>>2711655Honestly reminds me of the Kansas Flint Hills. Cozy but not the best hiking opportunities. The plains states are great if you like hunting because they’re loaded with game and I personally enjoy the absolute solitude I can find there whereas most of the famous scenery locations have become loaded with second home owners and tourists mostly hippies, Indians, and Chinese driving the byways force fucked into the land scapes. I specifically remember stopping alongside a highway in colorado and seeing a squad of future programmers step in front of an elk hunter that was glassing a particularly pretty mountain to take a picture obstructing them which was shitty.
North East US is better imo if you want to watch the leaves change in autumn, drive around and visit some quaint small towns, do some light day hiking here and there, and eat some good food.
Southeast US is pretty meh but I’m sure someone from there will argue. I liked Florida for the ocean and that was about it. Keys are fucking dope if you like swimming, diving, fishing, etc. but very expensive and very developed. You can still boat out to some small uninhabited islands but everyone else knows about them too. You don’t need to go to the swamps unless you like 4x4s, guns, fishing, and alligators. I personally do but snobs with delicate sensibilities and low tolerance for mosquitos need not investigate.
Northwest and Rockies are fucking awesome mountains just stay away from the most famous ones. You will hit a traffic jam on Mt. Rainier for example. But if you want to get fucking LOST out in the remote wilderness that’s the place. A lot of it is just too steep to really develop too much and shit tons of federal land thanks to Teddy Roosevelt.
Southwest is desert and has mountains as well. Can be very dangerous with the tweakers, illegal aliens, snakes, heat, scorpions, cacti, etc. but the most beautiful sunset you will ever see is in the desert. Simple as.
