HOW WE GONNA PAY FOR IT?
Oh, man. Fuck that.
Go West, young man. FWIW I'm definitely picking BIG WYO every time as a travel destination over punk ass Swede descendant Minnesota, much less goofy ass Wuhscahnsin (no offense
@BFoe and
@mkess101).
Wyoming has the triple crown of possessing America's first national park, first national forest, and first national monument. The federal government owns half the state, and the other half is eerily desolate high plains. It's the least populous state and the most conservative with the highest amount of firearms per capita by a laughably insane margin. Oddly enough, it was also the first state that allowed women the right to vote and the first to elect a female governor. The I-80 is probably the most dangerous highway in the entire country (and not because of gun related crime).
For my $$$: Yellowstone is not only the epitome of the Old West and American Frontier; it's the most hallowed ground and #1 destination in the entire country, the most unique place on the entire planet. It was the world's first national park and would be one of the world's greatest national parks for geothermal activity alone; its concentration and diversity of wildlife alone; its scenic beauty and landscapes of forests, canyons, valleys, meadows, lakes, rivers, and waterfalls alone.
It is the location of one of the world's largest supervolcanoes and has more active hydrothermal features (geysers, hot springs, mud pots, steamvents, travertine terraces) than the rest of the entire planet combined; the highest concentration of ungulates (bison, moose, elk, mule deer, pronghorn, big horn sheep), predators (grizzly bears, black bears, mountain lions, gray wolves) and birds of prey (bald eagles, golden eagles, ospreys, peregrine falcons) in the contiguous USA; the largest freshwater alpine lake above 7,000 feet in North America, the longest, most wild, and practically only undammed river left in America, with over 250 waterfalls across its 2.2 million acres to boot.
Grand Teton just south is really god damn pretty (and is actually part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem); but then so is Glacier (in Montana). So is Banff (in Alberta). And so is, and so is, and so is in various countries and continents across the world. Yellowstone is straight up fucking unbelievable literally and figuratively, there is objectively no other place like it on Earth.