What would be the "Seven Wonders" of your State?

[Kingspoint]

Good list. I'm an hour drive away from #4, a 5-minute walk down the beach from #5, and I went to college in #6.

Someday (bucket list), I would love to spend two years covering Virginia and the Carolina's.

[RichRed]

Someday (bucket list), I would love to spend two years covering Virginia and the Carolina's.

I feel the same about the Pacific NW.

[Redsfaithful]

Lake Erie
Hocking Hills
Serpent Mound
Many spots on the Ohio river

All I got for natural, but southern Ohio and Lake Erie are both underrated for beauty.

[Kingspoint]

I feel the same about the Pacific NW.

Easy to spend too much time at the micro-breweries.

[RichRed]

Easy to spend too much time at the micro-breweries.

Ah yes, The 8th Wonder. Why do you think I want to get out there?

[westofyou]

Ah yes, The 8th Wonder. Why do you think I want to get out there?

Here are the 7 brewers I'd target.

Rogue Brewery, Portland
Double Mountain, Hood River
Lompac, Portland
Gigantic Brewing Co, Portland
Laurelwood Brewing Co, Portland
Deschutes Brewery, Bend
Ninkasi Brewing Co, Eugene

[Chip R]

For Iowa I would say:

Iowa State Fair
Field of Dreams
Loess Hills
Grotto of the Redemption
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Salisbury House
Amana Colonies

And for the geeks, Riverside, Iowa http://www.trekfest.com

[Ravenlord]

just in ohio:

Hocking Hills, especially Old Man Cave

Garbry Big Woods Nature Reserve near Piqua

Paint Creek State Park

Sycamore Park in Batavia

Chilo Lock 34 Park & Crooked Run Nature Preserve near Chilo

there's a trail head near Athens that connects to the Appalachian Trail, but I can't remember it's name.

Stillwater National Scenic River



of all the places I've been:

Mirror Lake at Medicine Bow Peak in Wyoming

Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota

the Black Hills of South Dakota

Blueridge Parkway, especially around Maggie Valley and Cherokee during late June

Hocking Hills

Glacier National Park

Garden of the Gods in southern Illinois

[RedsBaron]

We're a bit smaller, but WV has:

Harper's Ferry
The Grave Creek Mound
Moundsville Penn (across the street)
Beartown (a state park that doesn't get enough attention)
The New River Gorge Bridge
Potomac Eagle (train ride through a gorge filled w/bald eagles)
Seneca Rocks

this is a mixture of personal preferences and things that just occurred to me. Some would include Cranberry Glades or Hawks Nest or Blennerhasset Island or Blackwater Canyon or the gold-leaf dome of the state capitol.

I would add Dolly Sods Wilderness and Canaan Valley in general (Blackwater Falls is in that area). It is the most beautiful area of the state IMO.
The Potomac Eagle is enjoyable.

[RedsBaron]

I am not a big zoo guy but I think Cincy's is much better than Columbus. Columbus does have an association with Jack Hanna that helps bring it attention.

Both are good but I prefer Columbus--much easier to get around with several kids in tow.

[RedsBaron]

Blue Ridge Parkway
Natural Bridge
Luray Caverns
Busch Gardens
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Shenandoah Valley
Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's home)

honorable mention: Mt. Vernon (George Washington's home)

I would add Colonial Williamsburg and about a zillion haunting battlefields. Man, is Virginia a history lover's paradise.

[Ravenlord]

I would add Dolly Sods Wilderness and Canaan Valley in general (Blackwater Falls is in that area). It is the most beautiful area of the state IMO.
The Potomac Eagle is enjoyable.

Blackwater Falls is where I filleted fish for the first time. also went tubing for the first time in my life in the Blackwater River; still one of my favorite memories growing up.

[Ravenlord]

Man, is Virginia a history lover's paradise.

that's why my brother moved there. he actually apprenticed as a blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg before being accepted to William and Mary.

[Kingspoint]

that's why my brother moved there. he actually apprenticed as a blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg before being accepted to William and Mary.

Cool.

[RichRed]

that's why my brother moved there. he actually apprenticed as a blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg before being accepted to William and Mary.

I have good friends who work at the Mariner's Museum and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, and others who live a few minutes from CW. They might have crossed paths with your brother at one time or another.

Yorktown is one of my favorite places. Battlefields are just a couple of minutes from the York River. It's a beautiful spot that also has a small beach that not too many people know about...yet. Decent pub or two down there, as well.