Whats there see in YOUR state??

[lulugirl]

Here in Arizona we have an endless supply of scorpians, rattlesnakes and tarantula's. In the summer months temps often reach a balmy 115 degrees.
Oh.....the red rocks of Sedona are pretty.

 

[JoBird]

Here in Arizona we have an endless supply of scorpians, rattlesnakes and tarantula's. In the summer months temps often reach a balmy 115 degrees.
Oh.....the red rocks of Sedona are pretty.

I, too was thinking about my state and what we have to offer. Here's my list:

ARKANSAS
Cows.
Chickens. Chicken houses, chicken farms. Rows and rows of buildings that used to be chicken farms. Chickens in pens going down the road on the back of Tyson trucks on the way to their, ahem, destiny.
Flies. Lots-n-lots-n-lots-n-lots of flies. "What's up with these flies?" people ask when they come here. See above, ie. Chickens and cows.
Oh, yeah, and we've got Wal-Mart.
Can't beat that list!

 

[monarchsfan16]

what time of year do you plan to travel? many of New Hampshire's sites are seasonal--
lots of skiing--some are great for beginner's & families such as Pat's Peak in Henniker--saturdays, POP Night from 3pm-9 or 10 pm skiing, tubing &/or snowboarding, all equipment & short lesson, lift tickets for $29.00 pp
Mt Sunapee in Sunapee
Strawberry Banke--historical open air museum houses, re-enactors, etc Portsmouth, NH. Also lots of beaches. Historic Exeter is nearby. special events, costumed guides
President Franklin Pierce Homestead (1804) for 30 yrs home of f Pierce, 14th President. built by Governor Benjamin Pierce, a larger than life figure, hero in the american Revolution & a real rags-to-riches story--Private tours at no extra charge, children's tours. costumed guides & special events May-October, 7 days a week in July & August. The Manse & the President's grave is in Concord, NH
Fort @ # 4 important outpost during the French & Indian War & Revolutiuonary War. A living history museum in the sleepy town of Charleston, NH. Special events, re-enactments, costumed interpreters. DS17 loves the canon!
Canobie Lake Park lovely little family old timey park. Little shows, plenty of dining--REFILLABLE CUPS! Hey, come for our DISmeet sometime in August??
hike in the White Mts or on one of our easier spots such as Mt Lovewell in Washington, NH in Pillsbury State Park (no facilities, just as nature intended) or Mt Monadnock
Do you canoe or kyack? lots of rivers & lakes here. Great fishing & hunting, too
the Balsams in Dixville Notch & the Mt Washington in Bretton Woods--both grand old, ornate Victorian resorts. superb gardens, good service, peaceful & relaxing, lots of skiing, hiking, golfing etc
tax free shopping! yep, even appliances & furniture etc
NASCAR-NH International Speedway in Loudon, NH
Manchester Monarchs @ the Verizon Arena in Manchester
If you come in the spring, summer or fall we're all about sports, yard sailing, crafts fairs & auctions

Jean

To add to this list, I know that you have a young daughter. I'm not sure when you're planning this trip, but if it's before she hits about age 10 or so, Santa's Village and Storyland are fun for that age. We also have some beaches (albeit, cold).
You can take the gondola to the top of Wildcat and have an amazing view of Mt Washington, Maine, and northern NH. There is also an aerial tramway at Cannon Mountain.
The Basin in Franconia Notch is free, a very short walk, and neat to see. The Flume and Lost River are both beautiful, easy (about an hour or two depending on how much you explore) walks along beautiful waterfalls. We also like to walk down to Glen Ellis Falls (a few $ for parking gets you in). It's a 5 or 10 minute walk, and gorgeous, brings you right to the bottom of the falls.
Loads of outlet shopping
The M/S Mt Washington, a big boat out on Lake Winnipesaukee
Drive the Kankamagus Highway (twisty, right through the mountains)
There are some great towns right on Lake Winnipesaukee with cute little shops that are fun to explore
Portsmouth is a great city to explore. There's shopping, it's on the water, there's a theater that often puts on both children's and adults plays
Take a trip out to the Isles of Shoals

There's loads to do in NH

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

Well, I live in northern CA now, but I'm still new to the area and getting to know the state, plus someone else has already summed it up. So I'll tell you about my old "home turf" of MN and WI

Minnesota:
Tons of stuff in the Twin Cities: Science museum, art institute, children's museum, MN history museum - and more; lots of great parks to explore; the Mississippi river; Mall of America (or, as my DB calls it, "the temple of American Consumerism" ); state capitol; St. Paul's cathedral; the skyway system in Minneapolis is fun; Nicollette Mall; Orchestra Hall, Ordway theater...
There's tons of state parks, and many have great historical sites and interpretive programs. One of the best is Itasca state park, which is the headwaters of the Mississippi River. You can wade accross the Mississippi!
Walnut Grove, MN has a great Laura Ingalls Wilder museum and program if you enjoy the Little House on the Prairie books.
I always love the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the north.
Duluth is a great city to visit - the farthest western port for Atlantic Ocean vessels with lots of fun places to explore.
Rochester is home to the Mayo Clinic and one of the best Barnes and Nobel stores ever - it's in a renovated theater and has a fun atmosphere!
On the weirder end of things, I believe the world's largest ball of twine/string is in MN somewhere, and there's always the SPAM museum in Austin, MN.

In WI:
Millwaukee has museums, shopping, and Lake Michigan
Madison has the state capitol area (awesome!), more museums, lakes, parks
You can see the Mississippi river on the W side of the state and Lake Michigan on the other
Door county is amazingly beautiful - a great vacation spot!
For more of the "cheese" factor in a vacation, check out Wisconsin Dells. Water Parks, Ripleys, Mini-Golf, amazing resorts with indoor water parks, and of course the beautiful Dells that started it all.
There's also the Mustard Museum and the Circus museum in Mt. Horeb, the troll capitol.
Or Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen in Spring Green, where you can also see the House on the Rock.

