What are some cozy American cities/towns worth visiting?
Stuff like
>Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
>Gatlinburg, Tennessee
What are some cozy American cities/towns worth visiting? Stuff like. >Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
What are some cozy American cities/towns worth visiting?
Stuff like
>Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
>Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Probably some in new England but nowhere will be as comfy as ones in the UK. All the small towns in the US are full of opioid addicts.
Bet maine has some good ones
West Virginia friendo. See Harper's Ferry! The Greenbrier!
OP is anti-American scum
Why are chuds so fragile?
Hey, this is me posting again, I forgot to mention that i’m trans, MtF, and that I hope ukraine wins!
It's different, but there are lots of quaint, cozy places
pic related Wilmington, VT
I went there to visit a friend and felt like I was in an episode of Dawson's Creek or something... Friday night all the young people down by the lake, camp fires and beers, skinny dipping, fire flies and stars... shit was ridiculous. Then drive-in movie theaters nearby, and diners where everyone knows each other and people come in because the mayor is always in there working from a booth.
I wanted to live there until my friend told me what it's really like.
>I wanted to live there until my friend told me what it's really like.
explain
Basically it's like being in high school where everyone knows everyone and there's a social hierarchy. You can't go about your business without other people noticing and gossiping.
Almost everyone has a DUI, and everyone has a reputation. You've got the guys who think they're upstanding members of the community but are really just bullies and will talk shit about you because you didn't donate to something or help out at some bake sale.
From the outside it looks nice, but to live there quickly becomes monotonous
You need to be 18 to post here.
>Everyone has a DUI
Literally how the FUCK do you even get a DUI? I've been drunk as fuck behind the wheel and hit DUI checkpoints and as long as you're not hiccuping and slurring words they'll let you go. You lot must be literal retards who change lanes with no blinker while blowing a 0.21
Cops have quotas and in small towns there's a good chance of them pulling people over late at night towards the end of the period. Most of the time its not apparent your Drunk until you speak
Too many wh*tes
"too many whites?" So you mean that it's safe?
The women are very fat and very entitled and the food will give you an autoimmune condition probably.
This. It’s portrayed as nice by media but it’s a real third world dump with pockets of rich, like brazil.
had the right explanation of the culture. It’s not real, it’s very plastic and premade. It’s not like a european small town or like a 1970/80s US small town. After the 80s all our legitimate small towns rapidly died and were replaced by fabricated specialty tourist places where the local people are northern carpetbaggers who replaced the original townsfolk 30 years ago, and now LARP as them
The best I can describe to you is that it feels like a wax museum with lots of elitist snob nosed scummy fuckheads
Vermont has a lot of very cozy towns like this. Stay away from Burlington and it's a beautiful place. Burlington is all shaved headed dykes and chud university students.
>VT
Yeah, basically the only decent state
tfw Deep South
Be really careful visiting small towns in America
There’s three types
1. Wealthy suburb near city or company headquarters
2. Quaint tourist town with multigenerational residents and history
3. Drug and crime filled poverty shithole
The third is the most common BY FAR, 2 is the best and rarest BY FAR, 1 is soulless but nice to live in and found everywhere.
For example I live in a small town in south Florida and we all have boats and use the intercostal all the time to go out ocean and river fishing. It’s super comfy and there’s a small historic downtown with all the stores. Of course you can drive to a larger town or small city if you want to easily but sometimes it’s nice to forget those places
However if you drive inland 20 or 30 mins the small towns you encounter are likely to sell you as bait for gator hunting
2 is mostly populated by rich boomers from New York or California being served by people who commute in from 3
>3. Drug and crime filled poverty shithole
>The third is the most common BY FAR
You are such a pussy. Wrong too
Let me guess, you’re transgender and feel offended when people tell the truth about muttgemstan’s shithole anthills?
>Wrong too
No he's not. Kys.
Let me guess, you were born and raised in a city and you feel uncomfortable when it's quiet at night.
Yeah I'm looking for 2
This is a decent model.
This is also correct; it describes Harper's Ferry (replace NY with DC).
There are two relevant facts for anons: single, non-obese, age 19<x<40 women do not exist in American small towns, and if you do not have >=2 generations of lineage in the town, you will never be accepted as an in-group member.
anon's goal is to exist without contact from corporate cortisol-drenched normies, white trash, or the reality-warped rich. I don't believe that environment exists in the United States, so you'd have to build your own town.
