3 US States In 5 minutes or less?

[AviationGuy]

This is definitely stretching it, but you can go from Nevada to Arizona to Utah through the Virgin River Gorge in about 30 minutes (I-15). It's a drive that everyone should make in their lifetime. Can't began to describe the scenery.

[10023]

For countries not states, I did this on a bicycle when my sister was living in Aachen, Germany. Just to the west there is a three-way border between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Roughly here:
Drielandenpunt NL, BE & DE
+31 43 306 5200
https://goo.gl/maps/8kLiMBtoKZRbkDy4A

[JMKeynes]

Originally Posted by JManc

I missed living in New England. I would be two states over in less than a couple of hours in any direction.

Not to mention, New England is utterly gorgeous.

[202_Cyclist]

DC isn't a state but you might be able to go from Maryland - DC - Virginia in five minutes, depending on traffic.

[Camelback]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

A few obvious ones:



California -> Nevada -> Arizona in 5 mins
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/35.0...a=!4m2!4m1!3e0

^You can walk from Arizona to Nevada to California in 5 minutes if you stay at Avi hotel - casino resort:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Av...4d-114.6405985

AZ side of the Colorado River:
https://goo.gl/maps/TAsa2HPuLmPzpi1F8

Nevada side of the Colorado River:
https://goo.gl/maps/axbQx3N3sSENnZC56

From here, walk about 100 yards west, away from the river and make a left on this dirt road and you'll end up in California on the West Bank of the Colorado River:
https://goo.gl/maps/ZTKJ3jYk9KbYrKE27

[Camelback]

^ Traveling south down the river from the Avi Resort & Casino, I found a place where you can travel from Baja California to California to Yuma, AZ in 11 minutes of time.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/32.7...a=!4m2!4m1!3e0

Los Algodones, Baja California:
https://goo.gl/maps/KFZiXdvCKyGW5mRp9

Winterhaven, California:
https://goo.gl/maps/wkanvrKHQzigjv94A

Yuma, Arizona:
https://goo.gl/maps/JKvSRwR5Wi4E8pT59

You could probably figure out a way to hit 4 states, Sonora, Baja California, Arizona and California, but it would require more time. Could probably be done in less than 30 minutes?

[Camelback]

Originally Posted by AviationGuy

This is definitely stretching it, but you can go from Nevada to Arizona to Utah through the Virgin River Gorge in about 30 minutes (I-15). It's a drive that everyone should make in their lifetime. Can't began to describe the scenery.

The drive from St. George to Las Vegas, through that tiny corner of Arizona is incredible.

[drummer]

Hmmm...I live in central Texas. This exercise doesn't compute.

There are a few places on the edges where this could work though, but not in five minutes. Texarkana can be in four different states in approximately half an hour, I suppose (TX, AR, OK, LA). You can also get from the Texas border across the Oklahoma panhandle to Colorado or Kansas in about half an hour. Add in the NE corner of New Mexico for grins. El Paso obviously has Mexico and New Mexico for a quick trip. Can't think of others with more than one border nearby.

[lio45]

My regular drive from my Southeastern Quebec hometown to my properties in far northern New Hampshire passes in a perfectly straight line through a very thin sliver of Vermont (as pointed out already).

It's closer to one minute than two, actually. Maybe even less than a minute...

Amusingly, it's not reversible: on the way back home, I do NH-VT-QC in a straight line in less than a minute, but you can't legally do it the other way, since the customs buildings in both cases are well into the country and you have to stop there.

Well, you actually can also do it the other way if you must (QC-VT-NH in a minute, getting over the Connecticut River bridge before the white and green Chevy Tahoes have managed to stop you), since there's no physical barrier preventing it. But I wouldn't recommend it

[JManc]

Originally Posted by Shawn

I was taking the OP as a challenge: could you make it from the MA/NH border on 95 to over the Piscataqua River Bridge into Maine in 10-15 minutes? Let's pretend there are no tolls and it's 2:00 AM on a Tuesday in July. Forget about the NH staties.

Doable?

I was poking around Google Maps for a single road where you could do the MA-RI-CT border, but Douglas State Forest prevents this. You could do it easily with two roads, but not one.

