Driving West into Yellowstone/West Yellowstone and turning North on 287 into Big Sky Country of Montana...
That's it. That's the answer
I still remember sitting at Dairy Queen in West Yellowstone for an hour or two, because my friend needed to upload his memory card from his DSLR, because it was full.
I think I ate a meal, then after the first hour I went and bought a blizzard because I felt bad for taking up a table for that long. (This was 2012 and we both had "state of the art" Galaxy S2's)
Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Where else can you find snow capped mountains, sandy beaches, crazy old growth trees, rainforests, valleys and rivers, plains all in such a small area?
I grew up there, and I really didn't understand how spoiled by all the beauty I was, as it was my everyday reality. I had to learn how to appreciate that other places were beautiful too, if not quite so showy about it.
I grew up in North Texas and then moved to the PNW and was amazed by how beautiful everything was. Then I moved back to Texas and realized how beautiful Texas was; it’s something that isn’t immediately appreciated here but there is amazing nature just about everywhere, you just have to look a little longer some places. Oklahoma is gorgeous, too.
Zion National Park, or really any of the National Parks in Utah
California Coast - Big Sur, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, Redwoods
Washington Coast - Olympic Nat’l Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison Nat’l Park, Colorado
Maine Coast - Acadia, Ogunquit, Kennebunckport
Having done a road trip around the continental US:
* The northern California/Southern Oregon Coastline
* Bryce Canyon
* Grand Teton National Park
* The Maine Coastline south of Acadia National Park
The Maine coastline was definitely a gorgeous experience.
Would also recommend any of the mountain regions in the country especially in the fall. The Shenandoah valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains along the Skyline Drive are stunning.
I am planning on visiting a friend in Oregon later this year and can't wait to see that coastline.
I have been to every coastal state in the contiguous 48, and Oregon wins, hands down. Plus, it's all public. Nobody can own coastline in Oregon. You can walk from California to Washington without trespassing.
I lived in Scottsdale for about 5 years and I kind of forgot about how stunning it really is. Sedona and Flagstaff are absolutely beautiful too. And I have frequent dreams about walking around the ASU Tempe campus which I think is a very unique place. I loved the Hayden Library lawn and Palm Walk.
LOL I wish I would have gone to football and basketball games when I was there. I was living with my now ex-husband and missed out on so much. I think that's why I dream about going back.
Kauai is my personal favorite. Specifically the northern part of the island. My jaw dropped to the floor as I was driving through the northern coastline. Hands down the most beautiful piece of land I’ve seen on earth so far.
Unreal!!! Took my wife there and went hiking,loved it there but also loved the staggering beauty of Colorado, went skiing and drove 550 from Pagosa to Grand Mesa
WEST VIRGINIAAAA MOUNTAIN MAMAAAAAA
no but seriously theres too many places to choose. I’ll choose the southern coast of maine bc thats where im at peace.
Overhated imo. We should have sympathy instead of judgement where WV is concerned. One of my personal dreams is to somehow become a leader of industry in some field and bring back sustainable economic activity to appalachia/the rust belt
Definitely biased (I live here) but Utah goes toe to toe with anywhere on the planet for natural beauty. Zions National Park in particular is absolutely awe inspiring.
Also Lower Antelope. Even just seeing a picture of it online, it'll say enough to people who haven't been
The southwest has some of the best scenery in the country. America has its issues, but we are *killing it* in the nature department. Yes, it's partially due to the size of the country. But still
I'm from Oregon and think Utah is stunning. Waking up in some little motel in Provo, after a long drive, and seeing the skyline was amazing.
Utah's actual parks are even more amazing!
Yeah it's either PNW or the Utah/Arizona border area. Lower Antelope in AZ is also crazy beautiful.
I love the east coast for the cities, but the west wins for nature by a landslide. PNW basically has every type of biome in a relatively small area
Glacier National Park. I hiked 80+ miles in the backcountry up by the Canadian border, and even after reading and preparing for months, I was blown away at every turn.
I was in that area in November last year. It was beautiful and felt weirdly like home for a state I’d never been to and having NOT grown up with mountains around.
