Delaware’s pretty fucking boring. I’m fine with it though. No sales tax makes up for a lot things.
Yes, it’s mostly flat, but Oklahoma has four primary mountain ranges: the Ouachita Mountains, the Arbuckle Mountains, the Wichita Mountains, and the Ozark Mountains
Of course that tired old joke is used in Oklahoma too; Because Texas Sucks and Kansas blows. Plus Oklahoma is the center of all of the best fishing in the United States. Just 1000 miles in any direction and you can catch virtually anything!
Heck, there’s good fishing in Oklahoma!
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Heck, there’s good fishing in Oklahoma!
[/QUOTE]Good one. In Oklahoma’s eastern part the earth is a nice, dark red. And it makes a nice contrast against the green grasses. And then there’s the Red River, too.
Of course it helps to have lived there for a little while, to learn to appreciate its beauty. That took some time. 
There are far more boring states than Oklahoma. Oklahoma is OK.
Seconded. Unless you are float-tube flyfishing or SERIOUSLY into potatoes you would be better served being anywhere else but Idaho.
Skip Clyde’s and head for Knoebels Amusement Park; trust me – your food problem will be solved.
I will admit 80 has issues which is why I rarely use it unless I just want to burn miles fast. There are fantastic places to visit but most are say 10 miles off the exit or so. From the time the road opened (I was on it that first weekend the whole length was in play) none of the exits really developed the way exits did in other places and other highways. And enough exits are pretty much nothing - no gas, no food, no people, no nothing - that you can really be caught by surprise. But if you have a little time to wander – did I mention Knoebels yet? 
Mark of boredom: endless civic approaches lined with the same fucking chains of retailers, fuelers, eateries, Big Boxes, etc. They’re everywhere… except interesting remote areas. The Mendocino-Ft.Bragg, California area hosts hundreds of businesses, of which maybe two dozen are national brands - mostly motels, McFoods, and auto parts. Why no more chains? Trucks have a long, twisty haul to supply too-few customers.
So I’l nominate the most boring state as that with the greatest infiltration of roadside sameness.
I don’t know about the best thing to ever come out of North Dakota, but the best thing to come to North Dakota was Sondre Ouverson Nordheim, skier – a very great telemark and alpine skier and ski jumper, and the inventor of side-cut (turning) skis. Unfortunately for Sondre, North Dakota is flat.
In the 90s in Badlands NP I woke up and unzipped the entrance to my tent only to find a herd of buffalo. I am very glad that they didn’t take offence.
In 1987 a big black storm front followed me from Denver, Colorado, to Lawrence, Kansas. Aside from being chased the entire way, that had to be the most boring drive that I have ever made. What wasn’t boring was that night in Lawrence when some tornadoes touched down. Kansas: monotony, monotony, monotony, monotony, monotony, FEAR!
I lived in Kansas City for six years and the territory our office covered included most of Missouri, all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska and Arkansas. I visited clients in cities and towns all over those states.
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma are pretty featureless landscape wise. There have been drives where I’ve been happy to see cows.
Doing 70mph on a two lane road is pretty nerve-wracking but were doing that all the time.
Many years ago, I drove with some friends from Lander, Wyoming, to Chicago. I was dreading the trip across South Dakota, as I imagined it being flat and dull. I was surprised at how lovely it was, with long, rolling prairies. Very pretty.
Of all I’ve been to, I’d have to say Indiana. Boring, white-bread, conservative (any state that produced both Dan Quayle and Mike Pence is already pretty damn deep in the hole), flat, with hardly anyplace worth visiting that I can think of.
My first thought was that the most boring state would be the one with the least number of people. That would be Wyoming with a little less than 600K.
But then, I thought the key is not necessarily the one with the lowest population but the one with the lowest population density. That would be Alaska with 1.3 peeps per square mile.
But then, I thought that just might not be accurate because the reason AK has such a small pop density is because of the temperature. It is freezing in AK. So, the people there may well go to extra lengths to have a good time and that state could really rock!
Finally, I decided that like most questions that require me to form an opinion, the best answer is that I just have no clue. Sorry!
Anyway, I looked it up on Google and according to Google, the most fun state is CA (no big surprise there) and the most boring state is Idaho. Sorry Idaho.
This is incorrect. Alaska has a small population density because it only has about 700,000 people occupying over 660,000 square miles of territory. About 300,000 of those people live in Anchorage. Much of the state is uninhabitable because of terrain and inaccessibility, not because of cold. The climate there ranges from Arctic in the far north to temperate rainforest in the panhandle (much like the Pacific Northwest).
I find a large number of other things interesting; not just people.
YMMV.
I think he meant that not many people live there because it’s too boring. Alaska proves that theory wrong, of course.
Population density of Alaska is 1.26 per square mile, so if people are bored fifty percent of the time, that translates to a boredom factor of 0.63 per day per square mile. Meanwhile, Connecticut has a population density of 739 per square mile, so even if people are bored only ten percent of the time (and believe me, it’s far more often than that), the boredom factor is 73.9 per day per square mile, or over a hundred times as much boredom.
I consider it a small victory they even acknowledge Wyoming exists.
Wyoming gave us Dick Cheney, politically speaking. Even I must concede that it exists.
You da ho. 