Pointless Peninsular Preferences: Name your favorite US peninsula

[LeftinOH]

[BillStein]

1. I like the UP

florida is where republicans go to die. or where they go after they die? I forget which

[MerryBlooms]

2. Love camping the Olympic. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Door County, WI.

Used to go there every summer to visit Grandma when I was a kid. It's become pretty touristificated lately, but it's still a beautiful area.

[MerryBlooms]

4. We're heading to Door County in a couple a weeks

I'm very excited to see the beauty I've heard so much about.

[Silver Swan]

12. I've been to Door county

And to Michigan's upper peninsula, including the best part, the Keweenaw peninsula.

Unless you are very wealthy, the UP wins. It's just as pretty, if not prettier, and much less expensive.

[Luciferous]

5. I love Door County. We used to go there a lot when I was a kid.

They used to have the coolest haunted house there, but they tore it down a while back :-(

I haven't been up there in almost 10 years, but I've been trying to talk my husband into taking a trip up there with me. Maybe in the fall...

[tabbycat31]

7. I spent Easter there

That was my one day off when I was working on the recall in Green Bay. It's beautiful there and that was my first time ever seeing a great lake.

[TheMightyFavog]

17. The Door Penninsula

And Al Johnson's Swedish Restaraunt!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. With goats!

[CTyankee]

35. We go every summer. Hubby's parents house he and his sister inherited

is in Egg Harbor.

We're going on the 10th...

[Kaleva]

6. I declare Upper Michigan to be the winner of this poll!

[taterguy]

8. Bodie Island, NC a/k/a the Northern Outer Banks

The inlets that made it an island have filled in so technically it's a peninsula.

Actually I only like about half of it. Nags Head is way too developed but the villages north of it are great, along with the extensive Currituck Wildlife Refuge.

[applegrove]

9. I'm sure there is a peninsula somewhere on Hawaii that I love... I just haven been there yet!

[Hangingon]

10. Definitely Delmarva!

[csziggy]

25. I reccently learned an ancestor helped lay out the border for Delmarva!

He was one of the commissioners that was responsible for the Twelve Mile Circle. His father owned a chunk of land in a crook of the Brandywine Creek right on the border. On one old map I have, that crook was cut off from Pennsylvania by the Twelve Mile Circle. I just looked at Google Maps and according to them, that crook is now north of the border.

39°50'30.05"N 75°35'36.10"W

Apparently there was originally an Indian village there that had been abandoned - the grant was called "Indian Town."

Someday I should visit the area, but from the looks of the estate on that crook, I doubt I would be allowed to see the old family spread. Of course, my family has not owned it since 1753!

[freshwest]

11. Bolivar. What's left of it.

[canoeist52]

13. No man is an island ...(he's a penninsula.. tee hee)

from Firesign Theater

[freshwest]

15. They didn't hold back, did they? Good stuff.

[Doc_Technical]

29. I thought that quote was from Jefferson Airplane

from their album "After bathing at Baxters"

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jefferson+airplane/a+small+package+of+value+will+come+to+you+shortly_20256315.html

[canoeist52]

32. You know, it might be. Addled Boomer brain and all.

I just always loved the spirit of the quote.

[bluesbassman]

14. San Francisco. Hands down.

Go from surf to snow baby. :)

[Arugula Latte]

22. Yep. "The Peninsula" to me is San Francisco and south a ways.

[Xipe Totec]

16. Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain nt

[Mendocino]

18. Michigan, both of them.

None better!

[Aristus]

19. The Olympic Peninsula!

[UrbScotty]

20. Home Sweet Home - Michigan's Lower Peninsula!

[petronius]

21. It's a trick question - there's no such thing as a 'pointless peninsula'

It's a contradiction in terms... :shrug:

[canoeist52]

33. Absolutely right. Go to the head of the class

for thinking outside the box.

[begin_within]

23. Point Lobos State Natural Reserve

[Tikki]

24. Monterey.....

Tis beautiful....



Tikki

[Iggo]

26. Florida.

America's Schmeckle.

[A HERETIC I AM]

27. LOL...

America's dribbling schmeckle.

I always thought the keys looked like dribble.

"No matter how much you shake and dance,

The last few islands run down your Caribbean"

[TZ]

30. Delmarva has one of the neatest bridges...

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

Even has a souvenir shop in the middle of it. Course since its like 20+ miles long, thats probably a good pit stop anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge-Tunnel
Only 8 bridges like this in the world, its really worth a drive, and a nice drive it is on a sunny day...

[geardaddy]

31. Pigeon Point, MN

[PassingFair]

34. "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you" is our STATE MOTTO.

Michigan wins.

;P

[Fire Walk With Me]

36. Don't have a favorite peninsula, but I'd vote for Cape Disappointment, WA.

Most fog of any US location.