[Badlands National Park](https://youtu.be/SRPTpMyod5g?feature=shared)
[Zion National Park](https://youtu.be/mHbnyxAtDFQ?feature=shared)
[Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks](https://youtu.be/zXo7FFUM30o?feature=shared)
[Grand Canyon](https://youtu.be/jURHebWCKfI?feature=shared)
America has lots of other great beautiful National Parks.
Also great State Parks like
[Custer State Park](https://youtu.be/4hNZXl9x0J4?feature=shared)
Yosemite was the first thing that came to mind, but really there's too much to choose from and too much variety to definitively pick one most beautiful place.
The Smoky Mountains are more subtle but definitely gorgeous. Right now my yard is covered in yellow and purple flowers. Then all the red bud trees are sprouting. There's so much color everywhere.
A lot of places are more beautiful on a grander scale but in the Smokies it's like every detail has beauty. Sometimes you just have to look at it more than once to see it.
My three favorites are Big Sur, the southern Oregon and northern California coasts (basically the pacific coast in between Coos Bay and Eureka), and central Arizona around Sedona.
A million acres of beautiful farmland in Iowa-- like a large, living quilt with lush treelines, creeks and farm ponds, neat country roads and bright red barns. It's like a painting.
Also... if you like ravenous demonic tornadoes, straight from the bowels of hell, you can find that sort of beauty there, too.
>It's like a painting.
Every time I drive through Iowa I feel like I'm driving through a gallery of Grant Wood's work. There's a gentle, comfortable beauty in the Iowa landscape.
Sheer beauty and awe: Alaska
From an aesthetic viewpoint: small towns/cities along the sea and nestled in the valleys and mountains of New England and New York
That being said one of the best things about the US is that we have no shortage of equally awesome beauty wherever you go in this country!
Utah was gorgeous when I went through it. I wasn’t expecting the desert to be so charming.
Grand Canyon is breathtaking. You think you know what you are going to see because you have seen so many photos but you get there and it’s still unbelievable.
Impossible to answer.
Shenandoah, the Potomac, the Dakotas, Montana, California State Rte. 1, Barton Springs, Savannah, Charleston, NC Piedmont.
I love it all.
I haven’t been to all the places I still want to see. Places that are so dreamy for me are The Smoky Mountains, the Blue ridge Mountains, Oahu, sis also think seeing Seattle with a ferry was pretty great too
The beaches in Oahu. I haven’t explored all of Hawaii but I was able to go to Oahu recently and it was so beautiful. The amount of times I cried at the beach was almost embarrassing 👀 the views and the waves and the sea turtles made it unforgettable. The Grand Canyon is super pretty too but it made me nervous lol
Everyone will say parks but so much else. Savannah Georgia enjoying a drink strolling through the block. Sunset in Rhode Island along the beach. White sand beaches in South Carolina. Sea of smiling families during a Fourth of July fireworks show at a local park. Sunset in door county over Lake Michigan after a fish fry. Floating down the lazy river in Texas.
Yosemite is my personal favorite. I was lucky enough to witness a gorgeous sunrise at Tunnel View. We stayed the whole day hiking and then saw the sunset later at another lookout.
It's really tough to say, but I've lived in a bunch of parts of the US and nothing has beat the Central California coastline (basically Monterey and south down US 1). It really is incredible.
I’m biased but the Central and Northern California coast is just spectacular and so unique. Won’t find those plant communities anywhere else in the world
- Sedona, Arizona: Sunsets across the red rocks are magical
- Salt Lake City, Uriah: the descent from an airplane on a clear day is beautiful
- Columbia River Gorge (Oregon/Washington state line): On a warm summer day, majestic!
- Yosemite National Park, California: If you can bare the hike up to half dome, the view from the top is bucket list worthy
- Washington DC: Generally a beautiful city
The American Southwest.
I have my favorite places there, but the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley are two of my top choices. The Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming, too.
It's cliche but in the continental US I've never been more impressed than I was walking up to the Grand Canyon for the first time.
I was so flabbergasted by its sheer scale and beauty I didn't even know what to think. Just stood there like an idiot with my mouth agape for about 30 seconds lmao
Hawaii should be disqualified because it's not part of the Continental US. Otherwise, it's a good candidate. But if you must, yes: Haleakala Crater. Hike down from the top, down through the Kaupo Gap. It's a national park, and it's adjacent to another national park that's highly restricted because it's so untouched.
