Everything has a limit. Even the biggest winter lovers have had enough of snow at one point. Carrying 20 pounds of layers of clothes, hats, gloves, and big boots can be discomforting. Suddenly warm-weather trips for the holidays sound very appealing as opposed to going to a ski resort.
This winter is likely going to be similar to last year's, according to Farmers' Almanac. So if you have bad memories from 12 months ago, pack your bags. Most of the North Central States, the Great Lakes, New England, and parts of the Ohio Valley will be snowier than usual (again).
We've compiled a list of cities in the U.S. - so you don't have to spend a lot on traveling abroad - where you're most likely to find refuge from the cold and unpleasant winter weather.
Best U.S. Cities to Escape the Snow
Maui, Hawaii(01 of05)
The second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands has much more than beach resorts. A tourist favorite is the Haleakala National Park, which has to Maui's highest peak at 10,023 feet above sea level. If you want an authentic experience, you can visit Hana along Maui's rugged eastern coastline. The small town is among the last “unspoiled Hawaiian frontiers.” Among the most interesting diving experiences in Maui is around the tiny, crescent moon-shaped island of Molokini. Early morning is the best time to go.Photo Credit: Flickr / Randy Robertson / CC BY 4.0Click Here to See Best U.S. Cities to Escape the Snow
Tucson, Arizona(02 of05)
You can make it just in time for the 21st annual Downtown Parade of Lights. It is scheduled for December 19 at 6:30 p.m. and will last for about two hours. The event is fun, family-friendly and free (and there are prizes). When people think of Arizona, they usually imagine a desert, but it can be very diverse. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a major attraction with its fusion zoo, botanical garden, natural history museum, aquarium, and art gallery. You can explore 21 acres with two miles of walking trails. If you’re interesting in something more rocket science-related activities, the Kitt Peak National Observatory has the world’s largest collection of optical telescopes – 24 optical and two radio telescopes representing dozens of astronomical research institutions. But if you want to see amazing things on the ground, the Saguardo National Park is the place.
Sanibel Island, Florida(03 of05)
Golf players are going to love this place and its more than 70 scenic courses. The sub-tropical climate won’t disappoint either. The island offers plenty of water activities if you want to get off the ground for a change. Boating, kayaking and water-skiing are very popular there. Fishing can be very entertaining – you may catch a fish you haven’t seen before. There are 50 kinds of fish swimming in the island’s waters. You may be surprised, but bird watching is popular there too because of the 230 kinds of birds inhabiting the area. The island has its own shell museum (of all things!). Visiting it is perfect if it happened to be a rainy day.Photo Credit: Modified: Flickr / Jeremy T. Hetzel / CC BY 4.0Click Here to See Best U.S. Cities to Escape the Snow
San Diego, California(04 of05)
This major American city, right next to the border with Mexico, will brighten your mood with its warm weather and overabundance of fun activities from beach-front ice skating rinks, concerts, holiday shopping and even paddling. Go in time for the famous Port of San Diego Holiday Bowl Parade, the country's largest balloon parade, on December 30. You can watch whales from the shores and cliffs of Point Loma as they migrate to the warm-water breeding grounds off the coast of Baja. Your kids will most likely enjoy the San Diego Zoo (and you will, too, because there are no crowds there in January). For car fans, the San Diego International Auto Show takes place December 31 – January 3.Photo Credit: Photo Modified: Flickr / peasap / CC BY 4.0
South Padre Island, Texas(05 of05)
This is a small resort town with about 5,000 residents but more than one million visitors a year. Camping is a fun experience there. Imagine waking up the sound of waves…ah! You don’t need an RV; a sleeping bag and a tent will do just fine. If you’ve ever wanted to try parasailing, South Padre Island is a good choice. There are several dolphin watches you can sign up for. Oh, and there are fireworks every Friday and Saturday.Click Here to See Best U.S. Cities to Escape the SnowPhoto Credit: Flickr / Vince Smith / CC BY 4.0
- Hristina Byrnes, The Active Times
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19th January 1950: Trainee air hostess, Claire Swan, during a training session in a BOAC mock aircraft. (credit:Getty Images)
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A BOAC air stewardess collects equipment from the aircraft catering store before a flight from London Airport. (credit:Getty Images)
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Stewardess in Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), about 1945. (credit:Getty Images)
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A male flight attendant walks with his arms linked with two female flight attendants in front of a small plane in the 1940's. (credit:Getty Images)
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Inside the cockpit of a de Havilland 'Comet Inside the cockpit of a de Havilland 'Comet', 16 May 1962. 'This is what it is like at the controls of a Comet 4 aeroplane. On the left is John Cunningham, chief test pilot for de Havilland. (credit:Getty Images)
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English model and actress Twiggy (left) with Christopher Gable (1940 - 1998) in the cockpit of a biplane laden with chorus girls in a scene from the fim version of Sandy Wilson's musical 'The Boy Friend', directed by Ken Russell, 1971. (credit:Getty Images)
