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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Blue Ridge Parkway, USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 99 of 233 · rank 2 among US region destinations

AI models put Blue Ridge Parkway, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 1.4% of answers, rank 99 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 15.8%, +14.4 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.4 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Blue Ridge Parkway, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude1.6%
ChatGPT2.0%
Gemini0.8%
Grok1.2%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.2%
Claude Sonnet 51.6%
Claude Haiku 4.52.0%
GPT-5.6 Terra2.4%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.8%
Grok 4.61.2%

Web search and effort

Blue Ridge Parkway, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Blue Ridge Parkway, USA with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off1.6%1.2%
Normal vs lowest effort1.1%1.6%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road trip
Change+14.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.2

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSummer
Change−0.5−1.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change−1.1−1.1−1.2

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool Weather
Change−1.4

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Adventure
Change−1.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Solo
Change−1.4

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Blue Ridge Parkway32

Blue Ridge Parkway, USA

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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