States I’ve Visited Map

Tap or click a state to color it in. Switch to Bucket list to mark the states you still want to see. The map counts your states, makes an image you can post, and gives you a link that shows your map to friends. Nothing to sign up for.

What counts as visiting a state?

There is no official rule, so travelers pick their own. These are the three most common:

• Set foot in it. The loosest rule: you stood on the ground, even at a gas station.
• Did something there. A meal, a hike, a museum or a night. Driving straight through doesn’t count.
• Stayed overnight. The rule many people chasing all 50 states use.

Airport layovers are the case people argue about most, and most travelers don’t count a state they only saw from the terminal. Choose one rule and use it for every state, so your number means something.

Is Washington, D.C. a state?

No. The District of Columbia is a federal district, not a state, so the map counts 50 states and shows D.C. as a small dot of its own. Mark it if you’ve been; your count shows it separately.

Ideas for your next states

• Route 66 in 14 days crosses eight states, from Illinois to California.
• New England in 7 days covers Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
• Blue Ridge Parkway in 5 days for Virginia and North Carolina.
• Alaska in 10 days and Hawaii in 7 days, the two states most people leave for last.
• First trip to the USA in 2 weeks if you’re starting from zero.

Counting national parks too? Use the national parks checklist.

Where your map is saved

Your marks stay in your own browser and never reach our server. The share link carries them after the # sign, a part of a web address that browsers don’t send to the website. Clearing your browser data clears the map, so download the image or keep your link if you want a copy.

Map: “Blank US Map (states only)” by Heitordp, Wikimedia Commons, public domain (CC0). Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.