Best places in America?

[Drizzle]

Powy's Waterin Hole outside of Trout Run, Pennsylvania on old route 15. Nothing special about it really, cool old beer cans all over the walls. The people are great though, friendly folk, great stories. Met an old pitcher for the Red Sox! Cheap beer, and you can smoke inside! Hit it up if you are around there for some odd reason.

 

[dharmabum]

screw the Lower 48. you want some really depraved fear and loathing bars? head to Alaska. just stick your thumb out and make it here, just like the rest of us did. find some crusty ol' fisherman bars and you'll find some bad craziness.

 

[Cristian]

new orleans. nuff said!!!

i really really HATE new orleans.
well not the town itself cause it was cool, just 95% of the people.

 

[TGandChunk]

Denton, TX.

 

[travelin]

central california coast

YELLOWSTONE and surrounding environs

ozarks

smokeys/ east tennessee

blue ridge area

shenandoah valley

mogollon rim region

northern michigan in the summer

leavenworth washington

battle mountain/elko

southeast texas in march, april, and may and in october, november

 

[morse]

western montana, flathead lake

the okanagan

albuquerque

 

[Teko]

Lawrence, KS
Denver, CO
Asheville, NC (only if you know people... not friendly to travellers at the moment)
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Richmond, VA
Baltimore, MD (if you know people otherwise sleeping outside there suuuuuucks)
Chicago, IL
Kansas City, MO
Athens, GA
Boston, MA
Bangor, ME
Mattawamkeag, ME
Minneapolis, MN
Milwaukee, WI

Places I wouldn't visit:

Memphis, TN
St. Louis, MO
St. Paul, MN (only on Sunday's because the bus service is extremely lacking between there and Minneapolis on Sundays)
Durham, NC (check out the "Welcome to Durham" documentary)
Philadelphia, PA (this place has always rubbed me the wrong way)
Los Angeles, CA (keep on keepin' on!)

asheville hasnt been friendly to travelers for a while now, but that never stopped any of us from coming. lol

 

[DisPanik]

The Horseshoe Bend, near Page, Arizona. That was awesome sitting at the edge!
I fucking LOOOOVE New Orleans.
Memphis
San Francisco
Denver
North Platte
The Everglades
Canyonlands, been twice and still love it

 

[fernfern]

farmington, maine is pretty friendly and if you can't find a stranger to crash with there is unlimited camping space in the surrounding woods. i've always had good luck in Austin and northern cali (like north of arcata). fort collins, co is great if you're on bike and people are friendly.

 

[Peagreen]

Supai, Arizona: About a 10 mile hike into the grand canyon to and through an indian reservation/village, they have a campground and a bunch of insanely beautiful waterfalls and greenery!! Can't even describe how awesome this place was, definitely going again sometime.

 

[madcapcat]

OR: Portland, Eugene, Ashland.
WA: Olympia, Seattle.
CA: San Francisco, Oakland.

Check out the Oregon coast. I also really enjoyed upstate NY.

 

[getoutmyface]

Get to Santa Barbara, CA. I grew up here and this place is one of my favorite places ever. There are hella tourists, but the beaches are beautiful and not crowded and theres one main street, state street, great for spangin/buskin and theres always crusties or travellers hangin out somewhere or another. Theres tons of places to sleep and helpful people, worth a visit

aside from SB id say visit Santa Cruz/Capitola, CA, because you have beachy-town feel and redwood forests within a couple miles of each other.

NorCal is beautiful as shit, worth a see

 

[professorjpj]

new orleans. nuff said!!!

Haha, New Orleans is a steaming hellhole.. Been here 3 months, had enough of the extreme heat, humidity, bad attitudes, and maybe the worst place in America for the homeless!! San Fran, here I come!!

 

[Rhudey]

Oregon Coast line, highway 101 from San diego to Seattle, some of the most amazing scenery I have ever seen, riddled with beautiful state parks , beaches, zoos, and countless other things, sometimes finding your way can be exhausting out there but everyone I have met has been wonderful and nice people. Oregon was difficult to hitch through but I made my way to Canada from portland just thumbing it! the northern states on the east coast are amazing as well but I would recommend visiting/traveling in the summer months since the new england states see lots of snow but still gorgeous!

