Actually, you were only to New York City, not New York State, which is very large and has beautiful scenery , mountains and lakes especially. Eastern mountains are obviously not as high as most western mountain ranges, but are beautiful nonetheless
Yup, I'm down here in Springfield and I can tell you that little flower pot is the park itself. Passed by it many times while in Portland. Oh, it's about 2 hours North of me (approx 160 miles)
The kentucky border thing happens cause usually you make a river a border but when the river changes course so does the land but you can't just change the border again so that's how that happens
Its true technically, but I 100% guarentee if you murder someone there theyre just gonna get a jury from the county over. That's like saying North Dakota isn't a state because of that missing phrase.
14:43 The astronomer who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, lived in New Mexico. So they kinda have a case to be the state that's the least happy about Pluto's demotion
There is a beautiful stained glass window of it’s discovery I believe donated by his daughter in the Las Cruces Unitarian Universalist Church’s art gallery.
Beesley, after saying all I did below, I forgot to mention that in addition to Magnolia Springs, AL, getting its mail by boat, Diomede, Alaska gets theirs by helicopter, Hyder, AK by plane, and Supai (SUE-pie), Arizona by mule train (on the Havasupai Reservation at the bottom of a beautiful canyon).
In Michigan, we have the Lower Peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula - separated by the Straights of Mackinaw. This was bridged in the 1950s with was at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, at a bit over 5 miles.
I think your Arkansas pronunciation makes total sense! The USA is so beautiful and diverse in landscapes, cultures, and people. I lived in Alaska for 8 years and it is truly beautiful with the best people but I can’t take those winters any more. Alaska is the last great wilderness in the US. Civilization has only encroached on about 160,000 acres of its 365 million acres. It is an amazing state. I have also lived in North Carolina-where I was born on a Marine Corp Base-South Carolina-3x, Tennessee, Texas-2x, Nevada, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, Louisiana-3x, Oklahoma, and Georgia where I’ve lived for 25 years, the longest anywhere. My dad was a lifer in the military, we moved every year, plus took road trips for our vacations every year. I have traveled to every state beside Hawaii-can’t drive there-plus Canada and Mexico. I love our country.
You get very used to driving living in the States. It takes 2&1/2 hours to visit my in-laws in Massachusetts which is the next State up from us (Connecticut).
6:40 Atlanta has the busiest airport in the world solely because it's the main hub of Delta Airlines and a majority of their flights are going to or Departing from Atlanta. New York also has 3 major airports (JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia) which stops any one of them from being the busiest airport in the country, but their combined air traffic makes New York the busiest airspace in the world
*Fun Fact When Indianapolis Raceway (The Brickyard) was first built the entire track was BRICK. They laid over 3million of them to create the racing surface and today there is still a strip of brick at the start/finish line that drivers will kiss after winning there.
I was born and raised and still live in Colorado. I love it here. I live in the northern front range area and do a lot of outdoor activities like hiking, climbing 14,000 ft. (nearly 4,300 m) mountains, fishing, mountain biking, etc.
Another interesting one: Poteau, OK. Located centrally on the east border of the state; the home of Cavanal, the world's tallest hill. It rises to 1,999ft, meaning it is one foot short of being classified as a mountain. On a clear evening, you can see the lights of several surrounding towns, since nothing else goes that high (I believe it is also technically the beginning of the Ozark Mountains, at least in that direction). On July 4th and New Year's Eve, the summit turns (or, it did a decade ago when I lived there) into a block party of people from the area getting together to drink, toke and watch fireworks that everyone else around the area are setting off. Watching a firework show, that is being done by random people spread out in every direction for as far as you can see, from ABOVE? Simply incredible.
I live 30 miles south of Kansas, Oklahoma. And Kansas actually has a town called Arkansas (Ar-Kansas) City. It is just about 10 miles north of the Oklahoma/Kansas line.
12:20 Michigan was given a ton of land from Wisconsin when both were territories by the Federal Government after a land dispute with Ohio over the city of Toledo. Michigan and Ohio almost started a war between themselves until the Federal government intervened. Ohio was given the city of Toledo and Michigan was given all the land in what is now the Upper Penisula as compensation. The Toledo Strip Dispute is actually the origin of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry in college football. The two halves of Michigan weren't connected until a bridge opened in 1957
If you like diverse natural scenery, there's Touropia's "25 Best National Parks in the USA." It's a bit long, but a lot of quiet interludes for commenting. (Niagara Falls isn't included, as it's not a National Park.)
that's awesome, Me and two friends hiked the whole trail back in 1984-85 and it took the better part of a year. I think N. Carolina and Maine stretches were my favorite sections.
@@MrRyanCHill0I have lived in Charlotte my whole life... yeah I hiked some of Virginia Mt Rogers and white top mtn where there are a bunch of wild horses running around....very amazing to see them and they aren't scared of people....
In general, state borders were established with idea that every state should have access to navigable waterways for commerce, etc. The odd shapes that resulted were driven partly by the natural landscape and partly by the politics of the day. There actually *is* a Kansas City, Kansas. It's the 3rd largest city in Kansas. There's also a Kansas City in Missouri, and the two cities are separated by the state line which runs between them. Both Kansas Cities have some pretty damn good barbeque. Point Roberts, in the extreme northwest of Washington State, is also separated from the US and requires transit through Canada.
ALABAMA resident, here! The Space & Rocket Center is in Huntsville, where the US Space industry began. The city has been nicknamed, "Rocket City, USA." An actual-sized replica of the Saturn V rocket is displayed alongside I-565 through Huntsville. Redstone Arsenal is home to the military industrial complex, making Huntsville one of the fastest growing cities in the USA.
I live in northwest Indiana. Near Chicago.... My corner of the state is not in the same time zone as the vast majority of Indiana. We are on Central time because so many people live in my area but work in Chicago. We also generally support Chicago sports teams (rather than Indiana teams). I am about 15 minutes from an hour time change, so my trips to costco have to include the time change... just something we are used to in this area. Love the videos. Even Americans learn stuff when you watch these videos cause there is so much to know. We can’t know it all. Maybe check out the 10 most beautiful states or something.
