Latham I don't frequent casually/personally. My company is based out of there so that's my only reason to go down. I can not recommend Grano in Schenectady enough. Best pasta in the world, and I'm from NYC and had pasta all over Italy.
The front range and Dakotas have amazing springs as well as falls... awesome shorts and T-shirt days to blizzards in the 10's and 20's with no worries of an extended period of shitty 40° rain and overcast.