What is your city, county or area best know for?

[old head]

the only place in the US of A where 3 lanes of interstate merge into 1. 

East bound on I-10 crossing the Mississippi River.

don't try it after 2pm, the backup is legendary, miles at times.

Home of LSU football....

Old Head

[SmithSwede]

Since 1885, my homestead of Terrell, Texas has been notorious as the site of the North Texas Lunatic Asylum. 

But before you draw adverse inferences against me, let me point out that I have filed the necessary paperwork declaring my nearby compound to be a sovereign nation, known to my friends as the Republic of Prescott.   

My Republic studiously maintains cordial relations with the Great State of Texas, but we have no truck with the lunatics. 

Unless they ride Guzzis.  In which case, come camp within my borders.

[ken farr]

California:  The Golden State, ( now with some tarnish ), damn nice weather.  Great grand dad moved to the sleepy little town of Los Angeles after the Civil War.
                Dad came down from the PNW, for the weather, and a job at one of the "airplane plants" before WW2.

Fillmore:  Citrus capitol of the world.  ( well, used to be, now it's row crops and avocados )
              Named after a railroad official who made the town a stop,  not the former President.
              Town was devastated by the Northridge  earthquake in 1994.
              Rebuilt.
              Nice place to live.

kjf

[vstevens]

San Diego ...

Beaches, mountains and desert all within an hour's travel.

Absence of lakes, rivers, and streams.

Military and surfers, some overlap there ....

And some of the best craft beer  🍻 anywhere

[wrbix]

Saltville, VA - Salt Capital of the Confederacy

Cedar Key, FL - one of the largest producers of farm raised clams in the country, and tourism

[pete roper]

Bungendore's not famous for anything. The closest town of note is Queanbeyan which is an ancient aboriginal word meaning 'Place of the fat, unemployed, chain smoking single mother'. Just beyond that is Canberra, the National Capital, famous for Pornography, Prostitution and Politicians! Three things that not only roll off the tongue but are also seemingly entwined in a sort of loathsome Gordian knot!

We are close to the Snowy Mountains, (Great riding roads.)  and the most unspoilt beaches on the east coast of Oz though so it's not all bad.

Pete

[willowstreetguzziguy]

I'm five miles north of the world famous weather prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil. And yes we have plenty of Amish buggies too !!

I love the movie "Groundhog Day" filmed there!

[Rough Edge racing]

 Farm tractors, every person in this town has a tractor, new or antique...The Finger Lakes a bit to the south.

[molly]

Grantham UK:
Margaret Thatcher (born 1925) Sir Isaac Newton (b 1642, school and lived in nearby village), gingerbread and first British policewoman (1915).
WWII bomber command HQ where the Dambusters raid (bouncing bomb etc.) was planned.
https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/whats-on/what-s-on-rare-to-chance-to-home-of-the-dambusters-raid-1-8467616/

[blackbuell]

We live in Northern Kentucky, not far from Bourbon County and the Bluegrass region. Lots of drunk thoroughbreds.

Jon

[Adk.IBO]

Essex County, NY home of the 1930 and 1980 Olympics...

[larrys]

SE CT. Mystic Seaport, Mystic Aquarium, Gillette's Castle. Lots o' maritime, whaling, and colonial history. Best and cleanest end of Long Island Sound. East half of CT has the best riding roads.
Larry

[m13]

You got Amish!!!?
Southern Maryland Amish and Mennonite abound!,Naval air station (what a contrast!), civil war history (Point lookout state park), Crabs,.. once HUGE amounts of tobacco farming, now almost gone, Crabs, a peninsula so water on 3 sides, close proximity to Washington D.C (Government and tourist, Culture?..eeh) Crabs, Very early British colonies and first Maryland capital, and..did I say Crabs? Mostly level farmland/woodland as far as motorcycle scenery,..and Crabs.