When he mentioned Missouri, he big time goofed, in that Kansas City is in both Missouri and Kansas, but the latter version is only 1/3 of the former. Contrary to how he pronounced it, Bellefontaine, OH, is pronounced bell-FOWN-tun. The US is smaller than Canada by about 88% of Texas. The waterfall in Yellowstone N.P. in Wyoming is in what's called the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (River, not National Park). The Appalachian Trail isn't the only long distance one in the USA. There's also the Pacific Crest Trail out west, which is longer, but less used. If you're interested in Hawai'i, you should watch the video of Kauai by "Amazing places on our planet". Absolutely stunning!! Alaska's not uninhabitable in parts; what it has is vast areas with no roads to the communities there--far more than 1/2 the state. Some are served by the Alaska State Ferry System, but the majority gets to the outside world by bush plane, dogsled, snowmobile, or 4-wheeler. The Kentucky geography thing was explained earlier in the video--the Ohio River has changed course over the years. Michigan is made up of 2 peninsulas--the Upper, and the people are called Yoopers (from U.P.'ers), and Trolls (because they live "below the (Mackinac [MACK-uh-naw]) Bridge, which connects the 2 peninsulas. Pontchartrain = PAHN-chuh-train Causeway is 24 mi./38.6km. in Louisiana. He doesn't lie; it's really a park in Portland, and it's in the Guinness Book of World Records. They don't lie, either. Minnesota's NW Angle isn't the only cut off area in the USA. There are also Pt. Roberts, WA, and Hyder, Alaska.
11:05 I’m from Kentucky. That was a more recent event. Towards the beginning of the video, remember how he said the shifting of the river fudged the state borders (because the borders were defined by the river)? The same thing happened here. An earthquake shifted the river that defined the border, isolating that portion from the rest.
6:58 NYC has three major airports(JFK, Laguardia, and Newark), which is why none of them are #1 as they all kind of spread the air travel traffic. If you total the three of them as one, they'd be #1.
Can confirm that the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge is the longest in the state of North Carolina, at just over 5 miles long. I was in 10th grade when that bridge opened, and was one of the first to go across it in a school bus. As for the Wright Brothers, they did fly in Kitty Hawk in 1903, although the actual town (and subsequently the location of the Wright Brothers Memorial) is now called Kill Devil Hills. Kitty Hawk still exists though; it's the next town after Kill Devil Hills when traveling north on Highway 158.
5:43 as part of the constitution, you have a right to a jury. If no jury can be provided, you walk free, even if it was recorded straight on, tons of witnesses, everything, if there’s no damn jury, everything is all forgiven
I live in Northwest Alabama We have two world class recording studios one owned by the Swampers( of Sweet Home Alabama fame. The Stones recorded there. The other is the FAME STUDIOS Where several members of the ROCK N ROLL hall of fame recorded. Sam Phillips who discovered Elvis is a native of the State. Google these studios and Sam Phillips. Cheerio mate😎
Ok I looked up that Yellowstone Zone of Death loophole and in a case of poaching there, a federal judge ruled that the case could be tried in a different district so there’s precedence for moving a case out of that zone.
1:51 that statement is slightly misleading. There is a Kansas City, KS, and a Kansas City, MO, which are two separate cities. It is commonly a source of confusion because they are in the same metropolitan area. In regards to Arkansas and Kansas, their names are derived from similarly named Native American tribes, but Arkansas had primarily French settlers, hence "-saw" instead of "-sas". I'm pretty sure the state of Arkansas declared that the official pronunciation at some point in the last decade. Arkansas City, Kansas, does pronounce the last s. Kansans also pronounce the Arkansas River with a hard s. Sorry for probably making this more confusing!
The way Bellfountaine Ohio is pronounced is (bell 🛎- fountain ⛲️). We also have a Versailles Ohio and pronounce it (ver- sails). Ohio and French names don’t mix well together.
Those rivers in Alabama are called Bayous we lived on Bayou Black in Gibson Louisiana for a year. It's a culture shock from the states my husband and I grew up in. Alligators everywhere and mosquitos in swarms. Amazing seafood and cooking and southern hospitality at its finest.
3:45 McKinley Street is located in Bellefontaine, pronounced "Bell fountain." It is located alongside of a railroad track and has one building with it's address on McKinley Street. It got it's name from when William McKinley (25th president) was campaigning by train and stopped there to talk to the people of Bellefontaine.
Washington State being called "Columbia" actually makes a lot of sense. The Columbia river is kind of the aortic vein of the Pacific Northwest, supporting humans for thousands of years. It's like the Nile to the people who've lived there for aeons. A surprising amount of California is also uninhabited or very very sparsely populated which just reinforces exactly how densely populated the cities, Los Angeles, San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area are. San Francisco is only 7 miles by 7 miles square with ~1 million inhabitants. The density is nuts. It's like Manhattan-level density. If you don't visit SF/LA next time, you're crazy.
Atlanta's airport is the largest because the 3rd largest national carrier, Delta Airlines, chose it as their primary "Hub" airport and built their entire flight network to center there--specifically because it had an unusually big airport but wasn't a super hot destination to go to in its own right. Basically if you want to get from point A to point B in the US, Delta has a direct flight to Atlanta from basically every other airport in the US, and a direct flight FROM Atlanta to basically every other airport in the US, so unless the nearest airport is really minor you can get there in two flights. Obviously some traffic to Atlanta is actually to Atlanta, it's still a fairly major city, but MOST folks who wind up on a flight to Atlanta are there to catch another flight somewhere else. American Airlines and United Airlines ARE larger, but their business model is entirely different, with a more "normal" hierarchy of airports each with a regular flight to the nearest bigger airport, direct flights to their neighboring airports of around the same size, and collector flights from the nearby smaller airports forming a more "balanced" network. In general Delta's system means you have to take fewer flights, but those flights may be a lot longer as you'll waste a lot of time if Atlanta is a large detour for you.
Fun fact: People from Arkansas, pronounced "AR-ken-saw", are called Arkansans, pronounced "ar-CAN-zenz", thus sharing the pronunciation with the word for people from Kansas, pronounced "CAN-zus", which is Kansans, pronounced "CAN-zenz".
@@TheBeesleys99 Additional fun fact: The word for the name by which people of a particular location (country, state/province, region) or ethnic group are known is "demonym". I.E. England's demonym is "Englishman" or "Englishwoman".
