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United States Bucket List

General Travel

Drive on Route 66

Go on a road trip

Bar Harbor Maine

Tour a working farm

See the top ten US lighthouses

  • Huntington- Long Island, New York
  • Point Vicente- Palos Verdes, California
  • Nubble, York Maine

Nubble Lighthouse in Maine

  • Umpqua river -Winchester Bay, Oregon
  • Split rock- Two Harbors, Minnesota

Split Rock Lighthouse Minnesota

  • Cape Hatteras- North Carolina
  • Ten pound- Gloucester, Massachusetts
  • Pigeon Point- Pescadero, California

  • Burlington breakwater- Burlington, Vermont
  • Heceta head- Yachats, Oregon

Alabama

Little River Canyon Park

Alaska

Explore Glacier Bay National Park

See Denali National Park

See the salmon run

Take a cruise to Alaska

Trek the Mendenhall Glacier

See the Northern Lights

Arizona

Helicopter into the grand canyon

Hike into antelope canyon

Monument Valley

See organ pipe cactus national park

Stand on the 4 corners

Walk the wave

Arkansas

See the chapel in the woods

California

Alcatraz

Big Sur

Bike across the Golden Gate Bridge

Death Valley National Park

Drive the Pacific Coast Highway

Griffith Observatory

Mossbrae falls

Muir Woods

See the Powell cable car in San Francisco

See Yosemite

Stand under the Hollywood sign

Taste wine in Napa

Walk on glass beach

Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado

Florida

Drive through the keys to Key West

Florida Keys ocean

Explore the Everglades

alligator everglades national park

Stand at mile zero

Florida Mile Zero Sign

Swim with the manatees

snorkeling with manatees in Crystal River Florida

Touch the southernmost point in the US

southern most point buoy Key West Florida

Visit Disney

Hawaii

Attend a luau

Hawaiian Luau Smith's Family Luau Kauai Hawaii

Drive the road to Hana

See a sea turtle

Kauai sea turtle

See a wild spinner dolphin

See the Na Pali coast

Napali Coast Kauai

Waimea Canyon

Waterfall in waimea Canyon Kauai

Walk on the Waianapanapa black sand beach

Wear a real lei

Steff and Shannon in Kauai

Illinois

Art Institute of Chicago

The “bean”

Cloudgate Chicago Illinois

Willis’ Tower

Pete and Steff Willis Tower Chicago

Kentucky

Attend the Derby

Go on a Bourbon trail

Louisiana

Attend mardi gras

Eat a king cake

Mardi Gras King Cake

Visit bourbon street

Visit the French Quarter

New Orleans Louisiana

Massachusetts

Cape Cod National Seashore

Boston Public Gardens

Tulips in Boston Public Garden

Boston common

Minnesota

Visit the mall of America

Be a tourist in my hometown

Spoon and Cherry at Walker Sculpture Center Minneapolis Minnesota

Nevada

See a Cirque Du Soleil Show

Seven Magic Mountains

Seven magic mountains Las Vegas Nevada

Walk the Las Vegas Strip

New Mexico

Attend the balloon fiesta

See the Carlsbad Caverns

New York

Empire State Building

Metropolitan Museum of art

National September 11 Museum & Memorial

Ride a subway

Ride in a NY taxi

Ring in the new year at a hotel facing Times Square

See a Grand Central Station

See Niagara Falls

niagara falls new york canada

Times Square

Visit Watkins Glen State Park

Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

North Carolina

Blue Ridge Parkway

Oregon

See Multnomah Falls

Pennsylvania

Eat a Philly cheesesteak in Philadelphia

Independence National Historic Park

Puerto Rico

Bioluminescent Bays

South Dakota

See Mt Rushmore

Visit the badlands

Tennessee

Grand Ole Opry

Graceland

Texas

Attend a rodeo

Spray paint a car at Cadillac Ranch

Visit the Fort Worth Stockyards

Longhorn in Texas

Utah

Angel’s Landing at Zion

Angel's Landing Zion National Park Utah

Bryce Canyon

Bryce National Park, Utah

Narrows at Zion

Narrows Zion National Park Utah

Hike the ring of 5 parks

Washington

Go to Pike Place Market

Leave gum of Seattle’s gum wall

Visit the Skagit Valley tulip fields

Washington D.C.

Attend the cherry blossom festival

Lincoln Memorial

National Mall

See the Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Visit the White House

Wyoming

See the Grand Prismatic Spring

National Parks

Acadia National Park, Maine

Acadia National Park, Maine

Arches National Park, Utah

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Big Bend National Park, Texas

Biscayne National Park, Florida 

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park Utah

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

Channel Islands National Park, California

Congaree National Park, South Carolina

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio

Death Valley National Park, California

Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska

Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

Everglades National Park, Florida

Great Blue Heron Everglades National Park Florida

Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska

Glacier National Park, Montana

Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Great Basin National Park, Nevada

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina

Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

Haleakala National Park, Hawaii

Hawaii Volcanos National Park Hawaii

Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

Isle Royale National Park, Michigan 

Joshua Tree National Park, California

Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska

Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

Kings Canyon National Park, California

Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska

Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky 

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mount Rainier National Park, Washinton

National Park of American Samoa, American Samoa

North Cascades National Park, Washington 

Olympic National Park, Washington

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona 

Pinnacles National Park, California 

Redwood National Park, California 

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Saguaro National Park, Arizona

Sequoia National Park, California

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Virgin Islands National Park, St John 

Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota

Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota

Wrangell – St. Elias National Park & Preserve, Alaska 

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 

Yosemite National Park, California

Zion National Park, Utah

Watchman Zion National Park Utah

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