[lucian]

Lobsters, Lighthouses and LLBeans

[oldbike54]

SE CT. Mystic Seaport, Mystic Aquarium, Gillette's Castle. Lots o' maritime, whaling, and colonial history. Best and cleanest end of Long Island Sound. East half of CT has the best riding roads.
Larry

 And pizza , don't forget the pizza 

 Dusty

[Gliderjohn]

From M-13:

Naval air station (what a contrast!)

Happened in KS also during WWII. The Navy built a primary aviation training base right in the middle of an Amish community by Hutchinson, KS. It is now our flying club's gliderport.



GliderJohn

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

I love the movie "Groundhog Day" filmed there!

Groundhog Day was actually filmed in Woodstock, IL.
https://www.locationshub.com/blog/2013/10/26/about-those-famous-groundhog-days-filming-locations

[TOMB]

State of Connecticut.
Known for,
Our moto.  Under construction.
Greatest natural resource.   Ashfault.
High tax's and people moving out
TOMB

[vintagehoarder]

Louisville Kentucky, Louisville slugger bats, Kentucky Derby, bourbon

[oilhed]

SE CT. Mystic Seaport, Mystic Aquarium, Gillette's Castle. Lots o' maritime, whaling, and colonial history. Best and cleanest end of Long Island Sound. East half of CT has the best riding roads.
Larry

I'll give you most of that but the N.W. corner is the best and you can sneak into the Hudson valley & southern Berkshires, too!

[Guzzi Gal]

Insane heat.

[JJ]

Insane heat.

YES!!!  aka...The Valley of the Sun...also known at "The Forbidden Planet" from Memorial Day through Thanksgiving!!

Just for perspective...today is Oct. 28th and the high in Phoenix will be......91!!!

[Ncdan]

SE CT. Mystic Seaport, Mystic Aquarium, Gillette's Castle. Lots o' maritime, whaling, and colonial history. Best and cleanest end of Long Island Sound. East half of CT has the best riding roads.
Larry

I visited Mystic and absolutely loved that place, great part of the US👍

[John Ulrich]

Mpls/St.Paul at one time in the not so distant past had 3 Guzzi dealers in the metro area and 4 more in the outlying area.... Mora, Lake Crystal, Duluth, Watertown, SD.

[canuck750]

Sadly Edmonton is still know for "West Edmonton Mall' for a long time the largest indoor shopping mall in the world and Wayne Gretsky's hockey career with the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL, long past glories.
The Americans built a couple large air bases here and for a few weeks during WW2 the municipal airport laid claim to being the busiest air strip in the world as American and Canadian built fighters and bombers were using the strip as a jumping off point on to Alaska and over the pole aircraft ferry route to the Ruskies. Edmonton was also the marshalling point for construction material in the building of the Alaska Highway.

[RinkRat II]

   Lake Powell, In the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Second largest man made lake in the U.S.. Center of the "Grand Circle"  located in the middle of several National Parks and Monuments
                                               



    Paul B

[LowRyter]

oil derricks at the State Capitol

[blackcat]

Drunk rednecks .

 Dusty

We have that and a mullet throwing contest.

Oh yeah, the beaches.

[Guzzi Gal]

YES!!!  aka...The Valley of the Sun...also known at "The Forbidden Planet" from Memorial Day through Thanksgiving!!

Just for perspective...today is Oct. 28th and the high in Phoenix will be......91!!!

Glorious riding weather!

[cliffrod]

My family farm/home is 15 miles from my Master Sculptor's studio where I apprenticed in Barre Vermont- "The Granite Center of the World" and Rock of Age's quarry that is considered the largest granite quarry in the world. 

My own studio here in Spartanburg SC is further away from Elberton Ga, "the Granite Capitol of the World" where I now do most of my business.  approx 1/3 of all USA made granite memorial products are produced in Elberton.

Here in Spartanburg- it used to be peaches. At one time, Spartanburg County produced more peaches than the entire state of GA.  More recently, it's about NASCAR and lifelong resident legends like driver David Pearson (still lives approx a mile from me) Owner/Builder Bud Moore, Cotton Owens plus others including Jack Smith, James Hylton and more.