Another fun fact: the often “mispronounced” Ar-kansas vs Arkansaw . Was a dispute between two senators in 1881. “Arkansaw” won. But it nearly was “ Ar-Kansas”
I live in Delaware. We have nice beaches. During the summer time we have ALOT of tourists. Most drive from out of state. Even though we don't have an airport in Delaware, there are 2 major airports about an hour and a half drive from us. Philadelphia and Baltimore.
I live in Delaware. We have airports and yes, they were not commercial. However, the one behind my house had a commercial service, then they left. Now they are back. Frontier Airlines. Another fun fact for you.
In the 1830s when Michigan was trying to becore a state, they claimed a strip of land that was also claimed by Ohio. The two states actually sent troops to Toledo and shots were apparently fired across the Maumee River (ineffectively due to insufficient range) before Federal troops intervened. Ohio, being a state already, was awarded the land, while Michigan was given what is now their upper peninsula. So, we got Jeep, Tony Pacos, and some farmland, while they got a lot of resource-rich territory. At least we beat them in football pretty much every year now.
What would have been weirder about Washington being called Columbia is that the Canadian province directly north of Washington is called British Columbia
Cause the whole area was called Columbia when it was in dispute between the British and Americans, which is why Washington’s main river is also called Columbia.
How about state parks for the next US general reaction? "Top 50 National Parks to Visit In The US - 1 From Each State" by Stay Curious..... -- It doesn't have a whole lot views, but it's gives a good idea of the natural climate of each state in America via the State Parks
This sounds cool. He should definitely do others as well though, because some states have multiple amazing ones. For example, California has the widest/largest trees ITW (redwoods), the tallest trees and largest living thing ITW (sequoias), the highest point and lowest points in the contiguous US. Lots of other states have crazy variety too.
17:56 there is fuck all in delaware so i doubt they would get much tourism, the only thing I would consider doing is going to the Cup race at Dover. But the nearest international airport is BWI in Maryland so its not very far.
The enclaves (where part of the state is not connected to the whole state) are caused by the natural movements of rivers, as rivers age the bends and twists will move so land on one side of river ends up on other,
Delaware has less than 1MM population and Wilmington, the largest city and state capital can be reached by train from the airport in Philadelphia PA just over an hour, taking transit into downtown Philly and then a less than 20 min train ride from downtown Philly to Wilmington. But if you want to drive, Wilmington is less than a half an hour drive.
I live in Delaware. Our airport actually has reopened to commercial flights. However, from the northern county, it's only 35-40 minutes from Philadelphia International airport and an hour and change to Baltimore/Washington International. We are 150 miles from NYC and two hours from Atlantic City. I once lived in the Allegheny mountains in Central Western Pennsylvania. We were on 31 acres in the middle of 1000s of acres. We were too far out to have mail delivery. Also, the grocery store was a 40-mile round trip. Couldn't go outside unarmed because there were black bears, coyotes, bobcats, copperhead and rattlesnakes. I've been to Oahu and Maui in Hawaii. It is stunning but VERY expensive. I won't go back because first, it was a 10 hour flight from Chicago (after flying from Philly), and second, there's so much more to see in the lower 48. I actually enjoyed the Canadian side of Niagra Falls more! Besides, why go to Hawaii when the Bahamas are a 3-hour flight? Could you do a reaction to the dangerous animals of the US? I think you'd really enjoy it!
The whole "get away with murder" thing wouldn't really work out, unless no one discovered the body which is the more plausible out come. You're going to get in trouble. You're safe to travel there lol.
@Otter just leave the body in an area for bears or wolves and you might get away with it. Just one of those thoughts that pop in my head. I assume it’s because I watch to many videos about murder.
Ohio and Michigan almost had a civil war over the city of Toledo, which was a very important port at the time. The federal Gov. stepped in, gave Toledo to Ohio and the upper peninsula to Michigan, which is actually connected to Wisconsin.
i’m going to hawaii this summer, my 4th time! i suggest the island of Maui if you visit, definitely the most tourist friendly and one of the prettiest states
Enjoy your trip. I am in the extreme minority because I absolutely despise Hawaii. Nothing against the people, they are wonderful and very welcoming. I am far more of a snowy mountain person, and I avoid beaches like the plague. I am planning another trip to Northern Canada for the winter, maybe even go back to Alaska, but that is it a bit far for me since I live in NC.
What's funny about Arizona is not only do they border four states in the same location but also two other states on the other side of the state (Arizona-California-Nevada)
The only time Delaware gets tourism is when there’s a NASCAR race in Dover or the Firefly music festival, and even then it’s mostly people from the general area that just drive over… they don’t have any sales tax so they get extra business from the people in surrounding states that go there for shopping
Right after I got married my new husband and I moved from Texas to Florida. On our way through Louisiana, there was a wreck on the bridge over Lake Ponchartrain. We were stuck on that bridge forever.
Pretty sure Delaware has the largest Air Force Base on the East Coast and another where the president flies in and out of every week so i think we can live without a commercial hub
Wassup Beesly! Loving the videos. I live in Louisiana and drive over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (the super long bridge mentioned in the video). It’s a pretty amazing bridge to drive over, it ever gets old. Lake Pontchartrain is actually an estuary, so it’s where freshwater and saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico mixes creating a cool area with both fresh and saltwater fish. Definitely recommend driving over it if you visit Louisiana!
I live in that top area of Michigan that doesn’t touch “Michigan “. Lol. It’s called The Upper Peninsula or for short The U.P. It’s a beautiful, snowy, mountainous area.
just to put into perspective, if you drive across that bridge in louisiana at a constant speed of 50 mph, itll still take around 30 minutes to cross. for a city kid like me thats just crazy
There are 4 major airports all within a 90 minute drive from anywhere in Delaware. Two in Washington, DC, Baltimore and the closest one is Philadelphia
Atlanta's airport is the busiest in the world!!!! I've also driven over that 24 mile bridge in Louisiana and it's kinda freaky. You feel kinda helpless if you imagine something bad happened to the bridge or your car broke down.
I suggest looking up Centralia Pennsylvania (I live not too far from it), because the story is interesting. It also inspired Silent Hill, the game. It’s far more than a mere fire, more of an inferno, and it’s a fire underground that started in a mine.
