States I've Been To Map

Pick what a tap does: Been there, Want to go, or Erase. Then tap a state. Been there takes the foil off and shows the state's color, the same color it has under the foil on the printed map. Want to go leaves the foil on and fills the state with dots in the accent color. On a computer you can press and drag across several states at once, the way you'd run a coin across the real thing.

The small states on the East Coast are easier to hit from the Small states row under the map, or zoom in on the Northeast. On a keyboard, Tab moves between states and Enter or Space marks one. Undo takes back the last tap, and Start over clears the map once you confirm.

The counter above the map keeps score: how many of the 50 states you've marked and what share of the country that is. Washington, DC doesn't count toward the 50, because it isn't a state. Want to go states are counted on their own line.

If you'd rather count from a list, the 50 states checklist under the map has every state in alphabetical order with the same two switches. Type a name or a two-letter code to jump to one.

Nobody agrees on this, so pick a rule and keep it. The All Fifty Club's original guideline was to set foot on the ground and breathe the air of a state, with airport stopovers and flyovers excluded, and the club now lets members set their own standard. A layover where you never leave the terminal is the usual line. Driving through counts for most people if they stopped somewhere. Some only count a night slept there, and couples often keep two maps, one for the places they've been together and one for everything else.

Whatever you decide, use the same rule for every state, or the number won't mean much next to a friend's.

Washington, DC is a federal district, not a state, so it's on the map as a dot and in the list, and marking it doesn't change your count. Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands aren't on this map, and they aren't on the printed USA map either.

The map works for more than a tally. Mark the states you drove through on one road trip and plan the next one around the gaps, or give the Want to go stripes to the five states you'd visit this year. Open it with your kids and let them tap the states they remember (the kids map with the state capitals pairs well with it). If you're working toward all 50, the Want to go list is your to-do list and the counter is the scoreboard.

Each state's details are one tap away: the capital, the nickname, the year it joined, the national parks inside it (the same 61 drawn on the printed map) and its highest point. Useful when you're picking where to go next.

Ticking off national parks too? The National Parks Checklist works the same way.

Tap Capitals and the map becomes a US map with capitals: a star on each state capital with its name, from Montgomery to Cheyenne, and Washington, DC when you've marked it. On a phone the names show when you zoom in on the Northeast, where Boston, Providence, Hartford, Concord and Montpelier sit close together. The capitals stay on in the pictures you download and on the printed page, so the same map works as a states and capitals map for a classroom wall or a kid's room.

The Landmass look is the printed map: black foil, the same seven colors under it. The Map colors row switches the whole map to another set: Pastels, Blues, Vintage (sepia on old paper), Black and gold, Black and white, or Rainbow. The downloads, the print page and your copied link follow the one you pick, and neighboring states never share a color, whichever set you choose.

Copy link gives you a link that reopens this exact map on any device. On a phone, Share opens your share sheet with the picture attached. Download gives you a square picture for Instagram or a tall one for Stories and TikTok, with your count on it. Print or save as PDF puts the map and the checklist on one letter-size page.

Your map is also saved in this browser, so it's here when you come back. There's no account and nothing to install.

This page is a copy of the Landmass USA scratch-off map. The printed one is 24 by 17 inches, black foil over the same colors, with the 61 national parks and each state's highest peak drawn in. You scratch a state off with a coin after the trip, and it stays on the wall.