Park City Named Best Town In America
Outside Magazine says Park
City is the best town in America, thanks to its abundant
recreational opportunities, cultural offerings and close proximity to
Salt Lake
International Airport. In this
article describing the ranking, the magazine uses this
introduction text:
There’s no
better blend of small-town friendliness, absurdly easy access, and
five-star culture than Park City -- if you can afford it.
Below are a couple more exceprts from
the article:
Park City feels
like a Colorado ski town dropped into Utah’s 12,000-foot Wasatch
Range, with one significant difference. Unlike Telluride or Aspen, it
has a major city, Salt Lake, and an international airport 30 minutes
away. Local love for Park City can feel a little over the top—it
got two-thirds as many votes in our contest (5,179) as it has
residents. To see if that affection was justified, I parachuted in
for a 72-hour, Chamber of Commerce–led recon tour. What I found was
a town that breeds the active lifestyle.
Picking the
Winner
To find the best
place to live well, we started with the American College of Sports
Medicine’s annual list of the country’s 50 healthiest cities,
then added a few small and midsize active towns that the
metro-centric pool overlooked. We called local runners, cyclists,
climbers, and surfers to help narrow the finalists to ten places
where it’s easy to eat healthy, find work, and quickly access great
trails, beaches, and mountains. Then we put them up for a three-week
vote on Facebook.
The Top Ranked Towns:
- Park City
- Greenville, South Carolina
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Bozeman, Montana
- Spokane, Washington
- Carbondale, Colorado
- San Diego, California
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Waitsfield, Vermont
- Oklahoma City
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Carrboro, North Carolina
- San Anselmo, California
- Washington, D.C.
- Chicago, Illinois
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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