Delaware doesnt need an airport. It doesnt do much tourism (even though its the first state) but Philadelphia International Airport is only 13 miles away from Delaware so it has access to one of the biggest airports in the nation
You should *definitely* come to Utah, mate - five National Parks, skiing, etc, etc. 😁 If you choose to travel that long stretch of I-70 with no service stations though, you'll have to remember that you cannot put extra petrol in the boot of your rental car. We don't have petrol or boots on cars here. Instead, you'll need extra cans of gasoline in the trunk of your car. 😆
I'm a U.S. citizen but here's a statistic that I learned while in Canada on business: 90% of Canada's population lives within less than 100 miles of the Canadian border with the U.S.! The rest of it is just forest, ice, polar bears, and a few Eskimos.
Yea, as a Packers fan, I have accepted that getting season tickets will never be in my lifetime. I know well about the babies being put on the waiting list thing. Also a fun fact, Lambeau Field, the place where the Packers play their home games have sold out since 1960. Yes, no matter if the Packers are good or bad, the fans still show up and sell out the stadium. They say that there isn't a bad seat at Lambeau Field. They're all great seats.
Another fun fact: The US state of Nebraska is the only triple-landlocked state or province in North America. In other words, one cannot reach an ocean, gulf or salt water bay from Nebraska without crossing the borders of at least 3 other states. The maximum in every other North American jurisdiction is 2.
Its funny how that is remembered but not the time a bunch of hockey players went into the Stands and started being them up. Seriously look it up, it was Rangers vs Bruins. A bunch of bruins broke down the glass went into the stands and started beating fans up. Edit - Rereading this I can see how one might take it, this has nothing to do with anything other than the Time Period they both took place. In the early 80s no one cared. In the early 00s this somehow was a Horrible Incident!
17:30 as of February 2021, Wilmington Delaware's airport opened to commercial airline service and Delaware is no longer the only state to have no commercial airports
That was in fact the entirety of mill end park, it's in the median of Naito Parkway, a very busy thoroughfare in downtown Portland. Tourists clog the area and almost get hit all the time while taking selfies.
My mom is from Massachusetts and I grew up in Connecticut. In Massachusetts they don’t pronounce the letter “R”. My mother’s sister said she was giving me shots. I got really scared and said I didn’t want a shot. She meant shorts. I just didn’t understand her accent. LOL
wow SO many things I didn't know about my own country! Thanks mate! BTW, I live in the part of Michigan that is connected to Wisconsin and not to the rest of Michigan south of us!
Delaware does not rely heavily on tourism. The closest airport would be Philadelphia International Airport, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Delaware's economy is mostly based on the chemical industry, DuPont is headquartered there, and the tax revenues from the multitude of businesses that are incorporated in that state, due to favorable tax laws.
I was born in Michigan. More specifically I was born in the U.P. Of Michigan. (Upper peninsula) it’s part of Michigan but it’s completely separated from the L.P.
17:50 Philly is a major city and airport hub thats not that far from Delaware. If you want to visit Delaware from abroad, you need to fly into Philly and then drive.
We have a Trans-Canada Trail, which goes right across the country. East to West, and also North. Part of it runs through Vancouver, so I've done that part.
A tiny part of Yellowstone is in MT. Having stayed in West Yellowstone and having entered the park there, crossed the WY state line, I’m not sure why he’s saying that outside of ID the only state it’s in is ID.
Actually, you were only to New York City, not New York State, which is very large and has beautiful scenery , mountains and lakes especially. Eastern mountains are obviously not as high as most western mountain ranges, but are beautiful nonetheless
Yeah i forgot to clarify that and if i ever went again i would try to see all that too!
16:55 Yes, that glorified flower pot is legally the entire park
LOL
@Ian Cypes That is so cool and an easy to maintain park though difficult to sleep in if your homeless.
@@deemariedubois4916 Unless you're a homeless _cat,_ maybe. 😉
@@SpearM3064 Apparently it's a park for leprechauns.
Yup, I'm down here in Springfield and I can tell you that little flower pot is the park itself. Passed by it many times while in Portland. Oh, it's about 2 hours North of me (approx 160 miles)
The kentucky border thing happens cause usually you make a river a border but when the river changes course so does the land but you can't just change the border again so that's how that happens
The part about no jurisdiction in Yellowstone is true, murder is part of the loophole as well.
It’s called the Yellowstone Zone of Death
Mental!
Imagine if one person moved there, they’d be a single juror that is responsible for delivering verdicts for any crime committed there XD
Imagine if one person moved there, they’d be a single juror that is responsible for delivering verdicts for any crime committed there XD
Its true technically, but I 100% guarentee if you murder someone there theyre just gonna get a jury from the county over. That's like saying North Dakota isn't a state because of that missing phrase.
@@bentleyv1233 maybe, who knows, luckily we haven’t had to find out
14:43 The astronomer who discovered Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, lived in New Mexico. So they kinda have a case to be the state that's the least happy about Pluto's demotion
There is a beautiful stained glass window of it’s discovery I believe donated by his daughter in the Las Cruces Unitarian Universalist Church’s art gallery.
This is so cool! We, as Americans, need to react to the different regions of your country. Thank you for taking the time to do this, it was fun.😁
Beesley, after saying all I did below, I forgot to mention that in addition to Magnolia Springs, AL, getting its mail by boat, Diomede, Alaska gets theirs by helicopter, Hyder, AK by plane, and Supai (SUE-pie), Arizona by mule train (on the Havasupai Reservation at the bottom of a beautiful canyon).
In Michigan, we have the Lower Peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula - separated by the Straights of Mackinaw. This was bridged in the 1950s with was at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, at a bit over 5 miles.
I think your Arkansas pronunciation makes total sense! The USA is so beautiful and diverse in landscapes, cultures, and people. I lived in Alaska for 8 years and it is truly beautiful with the best people but I can’t take those winters any more. Alaska is the last great wilderness in the US. Civilization has only encroached on about 160,000 acres of its 365 million acres. It is an amazing state.
I have also lived in North Carolina-where I was born on a Marine Corp Base-South Carolina-3x, Tennessee, Texas-2x, Nevada, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, Louisiana-3x, Oklahoma, and Georgia where I’ve lived for 25 years, the longest anywhere. My dad was a lifer in the military, we moved every year, plus took road trips for our vacations every year. I have traveled to every state beside Hawaii-can’t drive there-plus Canada and Mexico. I love our country.
