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Thursday, March 22, 2012

7 great alternative Spring Break destinations

by Jordan Rane

Ah … Spring Break.

Weeks of vacation marked by -- depending on who you ask -- increasingly tame (read: lame) behavior or significant safety threats.

Either way, one thing is for sure -- there are crowds to be avoided.

These seven alternative spring break destinations are for the discriminating reveler who prefer offbeat -- but still awesome -- canyon, mountain, beach or storm.

Grand Canyon

alternative spring break Step off the beaten path. Most of the five million annual visitors to Grand Canyon National Park come to gape into its perspective-busting, 1,800-meter-deep, 446-kilometer-long, 29-kilometer-wide abyss during the summer, without venturing more than 100 steps below the steaming canyon’s rim.