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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Columbia River Gorge, USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 153 of 233 · rank 10 among US region destinations

AI models put Columbia River Gorge, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 0.4% of answers, rank 153 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 2.3%, +2.0 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.7 points against web search off.

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

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude0.3%
ChatGPT0.0%
Gemini0.0%
Grok1.2%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 50.0%
Claude Haiku 4.50.8%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.61.2%

Web search and effort

Columbia River Gorge, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Columbia River Gorge, 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 off0.7%0.0%
Normal vs lowest effort0.2%0.5%

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
FallSpringSummer
Change+2.0−0.1−0.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+0.9−0.4−0.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change0.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road trip
Change−0.4

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Columbia River Gorge10
Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood Loop1

Columbia River Gorge, 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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