You get very used to driving living in the States. It takes 2&1/2 hours to visit my in-laws in Massachusetts which is the next State up from us (Connecticut).
6:40 Atlanta has the busiest airport in the world solely because it's the main hub of Delta Airlines and a majority of their flights are going to or Departing from Atlanta. New York also has 3 major airports (JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia) which stops any one of them from being the busiest airport in the country, but their combined air traffic makes New York the busiest airspace in the world
*Fun Fact When Indianapolis Raceway (The Brickyard) was first built the entire track was BRICK. They laid over 3million of them to create the racing surface and today there is still a strip of brick at the start/finish line that drivers will kiss after winning there.
Oh wow awesome insight! Cheers mate!
@@TheBeesleys99 I thought you might find it interesting, I think I heard you mention studying architecture.
p.s. Harvick's the man
I was born and raised and still live in Colorado. I love it here. I live in the northern front range area and do a lot of outdoor activities like hiking, climbing 14,000 ft. (nearly 4,300 m) mountains, fishing, mountain biking, etc.
Another interesting one: Poteau, OK. Located centrally on the east border of the state; the home of Cavanal, the world's tallest hill. It rises to 1,999ft, meaning it is one foot short of being classified as a mountain. On a clear evening, you can see the lights of several surrounding towns, since nothing else goes that high (I believe it is also technically the beginning of the Ozark Mountains, at least in that direction).
On July 4th and New Year's Eve, the summit turns (or, it did a decade ago when I lived there) into a block party of people from the area getting together to drink, toke and watch fireworks that everyone else around the area are setting off. Watching a firework show, that is being done by random people spread out in every direction for as far as you can see, from ABOVE? Simply incredible.
I live 30 miles south of Kansas, Oklahoma. And Kansas actually has a town called Arkansas (Ar-Kansas) City. It is just about 10 miles north of the Oklahoma/Kansas line.
12:20 Michigan was given a ton of land from Wisconsin when both were territories by the Federal Government after a land dispute with Ohio over the city of Toledo. Michigan and Ohio almost started a war between themselves until the Federal government intervened. Ohio was given the city of Toledo and Michigan was given all the land in what is now the Upper Penisula as compensation. The Toledo Strip Dispute is actually the origin of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry in college football. The two halves of Michigan weren't connected until a bridge opened in 1957
If you like diverse natural scenery, there's Touropia's "25 Best National Parks in the USA." It's a bit long, but a lot of quiet interludes for commenting. (Niagara Falls isn't included, as it's not a National Park.)
I hiked all of North Carolina on the Appalachian trail when I was younger...
that's awesome, Me and two friends hiked the whole trail back in 1984-85 and it took the better part of a year. I think N. Carolina and Maine stretches were my favorite sections.
I've lived in NC my whole life and hiked sections of AT in NC and VA. I really enjoyed it.
@@MrRyanCHill0I have lived in Charlotte my whole life... yeah I hiked some of Virginia Mt Rogers and white top mtn where there are a bunch of wild horses running around....very amazing to see them and they aren't scared of people....
@@jusblazed1ful yeah its absolutely beautiful especially in the fall when the leaves change
okay... yea, sure. people care, totally
I've been across that 24 mile long bridge and he's right, when your in the middle of it you can't see land in any direction.
In general, state borders were established with idea that every state should have access to navigable waterways for commerce, etc. The odd shapes that resulted were driven partly by the natural landscape and partly by the politics of the day.
There actually *is* a Kansas City, Kansas. It's the 3rd largest city in Kansas. There's also a Kansas City in Missouri, and the two cities are separated by the state line which runs between them. Both Kansas Cities have some pretty damn good barbeque.
Point Roberts, in the extreme northwest of Washington State, is also separated from the US and requires transit through Canada.
ALABAMA resident, here!
The Space & Rocket Center is in Huntsville, where the US Space industry began. The city has been nicknamed, "Rocket City, USA." An actual-sized replica of the Saturn V rocket is displayed alongside I-565 through Huntsville. Redstone Arsenal is home to the military industrial complex, making Huntsville one of the fastest growing cities in the USA.
Hello from Las Vegas, Nevada. Definitely a lot to our state outside of The Strip.
I can imagine and 100% want to explore it!
I live in northwest Indiana. Near Chicago.... My corner of the state is not in the same time zone as the vast majority of Indiana. We are on Central time because so many people live in my area but work in Chicago. We also generally support Chicago sports teams (rather than Indiana teams). I am about 15 minutes from an hour time change, so my trips to costco have to include the time change... just something we are used to in this area. Love the videos. Even Americans learn stuff when you watch these videos cause there is so much to know. We can’t know it all. Maybe check out the 10 most beautiful states or something.
I'm on eastern time but still considered NW Indiana. 90 miles south east of Chicago and 90 miles north west of Indy. No man's land. Lol.
When he mentioned Missouri, he big time goofed, in that Kansas City is in both Missouri and Kansas, but the latter version is only 1/3 of the former.
Contrary to how he pronounced it, Bellefontaine, OH, is pronounced bell-FOWN-tun.
The US is smaller than Canada by about 88% of Texas.
The waterfall in Yellowstone N.P. in Wyoming is in what's called the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (River, not National Park).
The Appalachian Trail isn't the only long distance one in the USA. There's also the Pacific Crest Trail out west, which is longer, but less used.
If you're interested in Hawai'i, you should watch the video of Kauai by "Amazing places on our planet". Absolutely stunning!!
Alaska's not uninhabitable in parts; what it has is vast areas with no roads to the communities there--far more than 1/2 the state. Some are served by the Alaska State Ferry System, but the majority gets to the outside world by bush plane, dogsled, snowmobile, or 4-wheeler.
The Kentucky geography thing was explained earlier in the video--the Ohio River has changed course over the years.
Michigan is made up of 2 peninsulas--the Upper, and the people are called Yoopers (from U.P.'ers), and Trolls (because they live "below the (Mackinac [MACK-uh-naw]) Bridge, which connects the 2 peninsulas.
