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The best Christmas vacations USA trips I have taken share one habit. I picked the town first, the dates second, and the decorations last. I have spent Decembers in mountain towns where the snow arrived on schedule and in desert towns where it never did, and the trips that worked were the ones where I…

The best small towns in New England for the coast are Camden, Maine, Stonington, Ogunquit, Chatham, Massachusetts, Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Block Island, Rhode Island. Skip Bar Harbor, Maine, as a base in August, and don’t book a stay in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Pick two towns, not six. The driving between them will eat your trip. The…

The best places to visit in June in the USA are mountains and northern coasts: Acadia National Park, Maine, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Yosemite National Park, California, Glacier National Park, Montana, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and Haleakalā National Park, Maui, Hawaii. I rank them in that order below. Skip the desert Southwest and…

November Does Not Forgive a Summer Itinerary, and Places to visit in November USA Prove It My short answer is this: build your trip around Places to visit in November USA that gain something from the calendar, not places limping past their peak. I would send most readers to Key West, Florida, the southern Appalachian…

The places to visit South USA travelers rank highest are almost all misjudged on timing. This is the one American region where summer is the off season, because humidity does more damage to a trip here than heat alone ever could. Book October through April and the same destinations cost less and feel entirely different….

If you want to visit Vermont in fall and actually catch peak foliage, book the last week of September through the second week of October, and pick your elevation instead of your dates. Color moves north to south and high to low, which means the same weekend can be past peak in one valley and…