My State is Better Than Yours

“PA has Ricketts Glen state park which rocks!!!! Philly is a damn cool city too!!”

“More of New York

Another Great Lake - Erie

Amherst - Safest city in the US (at least 2 years straight)

Love Canal

Anchor Bar - Chicken wings

Watkins Glen”

“why do the trees in west alabama lean towards the west....Cause Mississippi SUCKS...lol..”

“I'm jealous of me too sometimes! mountains, lakes, ocean, rivers...so many choices and all wonderful - heaven is right!

But don't forget western Maine, Mr Pennsylvania Hiker - which is awesome in itself!

And it is nice living so close to other great places like Canada and NH. :)

But it gets cold sometimes, like tonight - minus 30 with the wind chill right now, brrrrrr!

o(=D”

“I'm jealous of you too twigeater.

Except that my idea of ocean is a lot warmer than yours.:)”

“I like Iowa... and even Minnesota. Tri-State area: NE IA, SE MN and west central Wisconsin. Yellow River State Forest in Iowa (ALL its units), hiking in other forest units in MN, lots of DNR and other state land to hike, and in Wisconsin I have yet to try the Black River Forest and also the Kickapoo Preserve.

Oh yeah, and Kansas is nice! ;-P I like Chalk Rocks in the west. No one here's seen'em but you and me, Dunny.”

“Tennessee has Mount LeConte!! Biggest face in the Appalachians.

PA has the Delaware River Water Gap too.

In the NC the Black Mountains are Awesome.

I think the whole dang east coast rocks.”

“Too much here to read! But, does PA have:

any blowholes?

any ocean frontage?

total separation from the other states?

the largest cattle ranch in the U.S.?

any active vocanoes?

any outstanding surfboarding?

all three of these: deserts, snow topped mountains (skiing), and tropical vegetation?

etc.

Sorry, jmitch, take a seat with your PA. It is hardly a runner-up when compared with NUMBER ONE, HAWAII.”

“third largest us ranch...was the largest privately owned ranch until the owner died in the 90's and it turned over to a foundation.”

“Yep, Lizzy, you are a rare bird. The rule of thumb is that if there is no mountain, there is no beauty. However, the wise know differently.”

“any backpacking in KS? terrain that flat would be a different experience.”

“You listed a Superfund site as a positive thing? Has anyone listed Ithaca?

BTW - I'm originally from Western NY but have never been to Anchor bar :(”

“British Columbia! Canadian Rockies and Vancouver Island!

(I thought I'd throw in a Province)”

“aero, you beat me to it.....British Columbia!

West Virginia:
Grandpappy Amos
The Girls
The Boys
The family known as The Real McCoys”

“I yearn for a Garbage Plate! Haven't had one since '99!”

“bearmagnet, I grew up in Rachacha and know exactly what you're talking about!”

“The original one, though, in the 'hood! That and the Bug Jar, miss 'em both. I was there from '93(?)-'99.”

“Just a little ribbing there, Mitch... I couldn't help myself.

"inundated with interlopers"? <G>”

“what did i miss?

although PA is great, it's not really better than any other state; they're all good.

but PA does claim the ultimate honor- america's oldest brewery...yuengling, yummmmmmm...”

“Oooooh, Yuengling.... I love that stuff. Can't get it in Illinois, which automatically excludes it from the top states. I got hooked on that stuff 3+ years ago auditing a broker in Philly. Drank a ton of it last summer partying on the Outer Banks of NC.

Hmm, road trip?”

“I think the Archbald Pothole in Archbald PA. is supposed to be the deepest pothole in the U.S. They started to clean up the place since it became a meeting place for gays over the years and suffered from littering. Strange.”

“While many states have their points, I really like New York. Always have. In the past (my whole life) I wanted to cut NYC off at the bridges and push it out to sea. Now that my job requires me to go to NYC, I've grown a new appreciation for it. This is difficult for a hermit to admit. Then we got a governor that I expected to do to NYS as Bush has done to the US forests. Instead he has purchased large tracts of gorgeous land for use by the common man.”

“The only reason I go back to my home state is for the ADKs.”

“then by god ill do it...we are the origin of the most popular drink known to man....the busiest airport in the world....the start of the best trail in the world...the highest waterfall east of Mississippi(since the west doesnt count)....and not to mention this beautiful weather ...just enough cold to remind me why i dont live up north”

“no contention there i guess...”