What major U.S. cities have you NOT visited?

[Decatur Guy]

Folks like to often tick off what cities/states/countries they've seen. Let's list where we haven't been (and what we'd most like to see):

 

Boston

San Diego

Minneapolis

Indianapolis

Denver

Portland, Oregon

Cleveland

Memphis

Phoenix

Kansas City

Salt Lake City

Pittsburgh

 

As for the ones I'd like to visit, I am pretty much the kind of traveler who would like to see everything once. But of this list, I'd say Boston, San Diego, Portland and Memphis are at the top.

[Decatur Guy]

Shoot! I put this in the wrong category. Daddy, could you or one of the administrators move this to The Lounge? Gracias.

[Atlantagaguy]

One of my goals was to stay in every major city for at least one night before the age of 35. Now I am working on Europe.

[bigvalboy]

Detroit....

[+ Charlie]

I think the only major US cities I have never been to are Milwaukee and Birmingham, and neither is on my must-see list. (My apologies to lovers of those cities if I have offended. I will gladly accept offers to fly me to visit each of them.)

[Bosguy]

Didn't reaize I had been in so many cities while working. I woud certainly get more enjoyment out of them now. The one I have not visited yet is Portland, Oregon that I must get to soon to see one of its Biggest Attractions--the Portand Tyger

 

Boston Bill

[Steven_Draker]

Folks like to often tick off what cities/states/countries they've seen. Let's list where we haven't been (and what we'd most like to see):

 

Boston

San Diego

Minneapolis

Indianapolis

Denver

Portland, Oregon

Cleveland

Memphis

Phoenix

Kansas City

Salt Lake City

Pittsburgh

 

I have visited most of the major cities in the US and now I'm focusing on medium-sized cities. From your above list, Decatur Guy, the only place I haven't been (yet) is Memphis. When flying today on US Airways to Washington, D.C. I was thinking about places I wanna go on my next trip and those include:

 

Memphis, TN

Wichita, KS

Des Moines, IA

 

I was in Salt Lake City for a first time this year and the city it is beautiful. Well worth the trip. Next time I'd rent a car and drive through the mountains in South Utah.

 

The Milwaukee Museum of Art is worth making a side trip when one is in Chicago.

 

And finally, I would return to Santa Fe in a heart beat :-)

[+ Topseed]

Stephen Draker: If you haven't been to Charleston, SC or Savannah, GA, add them both to your list!

[Decatur Guy]

Detroit....

 

I forgot about Detroit. I've never been there either, and I would like to see it. I hear it's vastly underrated.

[Lankypeters]

Chicago -- unless changing planes counts (I changed planes in Las Vegas and that was more than enough)

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

Seattle is at the top of my list.

[Decatur Guy]

Seattle is at the top of my list.

 

I went there in 2001. Fantastic city. One of the nicest places in America I think.

[EZEtoGRU]

I have not been to Minneapolis, Boston, or San Francisco. Of that group, Boston has the highest priority to visit . As an aside, my favorite "new" city that I have visited in the last two years has been Portland OR. What a great great city in a lovely setting. If you haven't been, make sure to visit.

[trilingual]

Pittsburgh, Austin, Charleston and Savannah. I'd like to see the art museum in Pittsburgh, just soak up the ambience in Austin, and experience the food and architecture in Charleston and Savannah.

[+ honcho]

I had to travel a lot for a few years attending two different standards meetings quarterly.

 

Although I've changed planes in a couple of these places I've never been to:

 

St. Louis, Atlanta, Savannah, Philadelphia, Orlando, Cheyenne, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland ME, Bufallo, Atlanta, Charleston, Mobile, Memphis, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Bismark, Anchorage, Juneau, Richmond VA, Chapel Hill, Charleston, El Paso, Spokane,

 

Are we going to talk about international destinations?

[+ Hoover42]

Of the top 50 U.S. cities, I haven't been to 22 of them:

 

Phoenix, Ariz.

Dallas, Tex.

San Jose, Calif.

Indianapolis, Ind.

Austin, Tex.

Columbus, Ohio

Fort Worth, Tex.

Charlotte, N.C.

Detroit, Mich.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Portland, Ore.

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Tucson, Ariz.

Fresno, Calif.

Kansas City, Mo.

Virginia Beach, Va.

Raleigh, N.C.

Omaha, Nebr.