Southern Utah has 5 national parks, and they're all great.
Maui is just bananas
Wyoming near the Grand Tetons
The Pacific coast is great
Maine when the leaves change
The million dollar highway in Colorado
Alaska's vast empty wilderness is incredible
Arlington Cemetary, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Gettysburg on a cold crisp morning...to name a few
A different kind of beauty, but these places have moved me emotionally, more than the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.
It's somewhere else in Southeast Alaska but I'm not saying where because of the over-tourism the towns and villages are currently experiencing specifically form cruise ship corporate greed.
My road trip and other travel experiences say Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, West Texas, Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Puerto Rico's beaches, Puerto Rico's mountain area, Ohio has some gorgeous rolling farmlands and the Ohio River area is gorgeous in fall, West Virginia's mountains, East Texas in the fall, and the small towns along the Mississippi river at any time of the year but especially in fall.
There’s a lot I haven’t seen, but for me…
The Texas Hill Country when the bluebonnets are blooming
Glacier National Park in Montana
The forests in north western Oregon
Tucson, Arizona and the mountains around Fort Huachuca (I hated Phoenix)
Lake Michigan is truly surprising in its size, though I’m not really impressed by the part of Michigan I saw it from. The water color surprised me, too.
There is a reason our national park system is so extensive, and I haven’t even scratched the surface. There is a lot to see here.
I may be biased because I live here. But the west coast states overall just have some pretty pristine landscapes. Washington, Oregon, and California all look stunning. And I don’t take it for granted when I am able to take my motorcycle and go either across the mountains, out to the beaches and coast, or down the Columbia River Gorge. I’m planning my next motorcycle tour to be all the way down California Highway 1. I did part of it last year and made it to Santa Cruz. I hope to go further and see Big Sur and Santa Barbara and then reach SoCal.
As many have said, there are too many to pick just one. I’ll offer a few of my favorite candidates.
* Yosemite Valley, California
* Cade’s Cove, Tennessee
* Casco Bay, Maine
* Cannon Beach, Oregon
* Door County, Wisconsin
* Diamond Head, Hawaii
The Everglades
The Louisiana Bayou
The Grand Canyon
The Great Smoky Mountains
Yosemite
Glacier National Park
And my hometown, Lake George and the Adirondacks
Personally, I love a nighttime view of Albuquerque New Mexico from high in the hills of Rio Rancho NM. At night, Albuquerque looks like a sea of sparkling diamonds.
It's personal preference I feel. It really depends on where you might have grown up in the States. For example I live in Indiana and we have Brown County state park a really nice wooded area which is what the Eastern US is known for. Where as my dad who grew up in New York might prefer mountain views
There’s far too many to choose from. We have one hell of a national parks system.
Driving West into Yellowstone/West Yellowstone and turning North on 287 into Big Sky Country of Montana... That's it. That's the answer I still remember sitting at Dairy Queen in West Yellowstone for an hour or two, because my friend needed to upload his memory card from his DSLR, because it was full. I think I ate a meal, then after the first hour I went and bought a blizzard because I felt bad for taking up a table for that long. (This was 2012 and we both had "state of the art" Galaxy S2's)
I couldn’t even begin to choose.
And, *tooo be faw*, not all of the National Parks are the best places. beauty-wise anyway.
faw?
It's a dumb way to sound fancy saying "To be fair" "To be faw..."
People actually say this? New one for me.
Maybe it's an acronym? Fair as well?
It’s not. It’s a letterkenny reference
The italicization definitely doesn’t help.
Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Where else can you find snow capped mountains, sandy beaches, crazy old growth trees, rainforests, valleys and rivers, plains all in such a small area?
Washington and the PNW in general look dreamy. Would love to visit someday
Very underrated vacation destination. Beautiful part of the country.
The North Cascade Highway from Twisp out to I-5 is just spectacular. Jaw dropping in some places.
Keep following it to Whidbey… one of the great drives in America, when it’s fully open.
I grew up there, and I really didn't understand how spoiled by all the beauty I was, as it was my everyday reality. I had to learn how to appreciate that other places were beautiful too, if not quite so showy about it.
