IYO. What is the best state for outdoor activities? (Fishing, fresh and salt, camping, hunting, ECT.) I know its not Indiana, even though we do have a few things going for us..

it's not IL.  Around here I like Wisconsin and Minnesota but I am going to give Missouri the nod.   

In my head

SC's good. Not exactly Alaska or FL. But we have beaches, coastal plain, piedmont, mountains, salt & freshwater fishing and hunting. And a pretty good year round climate.

Vermont

Hawaii

Also, wanted to add... This is taking into account the availability of said activities, state laws restricting or increasing access (including land provisions, gun laws, and budgets). Just to make it more interesting

Georgia

Texas, if you're an outdoorsman, you get year round "decent" weather.

Virginia 

 

Specifically the Shenandoah Valley!

 

~Kevin

Florida, period. 

SC's good. Not exactly Alaska or FL. But we have beaches, coastal plain, piedmont, mountains, salt & freshwater fishing and hunting. And a pretty good year round climate.

I'll agree. I'm in NC so I'll just say the Carolinas.

Fresh water, salt water, deer, turkey, lots of other game birds, bears, a Lil bit of everything!

VA is one of the nicest places I've been. NY is pretty great, but I live here and generally make the most of it.

Florida, period. 

Agreed.

I gotta go with Wisconsin.  We may not have the monstrous deer that Iowa has or an abundance of Volkswagen sized bass like the southern states but for a good all-around time fishing/hunting along with copious amounts of other outdoor recreational opportunities, Wisconsin is really hard to beat.  When I'm able to buy a vacation home, It'll be somewhere in the Northwoods!

Wisconsin?   I couldn't get out of WI fast enough.  Maybe in consideration if you only look at June and October. 

 

I've only been in VA for five years, but I gotta admit, it has a LOT going for it for the outdoorsman.

West "By God" Virginia of course!!!!!!

Texas.

Salt water you can catch a 48 inch bull red

Fresh water you got Toledo Bend, Lake Fork, Sam Rayburn, Falcon Lake, Amistad and others.

Hunting you got big dear, big turkeys, big hogs and some good dove huntin and good gun laws

Florida has to be #1 on any unbiased list of the best.  We have thousands of lakes all full of bass, peacocks, and just about every exotic fish found in an aquarium.  Then the entire state is surrounded by some of the worlds best off shore fishing, with everything from 600 pound Goliath Groupers, to huge sharks, Tuna, Marlin and Sail Fish.  We have one of the biggest live coral reefs in the world.  We have world class inshore flats fishing with 200 pound tarpon, 80 pound redfish, snook, barracuda, cobia, and thousands of other inshore fish..   We have 100 miles of Keys that jet out just mire miles from the gulf stream.  We can fish throughout every month on the calendar, comfortably!  We have more coast line between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico then any other state in the lower 48.  Need I say more!

 

 

I forgot, we have wild boar, bear, deer, 180 Panthers still living wild in the state, a million gators, the American Crocodile, and the Skunk Ape!  Great place to live if you love the outdoors.

Hands down it's Texas. Florida has lil' deer. Cali has crazy laws. Kentucky and Tennessee lack salt water but KY is coming on with monster whitetail and the fishing isn't shabby.

Colorado or California.

There's a reason Louisiana is called a Sportsman's Paradise: It is what it is.

 

Old school basser...
 

Tennessee hands down.  Once you have fished, hunt, biked, skied, swam, snow skied, 4 wheeled, and hiked all in the same day and in the same place, I can't think of a better place.   My favorite spot is LBL.

Tennessee hands down.  Once you have fished, hunt, biked, skied, swam, snow skied, 4 wheeled, and hiked all in the same day and in the same place, I can't think of a better place.   My favorite spot is LBL.

 

I must agree LBL is an outdoorsman's paradise. It has a sad history but no need to get into that.

Ohio is fairly decent I suppose. It is kinda big when it comes to hunting and deer. There is a few fresh water species of fish like steelhead, musky, Erie smallmouth. I know there is a place people go to get trophy deer and pay upward of 10k for them.