Tell us your favorite vacation spot within 300 miles of Billy Penn's statue, and we'll share the Top 10 destinations with our readers. It could be a beach, a lake, a campsite or a spa. It just has to be a place worth spending at least a weekend, and it must be outside our eight-county area (Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Camden, Gloucester and Burlington).

Keep it to 25 words or less; provide your name, address, phone number and e-mail address; and send it to: Bill Reed, Travel Editor,

400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia 19130, or e-mail it to travelcontest@phillynews.com. One submission per person. Deadline: May 7.

I'll pick the Top 10 spots and print them in the May 25 Travel section. And we'll pay the 10 winners $50 each - enough for the gas to get to one of them.

- Bill Reed