Whitefish, Montana scores a 96 Visitor Impact Score. A railroad town of 7,751 that built its own ski mountain by hand and became the comfortable basecamp for Glacier National Park, hosting roughly a million visitors a year.
Klamath Falls scores 61 (Emerging) on the Visitor Impact Score: a high-desert Oregon town heated by geothermal water, home to the lower-48’s largest winter bald eagle gathering and the year-round gateway to Crater Lake.
Corning, NY turned the worst flood in its history into a national Main Street model. A Visitor Impact Score of 92 (Destination Leader): the Gaffer District, the worlds largest glass museum, and the Finger Lakes weekend hiding in plain sight.
Red Wing, Minnesota scores 82 (On the Map) on the Visitor Impact Score. A Mississippi river city with a 400-foot sacred bluff, an 1873 record wheat port, Red Wing Stoneware, and Red Wing Shoes, and one story that ties them together.
Traverse City, Michigan turned orchards, Grand Traverse Bay, and a century-old National Cherry Festival into a billion-dollar visitor economy. Visitor Impact Score 100, Destination Leader band.
Cambria, California scores 90 on the Visitor Impact Score, a Destination Leader. How a Highway 1 village of 5,678 turned a rare pine forest, a saved headland, and a folk-art castle into a stop worth making.