What's your favorite weekend getaway?

[JustinCruise]

I'm not talking about a full on vacation. Just your favorite spot to take a 2-3 night break from work and your regular day to day grind.



Mine has to be Gatlinburg. IMO it sets up perfectly for the 3 day trip. About a 4 hour drive from where I live. Spend one full day in downtown Gatlinburg walking around shops, eating at local restaurants, playing some putt putt, riding the chair lift etc. Then the second full day spent in Pigeon Forge; riding go carts, seeing some attractions, eating at dixie stampede. And you last day can be a nature day, hiking in the mountains.

 

[MattyMatt]

Pawley's Island or Beaufort, SC for beach type, and just about anywhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains for me for country.

 

[DesertDevil]

Vegas.

Its a 4 hour drive. I get up there on average once a month.

 

[HangFung]

Macau. It's a 45 min boat ride from here. Greatest gambling mecca in the universe, full of crazies

 

[1osubucks]

I like to take an hour drive to Pittsburgh, if you enjoy a city atmosphere i highly recommend. Those unfamiliar with the city will say something stupid.. it is an amazing place, and once you learn you way around its even better. I enjoy walking the river up one side and down the other. Had a nice time on the fourth there and even had my first beer in over a year @ Jerome Bettis's place outside Heinz filed. If you like water activities they are there and they have some amazing bike trails if you like to rideas I do...

If you happen to be there I highly recommend a Pirates game @ PNC, amazing place to watch a baseball game, not a bad seat in the place.

I find myself needing to get away from the world more often then ever before and head to Pittsburgh for the weekend or a day very often. Can get there quickly and escape!

 

[HuskerFan1]

saratoga, 8 of my friends (all bro's, no broads allowed) and myself have been going every year for a few years now, every year a guy or 2 cant make it and another guy or 2 jump in. this year we rented a really nice condo for 2 nights, its got a bar/pool and poker table, gonna get down there friday around 5 pm, get beers and booze get a poker game going at night. wake up saturday hit the track then caroline street for nightlife after the races. 2 weeks from tomorrow for the whitney and a few other stakes races, i cant wait, if the weather cooperates its always one of the best weekends of the summer!

newport RI is also a nice place to getaway for a weekend its really nice down there in the summer for bars and food , ive been there a bunch of times.

 

[Greenbacks]

Garden St. Parkway...Exit 98....Point Pleasant New Jersey....Jenkinson Beach.

 

[JustinCruise]

I like to take an hour drive to Pittsburgh, if you enjoy a city atmosphere i highly recommend. Those unfamiliar with the city will say something stupid.. it is an amazing place, and once you learn you way around its even better. I enjoy walking the river up one side and down the other. Had a nice time on the fourth there and even had my first beer in over a year @ Jerome Bettis's place outside Heinz filed. If you like water activities they are there and they have some amazing bike trails if you like to rideas I do...

If you happen to be there I highly recommend a Pirates game @ PNC, amazing place to watch a baseball game, not a bad seat in the place.

I find myself needing to get away from the world more often then ever before and head to Pittsburgh for the weekend or a day very often. Can get there quickly and escape!

PNC park is the highest rated ballpark in baseball

 

[gijoe]

Vegas. Just got back. thank you KC. just a 2 1/2 drive.

 

[StevieRay]

I'm not talking about a full on vacation. Just your favorite spot to take a 2-3 night break from work and your regular day to day grind.



Mine has to be Gatlinburg. IMO it sets up perfectly for the 3 day trip. About a 4 hour drive from where I live. Spend one full day in downtown Gatlinburg walking around shops, eating at local restaurants, playing some putt putt, riding the chair lift etc. Then the second full day spent in Pigeon Forge; riding go carts, seeing some attractions, eating at dixie stampede. And you last day can be a nature day, hiking in the mountains.

Only when it's not full on tourist time. Can get very crowded

 

[DesertDevil]

I honestly had to google Gatlinburg. I had no fucking clue where it was. Never heard of it.

 

[DesertDevil]

Population 4,000? Maybe thats why I have never heard of it.

Gatlinburg is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. It is thirty-nine miles southeast ofKnoxville. The population was 3,944 at the 2010 Census, and 4,047 according to the 2012 Census estimate. The city is a popular vacation resort, as it rests on the border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park along U.S. Route 441, which connects Gatlinburg to Cherokee, North Carolina through the national park.

 

[JustinCruise]

I honestly had to google Gatlinburg. I had no fucking clue where it was. Never heard of it.

It's a very Midwest vacation spot. I can definitly see how east or west coasters wouldn't know about it

 

[JustinCruise]

Only when it's not full on tourist time. Can get very crowded

True

Seems to be getting more and more crowded every year

 

[DesertDevil]

It's a very Midwest vacation spot. I can definitly see how east or west coasters wouldn't know about it

I like quaint places with character. So I'd probably enjoy checking it out.

 

[Willie99]

NYC or Newport

 

[StevieRay]

True

Seems to be getting more and more crowded every year

Actually went the 2nd week of Dec , wasn't anyone there at first if week as it gets busy the week of Christmas thru New Years. Maybe 50 people walking the street , stayed in a chalet near the ski slopes, hot tub was nice at night as it was cold out , light snow, and the view looking down the mountain was nice Funny thing is all the t-shirt shops are now moon shine shops selling every flavor of moonshine.

 

[MattyMatt]

It's a very Midwest vacation spot. I can definitly see how east or west coasters wouldn't know about it

East Coasters aye?! It's closer to me than it is to you. I prefer to spend most of my time outside of GBurg/PForge. My car really loves Deal's Gap and The Tail of The Dragon. Forbidden Caverns isn't far off in Sevierville, TN (home to Cracker Barrel (is that racist now?)), good trout fishing just about everywhere, and anywhere in the Great Smokey Mtns is beautiful. Not having kids and not in my 20's anymore, staying in the heart of GBurg/PForge just isn't for me. Too crowded and preppy. However kinda like SRay said, there are some nice cabins there for a good price in the off seasons.

 

[MattyMatt]

Funny thing is all the t-shirt shops are now moon shine shops selling every flavor of moonshine.

Popcorn Sutton must be rolling over in his grave. "Same shine, just taxed and legal." -BS

 

[charliebrown]

Vegas.

Its a 4 hour drive. I get up there on average once a month.

ditto.