Depends on what a person wants in the outdoors. If you want freedom to roam and plentiful access to hunting and fresh water fishing, it's hard to beat most of the states in the mountain west. Game available there varies some from state to state, but most are pretty good. But, to be close to salt fishing out west you have to be in WA/OR/CA and deal with different social/guv issues than most of the mountain states.
50 years ago I would have said California hands down - that's gone. The hunting/fishing and access/space to roam were quite good when I lived in WA more than 30 years ago. But - given the social bent west of the Cascades these days - eh?
Then again - AK surpasses all.
