The most boring U.S. state

Delaware has a lot of beaches compared to square miles. It doesn’t have much else going for it, but that is pretty good compared to states like Kansas.

Bolding mine.

The Trump Admin. recently made part of it a National Park.

You’re arguing for Iowa being boring as shit, right?

Iowa has some character. I like Iowa. Remember also the covered bridges (images) and round barns (images) of Iowa. Hey now, that’s some cool shit, Maynard!

I was in Delaware for a few days but didn’t consider it boring. I saw a lot more boats per capita than in other states. They have no sales tax, but they do have luxury tax, which I discovered when I rented a tux. I thought gee, a lot of rich people live here and go sailing.

The most boring state to me is Tennessee. Once you get past the mountains, there’s nothing between Knoxville and Nashville, and nothing between Nashville and Memphis.

I honestly don’t know if I’m being whooshed. “They have corn, a small hill, and barns” doesn’t really make a good travel brochure, in my experience.

I’ve been to maybe half the states, but Indiana probably was the most boring for me. I was only in Omaha for a couple days, but if that’s the crown jewel for Nebraska, then it’s probably in contention as well.

I’ll go with the Mount Rushmore of boring states: Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma, and it’s no coincidence that they are all connected.

You’re not being whooshed. I’m being sincere - truly!

Fun* fact: Delaware is the only state in the US with no regularly scheduled passenger airline service whatsoever. It must be so boring no one wants to fly there. :slight_smile:

*Or maybe not, since it’s about Delaware. :wink:

I’ve lived in Rhode Island and/or Connecticut for the last 27+ years. TriPolar covered why Rhode Island isn’t boring upthread.

Connecticut isn’t boring, either. I’ve been to lots of states that are much more boring, like the aforementioned plains states.

For a small state, Connecticut has lots of things to do, like Mystic Seaport, hundreds of miles of blue-blazed hiking trails, a section of the Appalachian Trail in the northwest corner, and access to both NYC and Boston without being too close, if you know what I mean. :wink: It has a coastline and beaches, as well as numerous rivers and lakes. It has history – the town I live in was founded in the late 17th century. For his Eagle Scout project, my son restored and painted the exterior of a historic house in our town that was built in 1702. Mark Twain lived here in West Hartford. A few years ago I replaced the water main in front of his house; the original main was installed while he was living (and writing) there.

Connecticut has a couple of small ski resorts that are good for learning on, and is close enough to drive to bigger mountains in Vermont and New Hampshire. Finally, like the rest of New England, it also has something all but absent from my home state of Texas: four actual seasons and beautiful fall colors.

On the other hand, it is largely missing decent Mexican food. (I’ve found exactly one Tex-Mex restaurant that’s worth going to in the entire state. Fortunately it’s relatively close to me in southeastern Connecticut – only a 35 minute drive away. The owner moved here from Houston – his restaurant would be just OK in Houston, but is far better than anything else up here.)

You can find good Italian restaurants, though. Even take-out pizza is pretty good here. After getting one of the worst “pizzas” of my life in Park City (Utah) over the holidays, I’ve learned to appreciate the take-out pizza joints here in Connecticut.

All in all, Connecticut is not boring. Our last tourism logo was pretty boring, though. Fortunately, they just dropped it. (It was: “Connecticut: Still Revolutionary.”)

When my daughter was deciding on which college to go to, she visited the University of Maryland and the University of Delaware. She chose the former when most of the students she spoke to at Delaware were in the middle of transferring to Maryland.
But Delaware has DuPont, and any state busy poisoning us can’t be that boring.

You omitted the Dakotas, and Oklahoma doesn’t qualify once off Interstates. Take the blue highways, and roads designated as “scenic”. All states have them, say my AAA maps. Visit small-town libraries and ask what’s interesting thereabouts - librarians know.

Boring flatlands become quite exciting when dodging blizzards, tornadoes, etc.

Indiana has a world class event ( Indy 500 ) most states cant say that.

Funnily enough, I just sold a new truck to a guy that lives in my area, dates a woman in Indy and has a brother that owns land in Brown County and says he loves going camping there and just unplugging from the world. And this is a guy who’s second favorite place to tow his camper is into the mountains of Colorado!

Well because the actual Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota, and North Dakota has the Badlands. I’m sorry Oklahoma is boring even off the interstates.

Your roads have been gone for a few years longer than the odd liquor laws. Seriously, have you seen the size of your Pence Potholes? (yeah, I know I-69 is getting better, but that’s a drop in the bucket…)

South Dakota also has Badlands National Park, and the Black Hills national forest in the Rushmore area is beautiful. There’s also Custer State Park and Wind Caves National Park.

Life long Hoosier here - they changed the liquor laws from no liquor on Sundays to being able to sell on Sundays from like 10am - 8pm or something. They did that like three years ago.

Indiana is where America’s diarrhea comes out. It’s not just boring, it’s hateful and racist and anti-gay and sexist and religious. Just awful.

Really? I’m sure most can.

And not that it’s well-known, but Madison, Wisconsin has the looniest one: The Paddle and Portage. You haven’t lived until you’ve stood on the Capital Square watching down Hamilton Street for a guy on horseback to ride up it while ringing a handbell while saying “the canoes are coming! The canoes are coming!” right before a mass of people carrying their canoes come running after him. We were waiting once and a family from Europe asked us why everyone was waiting and staring. We explained and they stayed and watched in astonishment . https://paddleandportage.com