'Condé Nast Traveler' readers vote Santa Fe No. 2 best small city
Oct. 9—Condé Nast Traveler readers' love affair with the City Different continues.
Santa Fe was named No. 2 among the Best Small Cities in the U.S. in the magazine's Readers' Choice Awards. The city has landed in the Top 5 since 2014, coming in at No. 3 and No. 4 the last two years. Santa Fe's perennial partner on the list, Charleston, S.C., again was picked No. 1.
Sedona, Ariz., also made the list at No. 10. All the cities except Charleston, Alexandria, Va., and Savannah, Ga., have populations of less than 100,000; those three have populations around 150,000.
"The Condé Nast Traveler reader poll is one of the most important endorsements of Santa Fe available today," said Randy Randall, executive director of Tourism Santa Fe. "Potential visitors rely on these destination rankings to help them make their travel decisions for the coming year."
The magazine mentions the adobe houses, art museums, arts galleries, colonial churches, Meow Wolf and, specifically, Radish & Rye, calling its 75 bourbons and whiskeys "an antidote to tequila overload."
The Readers' Choice Awards also named Bishop's Lodge, Auberge Resorts Collection as the No. 1 resort among the Top 20 resorts in the Mountain West. Inn of the Five Graces was No. 6 among the Top 10 Hotels in the Southwest and West.
