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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FentonForche, post: 566593, member: 18064&quot;]Yeah, New York has no national parks. They do have the largest state park in the country though. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s going to be a real challenge for a lot of the prairie states to find something distinctive, and the more I think about, the more I think a lot of the mountainous designs are going to blur together. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few states have something that pops out immediately...</p><p><br /></p><p>CA with Yosemite (probably Half Dome...Joshua Tree might be an interesting alternative)</p><p><br /></p><p>WY with Yellowstone (probably Old Faithful revisited somehow)</p><p><br /></p><p>UT (I&#039;m guessing they&#039;ll do something with Arches)</p><p><br /></p><p>AK (Mount McKinley, most likely)</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are some states that have amazing national parks, but I&#039;m curious to see how they&#039;ll translate in to a distinctive coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, Acadia for Maine...or Glacier for Montana. Beautiful parks, but how do you capture it on a coin when there&#039;s no one distinctive feature that jumps out at you? </p><p><br /></p><p>I think this is going to take some serious creativity...I&#039;d like to see my home state of Colorado do something with aspen leaves for this series. It&#039;s what we&#039;re known for as much as anything. You could try to throw a major summit on like Pike&#039;s or Long&#039;s or Sneffels, but most people wouldn&#039;t recognize it--not unique enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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