Pontchartrain = PAHN-chuh-train Causeway is 24 mi./38.6km. in Louisiana.
He doesn't lie; it's really a park in Portland, and it's in the Guinness Book of World Records. They don't lie, either.
Minnesota's NW Angle isn't the only cut off area in the USA. There are also Pt. Roberts, WA, and Hyder, Alaska.
Re: Mill End Park in Portland--yes, that's the entire park.
2:05 Kansas City exist in both Missouri and Kansas the city is divided by the river
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I’m from Kentucky. That was a more recent event. Towards the beginning of the video, remember how he said the shifting of the river fudged the state borders (because the borders were defined by the river)? The same thing happened here. An earthquake shifted the river that defined the border, isolating that portion from the rest.
6:58 NYC has three major airports(JFK, Laguardia, and Newark), which is why none of them are #1 as they all kind of spread the air travel traffic. If you total the three of them as one, they'd be #1.
Can confirm that the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge is the longest in the state of North Carolina, at just over 5 miles long. I was in 10th grade when that bridge opened, and was one of the first to go across it in a school bus. As for the Wright Brothers, they did fly in Kitty Hawk in 1903, although the actual town (and subsequently the location of the Wright Brothers Memorial) is now called Kill Devil Hills. Kitty Hawk still exists though; it's the next town after Kill Devil Hills when traveling north on Highway 158.
5:43 as part of the constitution, you have a right to a jury. If no jury can be provided, you walk free, even if it was recorded straight on, tons of witnesses, everything, if there’s no damn jury, everything is all forgiven
@10:55 that part of Kentucky was a result of the New Madrid earthquake back in the early 1900's. The river shifted.
I live in Northwest Alabama We have two world class recording studios one owned by the Swampers( of Sweet Home Alabama fame. The Stones recorded there. The other is the FAME STUDIOS Where several members of the ROCK N ROLL hall of fame recorded. Sam Phillips who discovered Elvis is a native of the State. Google these studios and Sam Phillips. Cheerio mate😎
Oh wow awesome! Will check them out!
Yep, I'm from Muscle Shoals as well! A lot of great music came from that place.
Huntsville resident here! "ROCKET CITY, USA"
Ok I looked up that Yellowstone Zone of Death loophole and in a case of poaching there, a federal judge ruled that the case could be tried in a different district so there’s precedence for moving a case out of that zone.
I live in Laredo, Webb County, Texas. Webb County is larger than Delaware + Rhode Island, combined and about 75% the size of Connecticut.
1:51 that statement is slightly misleading. There is a Kansas City, KS, and a Kansas City, MO, which are two separate cities. It is commonly a source of confusion because they are in the same metropolitan area.
In regards to Arkansas and Kansas, their names are derived from similarly named Native American tribes, but Arkansas had primarily French settlers, hence "-saw" instead of "-sas". I'm pretty sure the state of Arkansas declared that the official pronunciation at some point in the last decade. Arkansas City, Kansas, does pronounce the last s. Kansans also pronounce the Arkansas River with a hard s. Sorry for probably making this more confusing!
The way Bellfountaine Ohio is pronounced is (bell 🛎- fountain ⛲️). We also have a Versailles Ohio and pronounce it (ver- sails). Ohio and French names don’t mix well together.
Those rivers in Alabama are called Bayous we lived on Bayou Black in Gibson Louisiana for a year. It's a culture shock from the states my husband and I grew up in. Alligators everywhere and mosquitos in swarms. Amazing seafood and cooking and southern hospitality at its finest.
Virginia is also separated - there are 2 counties on the Eastern Shore: Accomack and Northampton
3:45 McKinley Street is located in Bellefontaine, pronounced "Bell fountain."
It is located alongside of a railroad track and has one building with it's address on McKinley Street. It got it's name from when William McKinley (25th president) was campaigning by train and stopped there to talk to the people of Bellefontaine.
Washington State being called "Columbia" actually makes a lot of sense. The Columbia river is kind of the aortic vein of the Pacific Northwest, supporting humans for thousands of years. It's like the Nile to the people who've lived there for aeons.
A surprising amount of California is also uninhabited or very very sparsely populated which just reinforces exactly how densely populated the cities, Los Angeles, San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area are. San Francisco is only 7 miles by 7 miles square with ~1 million inhabitants. The density is nuts. It's like Manhattan-level density.
If you don't visit SF/LA next time, you're crazy.
Atlanta's airport is the largest because the 3rd largest national carrier, Delta Airlines, chose it as their primary "Hub" airport and built their entire flight network to center there--specifically because it had an unusually big airport but wasn't a super hot destination to go to in its own right. Basically if you want to get from point A to point B in the US, Delta has a direct flight to Atlanta from basically every other airport in the US, and a direct flight FROM Atlanta to basically every other airport in the US, so unless the nearest airport is really minor you can get there in two flights. Obviously some traffic to Atlanta is actually to Atlanta, it's still a fairly major city, but MOST folks who wind up on a flight to Atlanta are there to catch another flight somewhere else. American Airlines and United Airlines ARE larger, but their business model is entirely different, with a more "normal" hierarchy of airports each with a regular flight to the nearest bigger airport, direct flights to their neighboring airports of around the same size, and collector flights from the nearby smaller airports forming a more "balanced" network. In general Delta's system means you have to take fewer flights, but those flights may be a lot longer as you'll waste a lot of time if Atlanta is a large detour for you.
Flying into Atlanta is so, so, so much better than Miami. I avoid Miami whenever possible. Trying to get through customs is so nice in Atlanta.
Fun fact:
People from Arkansas, pronounced "AR-ken-saw", are called Arkansans, pronounced "ar-CAN-zenz", thus sharing the pronunciation with the word for people from Kansas, pronounced "CAN-zus", which is Kansans, pronounced "CAN-zenz".
Mind blown 😯😯
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Additional fun fact:
The word for the name by which people of a particular location (country, state/province, region) or ethnic group are known is "demonym". I.E. England's demonym is "Englishman" or "Englishwoman".
Another fun fact: the often “mispronounced” Ar-kansas vs Arkansaw . Was a dispute between two senators in 1881. “Arkansaw” won. But it nearly was “ Ar-Kansas”
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Fun fact indeed. I didn't know that. Thank you so much. I *dig* shit like that.