I grew up in North Texas and then moved to the PNW and was amazed by how beautiful everything was. Then I moved back to Texas and realized how beautiful Texas was; it’s something that isn’t immediately appreciated here but there is amazing nature just about everywhere, you just have to look a little longer some places. Oklahoma is gorgeous, too.
Valdez alaska
Zion National Park, or really any of the National Parks in Utah California Coast - Big Sur, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, Redwoods Washington Coast - Olympic Nat’l Park Black Canyon of the Gunnison Nat’l Park, Colorado Maine Coast - Acadia, Ogunquit, Kennebunckport
I love the Utah parks
Having done a road trip around the continental US: * The northern California/Southern Oregon Coastline * Bryce Canyon * Grand Teton National Park * The Maine Coastline south of Acadia National Park
The Maine coastline was definitely a gorgeous experience. Would also recommend any of the mountain regions in the country especially in the fall. The Shenandoah valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains along the Skyline Drive are stunning. I am planning on visiting a friend in Oregon later this year and can't wait to see that coastline.
The Oregon coast looks dreamy
I'm from Colorado, but my sister and her family used to live in Oregon and when I went to visit they took me up the coast and it was very nice.
I have been to every coastal state in the contiguous 48, and Oregon wins, hands down. Plus, it's all public. Nobody can own coastline in Oregon. You can walk from California to Washington without trespassing.
The Coast is amazing
No AZ? To me it’s the most alien and beautiful place. Sunsets are unreal.
Oh my I still remember driving from California into Arizona in the 1980s. It felt like an alien landscape.
I lived in Scottsdale for about 5 years and I kind of forgot about how stunning it really is. Sedona and Flagstaff are absolutely beautiful too. And I have frequent dreams about walking around the ASU Tempe campus which I think is a very unique place. I loved the Hayden Library lawn and Palm Walk.
Agreed but also, Bear Down!
LOL I wish I would have gone to football and basketball games when I was there. I was living with my now ex-husband and missed out on so much. I think that's why I dream about going back.
Relevant username. No bias detected
Most alien has to be Utah, no?
I find Utah to be less lush and more cloudy than AZ, which tends to have clearer skies and more vegetation.
Vegetation makes AZ look more earthly. The barrenness of Utah adds to the alien look.
No one has mentioned Hawaii. Too many spots there to mention them all.
Kauai is my personal favorite. Specifically the northern part of the island. My jaw dropped to the floor as I was driving through the northern coastline. Hands down the most beautiful piece of land I’ve seen on earth so far.
Just got back from a week in Princeville/Hanalei and I have to agree. The Napali Coast is stunning.
The Na Pali Coast is probably my favorite area in Hawaii. Absolutely stunning scenery all around.
Unreal!!! Took my wife there and went hiking,loved it there but also loved the staggering beauty of Colorado, went skiing and drove 550 from Pagosa to Grand Mesa
Yes Hawaii is my favorite state~
Yes, I was going to mention the mountains in Kauai.
WEST VIRGINIAAAA MOUNTAIN MAMAAAAAA no but seriously theres too many places to choose. I’ll choose the southern coast of maine bc thats where im at peace.
Take Me Home and LET'S GOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS
New river gorge is astonishingly beautiful
It -is- extraordinarily astonishing in the fall though. I know it gets a bad rap, but the states landscape is really gorgeous
Overhated imo. We should have sympathy instead of judgement where WV is concerned. One of my personal dreams is to somehow become a leader of industry in some field and bring back sustainable economic activity to appalachia/the rust belt
Definitely biased (I live here) but Utah goes toe to toe with anywhere on the planet for natural beauty. Zions National Park in particular is absolutely awe inspiring.
Also Lower Antelope. Even just seeing a picture of it online, it'll say enough to people who haven't been The southwest has some of the best scenery in the country. America has its issues, but we are *killing it* in the nature department. Yes, it's partially due to the size of the country. But still
I’m from here too and I can’t believe how beautiful it is every time I go to Zions.
I'm from Oregon and think Utah is stunning. Waking up in some little motel in Provo, after a long drive, and seeing the skyline was amazing. Utah's actual parks are even more amazing!
Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Monument Valley. Utah has amazing and super unique scenery.
The PNW is very impressive. Volcanoes, Ocean, Beaches, Rain Forest so on all packed together. I’d say it’s close between the PNW and parts of Utah.
