Peas who have been to all 50 US states? Addl info added!

I would love to see all 50 states. I’ve probably been to about half. How about something like Route 66? I don’t know what you are at, or where you have already been, but that will take you all the way from Santa Monica CA to Chicago. All of it isn’t drivable anymore, but I’ve read about 80% of it still is.

ETA - We did a 2-week driving trip of New Mexico-Arizona-Nevada once. It was fun. I don’t think I would want to do all 50 states at once. I would want to spend some time at interesting place.

I've been to the 48. Almost to Alaska, but the ferry was out of commission for 3 weeks and we were running out of time, so driving another route was out of the question. Living in Colorado, it makes it a bit easier to go in any one direction. Trips to the states that surround Colorado were easy 7-10 day road trips. Then for the outer states we usually would take about 3-4 weeks. We took it by coast. Drive to Washington state and drive the coast down to San Francisco. Drove to San Francisco and then down to San Diego and then along the boarder to Texas. Drove to Texas and then drove the coast to Florida and so on. Drove southern states to Florida an up the coast. For the longest time, we had not hit N Dakoka Wisconsin and Minnesota, so we specifially took a road trip to cover those states.

We usually would map out a plan day by day, but it was not set in stone. We drove til we found something of interest. Stopped when we wanted etc. I never booked a hotel until the night before if we knew where we would end up the next evening. Sometimes I booked in the morning or around nooon. I belong to several hotel rewards programs, so I always had at least a small discount on rooms, as at least one of them would cover whatever hotel was in that particular town/city.

Have you ever seen the map that floats around social media on a route to cover all 48 states? Its kind of fun to look at, but I know it misses some really good sight seeing and attractions in particular states, but could give you an idea. 48 States Route Map

Have fun. I love road trips.

What constitutes a visit? I have set foot in a few states on the way through, so I have been there, but havent done anything or seen anything. Ive also been a lot of places for baseball and softball.

Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
New York
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
Florida
Texas
South Carolina

I’ve been to 48 states and need to go to North Dakota and Alaska. Hopefully soon!

I hope to meet this goal someday. I still need HI and AK, ND and SD, MT, ID, and most of New England.

I haven't been to all 50 states, but on our road trip last summer, we went east. I have been to most of the western states. I need to hit the south and east. We deliberately routed through several states so I could know them off the list. We drove from Nebraska to Maine via Ohio, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. Came back through Massachusetts and Connecticut. I had already been in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana so those were just drive throughs.

My next plan is North through North Dakota, hit Montana and Idaho.

I've been to 48--Alaska and Hawaii are still to visit. For us, we see what we want to see without the agenda of checking states off the list. But we will often did a side trip if we were close to a border.

If I were traveling with the idea of checking off all 50 states, I'd probably group them together in a logical group. For example, if you are driving through a state to get to your destination. Unless you are on a schedule, why not take a break in your day and do something fun in the state that you are traveling through. And in the New England area, it makes sense when you can drive an hour in any direction and be in another state.

We say you have to spend the night and do an activity in that state. We’ve got the east coast through quite a bit of the Midwest. We’ll need a few weeks for a trip out west. Probably a couple of times.

One of my best friends just finished and she saved North Dakota for last. It turns out if you save it for last, you can register ahead of time and you get a t-shirt! I think she went into Fargo to get it.

I have been to 49
Missing Hawaii.

I was a military brat and we drove to my dad's duty stations so saw a lot that way. In 2000 we drove to the east coast and back from Alaska. Took 7 weeks and saw much that way.

For those who need Michigan, make sure to come in the summer or fall!
If you like to ski and be cold, come in winter!

I did a quick count and came up with 24 states I have visited. I've never been to the west coast at all!

We have visited 49 states and just have North Dakota left. Apparently they give you a shirt that says “save the last for best” at the visitors center since it is a lot of people’s last state. 😂

I love to do big road trips and one of my favorites was flying to key west and spending several weeks driving up the coast to maine. We had visited many of the states before but had a few new ones.

We went to ND this past fall and were so confused by all the “saved the best for last” merchandise there. It’s everywhere.

Apparently, it’s super common for that to be people’s last state (I would have thought Alaska). And the National Parks gift shops all have “saved the best park for last” merch because many people collect National Parks and it’s super common for that to be their last park.

We plan to have Alaska be our last state.