What is your favorite county in your state?

[Flint1979]

I was just thinking of how I have clinched all of Michigan's 83 counties and was thinking of which one was my favorite. I think after thinking long and hard that Keweenaw is my favorite Michigan county. I just visited Keweenaw for the first time last month and loved it. I loved the remoteness of being near any major city and far off the Interstate. The trip up US-41 is a thing of beauty all the way as is M-26 and I love the northern terminus of US-41. I love small cities and towns and love going to places where hardly anyone goes.

[STLmapboy]

St Louis Co. It's home.

[Max Rockatansky]

Inyo in California.  There are so many outdoor opportunities centered around the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, Owens Valley, and Death Valley.  The terrain is surreal and massive in scale, totally unique to the rest of the country.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Cook County, if it hadn't become obvious already.

[Rothman]

New York County, NY

[webny99]

I can't pick just one!

But my top 5 would be Hamilton, Clinton, Jefferson, Tompkins, and Ontario.

[Rothman]

I can't pick just one!

But my top 5 would be Hamilton, Clinton, Jefferson, Tompkins, and Ontario.

Why?

[GaryV]

I too have several favorites that have different qualities that I like.  In no particular order:
Keweenaw
Houghton
Ontonagon (and that adjoining portion of Gogebic that is part of Porcupine Mountains State Park)
Chippewa

Plus several honorable mentions in the UP and northern LP.

[kphoger]

I can't come up with a single answer for Kansas.

The state is so...well, normal, that no county really stands out to me.  I almost decided to go with a county in the KC area, because I think that's a great city to visit, but then I realized most of the things I like to do there are on the Missouri side.

[NWI_Irish96]

I really like Porter County. Has Lake Michigan Beaches, suburban areas, and small towns. Easy to get to from Chicago, South Bend, and the SW Michigan coast. If I had known 3 years ago that I would end up working almost entirely from home and rarely commuting to Oak Brook, we would have moved there instead of where we are now.

Others I enjoy visiting often are Marion County for the city, Brown County for the scenery, and St. Joseph County for the ND campus.

[MikieTimT]

It would have to be Logan County, AR.  Some of the best fishing can be had in Lake Dardanelle, Paris Lake, and Blue Mountain Lake, and Mt. Magazine gives the best view of it all.

[Scott5114]

I almost decided to go with a county in the KC area, because I think that's a great city to visit, but then I realized most of the things I like to do there are on the Missouri side.

The most insightful personality test you can come up with for a Kansas resident: Wyandotte or Johnson?

[thspfc]

There's not really a bad county in WI. There are some dull ones (or a lot of dull ones), but outside of Milwaukee County (which is much more prone to crime/poverty than the rest for obvious reasons), I could live in all of them. As for favorites, I'd say Door, Brown, Sheboygan, Vilas, Oneida, and home county Dane.

[texaskdog]

Brewster County in Texas. Big Bend country!

[webny99]

I can't pick just one!

But my top 5 would be Hamilton, Clinton, Jefferson, Tompkins, and Ontario.

Why?

Why can't I pick just one?
Because every county has good, bad, and meh, so there's not a single county that particularly stands out. I love Letchworth State Park, for example, but that's not enough on it's own for me to say Wyoming County is the best county.

Why those five?
The first three because of scenery, and the last two because they're fast-growing and just all-around cool places.

[SEWIGuy]

In Wisconsin...Door and Milwaukee.

[kphoger]

The most insightful personality test you can come up with for a Kansas resident: Wyandotte or Johnson?

Of course, for a lot of people in the western half of the state–and even the eastern half outside the KC area–their answer might be Huh?

[Flint1979]

I really like Porter County. Has Lake Michigan Beaches, suburban areas, and small towns. Easy to get to from Chicago, South Bend, and the SW Michigan coast. If I had known 3 years ago that I would end up working almost entirely from home and rarely commuting to Oak Brook, we would have moved there instead of where we are now.

Others I enjoy visiting often are Marion County for the city, Brown County for the scenery, and St. Joseph County for the ND campus.

I was going to include Indiana since I am in the state quite often and have been for my entire life. I agree with Brown County but didn't know if that was honestly my favorite county I like Switzerland just because it's off the beaten path but Brown County I really enjoyed the time I spent in the Yellowwood State Forest. As I was driving east on SR-46 I saw signs for it and wanting to get off the beaten path I went into the forest. I loved the lake it was very peaceful and relaxing.

[kevinb1994]

We can stretch this out to provinces, I guess...
...my favorite county in Ontario is York (for obvious reasons). But it has NOT been a county since 1971. It is now the "˜Regional Municipality of York', whatever that means.

[frankenroad]

For Ohio, I'd have to say Ottawa, where my summer "home" is - with neighboring Erie as a close second.   Beaches, islands, sailing, (and walleye fishing if you're so inclined), need I say more?

[kphoger]

my favorite county in Ontario is York (for obvious reasons)

Am I just really dull?  Your reasons are not obvious to me.

[kevinb1994]

my favorite county in Ontario is York (for obvious reasons)

Am I just really dull?  Your reasons are not obvious to me.

Rush

[skluth]

There's not really a bad county in WI. There are some dull ones (or a lot of dull ones), but outside of Milwaukee County (which is much more prone to crime/poverty than the rest for obvious reasons), I could live in all of them. As for favorites, I'd say Door, Brown, Sheboygan, Vilas, Oneida, and home county Dane.

I lived my first 30 years as a WI resident, Allouez, Green Bay, and Madison. I love Brown and Dane Counties, and Door is cool. But my favorite is Marinette. My mom's folks were from there so we went there a lot when I was young, and I have countless fond memories of the area. It's as pretty as Door without all the FIBs, with the added benefit of wild rivers. I've fished in White Potato Lake, attended reunions at Lake Noquebay, and gone camping just across the border at Lake Antoine. It's also cool for geologists; there's a rare esker around Lena and Coleman, plenty of tillable glacial lakebeds with well-preserved moraines along the edges, and the glacial scouring at the High Falls Dam is textbook. I was sad to hear Shaffer's closed. We'd often go there for the fried chicken after visiting my grandparents before KFC came to GB.

[Rothman]

I lived in WI and my favorite county there is Douglas County.

[epzik8]

I love every county in Maryland, including my home one, Harford, and Baltimore city. Aside from Harford, my favorites are Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Kent, Montgomery, St. Mary's and Talbot.