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Myrtle Beach. Lived there almost 9 years, any sort of "walkability" is practically nonexistent, public transit seemed to consist of exactly two buses that ran to and from the mall. Horrid.

Don‘t know if it’s a hotspot, but likely LA.

For me personally, it is Orange County. I would guess a lot of Texas also qualifies.

Los Angeles.

Rocky Mountain National Park in shoulder season.

Almost any rural location. It might have an idyllic, walkable main street but just getting there + any other sites ( Door County WI, for example).

Also in California: Sea Ranch.

We walked it a bit at dusk. Not fun either. I put my phone's flashlight on as a feeble waring to drivers that we existed.

That part in the photo is far from the worst--you can get from Spanish Bay to the bottom of Spyglass Hill and at least have a reasonable shoulder with occasional painted bike lane signage. After that? Not only is there no bike lane, there's often no shoulder. At all.

All of Pacific Coast Highway to be fair.

By contrast, the Mitchell Corn Palace has a new midblock raised crosswalk.

Branson Missouri (I withdraw my earlier claim of Palm Springs)

Florida

This beautiful monstrosity, Dodger Stadium, is truly a real nightmare in terms of transport.

I’d say Orlando. Outside of the major resorts themselves, it’s totally unwalkable with lacking public transit. People clown on LA a lot but there are many tourist destinations you can get to by rail and even more accessible by bus and shuttle.

Los Angeles?

I'm thinking you can take your pick of the places in the middle of the country where you might find a Pirate's Cove mini golf course. Wisconsin Dells, Pigeon Forge, Branson, etc.

Setting aside the truly rural ones, I'd nominate Myrtle Beach, SC. Tons of golf courses (miniature and regular) and other attractions, but the transit is basically nonexistent.

Vegas

Los Angeles. You have to drive bloody everywhere.

Public transit is a joke here - I’m in the suburbs and never go into Houston bc there’s no reasonable transit options. I also agree that Arlington is terrible. We could do so much better everywhere!

Largest city in the US with zero public transportation. I'm utterly stunned that there wasn't a cacophony of outrage from international fans during the World Cup. (I bought this for the irony of it all: oliveandyork.com/collections/...)

Key West?

Yellowstone.

Kitschy tourist traps like Branson, Missouri, come to mind

Yeah I stayed on International Drive 10+ years ago and most hotels can provide bus service to the parks (Disney for us), plus there are plenty of restaurants within walking distance. So it's more than doable.

I mean it's also a choice we make to have train/bus be inferior options for accessing our national parks, nothing inherent about lack of transit access there.

Huh, that wasn't really our experience at all but we were only in the historic districts. But I'll tell you, it's a fantastic experience to walk up out of the subway station and you don't even recognize it at first, when it dawns on you that this is THE Coliseum.

We tried to walk and take trains and it sucked. Not just lack of sidewalks, but you had to climb steep stairs to cross car stroads aerially

Try Ho Chi Minh City, where one takes their own life in their hands by walking across the street. Any street.

And when many often claim want to copy Singapore into their countries, there is a great chance they will turn into Dubai with/without intentions.

Vietnamese cities are so dense and they’re so linked to China that I imagine they’ll figure it out soon

An unfortunate state of affairs. We're probably going to end up doing Vietnam, think it could be fun to try to cobble together a train schlep from HCMH to Hanoi