In most American films depicting the countryside there are usually mountains/hills/valleys/woods and all the rest of it.
Is any US State without mountains?
Also, which is the flattest?
Kansas, while tilted, is flatter then a pancake.
The highest point in Florida is only 345’. In the southern part of the state I don’t think there’s anything over 100’.
Most of the Great Plains states in the central continent have no mountains and few hills. I’ve been through Nebraska from one end to the other; dunno if it’s the flattest, but it was pretty damned flat.
Louisiana and Florida are almost completely flat with only small hills and no mountains whatsoever. Most of Texas is also flat but they do have hill country.
As a rough estimate, only about half of the states have any real mountains and, even then, much of the rest of the state is flat.
Here is a list of the highest points by state:
Highest Elevation Points in The United States
All states have fairly remote areas with woods however (even New Jersey).
As much fun as it is to make fun of New Jersey, they’ve got some of the most beautiful woods and countryside in the nation. (Doesn’t compare to the Hudson Valley tho. 
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I would have to say Florida or Lousiana. Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois are very flat but have hills. (KS and NE toward the west, and the southern tip of the Ozarks hit’s Illinois.)
all states have fairly remote areas…
How do you get a remote area on Rhode Island? 
Wiki says that no part of the state is more than 30 minutes drive from the sea.
I live fairly close to Rhode Island and many of my coworkers commute from there. It is a funny, tiny little state. Depending on your definition of remote, it still has rural areas. One of my coworkers grew up on a farm there. Some of the islands, including the big one, Block island have little traffic during the winter. You can hunt and fish and camp in the woods in Rhode Island just like you can everywhere else but it just takes a little more work and your mother can pick you up in an hour if you get scared.
I’ve been to a fair number of US states and IMO Rhode Island is the nicest of them all.
Plus they have clam chowder and clamcakes 
Slight correction: Kansas and Nebraska have most of their hilly terrain in the eastern third of the states. To the West, the land is pretty flat almost all the way to the Rockies. The hills in Eastern KS and NE are formed from a layer of harder bedrock that has eroded much more slowly than the sedimentary layers exposed to the West – the layers decline toward the rockies.
On a related note, the statement that Kansas is flatter than a pancake is true; but the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon are also flatter than a pancake, so the claim is more funny than informative. Note that this article claims the flattest state is Delaware.
Part of it may really depend on how one defines “hills” in terms of differential height and density of peaks. Large portions of eastern, and even central Kansas have rolling hills. Even in the plains area, the Flint Hills are quite varied in terrain. And southeast Kansas is very hilly in some areas.
I was recently informed by a friend that has no real record of knowing what he’s talking about that Alaska is the third lowest state by average elevation. The mountain ranges, according to him are more than offset a blue-gazillion square miles of very low planes.
Sounds like BS to me but it’s such an outragious claim that a suspicion creeps in that there might be something to it.
Anyone know anything about this?
Actually, Texas has some bona fide MOUNTAINS. They are in the western part of the state, and while they don’t compare to the Rockies, they are still pretty impressive.
There is the Chisos mountain rangein the Big Bend area in west Texas with peaks that reach over 7,000 feet.
There are also the Davis Mountains, home to the McDonald Observatory. The highest peak is over 8,000 feet.
Then there are the Guadalupe Mountains. Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet.
This gives Alaska’s mean elevation as 1900 feet:
Without digging up figures for individual states, Florida, Delaware and Rhode Island all have highest points less than 1000 feet. Many states will have lower mean elevations than 1900 feet. Alaska DOES have more low-lying land than you might expect, though.
You might want to think of the mountainous areas of the U.S. from a Geographic POV like this generally and vaguely, a T on its side…
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From the West Coast to the East Coast- Rockies dividing the Mountainous West from the relatively flat midwest. In the East, Appalachians dividing the relatively flat North and South.
Again, this is a very general and vague representation and leaves a lot out but can serve as a General Rule or visualization
The Appalachians run from Georgia to Maine, running parallel to the eastern seaboard. They certainly don’t divide the north from the south.
Well, they do, sort of. The eastern seaboard does not run directly north-south, as you can see here. I’d call it southwest to northeast.
Yea, I was Going to go with a J on it’s side but it wasn’t as elegant as a T and I can’t draw a representation of one on here… yea a J is better. I was also generally including the Smokey Mountain range as “Appalachians”. Maybe the “Appalachians” aren’t tecnically a divider of the North and South, but they are in a general geographic sense.
Um the Smokey’s are part of the appalachian’s, btw. just meaning that was sort of the bottom hash of my “T” in a visual and spatial sense.
I don’t know what you mean by pretty damn flat, but in my experience most people who say they’ve been from one end of Nebraska to the other have never been off I-80. Since that leaves you in the Platte valley or the southeast flatlands almost the whole way, what you see looks pretty flat.
Nebraska also has the Sand Hills, which cover almost a quarter of the state in the north west-central part of the state. Dunes are up to 300 feet high.
Mustn’t forget Chimney Rock and Scott’s Bluff, either.
TV and movies make it look like more states have mountains and big hills than actually do. This is probably because the industry is based in California. I found the Kansas mountains in Jericho pretty amusing, for example.