It has some of the best kayaking in the country. Rather than the typical rapids or fast moving streams, it’s vast swamps and marshes that you can leisurely explore. Totally underrated.
The offshore fishing is phenomenal, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. Literally world class, and there’s everything from red snapper to blue marlin. You can have a smaller bay boat and stay closer to land, or even fish from a kayak in a brackish wetland. The weather lends itself to crabs and crawfish as well (though not this year), Louisiana being responsible for like 90% of the crawfish eaten in the US. You don’t even need a boat, usually.
One of the highest concentrations of whitetail dear is in Mississippi, east of the Mississippi River.
>yeah but there’s no mountains to hike up
That’s not the only reason to go outside.
I like the peninsulas on the upper Chesapeake.
I moved away years ago to more PrepHole places, but the ravines with walls of clay, and the holly trees, and the meandering creek bottoms bring me back to childhood, and are still pretty neat to me.
Great fishing. The area OP highlighted has an abundance of fresh water lakes, slow moving brown water rivers, tidal estuaries, intercoastal and off shore fishing.
OP is a moron.
worse, it's covered in concrete; invasive species israelites and brown people--the beaches aren't even that good. It's literally hell on earth and every day I pray a tsunami obliterates it.
Absolutely. I’ve been kicking around the idea of a beach-specific day trip backpack setup just so it’s easier to carry beach stuff (cold drinks, food, beach umbrella). I’m also always on the lookout for a replacement for the umbrella, like some kind of shelter, but nothing looks truly great, ya know?
You right, we are not the same. I have a Faustian spirit that refuses to be caged. You are a bug man who gets uncontrollable anxiety when you're out of earshot of a roadway.
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>You are a bug man who gets uncontrollable anxiety when you're out of earshot of a roadway.
I went to the place in PA where supposedly you are furthest from a roadway of anywhere, well not exactly there but within half a mile of that point, and I could still hear a highway in the distance maybe 3-4 miles away
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Wtf, even in Europe you can still find places where you can't hear any cars or planes...
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Anon, he’s lying. I know it’s strange, but people really do just go on the internet and lie.
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You refused to be caged but you let the Pacific ocean and your own childhood notions of the general location your grew up in stop you.
Went to NC early last summer, did two nights in Uwharrie. Getting up at sunrise and heading to El Dorado for a sausage gravy biscuit and glass bottle SunDrop is 10/10.
that area has some of the thickest woods and diverse wildlife you can find anywhere in the world. all the wetlands for example. most people are too scared to explore them also, because you can't just easily walk through it like you can in places in the west or in the eastern mountains.
i was trying to walk through old growth wetland the other week and it hadn't even been that rainy recently but it was just all squish and uneven and mounds of conifer needles and mud and it was such a different surface than I'm used to
it was very difficult to walk easily despite it being flat
anyways my next exploration will be piedmont and the intersection of piedmont and coastal plain
I grew up in this region and agree with OP. I decided to move west of the rockies immediately after spending a summer road tripping out here.
> landscape dominated by flat farmlands > roads in rural areas typically lined with manufactured homes on 2-3 acres lots > almost no mature forest > little public land > no public land large enough for a proper backpacking trip, except maybe in Florida.
I do miss the convenience of hunting though (permitted like 6 whitetail back east vs 1 mule deer out west or a lottery for elk). The Outer Banks have probably the best beachs in the country and the inland brackish waters are nice too. Apart from this, the coastal plains have few redeeming qualities from an PrepHole perspective.
plenty of it has some of the most mature forest in the entire us, let alone the world... it's just wetland forest though. lots of very old cypress swamps.
South Jersey is pretty nice.
It has some of the best kayaking in the country. Rather than the typical rapids or fast moving streams, it’s vast swamps and marshes that you can leisurely explore. Totally underrated.
The offshore fishing is phenomenal, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. Literally world class, and there’s everything from red snapper to blue marlin. You can have a smaller bay boat and stay closer to land, or even fish from a kayak in a brackish wetland. The weather lends itself to crabs and crawfish as well (though not this year), Louisiana being responsible for like 90% of the crawfish eaten in the US. You don’t even need a boat, usually.
