Summer Travel Issue 2013: From bears at the beach, to cities and the great outdoors, summer has us looking north

While Montreal is perfectly charming in winter, you can't do better than a summertime trip to Quebec's cosmopolitan cutie. The same holds for the Pacific Northwest and New England's beach resorts.

So Metro Weekly is celebrating the approaching summer with daydreams of heading north – as far as Alaska – and to dipping into seashores that would otherwise be seasonally off-limits. Pack you bags and grab your sunscreen as we migrate to some of summer's most inviting destinations.