Want a pure-white winter wonderland this year? Head to one of the snowiest destinations in the US, located in Washington, ...

As for smaller towns, the snowiest is Valdez, Alaska, (pop. roughly 4,000), according ... state averages about 56 feet of snow per winter, which is among the highest annual totals in the world.

Alaska and Colorado lead the pack with the most extreme 24-hour U.S. snowfall records. Located in the mountains northeast of ...