Originally Posted by
darthbimmer
If you're considering West Coast destinations:
- San Francisco is eminently walkable and has good transit options. BART gets you there from SFO and OAK.
- Portland is also very navigable with transit. Light rail connects from PDX to downtown, then downtown is very walkable.
- San Diego's light rail doesn't connect the airport, but if you're willing to take a short Lyft/Uber/taxi ride from the airport to downtown (it's just a few miles) you can then walk or use transit to many sites.
- Seattle's downtown is also a great place to see on foot/by transit, though it gets a minus for having a painfully slow transit connection from/to SEA airport.
I would add Santa Monica to the list. Beach, good restaurants and shopping, the pier's amusement park and aquarium for the kids. Also has a good city bus system, including to the LAX transit center....or a short taxi/Uber/Lyft ride.
If this planning were for a SUMMER vacation, I would delete a lot of the cities mentioned in other posts. Heat and/or humidity would make daytime walking unpleasant.