Favorite state parks that you have visited
A few of my favorites outside of the PNW are:
- Watkins Glen State Park, Upstate NY - the highlight of the park is the trails through the waterfall laden gorge. Located in the scenic Finger Lakes Region, many other great attractions are near.
- Bahia Honda State Park, Florida Keys - warm, calm, clear, blue waters provide excellent snorkeling and other water recreation. Not much of a beach, but enough for a good time.
- Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Texas Hill Country - the 640 acre, 425’ tall pink granite monolith is the highlight of this park. Located just north of Fredericksburg, the German-Texas tourist town.
- High Point State Park, north tip of New Jersey - hike the Appalachian Trail, summit a state’s high point, and play in a scenic lake, all in the same state park. An observation tower at the summit of New Jersey’s highest point provides views of three different states.
- Grayton Beach State Park - 30A Florida Panhandle - great white sandy beach along warm, calm, clear, blue gulf waters. Park also has lakes where you can paddle with gators and nature hikes through the woods.
- Garner State Park, Texas Hill Country - the highlight of the park is the long stretch of the crystal clear spring fed Frio River. Located below the scenic cliffs of Old Baldy in a Hill Country valley, the park has a great setting and good hikes too.
- Rainbow Springs State Park, north central Florida - mighty first magnitude spring creates an instant crystal clear river to float down.
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Sand Harbor State Park on the Nevada shore of Tahoe is tits. Emerald Bay on the CA side is stunning but so fucking busy.
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After driving around the country my favorite parks are jelly stone, mount raineer, and the pacific crest trail at the summit of the highway to the sun at glacier...
Camping and hiking and trying to catch a dolly varden at Diablo dam in marble mount, and the appalation trail
The rocky shore of west Vancouver island -
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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Wow, Sand Harbor looks amazing. Added to list of must see.YellowSnow said:Sand Harbor State Park on the Nevada shore of Tahoe is tits. Emerald Bay on the CA side is stunning but so fucking busy.
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Riverside State Park - Spokane.
Got to 2nd base there one time during a summer vacation. The wonders of Carlo Rossi rhine.
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In other words, find the thread this belongs fucko!BleachedAnusDawg said:Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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WA has some good ones.
Probably the most visited not in Seattle metro:
Deception Pass State Park
All of the Forts (Worden, Flagler, Casey, and Ebey). Honestly, if you can book it, Fort Ebey group campsite atop one of the bluffs. Sells out quickly. Amazing views to Victoria.
Sun Lakes-Dry Falls
Steamboat Rock. It's becoming super popular as Chelan has become more expensive / less accessible.
CO:
Horsetooth Rock - I'm not actually certain this is a state park or not.
WV:
Dolly Sods
Seneca Rocks
Spruce Knob
FL:
Bill Baggs Cape Florida
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Pilot Butte - okay not a state park but a worth while view. Sad to hear Pilot Butte Burger closed. -
#MyTumalo State Park on the Deschutes below White Wakanda is a real lunch pail type state park. Nothing spectacular about it, but you can keep the kiddies entertained for hours on a hot summer day playing in the river. Still need to hit the local steakhouse in Tumalo that @TurdBomber raves about.
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Deception Pass is really cool. IFL Dry Falls, Sun Lakes is nice too. If Ebey is the one I'm thinking of where you can walk right up to the cliffs and the lean over and the wind holds you up it's real trippy. Had like an underground concrete structure from WWII that we played in like it was a maze, some sort of communications center IIRC. Haven't been there since I was a kid. It's one of the forts on Whidbey anyway.huskyhooligan said:WA has some good ones.
Probably the most visited not in Seattle metro:
Deception Pass State Park
All of the Forts (Worden, Flagler, Casey, and Ebey). Honestly, if you can book it, Fort Ebey group campsite atop one of the bluffs. Sells out quickly. Amazing views to Victoria.
Sun Lakes-Dry Falls
Steamboat Rock. It's becoming super popular as Chelan has become more expensive / less accessible.
CO:
Horsetooth Rock - I'm not actually certain this is a state park or not.
WV:
Dolly Sods
Seneca Rocks
Spruce Knob
FL:
Bill Baggs Cape Florida
OR:
Pilot Butte - okay not a state park but a worth while view. Sad to hear Pilot Butte Burger closed.
Pictograph Cave SP in Montana was cool.
NC has some pretty cool state parks but my favorite is probably Chimney Rock SP. 400+ foot Hickory Nut Falls, the eponymously named rock spire, cool views of Lake Lure, general NC foothills beauty, plus it's the site of the final scene of Last of the Mohicans. Really cool place.
Been to a bunch of state parks in TN and MS but none of them really compare to warrant mention. I feel like I've been to a cool one or two in Arkansas but can't think of them right now. -
I'm not certain about the winds, but what you described is what it is. Casey obviously has the big cannons and bigger fort complex, but Ebey for the views and isolation is ideal. Don't go sharing that fuckers.dnc said:
Deception Pass is really cool. IFL Dry Falls, Sun Lakes is nice too. If Ebey is the one I'm thinking of where you can walk right up to the cliffs and the lean over and the wind holds you up it's real trippy. Had like an underground concrete structure from WWII that we played in like it was a maze, some sort of communications center IIRC. Haven't been there since I was a kid. It's one of the forts on Whidbey anyway.huskyhooligan said:WA has some good ones.
Probably the most visited not in Seattle metro:
Deception Pass State Park
All of the Forts (Worden, Flagler, Casey, and Ebey). Honestly, if you can book it, Fort Ebey group campsite atop one of the bluffs. Sells out quickly. Amazing views to Victoria.
Sun Lakes-Dry Falls
Steamboat Rock. It's becoming super popular as Chelan has become more expensive / less accessible.
CO:
Horsetooth Rock - I'm not actually certain this is a state park or not.
WV:
Dolly Sods
Seneca Rocks
Spruce Knob
FL:
Bill Baggs Cape Florida
OR:
Pilot Butte - okay not a state park but a worth while view. Sad to hear Pilot Butte Burger closed.
Pictograph Cave SP in Montana was cool.
NC has some pretty cool state parks but my favorite is probably Chimney Rock SP. 400+ foot Hickory Nut Falls, the eponymously named rock spire, cool views of Lake Lure, general NC foothills beauty, plus it's the site of the final scene of Last of the Mohicans. Really cool place.
Been to a bunch of state parks in TN and MS but none of them really compare to warrant mention. I feel like I've been to a cool one or two in Arkansas but can't think of them right now.
