Top 5 States For Outdoorsy Home Buyers

Home buyers in America had made outdoor recreation a top priority in their daily activities. One prerequisite for experiencing the great outdoors will be easy access to great parks, forests and waters. This will make location an important factor in the ability to pursue outdoor recreation.

Retale recently ranked America's most outdoors-loving states using criteria such as number of national and state parks, campgrounds, rock climbing areas, and kayak locations, as well as population density. The following is a compilation of the five best states for outdoorsy people looking to buy a new home.

1. California. The Golden State will offer a diverse range of forests, mountains, coastlines and valleys. These recreation areas will support nearly all popular outdoor activities, whether it is biking, hiking, climbing, skiing, camping, hunting, swimming, surfing, canoeing, kayaking or diving.
2. New York. The Empire State's Adirondack Mountains will give one of the wildest experience in the southernmost taiga forest areas in America. With about 3,000 parks and lakes, attracting billions of tourists to the park annually for hunting, fishing, hiking, rock climbing, snowmobiling, canoeing and kayaking, New York will be a place to consider, according to a feature from Realty Times.
3. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's name came from its sylvan forests, spanning 59 percent of the state's total land mass and carpeting the state's most famous geographic feature, the Appalachian Mountains. The Keystone State will provide a full range of year-round outdoor recreation such as hiking the Appalachian Trail to canoeing the Susquehanna River to skiing the Blue Ridge Mountains.
4. Oregon. Forty-eight percent of Oregon had been forested, and residents will never need to go far from Portland to find breathtaking mountains such as Mount Hood. The state ranked fourth for most recreational hiking trails and campgrounds and second for most state parks, according to a feature from Outdoor Industry.
5. Washington. With 3,000 miles of coastline, the Olympic and Cascade Mountains and the highest number of state parks in the country, Washington will be a haven for hiking, climbing, hunting, fishing, skiing and sailing.