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NBC News' Foreign Correspondent James Robinson in Ocotber 1958. (credit:Getty Images)
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Preparing lunch on the Imperial Airways aeroplane 'Scylla', 19 November 1936. Photograph by James Jarche showing the galley on the Imperial Airways aeroplane 'Scylla'. Built by Shorts at Rochester, the 39-passenger 'Scylla' flew for the first time on 26 March 1934. Together with its sister aeroplane 'Syrinx' it was delivered to Croydon in June where it entered service almost immediately on the London to Paris route, setting new standards of comfort. Imperial Airways Limited was formed by the British government on 31 March 1924, after a government report recommended that Britain's interests in commercial air transport would be best served by merging the larger existing aircraft companies. The governments primary motivation for the merger was the need to carry mail throughout the empire. (credit:Getty Images)
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Waiter service aboard Imperial Airways 'Scylla' during its flight from London to Paris, circa 1935. (credit:Getty Images)
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Passengers enjoying a drink and a game of cards in the cabin of an Imperial Airways plane in 1936. (credit:Getty Images)
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Day cabin of an Imperial Airways flying boat, most likely of the Short Empire class, in August 1936. (credit:Getty Images)
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A sleeping berth on an Imperial Airways aircraft in March 1937. (credit:Getty Images)
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Baby travels by plane in New York In July 1945. (credit:Getty Images)
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A Douglas DC-3 airliner of Eastern Airlines ('The Great Silver Fleet') seen through the window of a viewing gallery at an airport, circa 1945. (credit:Getty Images)
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Air hostess Patricia Palley attends to passengers in the decorated cabin of a Pan-American air liner over the Atlantic on December 23, 1946. (credit:Getty Images)
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A stewardess serving drinks whilst passengers have lunch aboard a BEA Vickers Viking passenger plane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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A man and three women wait to board a ramp at the tail of a Northwest airplane as a stewardess looks on; undated. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Cabin crew adjusting seats in an airplane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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A female instructor stands at a chalkboard, pointing to a chalk diagram of an airplane while female students take notes at their desks during a stewardess training school, 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Luggage being unloaded from airplane, circa 1950s. (credit:Getty Images)
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A projector being fitted into a United Airlines plane for the benefit of passengers who will be shown in-flight movies, circa 1950s. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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An Aer Lingus passenger plane at Dublin Airport at Collinstown near Dublin, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Man refueling a propeller airplane, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Passengers relaxing on an airline flight, circa 1950. (Photo by Keystone View Company/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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American magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and his companion, American model and actor Barbi Benton, relax on a bed while a stewardess attends to them in the private quarters of Hefner's DC-9 jetliner, 'The Big Bunny' en route to Heathrow, date unknown. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Hugh Hefner, American editor, publisher and founder of Playboy magazine, and his girlfriend Barbi Benton are welcomed by 'Bunny Girls' from the London Playboy Club, on their arrival at Heathrow Airport aboard his private DC 9 jetliner, which bears the Playboy logo. One Bunny Girl is wearing a Union Jack costume. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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BOAC stewardesses peering through the port holes of the mock-up Jumbo Jet 747 at London's Heathrow Airport during training for the introduction of transatlantic Jumbo flights, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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Aerial view of five airplanes at an airport, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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A Pan American World Airways flight attendant preparing in-flight meals in the galley of an airliner, circa 1950. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Passengers boarding an airplane, Pittsburgh International Airport, date unknown. (credit:Getty Images)
