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50 People Pick The Best Date Spot In Their State

We asked a representative from each of the 50 states in the U.S. to tell us the best place to go on a date where they're from. Into the idea of taking your sweetie to an old fashioned ice cream parlor? Something more sophisticated like a trip to the museum? What's more romantic than a smooch atop the ferris wheel at the state fair? Let us know your favorite place to take a date and see if your answers match on this episode of Culturally Speaking.

Released on 09/07/2020

Transcript

If you're going on a first date in Virginia,

you're meeting your date's horse outside before you go in.

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The best place to go on a date is to the Houston Rodeo.

Martha's Vineyard, it's a really scenic spot,

it's where the Obamas went on vacation.

Best place to go on a date in Indiana

would be the Indiana State Fair.

The best place to go on a date in New Jersey,

is out of New Jersey and to go to New York

and do something in New York.

I'd probably say it's a toss up between

Brooklyn Bridge Park and Prospect Park

because Prospect Park has the little duckies in the river.

If you cannot you know make it to the next round of dating

with ducks, not cut out for it, sorry.

Best place to go on a date is probably

on Church Street in Burlington.

The Badlander, it's a semi dive bar in downtown Missoula

and it's best to go during karaoke.

How bout an oyster bar?

I mean, that's supposed to make you horny.

Go in the afternoon, pick some apples at the farm,

it's really really beautiful and then you can

cook the apple pie together.

We have such unique ice cream parlors.

Cincinnati has Graters and Columbus has Jennie's,

either one would be a great date.

The more you could be outside and be near water

and kick back a beer or a drink,

that's the perfect date.

The best place to go on a date in Hawaii,

I mean if you don't mind a little risk and adventure,

I would take a date to the Makapuu Tide Pools hike

where you hike down the side of a mountain

into these tide pools.

Somewhere not on Broadway, but in the downtown Nashville

area so you can grab a bite like a burger or a beer

or something, listen to live music

and then walk down along the waterfront.

There's a neighborhood of Saint Louis called The Loop

and there's lots of bars and restaurants

and old school movie theaters, that sort of thing.

Birmingham, Alabama they have a really

cool music scene and downtown.

If you're into some good country eating,

they call them deer processing plants

and they make things like venison,

they make deer sausages and it's absolutely delicious.

The historic San Antonio,

I mean at least our Native American museums

are better than the ones in New York.

Definitely dinner in New Port

and then a walk along the cliff walk.

Best place to take a date in Alaska,

Flat Top Mountain, it's an easy 30 minute hike.

I think the best place to go on a date

is in Big Sir, cliffs are fantastic

and it's romantic and you have the ocean

and it's beautiful.

Piedmont Park is probably the best date spot in Georgia.

Pretty sure my first date in Iowa was at a Perkins

which is sort of like an Applebee's.

The best place to go on a date in North Dakota

is anywhere you can catch one of the beautiful sunsets.

I feel like a good date would be you know,

goin' on a four wheeler ride out in some field

and being totally alone with that other person.

Drive out somewhere random,

and just have a weird old date on the back of your pickup.

The best place to go on a date in Oregon would be

to the coast I mean it's love making time.

In Sioux Falls there are so many restaurants,

Sioux Falls is like the restaurant capital of the world,

we have more restaurants per capita

than I think maybe anywhere in America.

Oh my gosh, the National Aquarium is the best date spot!

The best date spot, trust me.

We have the Warhol Museum and Philadelphia Art Museum.

Downtown Phoenix called Hennies,

it's a pizza spot, I'm givin' out all my secrets.

Mount Sopris, my parents went there on one of

their first dates and it's been working

for them for over 24 years.

I think the best place to go on a date in Illinois,

Lake Michigan I should say, in Chicago.

The hidden pizza shop in the Cosmo Hotel.

Kent Falls, just 'cause it's pretty.

If you're looking for like a dinner date

with some dancing, go check out downtown Detroit.

Maple View Farms, it's this beautiful ice cream place

that sits on a hill overlooking corn fields.

A place called Temple Square,

especially if you're not from Utah,

it's pretty much like this whole surrounding garden

around the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City.

In Albuquerque specific would be going on the tram,

going to the top of the mountain and eating dinner.

A camp ground or a pavilion.

Have a picnic. Have a picnic.

I would say any National Park that's in the area I think.

It's like a beautiful way to get in touch with nature.

There are a bunch of really great hikes,

really beautiful views.

Hiking or camping.

I guess now that kinda sounds like stalkerish though right

taking someone on a date hiking, like in the forest.

Whatever, I stand with my answer.

A restaurant just on the water.

Like a brewery, there's tons of breweries.

Just to your local bar.

The movies, I'm always a fan of the movies,

you're gonna go to the movies, it's lame, it's boring

but it's the movies, it's exciting,

you're out of the rain, it's great.

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