Well... You could always go with New Hampshire. South of Concord you have tons of cities, north of Concord (pronounced con-curd, not con-cord btw) you've got the Lakes Region, the White Mountains, etc. Nashua has a wonderful park system that runs across main streets that gets a lot of use by the local SCA group (the people who like to play King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table, etc) and whatnot. Some of the houses run along the border of a state park, so when you go out into your back yard a ways, you are in the state park. Pretty cool actually.

It gets lots of snow - one year, in a town between Concord and Portsmouth on the coast, after the snow was plowed off the streets it was like driving through a tunnel it was so high.

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