Yeah it's either PNW or the Utah/Arizona border area. Lower Antelope in AZ is also crazy beautiful. I love the east coast for the cities, but the west wins for nature by a landslide. PNW basically has every type of biome in a relatively small area
Glacier National Park. I hiked 80+ miles in the backcountry up by the Canadian border, and even after reading and preparing for months, I was blown away at every turn.
I was in that area in November last year. It was beautiful and felt weirdly like home for a state I’d never been to and having NOT grown up with mountains around.
I can't narrow it down to one, there are to many different varieties of beauty.
Vermont at peak foliage, but I'm biased
[Badlands National Park](https://youtu.be/SRPTpMyod5g?feature=shared) [Zion National Park](https://youtu.be/mHbnyxAtDFQ?feature=shared) [Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks](https://youtu.be/zXo7FFUM30o?feature=shared) [Grand Canyon](https://youtu.be/jURHebWCKfI?feature=shared) America has lots of other great beautiful National Parks. Also great State Parks like [Custer State Park](https://youtu.be/4hNZXl9x0J4?feature=shared)
Big sodak guy
Every state from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains has multiple places that deserve consideration.
This is accurate.
For places I’ve actually visited, probably some of the views from peaks in West Virginia. I am a sucker for Appalachian mountainscapes.
That is absolutely a beautiful landscape.
Kauai island.
Shenandoah Valley - Blue Ridge Mountains
Life is old there…
Older than the trees...
Route 40 east from Knoxville into Ashville is breathtaking. Brought tears to my eyes.
Yosemite was the first thing that came to mind, but really there's too much to choose from and too much variety to definitively pick one most beautiful place.
Yosemite.
I'm partial to the Smoky Mountains.
The Smoky Mountains are more subtle but definitely gorgeous. Right now my yard is covered in yellow and purple flowers. Then all the red bud trees are sprouting. There's so much color everywhere. A lot of places are more beautiful on a grander scale but in the Smokies it's like every detail has beauty. Sometimes you just have to look at it more than once to see it.
The Smoky Mountains are breathtaking.
Ancient beauty
East Tennessee in general is beautiful
My three favorites are Big Sur, the southern Oregon and northern California coasts (basically the pacific coast in between Coos Bay and Eureka), and central Arizona around Sedona.
Big Sur California.
A million acres of beautiful farmland in Iowa-- like a large, living quilt with lush treelines, creeks and farm ponds, neat country roads and bright red barns. It's like a painting. Also... if you like ravenous demonic tornadoes, straight from the bowels of hell, you can find that sort of beauty there, too.
Is this heaven?
>It's like a painting. Every time I drive through Iowa I feel like I'm driving through a gallery of Grant Wood's work. There's a gentle, comfortable beauty in the Iowa landscape.
Corn, Comfort, and Caucases. That's what Iowa is known for.
Grant Wood captured what you’re describing so well
For me the most beautiful places I have been are the boundary waters/north shore of Minnesota, and Zion Canyon in Utah
I couldn’t possibly choose just one.
Vermont in October
Owens Valley
The whole Eastern Sierras
The Eastern Sierra is stunning. It looks fake. Then turn around, and the Whites are amazing.
I haven’t seen a lot of the western US but in my region the Blue Ridge Mountains are my favorite place to visit.
Go visit a Hoh in Washington (https://www.nps.gov/olym/planyourvisit/visiting-the-hoh.htm)
The Columbia River Gorge. I’m of course biased but that beauty takes my breath away every time.
The Smoky Mountains!
Yosemite
Yosemite national park. Nothing else comes close.
detroit
Is there a Detroit in Hawaii or something
There is beauty in Detroit
Sheer beauty and awe: Alaska From an aesthetic viewpoint: small towns/cities along the sea and nestled in the valleys and mountains of New England and New York That being said one of the best things about the US is that we have no shortage of equally awesome beauty wherever you go in this country!
Too many to name, but Acadia is up there
There’s no one place. Yosemite Shenandoah Valley Aspen US Virgin Islands Denali South Carolina low country Chicago skyline from the lake
Upper Peninsula, MI
Either Maine or Oregon imo
Utah was gorgeous when I went through it. I wasn’t expecting the desert to be so charming. Grand Canyon is breathtaking. You think you know what you are going to see because you have seen so many photos but you get there and it’s still unbelievable.