 

[Kitty 34]

Great Lakes and a beautiful Up North.

 

[OhMari]

In Wisconsin
You could see the Kettle Moraine
The largest Marsh in the world, "Horican Marsh"
Milwaukee has a Children's Museum and regular museum
Green Bay Packer Stadium-The Frozen Tundra
Take a boat ride in Wisconsin Dells-also has one of the largest water parks in the U.S. "Noah's Ark"
You could take a Ferry Ride from WI to MI

 

[CindyKansas]

Kansas, southwest Kansas to be exact. LOTS OF WIDE OPEN SPACE! You can see for miles and miles.

 

[Jpgirl]

I live in Houston TX and here's what i love.. The beaches. Galveston is close to us but there's Padre Island National Seashore which is very beautiful and a coastline in between the . Dallas where JFK was shot and also JR. San Antonio is absolutely the best with Riverwalk and the Alamo, Austin is very eclectic and yuppie and a wonderful place to bike (Lance Armstrong lives there when he's in the country), the friendly, proud Texans . I just love it here

 

[Dreaming of Disney]

Kentucky

Mammoth Cave National Park
Kentucky Horse Park
Louisville Slugger Museam
The Newport Aquarium
National Corvette Museam
Appalacia
Beautiful Rolling Hills and many scenic views

 

[AnaheimGirl]

Colorado . . .

Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountain National Park
Glenwood Canyon
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Mesa Verde
Sand Dunes National Monument
Garden of the Gods
Vail
Breckinridge
Aspen
Steamboat Springs
Molly Brown House
Denver Museum of Natural History
Dinosaur National Monument

And some of the best hiking and camping you will find anywhere. Plus, the best microbrewed beer!!

Great list! Hmm, what can I add?
Denver Mint
Royal Gorge Bridge
Seven Falls
Cave of the Winds
Four Corners (cheesy, yes, but it's kind of fun to jump from one state to another and back again, if you happen to be in the area.)
Alpine Slides at many ski resorts (open in summer only).

 

[wvjovifan]

Wild, Wonderful West Virginia!!

Beautiful mountains, lots of State Parks, Civil War Battlefields, Harpers Ferry
National Historical Park (in my back yard), Ski Resorts, White Water Rafting,
Coal Mine Tour (Beckley), Oglebay Festival of Lights (Wheeling at Christmas),
West Virginina Mountaineer Football, Horse Racing & Slots (Charles Town...also in my back yard), Cass Scenic Railroad, New River Gorge, Hot Air Balloon Festival.........I love West Virginia!!!!!

 

[nkjzmom]

Not sure when your school year ends...but over Memorial Day weekend Decatur has a hot air balloon jubilee...tons of fun and beautiful balloons.

Huntsville has quite a few nice hands-on museums (Sci-Quest and Earlyworks)and the Space and Rocket Center
Desoto Caverns
Birmingham Civil Rights Museum
USS Alabama
Dauphin Island
Talledega Superspeedway
Nice state parks

**had to add Helen Keller's birthplace and home, Ivy Green**

 

[Mad4Mickey]

I live around Dallas and I have a friend coming in from NY in a couple of weeks and we were just talking about this today at work.

Southfork ( if you like that 80's stuff)
The Ft. Worth Stockyards Lots to do there ! I mean good grief it has Billy Bobs in it LOL
Dallas has great resturants and museums and yeah the spot that poor JFK took the big one I hate that

there is plenty to do up here come on down We welcome all

 

[arkansas mom]

Clinton Library--whether you love him or hate him, it's a very interesting afternoon.

 

[dbarker]

Texas--
the beaches
desert
the Alamo
the Missions Trail
Spindle Top
lots of State Parks
The Ranch, aka Crawford, TX
Big Bend Nat'l Park
Sea World
3 Six Flags Parks
Schlitterbahn
NASA
Ft Worth stockyards
Rodeos
LBJ Library
the capital bldg in Austin is taller than the one in DC
Caverns

can't think of anything else right, but there is much more

 

[LaLa]

FEMA Trailers and empty slabs



If that's not quite up your alley, we also have:

Elvis's birthplace
beautiful antebellum homes
casinos
We normally have beautiful beaches, they're somewhat messy right now though

 

[debloco]

To elaborate on the earlier post on Illinois...sights in Chicago!

The Art Institute
The Field Museum
Shedd Aquarium
Adler Planetarium
Museum of Science and Industry
Navy Pier
Sears Tower
seeing the World Champion White Sox play at Comisky!
shopping on the Magnificent Mile and State Street
Millennium Park
biking, rollerblading, walking along the Lakeshore
taking an architecture boat tour
dozens of different festivals throughout the summer

plus so many other things

 

[Tiggerlover91]

There's not much of anything to see here in my state..... just Disneyworld, Busch Gardens, Universal, Seaworld, if you like that kind of thing.

 

[Just_Me_06]

California !
-disneyland obviously (lol)
-yosimite
-santa cruz
-wonderful beaches (though slightly chilly lol)
-hollyood stars blvd. (oh yeah !)

 

[VegasMonarch]

in the land of enchantment we have...
old town in albuquerque
the plaza in santa fe
many museums (including the Georgia O'Keefe museum)
the painted desert
carlsbad caverns (must see this if you are coming through)
bandalier national monument
the petroglyphs (see them now before they build a road through it)
white sands (see where the atomic bomb was created)
the sandia peak tramway
and many others.
i love this state!