The skyline of downtown Chattanooga bathes in mid-evening sunlight.BEST TOWN EVER
Online voting for Outside’s Best Town Ever:Chattanooga 7,434Tucson, Ariz. 5,925Charleston, S.C. 2,251Boulder, Colo. 1,701Ashland, Ore. 1,154Burlington, Vt. . 786Madison, Wis. 750Portland, Maine 704Portland, Ore. 685Santa Fe, N.M. 585
Chattanooga has won the online voting component of Outside magazine’s “Best Town Ever” contest for 2011.
With voting now closed on a Facebook page, Chattanooga beat second-place Tucson, Ariz., by 1,509 votes.
Still, Chattanoogans must wait until early September to learn if the city is the ultimate winner of the contest because there are other elements to the judging.
“The winner won’t be announced until the October issue of Outside magazine hits the newsstands,” Jada Williams, the magazine’s publicist, said in an email Monday.