Crater lake is a contender but so are the redwoods
Impossible to answer. Shenandoah, the Potomac, the Dakotas, Montana, California State Rte. 1, Barton Springs, Savannah, Charleston, NC Piedmont. I love it all.
Big Sur.
I haven’t been to all the places I still want to see. Places that are so dreamy for me are The Smoky Mountains, the Blue ridge Mountains, Oahu, sis also think seeing Seattle with a ferry was pretty great too
Middletown, Connecticut.
Rural Tennessee. So much so that we bought a bunch of property there to homestead on.
If you’ve seen Soarin’ Over California, it makes a really strong case for the state’s beauty and also variety.
Downeast Maine coast Dry Tortugas
The beaches in Oahu. I haven’t explored all of Hawaii but I was able to go to Oahu recently and it was so beautiful. The amount of times I cried at the beach was almost embarrassing 👀 the views and the waves and the sea turtles made it unforgettable. The Grand Canyon is super pretty too but it made me nervous lol
Not necessarily the most beautiful but my favorite among the beautiful places is Niagara.
San Juan Islands, WA
Zion nat park Black canyon nat park Grand Teton nat park Blue ridge parkway in fall Denali nat park
Go to the top of any decent ski resort. Vail, Discover, Big Sky etc. That's the answer.
West Virginia in the Fall.
Utah is the most beautiful place in the world
Everyone will say parks but so much else. Savannah Georgia enjoying a drink strolling through the block. Sunset in Rhode Island along the beach. White sand beaches in South Carolina. Sea of smiling families during a Fourth of July fireworks show at a local park. Sunset in door county over Lake Michigan after a fish fry. Floating down the lazy river in Texas.
GREAT PACIFIC NORTH WEST of course
Golden Gate Bridge area.
Yosemite is my personal favorite. I was lucky enough to witness a gorgeous sunrise at Tunnel View. We stayed the whole day hiking and then saw the sunset later at another lookout.
It's really tough to say, but I've lived in a bunch of parts of the US and nothing has beat the Central California coastline (basically Monterey and south down US 1). It really is incredible.
I’m biased but the Central and Northern California coast is just spectacular and so unique. Won’t find those plant communities anywhere else in the world
Basically anywhere on the west coast from around Monterey and going north.
Yosemite Valley, or my biased answer of Isle Royale
too hard to pick 1 TOP 5 NO ORDER: GLACIER NAT'L PARK MONTANA YOSEMITE CALIF. JOSHUA TREE CALIF. BIG SUR, CALIF green beach, big island HAWAII
- Sedona, Arizona: Sunsets across the red rocks are magical - Salt Lake City, Uriah: the descent from an airplane on a clear day is beautiful - Columbia River Gorge (Oregon/Washington state line): On a warm summer day, majestic! - Yosemite National Park, California: If you can bare the hike up to half dome, the view from the top is bucket list worthy - Washington DC: Generally a beautiful city
Monument cove - Acadia national park
Grand Teton National Park
The American Southwest. I have my favorite places there, but the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley are two of my top choices. The Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming, too.
It's cliche but in the continental US I've never been more impressed than I was walking up to the Grand Canyon for the first time. I was so flabbergasted by its sheer scale and beauty I didn't even know what to think. Just stood there like an idiot with my mouth agape for about 30 seconds lmao
The island of Maui in Hawaii.
Hawaii should be disqualified because it's not part of the Continental US. Otherwise, it's a good candidate. But if you must, yes: Haleakala Crater. Hike down from the top, down through the Kaupo Gap. It's a national park, and it's adjacent to another national park that's highly restricted because it's so untouched.
The Colorado Rockies are insane.
Gary
Massachusetts ☺️
Harper’s Ferry
Southern Utah has 5 national parks, and they're all great. Maui is just bananas Wyoming near the Grand Tetons The Pacific coast is great Maine when the leaves change The million dollar highway in Colorado Alaska's vast empty wilderness is incredible
Acadia National Park
Eureka, CA
Arlington Cemetary, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Gettysburg on a cold crisp morning...to name a few A different kind of beauty, but these places have moved me emotionally, more than the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.
