I reckon the Ozarks are a good place for a bug out location. Lots of national forest, lakes and streams, and there are "mountains" which are not real mountains like the Rockies or Appalachians, but they're the highest elevations between both of those real mountain ranges. The Ozarks are generally a beautiful, serene area, but the vacation hotspots are not as much serene. It's somewhat nearby where I live. They're also in states that are still free (Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma), meaning no Jєω-Marxist gun control laws.