States driven?

[superj]

100% true on texas road trips. we take 4 hour road trips to my parent's house in central texas.

we do enjoy road tripping to houston and east texas though. nice to see green trees instead of brown fields sometimes

 

[superj]

i saw so many broken down cars driving into death valley. all over heated. new cars too, not old ragged ones

 

[Curious Hound]

I have only driven my Ranger in 9 states and that's probably more than the PO drove it in. I'll add a few more on the Colorado trip in 2025.

I've been to a lot more than that, but in other vehicles.

 

[holyford86]

NY, VT, NH, ME, MA, PA, QC here. I can be in Vermont in about 30 minutes and am there regularly, Quebec is about the same distance but I haven't been in years. I've gone to western PA and bothered @lil_Blue_Ford a couple of times. My family owns a lake house in Northern NH so I head that way at least once a year.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I've been to 9 different states... including both the Upper and Lower Penninsulas of Michigan. I've also drove it out of the country to Canada.

A upcoming trip out west this year could get me 6 to 9 more... depending on the route.

 

[Roert42]

Forgot about Canada.

she’s been up Ontario a few times. Spent January of 2020 in Toronto.

 

[sgtsandman]

In just the Rangers? I'll need to think on this a bit since I've done a number of trips in other vehicles....

Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana,Texas, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. I think that is it.

The 2019 has been to Florida without me while I was on deployment once, but that probably doesn't count.

 

[Brain75]

...I'll add a few more on the Colorado trip in 2025....

SC to CO, that's a heck of a ways to plan out for ?many? months advanced... what part of CO are you gonna see?

I do have to add (I know not ranger, but it was a blast) I have driven to petrified forest & through painted canyon with the top down in my little convertible that was a blast - followed route 66 for a fair chunk of the ways, got to see Holbrook & Winslow (two of the main inspirations for "Radiator Springs" in Cars) and all those little towns along the way. Topping that trip off was a big big car show in Flagstaff.

Drove past Magdalena (near Socorro) and got to see the VLA in 2022 since COVID killed my chances to tour it with Jack Schmidt in 2020.

 

[Curious Hound]

SC to CO, that's a heck of a ways to plan out for ?many? months advanced... what part of CO are you gonna see?

August. I guess it will be eastern half, roughly. I don't know the firm routes yet. Doesn't really matter. I just want to get out there. I hope to ride the historic train between Durango and Silverton before meeting up with the rest of the group. Will definitely be a long trip for a 6ft 2" guy in a single cab Ranger with no A/C

 

[Brain75]

I've done the Durango/Silverton twice... once as a 5yr old kid and once after I was 30-something with the little lady. If dates are a little flexible very late aug or sept would be good time to see the trees changing colors (lots of trees on that route)... not all pines in the mountains. Fall is the first week in Sept, last day of Aug will be 99 - always is. Rain and 40 degrees starts 2nd week, snow by Halloween. Train leaves at the butt crack of dawn, basically takes a whole day. I do not envy you doing southwest CO or the eastern plains in August w/o AC...course my ranger doesn't have AC either and I just do it....
Sounds like a blast, I really enjoyed my trip to truckstock (1948-56 F-series meetup group).

 

[kishy]

85 Ranger: MI, OH, IL
85 Country Squire: MI, OH, KY, TN, NC, VA, MD, NJ, PA, and a couple miles each of WV and DE.
91 Grand Marquis: ditto as for the wagon

 

[JoshT]

I've definitely driven my Rangers in:

Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina

I've probably driven them in :

*South Carolina
*Virginia
*West Virginia
**Alabama

* Don't remember if I drove it on the ski trip to Boone in NC, or Snowshow Mountain in WV.
** I had to have driven into Alabama at somepoint in the last 20 years, but I don't remember when or why.

That's probably all the states they will ever hit unless something changes. About the only way I'd take a longer road trip is if I ever get a camper and/or significant other.

I do want to travel more, but if I'm going further than that I'll fly and get a rental so I can spend more time seeing the destination. There's not too much on my current list where the journey is the focal point.

FWIW, I have been in a few more states than that, Those are just the ones wher I was (most likely) driving my Ranger.

 

[scotts90ranger]

all youns in the smaller states have it a little easier to get up in numbers

'90 ranger I've taken it just in Oregon and Washington but that included Seattle to I think only Coos Bay south but as far east as Christmas Valley...

'97 Ranger has been to Oregon, Washington and California, haven't ventured past Vancouver WA but have been down to Bakersfield CA...

'00 Explorer just Oregon and Washington but we did a 1200 mile (I think, was 7 years ago, forgot the number...) road trip just in Oregon for our honeymoon in it...

'98 Explorer has been to Oregon, Washington and Idaho, we did a road trip to Twin Falls a few years ago...

I've been to a whole bunch more states, I stopped counting a while ago

 

[Brain75]

I actually used to have a map on travbuddy (defunct, they died in 2018)... didn't have a list of all the places backed up and saved for myself, but yeah... 12 hours from Austin and you are still in Texas, 26 hr marathon and you get to wrack up a whole 3 states NM,AZ,CA... I have vacation pictures well organized from all kinds of places (DC, Puerta Vallarta, San Juan) but didn't even count any of those if I flew there and then drove a rental car. I'm barely still young enough I could maybe write down a full list if I tried really hard and I had a couple days to double check the list.

I'm at total odds with Josh... an hour in security, an hour dealing with parking and shuttle, an hour for the plane delay and god help you if you go through miami (8 hours on the tarmac waiting for a gate, 2 hours to get from gate to car rental terminal on the worlds longest slowest shuttle train)... I drive if it is gonna be 5 hours less than flying which pretty much means anything 7 hours drive or less, no questions asked. I've done the Austin to Denver run like 5 or 6 times, all but 2 of those as non-stop (you know except for gas)... did it all in one day -16 hours- leave at 6a arrive at midnight. Couldn't deal with not having my vehicle at the other end and a rental cost well offset the cost of gas driving.
I'm at the point now (after being pulled aside as a "solo traveling male" every time I am solo) that there is just about no way in hell I want to deal with security at an airport, just let me drive my vehicle is reliable enough. My first airport security BS was on 9-27, 16 days after 9-11 they pulled "white guys" just to prove that they weren't racial profiling.

Similar to travbuddy, I found a site that is still in business. Let the site load then wait a full second and it will fill in my "car" map (like I said before my Ranger map is CO+WY that's it):

Interactive Visited Places Map

I visited 26 regions in United States!

visitedplaces.com

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Rusty #1 had been in TN, KY,OH, IN, MI (both lower and upper), WI, and IL.

Rusty #2 only MI and ohio. I tried taking it to indiana once and it obviously didnt wanna go as it took a shit about 1 mile from the line.