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New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, which has 15 bus docks to take passengers to the city's various airports, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A bus in the bus docks at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal. The docks are open on one side to permit exhaust fumes to escape, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Passengers checking in at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Signs for New York's three major airports, International (Idlewild), Newark and La Guardia, at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, which provides rapid transit between the airports and the city, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Passengers checking in their baggage at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Passengers checking in their baggage at New York's East Side Airlines Terminal, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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New York's East Side Airlines Terminal which operates on a 24 hour basis to provide transportation to every flight leaving from the city's various airports, around 1955. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly coming off the plane from Los Angeles at Idlewild Airport, near New York, between 1950 and 1955. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Some of the TWA (Trans World Airline) air hostesses selected to attend a course at the TWA headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. They have been instructed in grooming, charm and poise, reading, conversational French and entertainment, and received vital inoculations, date unknown. (Photo by Bert Garai/Keystone Features/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A TWA pilot and stewardess greets the passengers coming off the plane, ca.1950s, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Marsh Photographers/Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A portable altar used to deliver mass to passengers and crew who may have missed mass at church at Idlewild Airport, date unknown. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images)
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Lufthansa flight attendants Jutta Kaemmerer (seated left) and Mascha Junge being served by Pan Am's Jerry Rand and Gertrude Vasel at the Pan American World Airways stewardess school in Long Island circa 1960. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Flight attendant serving coffee to passengers seated in a lounge aboard a Braniff International airplane, late 1960s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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American singer Tony Bennett serenades TWA air hostess Gabriele Lehman prior to flying from New York to London on April 14, 1961. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Heathrow Airport in London, July 1967. (Photo by Tim Graham/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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An Esso truck refuelling a Pan-American aircraft, July 1967. (Photo by Tim Graham/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Faye Dunaway posing on the boarding dock of a Pan-American plane before departing for London for a vacation, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City in November 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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The interior design of the new L-1011 jetliner passenger cabin with overhead luggage compartments, August 1968. (Photo by Alan Band/Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Stewardesses on Southwest Airlines in Texas stand in front of planes belonging to the airline. (Photo by Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Stewardesses working for Southwest Airlines of Texas must be able to wear hot pants and kinky leather boots or they don't get the job. In accordance with the airline's motto, 'sex sells seats' interviewees are selected on the strength of their legs and their face. Drinks served during flights have names such as 'Passion Punch' and 'Love Potion'. Photo circa 1972. (Photo by Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Muslim passengers waiting for flights at Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport, London, facing Mecca for prayers, March 1977 (Photo by Graham Morris/Evening Standard/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A line-up of some of the air stewardesses who attend to passengers on board the supersonic jet the 'Concorde', each one from a different airline. They are standing in front of a scale model of the aircraft. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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A Pan American (Pan Am) airhostess serving champagne in the first class cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, date unknown. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
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A steward and stewardess serving first-class passengers with drinks and refreshments on board a Boeing 747, date unknown. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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Passengers relaxing on the sleeper seats in the new Comet 4 during a demonstration flight at Hatfield. The plane, which is fitted out in accordance with an interior decor scheme designed for BOAC aircraft by Gaby Schreiber, flew from New York to London in under six and a half hours, date unknown. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)
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British European Airways latest commercial air liner is the Vickers V 700 Viscount, seen here at Northolt airport, date unknown. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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A lounge compartment on an airliner, designed by Henry Dreyfuss, date unknown. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images)
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A passenger in the ladies' powder room on board the world's first jet airliner service. The Comet flight is bound for South Africa; date unknown. (Photo by PNA Rota/Getty Images)
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Stewards serving passengers on board an aeroplane, date unknown. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)