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40 destinations with weather scores from 4.0 to 9.6
Charlotte
9.6Wander NoDa's 36th Street arts murals then hop the light rail down to South End's breweries and Rail Trail.
Raleigh
9.4Walk Fayetteville Street from the Capitol to the Contemporary Art Museum and around to Moore Square for food trucks.
Denver
9.2Browse the RiNo murals, tour the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building, then a rooftop beer at Avanti in LoHi.
Nashville
9.2Honky-tonks on lower Broadway are a circus, but the better hang is 3rd & Lindsley or Bluebird Cafe for songwriter rounds.
Charleston
9.2Walk Rainbow Row and the Battery then up King Street's antique dealers and linen shops to Marion Square.
Salt Lake City
9.0Wander Temple Square then walk up to the 9th & 9th neighborhood for indie bookstores and coffee at Publik.
Tampa
9.0Walk the Ybor City cigar-factory blocks past Centennial Park and out to the Riverwalk by the Tampa Museum of Art.
Philadelphia
8.9Walk Elfreth's Alley, the oldest residential street in America, then cross to Reading Terminal Market for lunch.
Washington
8.9Walk from the Lincoln Memorial past the Reflecting Pool to the Washington Monument in the cherry-blossom shoulder season.
Asheville
8.9Browse River Arts District warehouses turned studios then downtown for a flight at Wicked Weed or Burial Beer.
Minneapolis
8.8Cross the Stone Arch Bridge from Mill Ruins Park to the North Loop for Bachelor Farmer brunch and boutiques.
Savannah
8.8Walk the 22 surviving squares of Oglethorpe's 1733 plan - Forsyth Park's fountain to Chippewa Square in two hours.
Indianapolis
8.7Walk the Cultural Trail from Mass Ave to Fountain Square, eight miles of public-art-lined bike-walk loop.
St. Louis
8.7Ride the tram up Saarinen's Gateway Arch then wander the restored Old Courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued.
New York
8.6Walk the High Line from Gansevoort to Hudson Yards then drop into Chelsea Market for lunch and bookshops.
Miami
8.6Wynwood Walls and graffiti-wrapped warehouses for the afternoon, then Little Havana's Calle Ocho for dominos and coffee.
Orlando
8.6Beyond the parks, the Mills 50 district and Audubon Park Garden District are where locals eat and drink.
Cincinnati
8.5Explore Over-the-Rhine's Findlay Market, the oldest continuously operating public market in Ohio, then up to Eden Park.
Los Angeles
8.1See Turrell's skyspace at LACMA, walk Grand Avenue to the Broad, then dinner in Thai Town on Hollywood Boulevard.
Las Vegas
8.1Skip the Strip mid-afternoon and explore Fremont East's Container Park and neon-lit dive bars on Main Street.
Kansas City
8.1Explore the Crossroads Arts District galleries on First Friday then fountains in the Country Club Plaza.
Phoenix
8.0Explore the Roosevelt Row arts district for First Friday galleries then dinner on Grand Avenue's antique row.
Pittsburgh
7.9Ride the Duquesne Incline up to Mount Washington at dusk for the best city-three-rivers view in America.
Austin
7.8Catch a show at the Continental Club on South Congress then walk over the Ann Richards Bridge at bat-flight dusk.
Houston
7.8Wander the Menil Collection's free galleries then grab a pour-over next door at Blacksmith on West Alabama.
New Orleans
7.8Skip Bourbon Street and walk Frenchmen for brass bands at Spotted Cat then streetcar up St. Charles through the Garden District.
Atlanta
7.6Walk the Eastside BeltLine from Ponce City Market to Krog Street, the old rail corridor reborn as a linear park.
San Diego
7.5Spend a morning in Balboa Park's museums then cross to Little Italy's Saturday Mercato for stone fruit and focaccia.
Madison
7.5Circle the Capitol during Saturday's Dane County Farmers' Market, the largest producer-only market in the US.
Boston
7.5Walk the Freedom Trail from Boston Common through the North End and cross to Bunker Hill in Charlestown.
San Francisco
7.3Ride the Powell-Hyde cable car past Lombard Street and wander the Mission for murals on Balmy Alley.
Chicago
7.3Take the CAF river architecture cruise then walk the Riverwalk to Cloud Gate and up Michigan Avenue.
Dallas
7.2Walk the Dallas Arts District from the Nasher Sculpture Center to Klyde Warren Park's food-truck lawn.
Detroit
6.8Ride the QLine up Woodward to the Eastern Market Saturday shed and the Heidelberg Project polka-dot houses.
Portland
6.6Browse Powell's City of Books then cross the Burnside Bridge into the Pearl District for galleries and coffee.
Seattle
6.4Wander Pike Place Market and the revived waterfront from Olympic Sculpture Park to Pier 62.
Milwaukee
6.3Stroll the RiverWalk past the Bronze Fonz then tour the Pabst Mansion on Grand Avenue for Gilded Age Milwaukee.
Rochester
5.6Wander the South Wedge and the Public Market on Saturday - one of the country's great weekly farmers' markets.
Buffalo
5.3Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House on Jewett Parkway then walk the Richardson Olmsted Campus grounds at golden hour.
Burlington
4.0Walk Church Street Marketplace's four pedestrian blocks then along the Waterfront Park bike path to the ECHO Center.
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