Looking to escape the summer heat.

you can be at the Denver airport in 2.5 hrs from MSY. It was 44 degrees overnight when I was in vail last week

App Mountains both the Tenn and NC side are within 10 hours. That’s one day

San Diego

You can't really drive anywhere within reasonable distance to escape the heat now. Either deal with that or accept flying.

“I live in the peak area for shitty summer weather but I’d love cool weather if I don’t have to travel far or spend too much money”

Come on man. Be realistic.

Damn dude it's only mid June. And not sure your gonna find anything driving less than two days that's cooler. You'll need to fly.

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That’s a hell of a day trip!

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They are even easier to Chicago, since it's only a 2-hour flight, instead of 2.5 hours. I've done Chicage daytrips five different times now, flying into either ORD or MDW and taking the L downtown. Again, if you can find $50 flights, you'll spend less on the flights than you'd spend on a hotel, and it's more fun to fly without fooling with luggage.

No, Frontier has done $50 MSY-DEN flights regularly. To Chicago, I've seen AA, UA, and Southwest do them. There's no luggage, so basic economy is fine.

There aren't any perfect sales right now, but you could still get the flights for $174 on July 30th or 31st, arriving on Southwest at 7:50 am and departing at 9:00 pm. If you plan on 30 minutes getting the rental car and arrive at DEN 1.5 hours before the flight, that would still give you six hours to do hikes and stuff along the way. If you were willing to cut that six hours in half, you could return earlier in the day on Frontier for a total of only $114. Doing this particular daytrip got a harder this year when Spirit made the decision to discontinue service to DEN.

As I said, Chicago daytrips are easier. You could do a Chicago daytrip right now for $100 on July 10th, as Spirit has a $26 flight back to MSY that night.