Great Towns

in the News

Woodstock, Vermont

Showing remarkable resiliance, the wonderful Simon Pearce Restaurant has already reopened after suffering major damage from Hurricane Irene. You will need to use an alternate route from Woodstock due to the loss of the connecting bridge; but the fine food and artwork-for-sale is worth the detour.

Big Bear, California

A new nine-segment zip-line course offers a three-hour tour above the San Bernardino National Forest. Speeds up to 45 mph can be achieved; the longest run is 846 feet. See bigbear.com for details.

Sonora, California

Just outside of town, beer lovers have a new destination in the Standard Pour, serving casual beer-friendly foods plus 16 on tap from California, Oregon and Colorado.

Great Towns are the nation’s most favored communities, enjoying both urban charms and unforgettable settings. Some are well known, like Key West and Aspen. Others — like Green Lake, Wisconsin and Spearfish, South Dakota — haven’t yet been fully discovered. Each great town is a fun-filled getaway with ideal recreational and cultural highlights to make it a worthy vacation town, or as the best place for you to call home.

David and Joan Vokac personally visited more than two hundred towns during two years of travel and 90,000 miles of research. The result is the second edition of The Great Towns of America — the only detailed travel and relocation guide to America's 100 top towns, the most scenic and civilized alternatives to the nation's cities. All major attractions, restaurants, and lodgings are detailed, along with livability ratings for each town.

GREATTOWNS.COM will continuously update the guidebook on these website pages, and showcase all of the follow-up books and eBooks that explore these special locales in even more detail.