>if you do not have >=2 generations of lineage in the town, you will never be accepted as an in-group member
Unless your goal is to get elected into local government, who cares? That won't affect you.
Cozier if you can rely on others when needed
I’ve always realised that the UK and US is inverse in a lot of ways.
Apart from London, in the UK rural = wealthy. Wealthy people generally do not live in cities. They live in leafy country estates surrounded by horses and cows. That’s where the big houses, low crime and quaint streets are. It’s VERY rare to see poor people in very rural areas in the UK.
In many cases, all of the respectable people in many cities are people who have drove in from nearby rural villages. The local city folk are often scum.
Good point, never realised that UK has little rural poverty whereas the USA has a lot. I wonder why this is?
U.K. has plenty of rural poverty. There are no jobs except seasonal agricultural work and services like healthcare and transport are inconvenient to access. Food costs more. You really need a car. You do get a lot of fancy folks parking their BMWs outside barn conversions but they’re not everyone rurally.
I have a theory, it could be because land is expensive in the UK but cheap in the USA. So while USA has lots of hillbillies living on 50 acre farms you'll never see a chav with that in the UK.
Flagstaff, AZ? DYOR but it's nice if you enjoy outdoorsy stuff
GATLINBURG TENNESSEE? That's the epitome of a tourist trap carny infested shit hole. What's cozy about $40 zip lines, trinket shops, and ripley's believe it or not? Gatlinburg is probably one of the most degraded, pathetic, existential crisis inducing places in the whole country. Everything there is made out of stucko. That people don't let fly a .22 to bounce around their skull after pissing away a vacation there is all the proof coasties would ever need to prove that us flyovers are sub-human lastman homunculi. Fuck you man. Just fuck you.
It's in the mountains right next to the national park, it's fine because it's an unapologetic tourist trap. Everyone knows what it is
It's a consumerist dreg heep and your championing of it as a "cute little town" just proves how dysgenic, materialistic, and truly oblivious southerners are.
I didn't say it was a cute little down, I said it was an unapologetic tourist trap. Everyone already knows that but it's clean and safe and right next to a major national park, but is still nestled in the Smokies. It's nice to visit for a weekend no matter if you want to go hiking or go down the road to Dollywood or whatever.
You're just mad people don't like the same things you do
No, I'm mad people enjoy shit. Why does being openly shitty make it any better? It's shit either way. The smokey mountains are pretty fuckin big dude, just go anywhere else besides that heap of shit.
How's college?
How's fucking your cousin you fucking hick?
seething college sophomore
>Enjoying the smokey mountain make you materialistic
Kek you're a little boy
Enjoying the smokey mountains after you just out the wax statue of Theodore Roosevelt. Dumb fucking coonass.
Why are you going into wax museum kek. Classic poor person
Well dude YOU GOTTA HIT THE WAX MUSEUM BRO! SO cool! Me and wife went their after the upsidedown house, great day, amazing honeymoon. I love gatlinburg/pidgeonforge and I go to the Church of Christ.
It's a cute looking town right next to the smokey mountains. You seem naïve
I fucking refuse to go to Gatlinburg anymore. It got so much worse in the last decade. For me, if I am going to the smokies, its to Robbinsville or Bryson City. Even Cherokee is better than Gatlinburg.
Does Gatlinburg have nutjobs shitting on the streets like Los Angeles?
No but it reminds me of pisa. Fake stucco shithole with miggers or carnies pawning garbage in your face.
It doesn't make pretenses about being a tourist town, that's what I like about it. It's fun, nothing wrong with visiting.
the only small towns in the U.S that are not poverty striken shitholes all have a hustle in mind. Often times tourism is the focus, which is often seasonal. Sometimes agriculture is their source of income or if they're lucky they just happen to be the state capital. Many small towns used to survive off of mining but a lot of those hustles dried up for whatever reason. Rural America is probably worst in the midwest and south, midwest because a decline in the automotive industry and the south because it never fully recovered from the Civil War.
>the only small towns in the U.S that are not poverty striken shitholes all have a hustle in mind.
There are also a ton of small college towns that are lovely (and often relatively wealthy) little places; not sure if that counts as a ”hustle” by your metric.