 

[Rhudey]

Western Massachusetts...especially Northampton and also this little town, Turners Falls which is near greenfield. Oh, IN THE SUMMER. Unless you love snow, which can be cool of course in it's own right. Western Mass is a lot like Oregon. Green as shit but more genuine people overall. Less trendy kinda.

Arcata, Berkley, and Eugene on the west coast.

I loved small kansas highways as well. Not the traditional places to travel. Something about hitching in the middle of nowhere and getting picked up by every other car that passes you thats cool as shit. Of course, cars only pass every 15 minutes or so.

Thanks for the info, Oregon was beautiful but you are right about the trendy people , i swear everyone walks is the same out there, its cool to know theres somewhere out there like with better environment, Ill be checking out Western Mass now because of that^^^^ty ty ty

 

[Coywolf]

I can only speak to my western US experience.

OR: Bend, Eugene, Ashland, coast, Crater Lake

CA: most places in humboldt and mendo 'cept for Eutweeka, the eastern sierra (Bishop, big pine, ect), Yosemite and the "Mother Load" area, actually, just all of the sierra in general, the mohave desert area, San Francisco

AZ: the laws and people here kinda suck, I left for a reason. My hometown is Flagstaff, its really nice, but stay away from the cops. Prescott, Bisbee, Grand Staircase-Escalante National monument, Lake powell, Grand Canyon, Quartzsite (In winter)

UT: Grand Staircase, Zion national park, Bryce Canyon, Moab, Canyonlands NP, Mexican Hat (Ya, how many ppl have been here?), Park City, Just all of southern Utah, its awesome

CO: Boulder, Glenwoood, Durango, Pagosa springs, Dolores, Cortez, Loveland, Stay away from grand junction, that place sucks massive balls

WY: Jackson Hole and the tetons, Yellowstone, Cody, thats about it, there are some cool hot springs but you have to fine 'em yerself , This is one of the only states in the nation that has tried to make the entire act of Hitchhiking illegal

MT: Missoula, bozeman, Butte, Glacier, Whitefish, Kalispell, Stay out of eastern MT, believe me.

ID: Cour 'd alene, Stanley, McCall, lots of awesome wilderness, watch out for Grizzlys!

NV: Legal Hookers and Vegas, the northern part has alot of great wilderness to check out.

 

[Keystone Ice Kid]

Got my ass to Teton and Yosemite last year but Nickerson State Park I still prefer. Lotsa lakes out there but the shoreline can be screwed with tree litter and inaccessible or private. This place has a day use area without campsites and for goodness sake don't forget to return to your site at the end of the day.

 

[roughdraft]

Brattleboro VT and the surrounding areas is up there for me as well...amazing memories

almost anywhere in Oregon, some areas better than others but fuck man what an outstanding place. hwy 101 yes especially curry and coos counties, hwy 138, crater lake, Bend...Eastern Oregon as well is heaven if you are already in good company...but more conservative in comparison to the emerald curtain...i had good experiences in Baker and Ukiah

olympic peninsula in Washington is no joke

northern california...avenue of the giants

anywhere on the monongahela NF in west virginia

southern idaho also has some gems

Nederland, CO visiting friends who have put roots down there...was impressive for me...not far from Denver which was also cool

somebody mentioned northern Michigan, could not agree more for the natural assets

i still havent visited montana, arizona, new mexico, wyoming, utah, alaska or the dakotas

murica!

 

[Groundmagnet]

Catskill Mountains, NY. Used to be "the destination.'" For camping out, places everywhere. A rail line runs through the area, and the Walmarts still allow overnight parking.

 

[Lucky1313131313]

Kansas City, KS suburbs have some of the best libraries in the nation. Get your hard-to-find books via interlibrary loan and *chef smacks lips* perfect