Southern California. I voted “infrequently, but it happens”
I hit Disneyland about once every 3-4 years. Universal Studios about once a decade. The only times I’ve seen the Hollywood Walk of Fame were when I was in Hollywood for something else, usually a concert or stage show. Despite living here half a century I don’t think I’ve ever taken a picture in front of the Hollywood sign.
When my kids were in elementary school, we frequently visited the educational places like the Zoo, Griffith Observatory, La Brea Tar Pits, Aquarium of the Pacific, the various museums in Exposition Park, and the Getty Center, but except for the Getty, we haven’t been back since they hit their teens.
About once month I ride my bike up the coast to Venice Beach and the Santa Monica Pier, but that’s more of an exercise thing rather than a tourist thing.
Depends on what you count as touristy stuff. I live on the Jersey Shore, so if going to the beach or beach bars counts, then I do that all the time in the summer.
Otherwise, pretty infrequently, and not as much as I should. A couple of times a year to state parks or downtown Princeton. NYC a couple of times a year if I can, but that is just far enough away that I wouldn’t really consider it local.
I live in the heart of Missouri’s Wild & Scenic River Country. The rivers around here are packed with canoers and innertubers every summer weekend. I, for one, would go canoeing every Saturday (assuming agreeable weather) if I had anyone to do it with. But neither Mrs. Homie nor anyone in her family (we live near her side of the family) is into it.
When I’m visiting my parents in the DC area (where I grew up), all the time.
Here, basically never, because the only “touristy stuff” in my town is the birthplace of a famous playwright (which I visited once, but there isn’t enough there to justify a repeat trip) and an antebellum plantation, which I have no particular interest in visiting.
I moved to DC two years ago, and I haven’t done much. However, during a staycation a couple of months ago, despite being sick for most of it, I did manage to get to NPR headquarters for a tour. Overall, in that time, I think I’ve been to three of the Smithsonians. And I’ve walked around the city a bit. But not much more than that.
If there’s any question about what exactly qualifies as “touristy stuff,” as is usual that’s up to you. This is another one of those “I’ll know it when I see it” things; you know your own city/area, I trust you to know what stuff is for tourists and what’s for locals. If there’s any ambiguity, a place that is used/visited by tourists and locals about equally, I’d err on the “locals” side.
When riding the bus in my own city, I sometimes like to pretend I’m a tourist from a foreign country, just come from the airport and seeing America for the first time. Interesting perspective.
We live in the Boston area. In the last year we’ve been to to each of the JFL Library, the ICA, the MFA, the duck boat tour, the Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall at least once.
We’ve also been to the Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation a few times in the last five years.
My friend’s got a granddaughter who’s been going to junior lifeguard training and beach volleyball, and she needs a driver, so yeah, you could say I’ve been to the beach several times this summer. Doesn’t quite seem like that counts, tho, since it’s kind of like going to a city park anywhere else. Otherwise, on simple get-out-of-the-house day trips, been to Santa Monica Pier a couple times, been down to San Diego a few times – and various other places. Got over to Catalina Island this summer. It happens.
I voted “quite frequently”, it’s because I have kids, so a lot of the “touristy stuff”, like museums or the aquarium, are also “kid’s stuff”. But we also go to some of the popular nature-based tourist attractions - the botanical gardens, beaches, Table Mountain, National Parks, whale watching, staying in B&Bs in country villages - and we did even before we had kids.
I live a 10 minute walk away from The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which is a huge tourist draw. Not having a garden myself I visit about once a week, though mostly early mornings before the hoards arrive.
Not as much as we should. We live in D.C. and try to take advantage. One of my favorite things about the city is that I can just walk in to a museum whenever I want. Last year, I had federal jury duty and I made sure that I went to the National Gallery West every lunch break. We also try to make a point of keeping an eye out for interesting exhibits.
We go to the Toronto Zoo about once a year, but I voted “only with guests”. I don’t count local parks, St. Lawrence Market or Chinatown as tourist attractions, personally.
Like many posters above many “touristy” things are fun to do because there are tourists to watch. When I lived in the Los Angeles area I would regularly visit Venice Beach, walk down the Avenue of the Stars in Hollywood and take in the La Brea Tar Pits for that. Also on my annual schedule would be the Queen Mary, L.A. Japantown and a tour of Mulholland Drive.
I consider it touristy but perhaps it’s not: one has to take in the Hollywood Bowl at least once each summer.
My town has a pretty heavy tourism sector. The primary tourist attractions in my town are restaurants/breweries; the outdoors; and Biltmore Estate. I almost never go to Biltmore, nor do I encourage others to go there. But we spend a fair amount of time visiting nearby state and national parks, swimming in rivers and lakes, and hiking; and we go to restaurants and breweries when we can.
If we lived somewhere were touristy things to do were different, like say art museums and baseball games, we’d do it a lot more rarely.
Pike Place Market is a working farmers market as well as “that place where they throw fish.” I go there pretty often for because I’m near enough and I know that shops there carry certain items that are hard to find elsewhere.
I also go to museums. Other than that, not really.