NON Disney Vacation You Would Do Again

[Tink#64]

We love our beach vaca's - our personal fav is Myrtle Beach, SC! Also NY, NY! We visted NYC last summer and after returning to WDW for our big family vaca this year, we're already planning our NYC return visit for next year!

[Katzateer]

We have been lucky to have lived in several states and had some amazing trips.

My favorites are

St. Louis - for the value. Lots of major places to go are free. My only complaint is St. Louis isn't that easy to find your way around - we were lucky that I had a relative that lived there and did most of the driving.

Chicago - love downtown, the museums, the food and enjoying the beautiful Lake Shore Drive

Acadia National Park

Colorado

Smoky Mountain National Park

[LVT]

Most of our vacations are at the Western National Parks.
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Bryce Canyon
Zion Canyon
Yellowstone
Glacier
Mt. Rushmore
Devil's Tower
etc

[NJGIRL]

Italy (Particularly Sorrento

The best pizza I have ever had was in Sorrento. The town actually had the best food. We went to a bakery that was out of this world.

[TheDuckRocks]

Here are a few I would gladly go back to anytime:

Cruising

California – Anywhere coastal from Santa Barbara north
Monterrey
San Diego
San Francisco
Big Sur

Grand Canyon – Both rims
Yellowstone
Jackson Hole
Bryce Canyon
Zion Canyon
Glacier Nat'l Park
Grand Teton

Hawaii

Las Vegas

Boston, MA
New York City
Gettysburg and PA Amish country
Williamsburg, VA
Hilton Head
Charleston, SC
Savannah, GA

Nova Scotia
Quebec City
Vancouver and Victoria, BC

[MNNHFLTX]

I would love to return again to almost every place we've vacationed at (except for Miami's South Beach--from the other thread). That said, I would love to go to Ireland again. We only scratched the surface last time and it is such a beautiful place. I would also visit London again (and again!) There is so much to do and see there.

[Awesome_guy]

I would (or do) return to:

+ Montréal (one of my favourite places, if not, my favourite... in the summer)
+ Washington, DC (especially to see more of the Smithsonian)
+ Ottawa (my first flight)
+ Manhattan/N.Y.C. (another favourite)
+ Both Paris and Berlin (my two European stops so far).
+ Vancouver/Whistler (a quick flight from Calgary and both have tons to offer)
+ Anaheim/L.A. (it's now been awhile)

[c&d]

I would definitely go back to Yellowstone and Grand Teton. There's just so much to see. Also Maui and back to Wales.

[DisneyDog]

Toronto
Mystic, CT
Freeport, ME
Boston, MA
Baltimore, MD
Annapolis, MD
Paradise Island, Bahamas (Atlantis Resort)
Las Vegas, NV
Aruba

[Crow]

Vegas & Grand Canyon combined and another Royal Caribbean Cruise...

I did the Vegas & Grand Canyon trip once and did Disneyland & Vegas. I want to go to Vegas again and hit another national park, as i saw a few around Vegas.

[Lindsey310]

Driving the Florida Keys to or from Key West is awesome and something everyone should do once in their life, we have done it twice. One was we flew into Key West, stayed for a few days then drove to the Everglades which was awesome, then drove over to Naples and stayed a couple days and visited Sanibel Island. We would love to do that trip again.

Would also like to visit the Smoky Mountains again. We drove through them last year on our road trip to WDW and it was really fun but did hate driving through the Dollywood area, traffic was horrible.

Ditto for the keys. Stayed in sarasota in march 2013 and drove to the keys, getting there was half the fun!!!
Also we loved Hilton Head (but I guess that's sort of disney??) and we love the Caribbean islands: Aruba, Grand Cayman, Atlantis and Hawaii!!

[diz_girl]

Besides the Grand Canyon - north rim:

Bryce Canyon
Organ Pipe Cactus Nat'l Monument, Arizona
Death Valley
Sequoia - King's Canyon
Crater Lake
Mt St Helens
Mt Rainier
Olympia Nat'l Park - especially Hoh Rain Forest and Ruby Beach
Yellowstone
Grand Teton
Dinosaur Nat'l Monument
Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park - west side especially
Great Sand Dunes Nat'l Park (I think it's not a Monument any more)
Glacier Nat'l Park - take the red bus tour
Acadia Nat'l Park
Gettysburg
Smithsonian Museums
Arlington Nat'l Cemetary
to name a few . . .
Jan

This pretty much looks like my To-Do list.

My favorites (other than WDW) are -
Mackinac Island, MI - I'd go there every year if it wasn't so far away - next time I'll also visit Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Algonquin Provincial Park, ON, CA (we visited there 8 years in a row)
Cape May, NJ (with LBI a close second) - I love the Jersey Shore and miss living there (eastern Monmouth county, NJ) very, very much

I love seeing everyone else's recommendations. Some people love the National Parks, while others love major cities or Europe.