Don’t know how small is small in your book, OP, but I grew up near Northampton, MA, which is technically a city but still quite small, and I think it has a lot of charm and coziness. Also a lot of hippies and lesbians, so it’s obviously a bad choice if you’re not into those.
amazing looking places
jeez that's more dock than lake
Heads up this thread is full of foreigners and suburban kids who haven't been anywhere they're talking about
Ouray Colorado. 1 road town in a beautiful valley. The town has several huge outdoor hot spring pools that are open all year. They are epic in the winter. There are some fantastic pubs and restaurants.
Placerville California. An awesome little town in the mountains. Most people drive right past it on the way to Lake Tahoe. It has a super rad main street with historic buildings, great food, a good brewery and cool little shops.
Harpers Ferry West Virginia. A gorgeous town on the Potomac river. There are couple of awesome things to do in town. You can take a historic tour, white water raft, bike the Appalachian trail, walk through a 2 mile long train tunnel, or hike to an epic overlook. The Appalachian Trail goes right though town, so you get a lot of hikers and bikers.
Cody Wyoming. A legit western town outside of Yellowstone. You can go to a legit rodeo. The main street is touristy, but the food is really good. The drive between Cody and Yellowstone is one of the prettiest drive in the US.
>Harpers Ferry West Virginia
looks awesome
a couple more I like.
Jackson Wyoming. Awesome white water rafting on the snake river. Amazing food. Surrounded by mountains. Epic hiking. Close to the Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks. Eating out is pricey, but the food is world class.
Lava Hot Springs Idaho. Tiny, super chill, little town just across the Idaho border on the way to the Tetons. It's kind of a hippie hangout in the summer. The whole economy is based on the hot springs pool and the little river that runs through town. People come to rent tubes and ride the river. The temp is always 75 degrees so people sometimes tube it in the winter. The main street has a bunch of dive bars where you can chill with locals and drink a $2 beer. They kept a lot of the historic buildings in good condition. We stayed in a historic hotel on the river for like $75 a night. They had giant hot spring fed baths in the basement. 10/10 would recommend.
Durango Colorado. Purgatory ski resort is right there. They have the cheapest lift tickets of any large ski resort in Colorado, but it never gets crowded. The town is fucking gorgeous. The food is also shockingly good. The main street is really well maintained and it looks like it did 100 years ago. There are also a lot of hot springs in the area that you can swim in.
Tangier Island Virginia. One of the coolest small towns in the US. It's an Island that you have to take ferry over to. They don't allow cars on the island, so everyone rides around in golf carts. Most of the homes are historic. Everyone in the town is a fisherman. The seafood is insanely good. Look at some photos on google maps. I've never been to another place that was like it.
>Placerville California
Placerville is pretty nice. Nevada city is similar but even better imo
If you're ever in Maine, Camden is a great small town. Literally like 5 streets wide, right by the ocean and nothing but kino aesthetics. Camden hills for some easy hikes, fresh seafood from the yacht harbor. Daytrip to Acadia Natl Park for more sighsee and stop at portland for more kino new england "city".
There really isn’t anything worth seeing in America other than the nature. It’s a pretty dead souless place. Also OP Brits are the Americans of Europe and you are somehow even more hated as travelers than we are kek
Jim Thorpe is nice but I think it would be disappointing to visit.
Train ride is fun, more of a passing through type visit
I actually live here. I’m not sure why people from outside of PA/NJ visit.
Leavenworth, Washington, about an hour or so from Seattle. It looks like a German village.
I can only give you west coast suggestions, but here are the best in my neck of the woods:
Washington:
Leavenworth, as mentioned
Winthrop
Twisp
Lynden
Port Townsend
Poulsbo
La Conner
Republic
Friday Harbor
Eastsound
Point Roberts
Snoqualmie
Chelan
Stehekin
Westport
Long Beach/Ocean Park/Oysterville
Oregon:
Seaside
Manzanita
Joseph
Shady Cove
Bend/Sunriver
Bandon
Ashland
California:
Carmel by the Sea
Avalon
Solvang
Half Moon Bay
A few more:
WA:
Langley
Gig Harbor
Palouse
OR:
Cannon Beach
Depot Bay
Kalispell, Montana
I'll do a few more since the thread de-volved into two people arguing about the Smokey Mountains (which are pretty, but a total tourist trap). I've traveled a lot in the US. I've driven across country 7 times on road trips on a different route each time. I've always done several north to south routes on the west coast. There are a lot of awesome small towns.