I traveled nearly 24 miles while watching this video lol
Most of the Canadian population is within 100 miles of the Canadian/ US border
I live in Delaware. We have nice beaches. During the summer time we have ALOT of tourists. Most drive from out of state. Even though we don't have an airport in Delaware, there are 2 major airports about an hour and a half drive from us. Philadelphia and Baltimore.
I live in Delaware. We have airports and yes, they were not commercial. However, the one behind my house had a commercial service, then they left. Now they are back. Frontier Airlines. Another fun fact for you.
In the 1830s when Michigan was trying to becore a state, they claimed a strip of land that was also claimed by Ohio. The two states actually sent troops to Toledo and shots were apparently fired across the Maumee River (ineffectively due to insufficient range) before Federal troops intervened. Ohio, being a state already, was awarded the land, while Michigan was given what is now their upper peninsula.
So, we got Jeep, Tony Pacos, and some farmland, while they got a lot of resource-rich territory. At least we beat them in football pretty much every year now.
No need to get personal :(
What would have been weirder about Washington being called Columbia is that the Canadian province directly north of Washington is called British Columbia
Cause the whole area was called Columbia when it was in dispute between the British and Americans, which is why Washington’s main river is also called Columbia.
Loving the channel! Life goal is to visit your beautiful country!
U should do a video on the most iconic foods in 50 states and that's gonna be my next reaction
Already done :D
Yeah he was horrified by Coloradoans’ taste
@@gabrspanksmen wait he already made a video about it wow guess my comment was a waste
@@Cloudy341blade yep
@@TheBeesleys99 you should do an intro in outro
How about state parks for the next US general reaction?
"Top 50 National Parks to Visit In The US - 1 From Each State" by Stay Curious.....
-- It doesn't have a whole lot views, but it's gives a good idea of the natural climate of each state in America via the State Parks
This sounds cool. He should definitely do others as well though, because some states have multiple amazing ones. For example, California has the widest/largest trees ITW (redwoods), the tallest trees and largest living thing ITW (sequoias), the highest point and lowest points in the contiguous US. Lots of other states have crazy variety too.
That sounds amazing! Stay safe with Covid19, sending good thoughts from Maryland.
I live smack in the middle of the Willamette National Forest...and it's beautiful
17:56 there is fuck all in delaware so i doubt they would get much tourism, the only thing I would consider doing is going to the Cup race at Dover. But the nearest international airport is BWI in Maryland so its not very far.
Rehoboth Beach is nice.
"there is fuck all in delaware" ily
If you're in Wilmington then Philadelphia Intl Airport is the closest and has far more international flights than Baltimore's one flight.
The enclaves (where part of the state is not connected to the whole state) are caused by the natural movements of rivers, as rivers age the bends and twists will move so land on one side of river ends up on other,
Thats awesome i live in Kansas Oklahoma, its a town of 800 people.
I’m in Tahlequah.
@@Kaya084 thats awesome. I love it out here.
Delaware has less than 1MM population and Wilmington, the largest city and state capital can be reached by train from the airport in Philadelphia PA just over an hour, taking transit into downtown Philly and then a less than 20 min train ride from downtown Philly to Wilmington. But if you want to drive, Wilmington is less than a half an hour drive.
The Centralia fire is actually in a mine. You can't fill it with water, so it will have to run out of fuel and go out on its own.
I live in Delaware. Our airport actually has reopened to commercial flights. However, from the northern county, it's only 35-40 minutes from Philadelphia International airport and an hour and change to Baltimore/Washington International. We are 150 miles from NYC and two hours from Atlantic City.
I once lived in the Allegheny mountains in Central Western Pennsylvania. We were on 31 acres in the middle of 1000s of acres. We were too far out to have mail delivery. Also, the grocery store was a 40-mile round trip. Couldn't go outside unarmed because there were black bears, coyotes, bobcats, copperhead and rattlesnakes.
I've been to Oahu and Maui in Hawaii. It is stunning but VERY expensive. I won't go back because first, it was a 10 hour flight from Chicago (after flying from Philly), and second, there's so much more to see in the lower 48. I actually enjoyed the Canadian side of Niagra Falls more! Besides, why go to Hawaii when the Bahamas are a 3-hour flight?
Could you do a reaction to the dangerous animals of the US? I think you'd really enjoy it!
I hope you do well!! from the USA!
The whole "get away with murder" thing wouldn't really work out, unless no one discovered the body which is the more plausible out come. You're going to get in trouble. You're safe to travel there lol.
I’m not sure that whole dismissal thing is true. Many cases file motions to change venue for trials. Why not in this place? 🤔
@Otter just leave the body in an area for bears or wolves and you might get away with it. Just one of those thoughts that pop in my head. I assume it’s because I watch to many videos about murder.
Great spot for camping...quite a hike from the nearest road, tho.
i refuse to believe it's not a planet. Go Pluto
Ohio and Michigan almost had a civil war over the city of Toledo, which was a very important port at the time. The federal Gov. stepped in, gave Toledo to Ohio and the upper peninsula to Michigan, which is actually connected to Wisconsin.
i’m going to hawaii this summer, my 4th time! i suggest the island of Maui if you visit, definitely the most tourist friendly and one of the prettiest states
I’m jealous
can confirm, I actually grew up on Maui and it's really nice while still quite welcoming to tourists
Enjoy your trip. I am in the extreme minority because I absolutely despise Hawaii. Nothing against the people, they are wonderful and very welcoming. I am far more of a snowy mountain person, and I avoid beaches like the plague. I am planning another trip to Northern Canada for the winter, maybe even go back to Alaska, but that is it a bit far for me since I live in NC.
@@RLKmedic0315 i just got back from Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevadas today. i enjoy it all, beaches, mountains, deserts, you name it!
Been to Maui a few times...overpriced tourist trap IMO
What's funny about Arizona is not only do they border four states in the same location but also two other states on the other side of the state (Arizona-California-Nevada)
You forgot New Mexico !
The only time Delaware gets tourism is when there’s a NASCAR race in Dover or the Firefly music festival, and even then it’s mostly people from the general area that just drive over… they don’t have any sales tax so they get extra business from the people in surrounding states that go there for shopping
Alaska is so large, that the state could be cut in half, and both haves would be the two biggest states in the union.
the Kentucky Bend was caused by the 1812 New Madrid earthquake..like AN 8.2 which changed the course of the Mississippi river
6:38 Atlanta is the busiest airport in the World based on passenger traffic. But O'Hare is still the busiest when you include cargo.
