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Towns worth walking

• Jackson, WYEverything radiates from Town Square and its four antler arches; the whole downtown is a few blocks square. Twelve days and more than fifty events under the Tetons, in the shoulder season between the summer crowds and the first chairlift.Sept 9–20
• Helen, GAHalf a square mile of Alpine facades on the Chattahoochee. You can cover the entire town on foot in an afternoon. An Alpine village of roughly 500 people runs the longest continuous Oktoberfest in the United States. Seven weeks of it, and then the town goes quiet until spring.Sept 10 – Nov 1
• Marietta, OHThe whole festival is on the Ohio River levee, and Harmar Village is over the footbridge, two walkable districts joined by a pedestrian span. A town of 13,000 at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum takes on about 100,000 visitors for three days, when sternwheelers line the levee and the whole downtown turns out.Sept 11–13
• Santa Fe, NMThe Plaza, Canyon Road and the Railyard are three separate walks, all adobe, all within a mile of each other. The oldest capital city in the United States, at the season when the chile is roasting and the light is the reason people move here.Sept 5–13
• Solvang, CAThree walkable blocks of Danish-revival storefronts, flat the whole way. Three blocks of Danish-revival storefronts in the Santa Ynez Valley, celebrating Danish Days for the eighty-ninth year.Sept 18–20
• Durango, COMain Avenue is twelve walkable blocks between the train depot and the north end, with the river trail running parallel. A Victorian railroad town at 6,500 feet with two October festivals, cowboy poetry and hot-air balloons, before mud season sets in.Sept 30 – Oct 3
• Fredericksburg, TXMain Street runs wide and straight for a mile, laid out for ox carts, which makes it unusually good on foot. Texas Hill Country German heritage, a mile-wide Main Street laid out for ox carts, and an Oktoberfest that fills all of it.Oct 2–4
• Leavenworth, WAFront Street and the two blocks behind it hold nearly fifty places to eat and drink. Park once. A Bavarian-themed town in the Cascades runs the Pacific Northwest's largest Oktoberfest across three separate weekends.Oct 2–3 · 9–10 · 16–17
• Estes Park, COElkhorn Avenue plus the riverwalk along the Big Thompson, with elk in the road often enough that you walk carefully. The gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park during the elk rut, when the bulls bugle in town and occasionally stop traffic on Elkhorn Avenue.Oct 3–4
• Galena, ILMain Street is a preserved 1850s streetscape built into a hillside. 85% of the town is on the National Register. A preserved 1850s streetscape built into a hillside, with 85 percent of the town on the National Register, and two festivals a week apart.Oct 10–11
• Eureka Springs, ARA Victorian town with no traffic lights, built into a ravine on a five-mile loop of limestone streets. A Victorian spa town in the Ozarks with no traffic lights, built into a ravine, where only three of roughly a hundred restaurants are chains.Oct 7–11
• Hood River, ORA town of 8,000 stacked on a hillside above the Columbia, with the whole downtown inside six blocks. A town of 8,000 stacked above the Columbia, surrounded by orchards, with a harvest festival forty-two years running.Oct 9–11
• Boothbay Harbor, METhe footbridge across the harbor is the shortcut every local takes and most visitors miss. A working harbor at peak foliage, when the boats are still running and the crowds have gone home. The last big weekend before the season closes.Oct 10–11
• Sedona, AZUptown is a walkable strip against the red rock; the trailheads start within a mile of it. Red rock country at the turn of the season, when the heat breaks and the trailheads are walkable again from town.Oct 10–11
• Yellow Springs, OHA village of 3,700 with fifteen-plus restaurants on one street, and the Glen Helen trailheads start where the sidewalk ends. A village of 3,700 with more than fifteen restaurants on one street, a 1,000-acre nature preserve at the end of it, and a street fair that doubles the population twice a year.Sat Oct 10
• Sister Bay, WIBay Shore Drive runs the waterfront the length of the village, and Ephraim is the next walk up the road. Door County's season closer, running for the eightieth year. When it ends, most of the peninsula shutters until spring.Oct 16–18
• Half Moon Bay, CAMain Street is five walkable blocks, and the Coastal Trail runs the bluff separately for miles. A coastside farming town of about 12,000 hosts a free pumpkin festival that draws a crowd many times its size, then settles into fog season.Oct 17–18
• Wellfleet, MAMain Street to the town pier is a ten-minute walk, and the galleries in between are the reason to go slowly. Twenty thousand people come to a town of three thousand for two days of oysters, and then the Outer Cape empties out until June.Oct 17–18
• Rehoboth Beach, DEOne mile of boardwalk with Rehoboth Avenue running perpendicular into town. A grid built for walking off dinner. A boardwalk town in costume for its thirty-fifth Sea Witch, the last weekend the beach feels busy before winter.Oct 23–25
• Cannon Beach, ORHemlock Street runs parallel to the beach, so every block has a sand access. Walk one, come back the other. Haystack Rock without the summer crowds. The season the locals actually prefer, when the storms roll in and the town is yours.Nov 6–8
• New Braunfels, TXGruene is a preserved 1870s district you park once and walk; downtown New Braunfels is a separate walk around the plaza. Ten days of sausage, polka and Texas German tradition on the banks of the Comal, in a town founded by German settlers in 1845.Nov 6–15
• Mendocino, CAThe village sits on a headland, so you can walk the bluff trail around three sides of the town. A village on a headland with the bluff trail running around three sides of it, in the quiet months when the coast belongs to whoever shows up.chanterelle season

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