Veterans Day weekend trips from your city
Veterans Day 2026 is Wednesday, November 11, so many people take Thursday and Friday off. Fares from your city for November 11 to 15, 2026, and for Thursday, November 11 to Sunday, November 14, 2027.
Dates: Veterans Day 2026, Wednesday to Sunday, Nov 11 – Nov 15, 2026.
Choose your departure city
Each city page shows real round-trip fares from that city, with the cheapest one for each destination.
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Where to go and why
- Washington: The Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then the memorials on the Mall
- San Diego: The USS Midway Museum on the Embarcadero, the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial and Coronado's beach
- Honolulu: Pearl Harbor National Memorial, the USS Arizona and the Battleship Missouri, with Waikiki afterward
- New York: The NYC Veterans Day Parade up Fifth Avenue on November 11, then the Intrepid Museum on the Hudson
- Savannah: Mild November days for the squares and River Street, plus Tybee Island and the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
- Phoenix: Desert hiking weather at last: Camelback Mountain, the Desert Botanical Garden and Scottsdale pools
- Las Vegas: Warm afternoons on the Strip, Fremont Street and a Red Rock Canyon morning as pool season winds down
- Orlando: Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando in the lull between the Halloween and Christmas crowds
- Miami: South Beach sun, Wynwood's murals and Little Havana as the winter high season gets going
- Austin: Barbecue, Rainey Street bars and a swim at Barton Springs, with Hill Country drives to Fredericksburg
- Nashville: Honky-tonks on Lower Broadway, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Jack Daniel's distillery an hour away
- Denver: Early-season turns at Loveland and Arapahoe Basin, among the first ski areas to open, plus a night in LoDo
- Seattle: Pike Place Market, the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field and a ferry across to Bainbridge Island
- New Orleans: The National WWII Museum in the Warehouse District, then jazz on Frenchmen Street and beignets at Café du Monde
- Charleston: Patriots Point and the USS Yorktown across the harbor, plus Fort Sumter and Rainbow Row
Veterans Day is a federal holiday, so banks, post offices and some museums close or keep holiday hours on November 11. The Arlington ceremony and the New York parade are free.
Facts checked October 8, 2026. Sources: OPM: 2026 and 2027 federal holidays (Veterans Day, November 11) · United War Veterans Council: NYC Veterans Day Parade, November 11, 2026, Fifth Avenue