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Rank US States (or regions in your country) based on natural beauty
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>>2858679
>Idaho in D Tier
>Alaska not in S
anon's vision needs to be checked
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in order within the tiers also
Pennsylvania image looking suspiciously like South Dakota
>>2858682
Idaho is also at the bottom of the western states for me, still better than pretty much anywhere else though. I like New York because Niagara Falls is cool as hell (though technically the best part of it is in Canada). the adirondacks and finger lakes area is good too though
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>>2858679
Based only on states I've been /out/
>New england in the fall mogs anything I've ever seen, but southern new england is too small
>Mountains of upstate ny and pa are beautiful, as is the UP in the winter
>Wisco has great lakes (pun intended)
>Fl and tx are unique but actually /out/ing is a miserable experience
>Everyone else is fairly boring, pine barrens get a shout-out
List will most likely change soon when I see the southwest and the rockies
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There are a lot of beautiful places in this country, and people who are not generous with their ratings have simply not explored enough. Driving across a state on the interstate doesn't count.
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>>2858682
Idaho should have been C but a lot of the state is just strip-mined badlands. The pretty mountain lakes are a small portion of the country.
Alaska is kind of one dimensional and is infested with mosquitoes. It is very pretty but mostly just swamp and tundra. Washington is basically the good parts of Alaska condensed.
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>>2858679
How is MN below New Jersey?
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totally biased and only places i have visited
basically everything not in f tier gets a pass
and i am pretty sure there's okay parts of all of three of them, i just didn't see them personally
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Idaho, Nevada, Utah, California, Arizona would be top of my list. If you don't know what BLM land is don't reply
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>>2859310
>Idaho should have been C but a lot of the state is just strip-mined badlands. The pretty mountain lakes are a small portion of the country
Huh?
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>>2858679
i tried to distribute them evenly to the ranks but in actuality half of states are worth visiting for a while and another half simply are not
>>2858682
while AK is beautiful it lacks variety, especially considering its size
his S tier states have more variety than the A tier ones, excepting Hawaii and Utah
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>>2861375
Texas defender here. Big Bend is great, Guadalupe and Palo Duro Canyon are nice, some nice spots in Hill Country, Caddo Lake is pretty in a kind of mystical way, wild beaches on the barrier islands, lots of cool caves. The Rio Grande Valley has good birding, Aransas is the best place to see the endangered Whooping Crane, arguably the best state for birding in general. Also pretty good for other wildlife in places like Big Bend or along the coast, also has the largest bat colonies and bat flights which are really cool.
>>2861399
saying Alaska lacks variety is nuts. It has the largest temperate rainforest in the world and some of the largest dune fields in the country. Nevermind the mountains, coast, tundra, wetlands, volcanoes, icefields etc. Also the best state for wildlife by far.
wildlife is imporant for me when it comes to "natural beauty" by the way
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>>2858679
Ranking the states I've actually been to, and done some /out/ in:
S: Arizona, Florida, Wyoming, Nevada, California, Tennessee
A (these could be argued to be S tier, in my opinion): Utah, Louisiana, Oregon, Colorado
B: North Carolina
C
D
F: Ohio
If you live in Ohio you don't really have /out/, it's the only state in the union that just miserably fails at that.
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>>2858679
>MN
>D
I know im biased cuz I grew uo there but MN has great out- northwoods, great lake, lush river valleys, drifless area, prairies...and lakes- a bajillion lakes over almost all of it. BWCA is one of the premier out in the US. "D" is fake and gay
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I've never been to the west coast because my family was poor and we always drove whenever we wanted to go somewhere so I'm excluding all of that. New York is just in f tier because I took the train from Philly directly into NYC and basically never saw a tree
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>>2861470
i could have phrased that better
alaska lacks variety compared to states like california and arizona but definitely beats places like kansas or louisiana
also our wildlife is cool but scarce due to its size
in alaska:
boreal forest near water
>drive five hours
boreal forest
>drive five hours
boreal forest but wet
>drive five hours
boreal forest but no trees
>drive five hours
boreal forest but now siberia cold
>drive five hours
soggy tundra
the mountains are cool but compare that experience to california
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>>2858679
I suffer in Ohio
Disclaimer: western PA only
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The UP is a mystical land that I make a pilgrimage to every year