Sedona Arizona
White Salmon Oregon
Missoula Montana
Vail Colorado
San Clemente California
Sausalito California
Bethany Beach Delaware
St Michael's Maryland
Newport Beach California
Springdale Utah
Towns on my bucket list,
Burlington Vermont
Bend Oregon
Portland Maine
Taos New Mexico
Good list. Some places I want to see in the US on there. However, White Salmon is in WA. It's right across the river from Hood River, OR.
Yep, I knew that. The hood river is epic if you're into waterfalls. I spent 3 days in the gorge a few years ago in the summer hiking to every waterfall I could find between Portland and White Salmon. There are some epic hikes in that gorge.
>the Smokey Mountains (which are pretty, but a total tourist trap).
Gosh, I wonder why tourists go to those sorts of places that cater almost exclusively to them
If you haven't traveled much, I'm sure you would think the smokies are great. I went twice as a teenager with my family. The mountains are gorgeous. But Gatlinburg is cheesy as shit. I was too old for that town when I was 13. If you're still into that kind of thing, you're a giant man-child with autism. And that's fine, but you can fault other people for telling you the truth.
If you want to visit an actual alpine city and have an adult trip, I suggest Zermatt Switzerland, Chamonix, France, Bolzano Italy, Fussen Germany or Salzburg Austria.
>And that's fine, but you can fault other people for telling you the truth.
At not point did I
I said it's an "unapologetic tourist trap." And everyone knows this already, so it can't really catch you off guard. But it's next to a national park and has plenty to do both in town and nearby. You're just mad people like things that you don't, likely an inferiority complex manifesting itself.
>If you want to visit an actual alpine city
Never claimed it was alpine either, retard
Do you own a lot of Pokemons? I bet you do.
I think you do
Kek probably Magic Cards.
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>Smokey Mountains (which are pretty, but a total tourist trap)
Yeah The U.S national parks are definitely a tourist trap. Stay clear of Yosemite, Acadia, and Joshua Tree too
This is the line to see an 80 foot waterfall in the Smokey Mountains. I'll pass.
Yosemite Valley is just a little village. There are no fudge shops or Ripley's Believe It or Not museums. There are 2 hotels, some yurts and a couple campgrounds. Even with the crowds, Yosemite feels authentic.
Yosemite Falls is 2,450 feet tall. If you're going to stand in a line, that's the park you want to do it. If you climb to the base of the falls, you might see 4 or 5 people. Ive hiked a ton of the trails in Yosemite. You can hike in Yosemite to massive waterfalls, granite domes, and lakes all year and get them to yourself because most people never leave the valley. There is nothing in the Smokey Mountains that comes even remotely close to scale in Yosemite.
>This is the line to see an 80 foot waterfall in the Smokey Mountains
I like GSM more than Yosemite, if you hike more than a mile the crowds thin out to almost no one
You obviously haven't hiked Yosemite. The two parks are incomparable. Every trail in Yosemite will take you to the most beautiful spot you've ever seen in your life. If you ever want to do the best hike of your life, start at Glacier Point in Yosemite and hike down to Illouette Falls on the panorama trail. Then cross over to the mist trail and take it down to the valley. No sane person could do that hike and then try to compare Yosemite to the Smokeys.
Yosemite really is breathtaking. Such a fucking shame that fire season makes it so difficult to enjoy during late summer.
>You obviously haven't hiked Yosemite.
It's alright I just like GSM more
>Smokeys
Smokies btw
pic reminds me of that one halo 3 map
bethany is pretty meh
Bethany Deleware is a quiet, chill little town with very low crime, fantastic food, and a nice boardwalk. There is an awesome bay to go kayaking. The Dogfish Head Brewery is like 10 minutes down the road. If you're looking for a chill east coast beach with a small town vibe, it's hard to beat.
I cold totally spend a whole summer there eating crab cake sandwiches from Matt's Camp and devouring NY Pizza on the boardwalk.
Going to +1 this. If you are heading down the east coast this is a beautiful quintessential Atlantic 'small beach town'. Spot on advice about local restos. When I was stationed in Dover I would spend the weekend down there just chilling. Very pleasant. Cold water though but that's the east coast for you.
Sedona was probably the most disappointing place I’ve been. It’s all just these gimmicky boardwalk-type shops and everything closes at 9 pm.
