Most Beautiful Continent

North America and it's not even close.

I’ll play along since I enjoy these type of threads on the Travel Board. The majority of threads are asking for recs which is very valuable.

But I hope for more threads like this discussing the worlds best places or articles detailing hidden gems. I wish for more inspiration.

Hard to not nominate North America. I’m more familiar as you would expect. I assume you speaking of geography and not cities. Urban areas are another topic.

1. The beaches of Caribbean and Hawaii are elite
2. The mountains of Canada and Alaska are impressive
3. The Grand Canyon is beyond reproach
4. Admittedly lacking on jungle/rainforest compared to other continents
5. Volcanic opportunities are worth the trek
6. Water features exist but not elite. Grand lakes and falls are available but better elsewhere
7. The beauty of the deserts out west feel like God’s paintings
8. And Yellowstone adds a star to the total count
9. Throw in some epic caves and swamp land and you have a nice mix

That being said, I could make a similar argument for South America. Plus having the GOAT jungle.

OP, what is your opinion?

Not sure I would count Hawaii as North America, it’s not on the continent, more like pacific islands

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OP, what is your opinion?

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Hard call. I have been to some part of all of them except Antarctica.

The thing about North America is the western half is vastly more scenic. Draw me a line from Big Bend NP to Denver to Edmonton and up the BC and YT borders and give me everything on or west of it and I will debate all comers that there’s not a more beautiful slice of Earth of comparable size anywhere else.

The eastern half of NA is pretty but little of it is amazing. Overall, I might still take NA just because of its diverse beauty.

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Ruby Falls would like a word with you

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Ruby falls is fantastic. But we are talking about the worlds best. Iguazu and Victoria are a cut above

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The eastern half of NA is pretty but little of it is amazing.

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Wouldn’t the Caribbean beaches be part of the eastern half of NA? And Niagara

Europe, from the Greek Isles to the Alps to Scotland to Lapland, is hard to beat because it's all relatively close together.

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There’s little “dead weight” in the west when it comes to scenery. There’s a fair amount of it in the east. The east has some great features, but the west is far better.

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Wut, you are simply choosing exactly what you like. There's hundreds of thousands of square miles of desert and scrub brush country that are by no means pretty.

To answer though, the issue is what civilization lives there and how the area currently appears IMO. There are beautiful areas in 3rd world countries that would potentially be a lot better if completely undeveloped or another civilization lived there. At the same time, I think there's places like parts of Italy that have amazing civilization that would add to their value.

I'm not sure how you even compare a continent to a continent unless you took the absolute best of each and only compared that. But what if one continent had 100x the beach but it wasn't quite as nice as a very small beautiful beach somewhere else?

It's close, but probably Asia.

I believe Iceland is the same. Natural beauty everywhere.