The New York Times lists Philadelphia as the highest journey vacation spot for 2026

With the nation’s 250th birthday quick approaching, The New York Times named Philadelphia because the primary journey vacation spot on the earth for 2026.

While noting that there will probably be no scarcity of celebrations for the Semiquincentennial, because the nationwide milestone is understood, Philly landed the highest spot on the paper’s annual “52 Places to Go” listing printed every January. Because the place else would you wish to be this 12 months than the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence?

“Celebrate the Semiquincentennial with fireworks and themed balls,” the paper wrote, earlier than mentioning just some of the slew of main occasions Philly has deliberate for America’s yearlong birthday bash, together with a Red, White & Blue To-Do Pomp & Parade, two new galleries on the National Constitution Center, a grand exhibition on the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a World Cup match on Independence Day.

That’s to not point out different big-ticket occasions coming our method in 2026, just like the MLB All-Star Game, a pumped Fourth of July live performance with soon-to-be-announced particular visitors, and TED Democracy talks, plus a bunch of neighborhood programming.

With its unmatched Revolutionary bona fides, Philly edged out world journey locations for the highest spot. Like Warsaw, with its gleaming new Museum of Modern Art, and a greener-than-ever Bangkok. Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and India’s Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve rounded out the paper’s high world spots price visiting in 2026.

Compiled yearly by Times editors and reporters, the exhaustive listing famous that different authentic colonies — Massachusetts, Virginia, New York and New Jersey — will even have stacked Semiquincentennial calendars.

Whatever.