50 Picture-Perfect Spring Destinations That Are Best Visited Around This Time

The most renowned national park in Japan, Fuji-Hakone-Izu, is home to the famous Mount Fuji, volcanic islands, large lakes, hot springs, and waterfalls. While it's a beautiful place to visit year-round, early spring marks the start of cherry blossom season, with the plum and cherry blossom trees starting to bloom in late February and often continuing until early March. Gazing at beautiful Mount Fuji through the soft lavender and rose-hued foliage in the park, you'll realize the long journey was more than worth it.

Nature enthusiasts are drawn to this tiny village because of its mostly hidden, dramatic beauty. It is primarily known as the source of the world's best lentils. The town is at its finest in spring when the fields are covered in thousands of vibrant, in-bloom flowers, such as bright yellow daffodils, red poppies, purple gentianellas, violets, and many others.

Abounding with flowers all year round, Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, less than two hours from Tokyo, is especially stunning in the spring when nemophila flowers, known as Baby Blue Eyes (adorable name), blossom all over the place. More than 4.5 million of these exquisite flowers bloom in April and May, eliciting what some consider a real heaven on Earth.

In addition to attracting tourists with its top-notch museums and picturesque riverbank location, this laid-back city on the Rhine is well-known for being Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace and serves as a fantastic starting point for excursions to the Siebengebirge nature reserve and other nearby sites. Only a five-minute walk from Beethoven's home, Bonn's Nordstadt district is transformed by millions of pink cherry blossoms in the spring, which bloom briefly for only two to three weeks each year, creating a spectacular tunnel avenue.

The ideal season for seeing Yosemite's many gorgeous waterfalls is spring, even though it's typically a little early to see wildflowers in the park. As the snow starts to melt, you'll see several falls and cascades of various kinds around the Valley, including eminent waterfalls like Yosemite Falls, Bridalveil Fall, Vernal Fall, and a lot of smaller, unnamed waterfalls.

Every year, millions of tourists go to Amsterdam. The city is gorgeous in the summer, but April is considerably calmer, more amicable, and less expensive. From April through the end of June, experience Amsterdam like a native and indulge in Amsterdam's finest, including a stroll along its famous canals, a trip to the Van Gogh Museum, or a 3-hour guided bike tour.

The famed Keukenhof park, sometimes called the "Garden of Europe," is located in Lisse, a city in the bulb-growing area of the Netherlands. Visitors may view millions of hand-planted tulips, hyacinths, and other spring annuals bursting with dazzling flowers from mid-April through the first week of May.

Cornwall, located in the far southwest of the United Kingdom, is best visited in the spring when the local gardens are in full bloom. It is the only location in the UK where magnolia trees bloom at this time of year, indicating the advent of spring.

Sognefjord, which stretches for more than 127 miles, is the longest fjord in Europe. Brilliant wildflowers emerge in the spring once the snow has melted. One of the nation's major fruit production regions is Indre Sogn, where the environment is ideal for growing berries and other fruits. Together with high mountains and breathtakingly craggy peaks, the area is renowned for its stunning waterfalls, azure-colored glaciers, and towering mountains.

The virtually infinite tulip fields in Skagit Valley draw tourists worldwide, converting the area into one of the most stunning displays of color you'll ever see. The region's tulip festival, one of the top spring holiday spots in the world, lasts the entire month of April and is primarily organized as a driving trip through the thousands of variously colored tulips.

This canyon, which stretches for more than 80 miles along the Columbia River, offers some of the most breathtaking views all year. Still, when the seasons change, hundreds of vivid yellow Oregon sunflowers bloom in March, giving it a wonderland-like appearance. Colorful explosions occur in open Ponderosa woods and sunny hillsides.

If you want to learn why Portland is known as the "City of Roses," spring is the perfect time to go there. Thanks to Portland's mild weather, you'll see and smell myriad roses throughout the landscape, with blooms starting in April and reaching their peak in June. The Portland Rose Festival, a month-long celebration, also happens this time of year. It features breathtaking flower displays, pyrotechnics, parades, exhilarating rides, and live music.

There's a good reason why the old song "April in Paris" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong extols the city's virtues at this time of year. "La Ville-Lumière" ("City of Lights") is at its most beautiful during this season, with its vibrant hues, pleasant temperatures, and wonderfully gorgeous parks and gardens. After spending a few days admiring the roses, exquisite sculptures, 17th-century fountains, and banana trees tucked away in the lovely corners of Parisian gardens, it's difficult not to fall in love with the city.

Bruges is a beautiful city with vistas that seem to have sprung from a bygone era's history books. Every corner in this part of Belgium is filled with ancient structures, surreal canals, and cobblestone alleys, and it appears as though nothing has changed there in ages. Spring is certainly the best time to visit if you want to see the main spots without the crowds that come during the busy summer months. With the weather warming up, you can leisurely wander through the medieval town of Bruges' charming alleyways while indulging in tasty Belgian waffles.

Spring is also ideal for outdoor excursions in California's Mojave Desert's Joshua Tree National Park. With its millions of oddly shaped trees, unique vegetation, and enormous stones that rise hundreds of feet into the sky, this environment has an otherworldly quality that may make you feel as though you are on a different planet. Springtime temperatures are frequently picture-perfect, with highs ranging from 80 to 85 degrees. The area is also covered in vibrant wildflowers.

Savannah is well-known for its old cobblestone squares, antebellum architecture, and Spanish moss that shrouds the city in a lush, picture-book haze. You'll understand why it's one of the finest old-meets-new cities to visit in the spring when you add the cool designers, humming coffee shops, farm-to-fork eateries, and avant-garde art scene.

Blackberry Farm and Blackberry Mountain are two must-see sibling sites in eastern Tennessee's blue-toned Great Smoky Mountains for hikers, foodies, and design aficionados. They are still excellent on their own, albeit best appreciated together.

Visit Glasgow in the spring when the daylight hours are long, and you can take advantage of the lovely weather. The various parks in Glasgow are in full bloom at that time, making it the perfect time to explore them. Visit in March, April, or May, when temps hover in the 60s and tourists haven't yet flocked to the city.

The Texas Hill Country is famous for its stunning landscape, which includes limestone and granite boulders. Still, it's at its finest in the spring, when the temperature is ideal for lounging by its shimmering lakes, enormous oak trees, and spring-fed creeks. It's also famed for its vibrant wildflowers at this time of year, particularly bluebonnets, which cover the roadways in miles-long blooms.

Spring is the best season to visit Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. In this garden city, the winter frosts give way to lovely azaleas and cherry blossoms, with some 37,000 cherry trees in full bloom in the spring, lighting up the streets with their vivid bursts of pink. It goes without saying that the famed Butchart Gardens are at their best in the spring when they come alive with some of nature's most exquisite displays.