Wildly different and equally unique landscapes make up the states of the American West, and more than half of all the national parks in the country are located here! So much of the West is still wild in the truest sense, filled with public land and all kinds of varied terrain.
Find yourself lost in thousands of miles of forest or navigating your way up sky-scraping mountains, and in the same state find yourself in high-desert scenery or dipping your toes in the ocean on the coast. Some day the West is the best—we’d say it’s 100% on the list.