Connor
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I wrote this for someone else's answer and I stand by it. If you want a great American trip, and you can afford to rent a car for a week, do a roadtrip from San Diego to Eureka, California, along highway 101, and you will not regret it! Best trip you will ever have in your life. But if you can't rent a car, go to Boston or New York or maybe Chicago.
"But California, from my experience, is unconditionally the most beautiful state. It's got the most diverse settings of any place I've ever been to on Earth. And I've been to well over 30 countries. The South around San Diego and Los Angeles (Where I was born) is all very nice weather desert to the west, and to the east when you go over the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains there is more desert that is very hot. But in between, as I mentioned you have the sierra nevada mountains, and during any time of the year they can snow! And they are completely beautiful to drive up. Also, the cool thing about San Diego and Los Angeles is that there are NO TREES in most of those cities naturally. But San Diego is riddled with beautiful canyons where nothing has been built, and in the depth of them you can find palms growing in the streams. It's a landscape unique to SoCal. Then right between San Francisco and Los Angeles you run into beautiful grassland. It's basically an endless expanse of beautiful grass with a few trees here and there, something you never would imagine that would exist in reality! Look at the attached picture.
http://www.fs.fed.us/grasslands/lonetree/images/ButteValley_twotrees.jpg
The grassland is amazing, and the best part is that it runs straight into huge cliffs that are right on the water, the most scenic place in the world in my opinion. Then, once you get around the bay area you have forest with trees! FINALLY! After you go above San Francisco you get into Redwood country. There are many areas above San Francisco where there is beautiful fog almost everyday, and the trees grow upwards of 300 feet! And the best part is that once you pass San Francisco, there are no major cities along the coast, so you get these huge trees basically to yourself! And let me say, there is absolutely nothing like walking between 300 foot tall redwoods! Especially at night. To wonder what these 300 foot tall, 1000 year old trees have seen is enough to make you cry haha. They're absolutely magnificent. And the coast of Northern Cali is amazing! It's all beautiful sheer cliffs.
And if all that wasn't beautiful enough, go East from Sacramento and run into Yosemite National Park. The absolute most breathtaking view you will ever see is from Glacier Point, there is nothing in the world that is as unbelievable as the view from there. It's like you've been brought to some fantasy world, but in this fantasy world there are waterfalls everywhere you turn haha.
And if that isn't enough to make you happy, we have wine country! Just north of San Francisco you have Napa Valley, the most famous wine country in the Americas, and arguably in the world."
Also, the chick below me is crazy. I live in North Carolina, and I've lived in California. Being 2 states away from Florida I can tell you it SUCKS. I used to go there every summer because my mother wanted to, not we always go North. Florida is an overrated land of bugs, humidity, and horrible beaches with algae all over them. Literally every time I've gone to Florida there has been nasty green algae all over it that rendered it impossible to go in the water. Plus the weather is unbearably hot, whereas in California it is perfect. California is Florida with better weather, better architecture, better people, and better landscapes.
I agree with New York though! My mother lives in New York so I get to travel there every couple months, I'm actually going back the first week of March! Anyway, I'd definitely advise you go to NYC if not California. It's a unique world on its own. I swear, if nothing but NYC existed, I'd be completely content. So if you must pick one city, it's always NYC. But if you want a roadtrip of a lifetime either do the Cali one if you want nature mixed with cities. Or go from DC-Boston, it's not a bad drive and you get to see DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Providence, and Boston!
Roy
Hudson River Valley, New York
California Gold Country
Hawaii: The Big Island
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Despite what Connor said, California is not all as good as it seems. Ok yes San Diego and San Francisco are AMAZING but still the state itself is not somewhere i'd ever wanna go(I lived there before so I know what its like). It is definitely not the most scenic place in the world...hell no.
You wanna know the best places??? Well New York and Florida are the best 2 states in the USA, hands down. Florida has AWESOME beaches, AWESOME nightlife, AWESOME shopping, AWESOME people, AWESOME weather, AWESOME amusement/water parks, AWESOME festivals, AWESOME food. New York has ALL of that except for the wildlife part cause you know...they don't have panthers, alligators and flamingos.
If you go to Florida you MUST go to: Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Busch Gardens Africa, Wet N Wild, Aquatica, Adventure Isle, Rapids Water Park, Miami Beach, South Beach(Miami), Daytona Beach, The Everglades, Key West, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Big Kahuna's Waterpark, Florida Gulfariam...**** there's just too much to do in Florida. You'll honestly never get bored.
If you go to New York..........they got New York City, thats enough stuff to keep you occupied for the rest of your life. You MUST go to Coney Island/Brighton Beach, you MUST go to The Hamptons(probably the nicest beach in the world), you MUST go to The Great Escape & Splash Water Kingdom, and you MUST go to Darien Lake
Jonathan (legal name)
Chicago, NYC, San Diego, Hawaii, Florida, DISNEY WORLD, Boston,
Have a wonderful trip!
Anonymous
Why don't you go to Hell........................................... in Michigan.