You don't go to Sedona to walk through the town to buy wind chimes unless you're 70 years old. You go for the hiking. It's one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Okay, but the hiking is good all over the U.S. When people talk about visiting a town, they want to visit the town, not the hiking trails just outside of town.
Sedona has some insanely nice luxury spa hotels and arguably the best restaurants you'll find in any small town in the US. Look it up on trip advisor. It's insane to see that many gourmet restaurants in a town with less than 10,000 people living in it. There are very few places in the world where you can stay at a nicer hotel, eat better food in a more beautiful and unique setting than Sedona. You don't really have to spend a ton of money to enjoy it. The campgrounds are awesome and cheap. And there are a lot of inexpensive restaurants that are really good.
The UK has better rural towns (on average) but the US has better big towns/small cities (UK ones are the definition of souless) and both have shit large cities.
Lancaster, PA area is good. Stay out of Downtown area and Bird-in-Hand/Ronks
the former is full of liberal college students and blacks, the latter is a tourist trap full of fake Amish
Elizabethtown/Manheim area is a nice drive, beautiful countryside with gorgeous whitewashed barns not the rotting old crap like most states
State college is also very nice even if you're not a college student. Bellefonte is also great. Lemont also is right at the base of mount nittany and is probably the most wholesome place I have ever been. They have a strawberry festival every year and old guys there will show you how to use a hand car on the railroad and there'll be people playing guitar and socializing and also no black people at all.
Small towns in America are definitely the best in the world for the simple fact you can actually stay there for a couple days and socialize in huge restaurants with singers, since rural towns love having singers in their townsquare restaurants. America also has the benefit of having a fuck load of nature, so there's a good chance you will find a dozen nearby nature parks going through rivers or mountains. Texas or similar Southern states would have the most welcoming atmosphere and wouldn't care as much what your accent is like compared to the North who would sorta pick on you.
Why is that town 80% asphalt?
Why are you surprised a town at the junction of two interstates and a US highway has a lot of asphalt?
>junction of two interstates
Telluride Colorado isn't that at all ESL anon
I don't care
You care enough to reply twice? Curious?
So?
so you conceded
Untrue
True
I know you're trolling as hard as you can, but since Telluride was mentioned, I thought I would chime in because it's one of my favorite places on earth.
Telluride is actually only a couple streets in the middle of a massive mountain valley. Most of the valley is undeveloped. Telluride is very remote. There is a huge 300 foot waterfall directly in front of main street. There are no fast food restaurants in town, and the only two gas stations are actually on the highway out of town. The main street through town is one of my favorite places anywhere in the world. The food is amazing. There are very few small towns with better food.
There is a free Gondola that takes you up from main street to the resort. You can take the Gondola to the top of the mountain and hike the trails or ride your bike in the summer. I've never been anywhere in the world with a better public transportation system than a free gondola.
It really is one of the absolute best small towns in the US. And the scenery on the drive in is insane.
Bar Harbor, Maine
The SMokies. 🙁
Kek this is what Tennessee, west Virginia and Kentucky chuds are always talking about?
Hood River, Oregon
Brunswick, Maine
This series features some small towns in the Mid-Atlantic, to include Harper's Ferry, and Charlottesville, VA (Monticello among other things)
Forgot link
https://weta.org/watch/shows/get-out-town
Riverton, Wyoming and Thermopolis just to the north.
Hudson Valley, NY -
Beacon
Woodstock
New Paltz
While are all these towns people are naming are cold and mountainous
Most of sighsee is Midwest mouth breathers who've never seen the ocean
Makes sense
Painfully true. I frequent sighsee from time to time and the fuckers there think that bay leaves are exotic ingredients.
go visit any State Fair over the summer
I'll list my favourite New England towns
>Portsmouth, NH (touristy and expensive)
>Hanover, NH
>Laconia, NH
>Woodstock, VT
>Stockbridge, MA
>Newport, RI (honestly cheating)
>The entire state of Maine
>None of Connecticut because it's the shit part of New England and honestly shouldn't be included
Good list. You're missing some classic tourist spots like Bar Harbor, or Concord MA, etc, but as someone who grew up in Hanover, this is a good list.
I’d swap Littleton for Laconia.
Eastern Oregon is comfy as FUCK!
Endless canyons, prairie and rocks with small cozy cowboy/redneck towns interlaced every couple of dozen miles. People were friendly as hell despite their living standards which in some places bordered on Somalia level but I never felt unsafe.