One of the highest concentrations of whitetail dear is in Mississippi, east of the Mississippi River.
>yeah but there’s no mountains to hike up
That’s not the only reason to go outside.
I like the peninsulas on the upper Chesapeake.
I moved away years ago to more PrepHole places, but the ravines with walls of clay, and the holly trees, and the meandering creek bottoms bring me back to childhood, and are still pretty neat to me.
Great fishing. The area OP highlighted has an abundance of fresh water lakes, slow moving brown water rivers, tidal estuaries, intercoastal and off shore fishing.
OP is a moron.
Yeah I kind of agree. Even Florida is pretty boring. Great place for fishing and hunting but kind of shitty for hiking.
allegheny/cumberland plateau is the BEST eastern ecoregion
worse, it's covered in concrete; invasive species israelites and brown people--the beaches aren't even that good. It's literally hell on earth and every day I pray a tsunami obliterates it.
The panhandle beaches are world class, whatever you think of the local atmosphere.
Absolutely. I’ve been kicking around the idea of a beach-specific day trip backpack setup just so it’s easier to carry beach stuff (cold drinks, food, beach umbrella). I’m also always on the lookout for a replacement for the umbrella, like some kind of shelter, but nothing looks truly great, ya know?
good. stop coming here.
No one's coming to your shithole besides fat white trash going to beach towns to get wasted, eastcoastlet
>let me tell you about your part of the country
I was born and raised there. Left when I turned 18 to go West like a real American man and never looked back.
I don't know why you expect this to be a convincing line of argument.
>Yeah bro I'm TOTALLY one of you I just left when I was little haha
You right, we are not the same. I have a Faustian spirit that refuses to be caged. You are a bug man who gets uncontrollable anxiety when you're out of earshot of a roadway.
>You are a bug man who gets uncontrollable anxiety when you're out of earshot of a roadway.
I went to the place in PA where supposedly you are furthest from a roadway of anywhere, well not exactly there but within half a mile of that point, and I could still hear a highway in the distance maybe 3-4 miles away
Wtf, even in Europe you can still find places where you can't hear any cars or planes...
Anon, he’s lying. I know it’s strange, but people really do just go on the internet and lie.
You refused to be caged but you let the Pacific ocean and your own childhood notions of the general location your grew up in stop you.
places arent boring, people are
Literally, as opposed to what? You people and your use of the magic L word, are so fricking dumb.
Literally kys magic wienersuckerman
i'm pretty happy being 1 hour away from literal paradise beaches that people pay $1,000's or have to fly to get to
North Carolina is probably the best state on the East Coast.
Went to NC early last summer, did two nights in Uwharrie. Getting up at sunrise and heading to El Dorado for a sausage gravy biscuit and glass bottle SunDrop is 10/10.
Charleston area is outstanding, as is the Pensacola/Destin area.
As long as you can avoid certain individuals en masse in that area, it's generally a nice place to be.
that area has some of the thickest woods and diverse wildlife you can find anywhere in the world. all the wetlands for example. most people are too scared to explore them also, because you can't just easily walk through it like you can in places in the west or in the eastern mountains.
i was trying to walk through old growth wetland the other week and it hadn't even been that rainy recently but it was just all squish and uneven and mounds of conifer needles and mud and it was such a different surface than I'm used to
it was very difficult to walk easily despite it being flat
anyways my next exploration will be piedmont and the intersection of piedmont and coastal plain
I grew up in this region and agree with OP. I decided to move west of the rockies immediately after spending a summer road tripping out here.
> landscape dominated by flat farmlands
> roads in rural areas typically lined with manufactured homes on 2-3 acres lots
> almost no mature forest
> little public land
> no public land large enough for a proper backpacking trip, except maybe in Florida.
I do miss the convenience of hunting though (permitted like 6 whitetail back east vs 1 mule deer out west or a lottery for elk). The Outer Banks have probably the best beachs in the country and the inland brackish waters are nice too. Apart from this, the coastal plains have few redeeming qualities from an PrepHole perspective.
plenty of it has some of the most mature forest in the entire us, let alone the world... it's just wetland forest though. lots of very old cypress swamps.
Just go into cave diving and have fun