America’s 20 Prettiest Towns
I thought I’d have a lock on this list; I’m more of a town aficionado then a city-girl, and it is my home country, after all, but I only got nine out of twenty. I haven’t explored the eastern seaboard as much as I’d like and this beautiful slideshow makes me want to head east.
The selections:
Springdale, Utah; Burlington, Vermont; Bisbee, Arizona; Cape May, New Jersey; Lake Placid, New York; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; New Hope, Pennsylvania; Rockport, Maine; Annapolis, Maryland; Flagstaff, Arizona; Newport, Rhode Island; Galena, Illinois; Marfa, Texas; Park City, Utah; Mendocino, California; Savannah, Georgia; Bodie, California; Hanover, New Hampshire; Aspen, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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A Massachusetts-born New Englander, I can vouche for Rockport and Newport (both wonderful day trips in the summer), but would add that Wolfesboro, NH should’ve made the list, as well as Salem, Massachusetts (no town compares during Halloween, but the Maritime and literary history–Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables, anyone, is also wonderful and the seaside clapboard homes and historical mansion-lined avenues so picturesque); Concord, Massachusetts (for lovers of Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and grapes–the town I want to transcend to if I ever return to live in my home state); and Newburyport. I’ve skied in Park City, before the Olympics arrived there, and while it was family friendly and lovely, over development was quickly taking hold. For lovers of Napa Valley, St. Helena offers lots of charm. And in my now home state of Illinois, Geneva takes the cake for me. A lovely river town, with top notch eateries and lots of nostalgia.
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