# Which U.S. States Have You Been To? (includes 'None' option) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 4, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810 "2011-07-04T14:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/41 "2011-07-05T00:27:10Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > 25.5 of them? He only put one foot in one of them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/42 "2011-07-05T00:53:56Z")
All except Washington state, Oregon, and Alaska. Someday… ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/43 "2011-07-05T00:56:28Z")
Interesting how the percentages correlate with the population of the state (with obvious exceptions of DC, Alaska, and Hawaii). ---
**Author:** ![JoThrive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@JoThrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoThrive)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/44 "2011-07-05T00:56:42Z")
Traveling is fun. We’ve got a big country, lots of variety, much to see and do. I’ve always enjoyed traveling. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/45 "2011-07-05T00:58:33Z")
36, all the ones I have missed are West of Mississippi. Anyone going to start a poll on Provinces? I didn’t select Minnesota although I made a transfer at the Minneapolis Airport one time. On my only trip to Wisconsin. California?, just across the border at Lake Tahoe and Arizona, just across the Hoover Dam. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/46 "2011-07-05T01:00:29Z")
New York Connecticut Rhode Island Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania Ohio Iowa Illinois Wisconsin Virginia New Jersey And Washington D.C. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/47 "2011-07-05T01:05:36Z")
States I’ve lived: Pennsylvania (born and grew up in), New York (2years), Illinois (4 years) and I’ve lived in Canada since. Total states I’ve been in: 34+DC. I think I’m the third poster to say that. What is interesting is that I can say that I have been in every New England state, every mid-Atlantic state, WV, IN (driving from Philly to Illinois),IL every state bordering a sea-coast and damned little else (only MI, MO, CO, and NV, I think, and the last only changing planes. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/48 "2011-07-05T01:23:10Z")
28 states and 77 countries so far… will be adding 3 new states this summer I think. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/49 "2011-07-05T01:42:23Z")
I started the poll because I’d really like to set foot in all 51 before I meet my maker. I am at 37 right now, lacking the two faraways, a good chunk of the west (except California, Arizona, & Nevada), and Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont. I really believe that each state has something to offer, something to make the trip worthwhile. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/50 "2011-07-05T01:44:49Z")
Here is an [interactive map of the U.S.](http://www.epgsoft.com/VisitedStatesMap/) where you can create a map showing states you have visited. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/51 "2011-07-05T04:26:46Z")
I count 30. I’ve avoided most of the south and those flat, boring states. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/52 "2011-07-05T05:12:39Z")
> [@YaraMateo](#): > > I knew NY would be 1. California has it beat at the moment! > [@Smeghead](#): > > Looks like North Dakota and Alaska are the least popular at the moment, unsurprisingly. I’m surprised Hawaii is so unvisited, too. I know it’s far away and all that, but it’s such a popular tourist area that I thought more people would have been there. I’m actually surprised that Alaska is so low. Yes it’s remote, but it’s so different and such (I thought) a tourist destination that I expected it to do a bit better. On the other hand, I’m surprised at how well Virginia is doing. Though considering the number of people visiting DC, I guess it makes sense that a lot of them would at least step foot in Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/53 "2011-07-05T05:22:16Z")
All but Alaska and just over 2000 counties or county-equivalents (closing in on 2/3rds of them all). ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/54 "2011-07-05T14:21:48Z")
I missed Washington, which I visited briefly during Expo '86. Also when I was a wee kid my family drove from Saskatchewan to Alabama and I’m sure I missed one or two states that would have been on the driving path. But all in all I’ve visited about half. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/55 "2011-07-05T19:02:03Z")
looks like about 32 for me, including DC (twice). a couple more states like washington and oregon i’m a little fuzzy on, since i was ten years old at the time of the trip where i visited the most states out west before heading north into western canada. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/56 "2011-07-05T19:15:06Z")
So, what are you going to do with this data? I think you should make a US map and color it in grayscale. Say 250 people vote, 0/250 votes = white; 250/250 = black. Everything else is shade of gray. Then, post us a link of the pic. I think it’d be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/57 "2011-07-05T19:18:30Z")
A lot more than I had thought, but a good lot of those were of the “just passing through” nature, i.e. driving through the Carolinas on the way to Atlanta, a layover in Denver, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/58 "2011-07-05T19:39:16Z")
Everyone but Oklahoma. Before I die, I’ll have to make the trip. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/59 "2011-07-05T19:54:29Z")
Been to 18 for sure, and possibly a couple more when I was a wee young’un, so I didn’t include them. A couple summers ago, we drove to Chicago and back, hitting 11 states and two provinces in just under two weeks and managed to drive all the way around Nebraska without ever entering it (although we might have popped in there if we had known about [Carhenge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhenge)). Idaho is, without a doubt, the suckiest of all places that ever did suck, with their sucky state troopers nailing me for speeding a few years back. Jerks. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810/60 "2011-07-05T19:58:38Z")
All of the states that are BOTH east of the Mississippi River AND south of the Great Lakes, excluding Rhode Island and South Carolina, plus a handful of others west of the river. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-states-have-you-been-to-includes-none-option/587810.md?page=4)