Biking. Wind turbines. Recycling. Menus chronicling a chicken’s journey to the restaurant table — these are just a few of the traits shared by America’s most eco-friendly metro areas. As part of its annual “America’s Favorite Cities” survey, Travel + Leisure compiled a list of the nation’s 20 greenest cities according to readers’ rankings of cleanliness, public parks, friendliness and transit.
Shoe-ins such as San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, make an appearance, but the rankings are not without curve balls. Click through to see if your hometown made the top five, and visit Travel + Leisure to see the full list.