State Nicknames
"The Peach State"
What is Georgia?
This state capital is the only one with 3 words in its name.
What is Utah?
South Dakota hosts this monument of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln carved into a stone mountain.
This part of the Appalachian mountain range lies on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, and is known for the low mist that blankets the area.
What are the Great Smoky Mountains?
This national historical park in New Jersey is where the American troops camped in 1779, and its right in our backyard.
What is Jockey Hollow, or the Jockey Hollow area of the Morristown National Historical Park?
"The Badger State"
What is Wisconsin?
This state capital in the northeast has the smallest population, causing it to not even have a McDonald's or other fast food joints.
What is Montpelier (Vermont)?
This 630 ft. monument, in St. Louis, Missouri, is considered the Gateway to the West, as the city was crucial to Louis and Clark's western expedition.
What is the Gateway Arch?
This is the largest mountain in the US.
What is Denali, or Mt. McKinley?
This national park hosts the tallest trees in the world, sometimes getting up to 380 feet tall.
What is the Redwood National Park?
"Old Dominion"
What is Virginia?
This is the state capital with the largest population.
What is Pheonix (Arizona)?
This famous memorial, designed by 21 year old Maya Lin, juts out of the grassy hill, with names engraved in the shiny black granite.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.?
The 1980 Winter Olympics were hosted at this lake in New York, and it hosts the stadium where the "Miracle on Ice" occurred.
What is Lake Placid?
This national trail follows the mountain range stretching from Georgia to Maine, and separating far eastern US to the Midwest.
What is the Appalachian National Trail?
"The Beehive State"
What is Utah?
This capital is the oldest state capital, as its Spanish settlers in the Southwest developed it to convert Natives to Catholicism.
What is Sante Fe, New Mexico?
The famed 1963 March on Washington finished here, where Civil Rights and religious leaders spoke on issues of segregation and racism.
What is the Lincoln Memorial, or the Reflective Pool at the Lincoln Memorial?
This lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the US, despite its smaller diameter.
What is Crater Lake?
This national park in California maintained the highest temperature in North America of 134 degrees Fahrenheit in 1913.
What is Death Valley National Park?
"Land of Enchantment"
What is New Mexico?
There are four state capitals named after US presidents. These are the names of these states and state capitals.
What are:
Lincoln (Nebraska)
Jefferson (Missouri)
Jackson (Mississippi)
Madison (Wisconsin)
This is the tallest building in the United States.
In 1980, this volcano in Washington state erupted, killing 57 people, and it has been the last volcano eruption in the US.
What is Mt. Helena?
This national park maintains the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in North America.
What is the Everglades National Park?