There’s an old joke about it being legal to drink publicly in New York City, so long as you’re willing to pay the “cover charge.” The cover charge, of course, being the $25 fine you’ll incur if caught. Alas, even if it’s pretty easy to get away with drinking in public in liberal New York—with or without getting a ticket—it’s not technically legal. Luckily, though, there are a surprising amount of locations around the United States where you can drink in public completely legally.

Las Vegas, Nevada

What you should drink: Whatever you were comped

Las Vegas is the kind of place where visitors simply assume everything is legal. And, well, it kinda is. Open plastic containers are fine throughout the 24-hours-a-day-drinking town of Las Vegas and neighboring Clark County where the Strip is located. That’s so long as you’re not within 1,000 feet of a church, synagogue, school or hospital. And really, who wants to pound watery rum and cokes by those places any how?

The French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

What you should drink: Hurricanes

Like Las Vegas, public drinking in New Orleans is mostly legal—though, again, only in plastic cups specifically meant for outside use. There’s even drive-thrus offering served-in-styrofoam daiquiris to go. Likewise, though the cops take a lax attitude toward public drinking, it’s technically only legal in the French Quarter where Bourbon Street is located. Amusingly, 18-year-olds can drink in NOLA, so long as they’re with their parents. Which is even better, ’cause then dad might foot the bill for those Hurricanes.

Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee

What you should drink: Silky O’Sullivan’s Diver, a cocktail in a gallon bucket

In many cities where you can drink in public, you can only drink in a single neighborhood. In Memphis, it’s a single street, running about two miles from the Mississippi River to East Street. The tourist-heavy area—both a National Historic Landmark and officially declared the “Home of Blues” by Congress—features scads of blues clubs that, in many cases, date back to the history of the genre. Public drinking became officially legal there in the late-1970s in an effort to boost the economy.

The Savannah Historic District in Savannah, Georgia

What you should drink: A to-go cup of just about anything

It would be hard to argue against Savannah being the country’s top public drinking city. While Bourbon Street gets all the buzz, it’s less sloppy in gorgeous Savannah. There, a patron can pay the bill at just about any bar or restaurant, while asking for the remainder of their drink to be put into a “to-go” cup. The to-go cup is, in fact, such a totem of the charming southern city that on New Year’s Eve, instead of a glittery ball dropping, a plastic cup goes up.

Power and Light District in Kansas City, Missouri

What you should drink: Something from Boulevard Brewing Co.

In 2017 Kansas governor Sam Brownback signed a “common consumption” bill, which allows for people to publicly drink in certain outdoor areas. One is this nine-block downtown district—opened in 2007—where restaurants, bars and stores circle a car-free area and visitors are allowed to roam from spot to spot with beverage in hand.