Right after I got married my new husband and I moved from Texas to Florida. On our way through Louisiana, there was a wreck on the bridge over Lake Ponchartrain. We were stuck on that bridge forever.
What about a video series where you look up 5-10 sight seeing places in a state and "visit" them on Google maps/Google Earth?
I think i may just do that in my own time... that sounds awesome ahah!
Pretty sure Delaware has the largest Air Force Base on the East Coast and another where the president flies in and out of every week so i think we can live without a commercial hub
One more oddity the Haskell Free Library is partially in America and Canada Google this one too
Wassup Beesly! Loving the videos. I live in Louisiana and drive over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (the super long bridge mentioned in the video). It’s a pretty amazing bridge to drive over, it ever gets old. Lake Pontchartrain is actually an estuary, so it’s where freshwater and saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico mixes creating a cool area with both fresh and saltwater fish. Definitely recommend driving over it if you visit Louisiana!
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I live in that top area of Michigan that doesn’t touch “Michigan “. Lol. It’s called The Upper Peninsula or for short The U.P. It’s a beautiful, snowy, mountainous area.
just to put into perspective, if you drive across that bridge in louisiana at a constant speed of 50 mph, itll still take around 30 minutes to cross. for a city kid like me thats just crazy
There are 4 major airports all within a 90 minute drive from anywhere in Delaware. Two in Washington, DC, Baltimore and the closest one is Philadelphia
Atlanta's airport is the busiest in the world!!!! I've also driven over that 24 mile bridge in Louisiana and it's kinda freaky. You feel kinda helpless if you imagine something bad happened to the bridge or your car broke down.
I suggest looking up Centralia Pennsylvania (I live not too far from it), because the story is interesting. It also inspired Silent Hill, the game. It’s far more than a mere fire, more of an inferno, and it’s a fire underground that started in a mine.
Bellefontaine, Ohio is actually pronounced Bel-fown-ten.
Delaware doesnt need an airport. It doesnt do much tourism (even though its the first state) but Philadelphia International Airport is only 13 miles away from Delaware so it has access to one of the biggest airports in the nation
You should *definitely* come to Utah, mate - five National Parks, skiing, etc, etc. 😁 If you choose to travel that long stretch of I-70 with no service stations though, you'll have to remember that you cannot put extra petrol in the boot of your rental car. We don't have petrol or boots on cars here. Instead, you'll need extra cans of gasoline in the trunk of your car. 😆
I'm a U.S. citizen but here's a statistic that I learned while in Canada on business: 90% of Canada's population lives within less than 100 miles of the Canadian border with the U.S.! The rest of it is just forest, ice, polar bears, and a few Eskimos.
Yea, as a Packers fan, I have accepted that getting season tickets will never be in my lifetime. I know well about the babies being put on the waiting list thing. Also a fun fact, Lambeau Field, the place where the Packers play their home games have sold out since 1960. Yes, no matter if the Packers are good or bad, the fans still show up and sell out the stadium. They say that there isn't a bad seat at Lambeau Field. They're all great seats.
Another fun fact:
The US state of Nebraska is the only triple-landlocked state or province in North America. In other words, one cannot reach an ocean, gulf or salt water bay from Nebraska without crossing the borders of at least 3 other states. The maximum in every other North American jurisdiction is 2.
Hey you should really react to “the malice at the palace” it’s definitely worth your time!
Yes haha
Its funny how that is remembered but not the time a bunch of hockey players went into the Stands and started being them up. Seriously look it up, it was Rangers vs Bruins. A bunch of bruins broke down the glass went into the stands and started beating fans up.
Edit - Rereading this I can see how one might take it, this has nothing to do with anything other than the Time Period they both took place. In the early 80s no one cared. In the early 00s this somehow was a Horrible Incident!
@@Papawill13 The Bruins seem to be frequently involved with kicking ass.
17:30 as of February 2021, Wilmington Delaware's airport opened to commercial airline service and Delaware is no longer the only state to have no commercial airports
That was in fact the entirety of mill end park, it's in the median of Naito Parkway, a very busy thoroughfare in downtown Portland. Tourists clog the area and almost get hit all the time while taking selfies.
I’ve hiked Katahdin in July. It was so cold that a forest ranger told us not to hike to the summit because of danger of hypothermia.
My mom is from Massachusetts and I grew up in Connecticut. In Massachusetts they don’t pronounce the letter “R”. My mother’s sister said she was giving me shots. I got really scared and said I didn’t want a shot. She meant shorts. I just didn’t understand her accent. LOL
I live in Washington. It has so much to do if you like nature. Or if you don’t, for that matter, but especially if you do
wow SO many things I didn't know about my own country! Thanks mate! BTW, I live in the part of Michigan that is connected to Wisconsin and not to the rest of Michigan south of us!
Delaware does not rely heavily on tourism. The closest airport would be Philadelphia International Airport, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Delaware's economy is mostly based on the chemical industry, DuPont is headquartered there, and the tax revenues from the multitude of businesses that are incorporated in that state, due to favorable tax laws.
Witnessing you pronounce Kentucky just completed my life
I was born in Michigan. More specifically I was born in the U.P. Of Michigan. (Upper peninsula) it’s part of Michigan but it’s completely separated from the L.P.
17:50 Philly is a major city and airport hub thats not that far from Delaware. If you want to visit Delaware from abroad, you need to fly into Philly and then drive.
The Appalachian mountains and the Scottish Highlands were part of the same mountain range--the Central Pangean Mountains.
Have you done US National Parks yet? If you want to see beauty and geography do one of those. Be well.
Not yet but very keen for it mate!
You need to go to the Avenue of the Redwoods in Nor Cal. You can drive through a living tree.
We have a Trans-Canada Trail, which goes right across the country. East to West, and also North.
Part of it runs through Vancouver, so I've done that part.
A tiny part of Yellowstone is in MT. Having stayed in West Yellowstone and having entered the park there, crossed the WY state line, I’m not sure why he’s saying that outside of ID the only state it’s in is ID.