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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Colorado, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 35 of 233 · rank 11 among US state destinations

AI models put Colorado, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 7.6% of answers, rank 35 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 19.1%, +11.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +2.0 points against web search off.

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

This destination in the other indexes: Source Control

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude7.9%
ChatGPT4.6%
Gemini6.3%
Grok11.5%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 52.4%
Claude Sonnet 56.8%
Claude Haiku 4.514.7%
GPT-5.6 Terra6.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna2.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash6.3%
Grok 4.611.5%

Web search and effort

Colorado, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Colorado, 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 off8.6%6.6%
Normal vs lowest effort7.0%8.2%

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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallWinterSummerSpring
Change+11.5+10.7−1.9−6.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+9.1+0.7−2.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WorkcationRelaxationExoticAdventureCultural
Change+9.1+0.4−4.7−5.7−7.6

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripRequires a flightAt most two connections
Change+2.2−5.2−5.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain question
Change+0.9−7.6

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherLow RainMild Weather
Change+0.1−4.1−7.6

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change−3.2−5.5−6.2

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Aspen71
Vail19
Telluride18
Denver15
Breckenridge10
Colorado10
San Juan Skyway8
Estes Park5
Million Dollar Highway5
Rocky Mountain National Park5
Boulder3
Colorado Rockies3
Pagosa Springs3
Colorado High Country2
Crested Butte2

Colorado, 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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