Salisbury to Kittery? Definitely.

Originally Posted by 10023

For countries not states, I did this on a bicycle when my sister was living in Aachen, Germany. Just to the west there is a three-way border between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Roughly here:
Drielandenpunt NL, BE & DE
+31 43 306 5200
https://goo.gl/maps/8kLiMBtoKZRbkDy4A

Been there. Pretty cool to be in three countries all at once.

[Camelback]

Originally Posted by drummer

Hmmm...I live in central Texas. This exercise doesn't compute.

There are a few places on the edges where this could work though, but not in five minutes. Texarkana can be in four different states in approximately half an hour, I suppose (TX, AR, OK, LA). You can also get from the Texas border across the Oklahoma panhandle to Colorado or Kansas in about half an hour. Add in the NE corner of New Mexico for grins. El Paso obviously has Mexico and New Mexico for a quick trip. Can't think of others with more than one border nearby.

How about a 3 minute drive from New Mexico, touching the corner of Texas, on your way to Oklahoma, all on the same roadway?!

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/36.5...36.4990954!3e0

[Camelback]

Texhomex, lol

If you're a farmer, you can walk to all three states in 30 seconds, checking on your fields.

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.5003.../data=!3m1!1e3

[Manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist

DC isn't a state but you might be able to go from Maryland - DC - Virginia in five minutes, depending on traffic.

I posted above that you can do it in 15 seconds driving from Alexandria to National Harbor: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38.7...a=!4m2!4m1!3e0

[Manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by drummer

Hmmm...I live in central Texas. This exercise doesn't compute.

There are a few places on the edges where this could work though, but not in five minutes. Texarkana can be in four different states in approximately half an hour, I suppose (TX, AR, OK, LA). You can also get from the Texas border across the Oklahoma panhandle to Colorado or Kansas in about half an hour. Add in the NE corner of New Mexico for grins. El Paso obviously has Mexico and New Mexico for a quick trip. Can't think of others with more than one border nearby.

It definitely can be done in 5 minutes. You can do New Mexico-Oklahoma-Texas in 1 second: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tr...4d-103.0024338

Same for Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Th...!4d-94.0430418

[hauntedheadnc]

If you don't mind getting your feet wet, you can pace around in the Chattooga River, and visit Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina while out hiking.

Likewise, you can add some spice to your holiday by visiting what appears to be a Christmas tree farm on the border of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

[montréaliste]

Originally Posted by Manitopiaaa

For Canada, there are no provincial tri-points.

You can do Quebec-New York-Vermont in 4 minutes though (ignoring the border crossing): https://www.google.com/maps/dir/45.0...a=!4m2!4m1!3e0

Quebec-Vermont-New Hampshire in 2 minutes: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/45.0...a=!4m2!4m1!3e0

And that's it for Canada.

I’ve done both routes, but the Qc/NH/Vt only once, whereas I crossed the Qc/NY/Vt lines many times.

There are many striking differences between the three jurisdictions.

[SFBruin]

Certainly not in coastal California. I basically had to get on an airplane when growing up if I ever wanted to see another state.

Also, I guess not in Hawaii or Alaska either.

[ChiSoxRox]

Originally Posted by SFBruin

Also, I guess not in Hawaii or Alaska either.

Increase the maximum time to 45 minutes (and ignore the current border mess), and you can start in Yukon, drive across the BC "panhandle" and end in Alaska.

The other road to the west is about ten minutes more to cross BC.

But for here in Fairbanks, yeah...

[JManc]

Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox

Increase the maximum time to 45 minutes (and ignore the current border mess), and you can start in Yukon, drive across the BC "panhandle" and end in Alaska.

The other road to the west is about ten minutes more to cross BC.

But for here in Fairbanks, yeah...

I was going to drive up to Fairbanks for some northern light photos when I was up there in April thinking it was a only a couple of hours from Anchorage. Take some pics and head right back. Nope...

[xzmattzx]

DE/PA 896 goes through Maryland for about 600 feet. It takes about 10 seconds to go from Delaware to Maryland to Pennsylvania.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7213...=en&authuser=0