As if you couldn’t go canoing or horse riding in California.
I mostly get ads for Mexico, and usually one specific state in Mexico.
danceswithcats:
You need to get to New Jersey more. When you exit the Lincoln Tunnel coming from NYC, there’s a little stretch of road called 495 that leads you to the more important roads through New Jersey. And on an overpass, above 495, there’s a sign proudly declaring “Welcome to Northern New Jersey, the Embroidery Capital of the World Since 1872.”
The only thing more pathetic is knowing that somewhere out there there is a region that lost that title in 1872. Hopefully that place found something better to put on its local signs.
As to the OP, I’d bet on North Dakota. My wife and I have been to all 50 states, and North Dakota is the one where we had the most trouble finding what to do.
South Dakota totally rocks, though.
Donut shop?
(Where is this mystical place?)
I’ve been to Idaho.
To visit my husband’s aunt and uncle.
They were crazy, as in batshit crazy in a tolerable way.
Haven’t been back.
Are you sure it’s not Hawaii paying for the ads?
Sorry, that one was just beggin…
Those of you who mock Kansas will be sure to reconsider your positions once you see the Eight Wonders of Kansas, including the World’s Largest Hand-Dug Well, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, and the Underground Salt Museum.
Northwest Angle – a large chunk of mainland with people and buildings and stuff, north of the 49th parallel, on the northwest end of the Lake of the Woods. To the north, east and south is water. To the west it is connected to Canada. To get by land to the rest of Minnesota, you must go west into Canada and then south through Canada to the USA.
Below the 49th parallel, on the southwest end of Lake of the Woods, are a couple of small points – Buffalo Point and Elm Point, which are attached to mainland Canada on the north side of Muskeg Bay.
I don’t know what tourism is like for any of these places, but the Lake of the Woods on the Canadian side has a great deal of tourism.
Come on, people.
Ohio has the friggin’ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. People go to Ohio.
Idaho? Ever heard of Sun Valley? It’s filled with movie stars half the year.
South Dakota has the Badlands, monuments, black hills.
Delaware at least has beaches and a couple NASCAR races in Dover every year.
North Dakota pretty much ain’t got shit. No National Parks. No professional sports teams. No great museum, monument. You don’t go through it to get anywhere.
NDak is a nothing.
http://www.buffalopoint.mb.ca/docs/cottage_owners_manual.pdf “That there are six international boundary commission markers located in Buffalo
Point on the 15th fairway, the point and the Northeast shoreline as well as a
boundary monument between Elm Point and Buffalo Point”
Golf course, gated community, etc. Yup. People go there.
Really? South Dakota is considered somewhat of a pheasant mecca, but I’ve never heard of anyone going to North Dakota to shoot them. Not saying they don’t, I’m just surprised.
Well, a Google search generates several links for N. Dakota pheasant hunts. On the other hand, if you Google “pheasant Dakota”, then you get no links directing you to a lodge in N.D.
If you had read the thread, you would have seen any number of references to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a starkly beautiful badlands landscape teeming with wildlife and historical significance. It’s located entirely within North Dakota.
I can’t relate to these “boring state” threads, because the leading states cited are invariably ND, SD, KS, NE, and OK, and I love the Great Plains. I love the huge livestock ranches, the wide-open vistas, the badlands, the geology, and the American Indian and pioneer history. I’ll take western Nebraska (Chimney Rock! Scott’s Bluff! The Agate Fossil Beds!) over Delaware or Rhode Island any day–no contest at all.
North Dakota is where the father of alpine and telemark skiing was laid to rest. Sondre Norheim is burried in the Norway Lutheran Church Cemetery south of Denbigh, and there is an Olynmpic eternal flame monument and a statue in his honour in Minot.
It’s rather ironic that this giant of snowy European vertical stress relief ended up in flatland North Dakota.
http://www.sondrenorheim.com/timeline.htm
"1868, February 9: Sondre (42) participates in the very first national skiing competition in Norway. It’s his first time competing outside Telemark, and after a three day walk on skis from Morgedal – about 200 kilometres – he arrives in the nation’s capital, Christiania (now Oslo). At Iversløkken he demonstrates (for the first time outside Telemark) the Telemark turn and the turn later known as the Christiania turn (since 1901). Sondre uses heel bindings, and he uses shorter skis which are narrower in the middle than at the ends. As the undisputed winner, Sondre impresses everyone. His name becomes familiar all over the country. His performance had a significant impact on the development of skiing as a sport. "
I don’t know if anyone has visited there since 1993, though.
That is a shrine my late father-in-law would have visited! He was a skier and ski-jumper, born in Oslo in 1893. When he and my m-i-l got married in 1935, they spent their honeymoon ski-touring in Banff - imagine. Those old Norskis were a tough breed. We still have 3 pairs of old, wooden, Telemark-style skis complete with those funny leather bindings stashed here somewhere, collector’s items now I suppose.
Nitpick, sorry…Mohegan, not Mohican.
There can’t be that many people there, since they have only one school, which is only one room, and staffed by only one teacher. Because the school district headquarters is in Warroad, about every week she has to cross through Canadian territory to take care of teaching business. (Before 09/11/2001, the border crossing was unmanned.) The whole area has about five or ten roads, and there’s only one town, with less than 200 residents. Most of the Angle is an Indian reservation.
Its attraction is that it’s a boating place, especially in the summer. The people who live there are either part of the small boating/tourism business, or retired rich people. I suppose it must be a nice place to visit and boat around in summer, but in winter probably it’s a frozen-over hell of tedium for a kid who lives there.
piffle. i’ll see your delaware and raise you… (wait for it) indiana!
alright we have some silly racetrack in the middle of a cornfield. the hell ELSE does it have? i’ll tell you: boredom. on steroids.
and don’t start with me about the colts. they were stolen from baltimore, remember? 
Judging by the picture on this page, the main attraction of the (Northwest) Angle appears to be the videophone-equipped border crossing shack.
Hunh, the Salt Museum, why is it underground? Are they ashamed of it?
In case you weren’t kidding: because, like the famous salt sculptures of Poland, the museum is in a salt mine
http://www.undergroundmuseum.org/html/underground_experience.php
They may not have realized it. The reason that Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana don’t beat North Dakota for lack of tourism is that Yellowstone is at the corner of the three, so if people tour the edges of the park, they change states, technically.