Tulsa, Okla.

Cleveland, Ohio

Minneapolis, Minn.

Wichita, Kans.

 

Too bad I hate flying these days (DHS, I'm looking at you!)

[dfw2sfo]

The only city I haven't been to that I would like to go to is Portland, OR.

[jankeedaddy]

Folks like to often tick off what cities/states/countries they've seen. Let's list where we haven't been (and what we'd most like to see):

 

Boston

San Diego

Minneapolis

Indianapolis

Denver

Portland, Oregon

Cleveland

Memphis

Phoenix

Kansas City

Salt Lake City

Pittsburgh

 

As for the ones I'd like to visit, I am pretty much the kind of traveler who would like to see everything once. But of this list, I'd say Boston, San Diego, Portland and Memphis are at the top.

 

Of your list, I live next door to the first and have visited all of the rest. I think I have had sex in all but Salt Lake and San Diego.

 

 

I have never been to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau in Alaska or Pierre, Fargo, and Bismarck in the Dakotas. If those qualify as “major” cities, then that is about all that I have missed in the U.S. In the 1970s and 1980s I was a junior in sales and marketing and criss-crossed the 48 pretty thoroughly and found that the baths in Kansas City were better than in Manhattan and the bars, clubs in Houston were awesome.

[+ Charlie]

"Large cities" is an ambiguous descriptor. I interpreted it to refer to physical size/population. Places like Charleston and Santa Fe are well-known and popular with tourists, but they are relatively small places, neither one as large as, for instance, Eugene, OR, Sioux Falls, SD, or Worcester, MA, which don't automatically come to mind as "large cities." Bakersfield, CA, is considerably larger than Charleston and Santa Fe combined. A few that have been mentioned here, like Pierre, SD, and Juneau, AK, are really small towns.

 

I realized after my initial post that I had left out San Jose, CA (which is larger than San Francisco), Tulsa, OK, Wichita, KS and Anchorage, AK; I have been to every other city mentioned in this thread.

[Guest]

The only major cities I haven't visited in the U.S. are Pittsburg PA, Detroit MI, and Kansas City MO. The only state I haven't visited is North Dakota, but I wouldn't qualify any city there as major. Santa Fe NM, Charleston SC and Savannah GA aren't major in terms of population, but I would qualify them as major tourist destinations.

[+ Just Sayin]

I'd love for Steven Draker to come to Tucson; it is wonderful in the fall, winter and spring; and we need the talent here!!!

[Michael Wayne]

1. Pittsburg ( had dates scheduled at the end of a tour last year but was totally exhausted before I got there so looking forward to getting there this summer.) 2. Anchorage. It is not big but it intrigues me. 3. Indianapolis. I have had so many clients from Indy and I have been to Indiana but have missed the biggest city. Hope to tour there this summer. 4. Savannah. This one is funny since I have spent alot of time in Georgia and driven by it on I-95 but I have never actually gone into town. 5. charleston (been everywhere else in South Carolina but not to the crown jewel). 6. Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska. (I have only been to the edge of Nebraska and never to the cities. I have a great client from there who I see in Florida. He says Nebraska rocks!) 7. Kansas City.

[+ Charlie]

Why do so many people have trouble distinguishing between Pittsburg (which is in Kansas) and Pittsburgh (the great metropolis in western Pennsylvania)?

[+ Axiom2001]

Folks like to often tick off what cities/states/countries they've seen. Let's list where we haven't been (and what we'd most like to see):

 

Boston

San Diego

Minneapolis

Indianapolis

Denver

Portland, Oregon

Cleveland

Memphis

Phoenix

Kansas City

Salt Lake City

Pittsburgh

 

As for the ones I'd like to visit, I am pretty much the kind of traveler who would like to see everything once. But of this list, I'd say Boston, San Diego, Portland and Memphis are at the top.

 

From the cities you listed, I have not been to Minneapolis or Indianapolis and have no desire to do so. In terms of the States, I wish to visit Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ft. Lauderdale, a few towns in

the New England area, and possibly Dallas and Houston, Texas. But right now my preferences for travel have been outside of our country.

[Guest]

Why do so many people have trouble distinguishing between Pittsburg (which is in Kansas) and Pittsburgh (the great metropolis in western Pennsylvania)?

 

Pittsburg, California has almost three times the population of Pittsburg, Kansas...