo. If people are driving it takes longer in winter than summer. The wind out there makes plowed roads temporary and if you get stuck in the snow, you might not see help for a long time.
• ATACdawg

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  2 years ago

  The Grand Canyon and Yellowstone would definitely be on my list. Add to those the Mississippi from it's source to the Gulf of Mexico and some of it's tributaries.
• crosscheck

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  2 years ago

  The Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. Much of the West in general. I've never been further west than Chicago.
• rockie

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  2 years ago

  Rushmore is a reason to touch a couple of untouched states for me in October, as I'm not as enamored with cold weather as some:) I would take in one more "cold weather" NFL football game - if it was at Lambeau!
  
  I am a fan of car travel, but I will be touching down by plane in Desmoine and tripping from there and back while testing the culinary delights or frights along the journey.
  
  I enjoyed Jackson Hole in my recent travels, more so than Yellowstone. I've found many of the wonders in the US are dulled by the order in (and age at) which I've seen them, but Yellowstone at 61 still tops Yosemite at 44!
  
  
• shadowcat

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  2 years ago

  One place that I have been that has not been mentioned is Carlsbad Caverns in NM.
• ATACdawg

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  2 years ago

  Nah. The place is just a hole....
• Cashman1234

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  2 years ago

  I love big open holes - in porn.
  
  I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon - and I would love to see it one day. I don’t need the full Brady Bunch experience of riding a donkey to the bottom.