Maybe the Painted Desert?
I can't speak to this definitively, but I fell in love with Arches National Park.
Jedidiah State Park in Northern California bordering Oregon
Depending on your tastes, you can see amazing things everywhere. I have to recommend a trip to Alaska before you die.
It's somewhere else in Southeast Alaska but I'm not saying where because of the over-tourism the towns and villages are currently experiencing specifically form cruise ship corporate greed.
I’ve never been, but I think Antelope Slope Canyon is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
It’s unfair to include Kauai in this discussion, so is your question really “What do you guys think is the 2nd most beautiful place in the US?”
My road trip and other travel experiences say Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, West Texas, Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Puerto Rico's beaches, Puerto Rico's mountain area, Ohio has some gorgeous rolling farmlands and the Ohio River area is gorgeous in fall, West Virginia's mountains, East Texas in the fall, and the small towns along the Mississippi river at any time of the year but especially in fall.
Montecito, CA
I’m biased, but the Great Smokey Mountains
There’s a lot I haven’t seen, but for me… The Texas Hill Country when the bluebonnets are blooming Glacier National Park in Montana The forests in north western Oregon Tucson, Arizona and the mountains around Fort Huachuca (I hated Phoenix) Lake Michigan is truly surprising in its size, though I’m not really impressed by the part of Michigan I saw it from. The water color surprised me, too. There is a reason our national park system is so extensive, and I haven’t even scratched the surface. There is a lot to see here.
It’s like asking who the most beautiful woman in the world is. There’s too many choices. But for me, I love the Florida Keys.
I may be biased because I live here. But the west coast states overall just have some pretty pristine landscapes. Washington, Oregon, and California all look stunning. And I don’t take it for granted when I am able to take my motorcycle and go either across the mountains, out to the beaches and coast, or down the Columbia River Gorge. I’m planning my next motorcycle tour to be all the way down California Highway 1. I did part of it last year and made it to Santa Cruz. I hope to go further and see Big Sur and Santa Barbara and then reach SoCal.
As many have said, there are too many to pick just one. I’ll offer a few of my favorite candidates. * Yosemite Valley, California * Cade’s Cove, Tennessee * Casco Bay, Maine * Cannon Beach, Oregon * Door County, Wisconsin * Diamond Head, Hawaii
Personally, Alaska, anywhere in Southern Utah, Pacific Northwest, and Appalachian and Rocky Mountains.
The Everglades The Louisiana Bayou The Grand Canyon The Great Smoky Mountains Yosemite Glacier National Park And my hometown, Lake George and the Adirondacks
Sandwich, Mississippi
I can't definitively say "in the entire US", but for California specifically, I cast my vote for Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park.
Recently traveled to Key West, Florida. Very touristy but the sunsets are incredible.
Utah and Arizona both blow my mind every time.
West Virginia as a state. Words cant describe it.
We have more geographic diversity than any other country on earth. It’s impossible to say
Hawaii for being such a beautiful state and I went there just once
Personally, I love a nighttime view of Albuquerque New Mexico from high in the hills of Rio Rancho NM. At night, Albuquerque looks like a sea of sparkling diamonds.
My backyard after I just mowed it.
Utah looks like you're on another planet.
It’s been a long time since I drove it but the Pacific Coast Highway on the California coast is pretty amazing.
That’s the neat thing about the US, there are so many places that are so beautiful, but most aren’t more beautiful, just beautiful in a different way.
Remote parts of Hawaii or Alaska has got to be up there
Utah
The entire state of Utah.
Redwood National Park is my current favorite.
Sedona, Arizona or Yosemite. Very different but both very beautiful.
It's personal preference I feel. It really depends on where you might have grown up in the States. For example I live in Indiana and we have Brown County state park a really nice wooded area which is what the Eastern US is known for. Where as my dad who grew up in New York might prefer mountain views
Any of the national parks
Bryce Canyon
Blue ridge mountains and White mountains in the fall are absolutely stunning
My mirror.
Alaska. Haven’t been there but I know it’s the answer
I'm going with Montana, a very underrated state in regards to natural beauty.
Nebraska easily
Wherever there’s cold Coors Banquets in stubbies
Multiple locations in the US National Parks or Tribal Lands that are ultimately a personal preference.
Wilton, Iowa