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U.S. & Canada Travel
Travel news and articles for trips, rentals, lodging and vacations within the United States and Canada.
Burlington, Vermont
After Birkenstock sandals, the most common accessory in Burlington is the coffee cup. Every third store on Church Street, the four-block pedestrian area up the hill from Lake Champlain, seems to be a coffee shop. If people aren't sitting and sipping, they're walking, riding extra-long skateboards,... |
If You Love New Orleans, Go Visit Now
Tourism is the lifeblood of the city, and its future depends on getting visitors to come back. But if officials crow too loudly that the French Quarter, Garden District, and other popular areas are pretty much back to normal, they risk alienating locals who are desperately trying to get the federal... |
Low-Tech Time Travel
In this age of iPods and text messaging, there's something refreshing about low-tech travel fun made for Luddites. We just heard about a cool half-mile walking tour in Ithaca, N.Y., that incorporates an old-fashioned palm-sized viewer with historical images of its downtown--landmarks, trolleys, and... |
SoCal's Coolest Street
A true Southern California beach town, Venice Beach is famous for its boardwalk, where skating musclemen sashay past cheesy trinket shops. But one mile east, Abbot Kinney Boulevard has recently become the pleasant polar opposite: a long, mellow street of independent boutiques. |
Maui: Friendly, Quirky, and Full of Soul
Growing up in Hawaii in the mid-'80s, my only visit to a resort was the night of my senior prom. Even though my family had a history with the resorts--my grandfather used to play there in the 1930s, when he was a member of the Royal Hawaiian Band--the areas felt somehow kapu, or forbidden, and the... |
A Softy for Milwaukee
At 17, I was never too pooped to polka. I grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, and on Friday nights, a group of friends from high school and I would go to a restaurant outside town called Etzel's. It was a classic wood-paneled German-American joint, the kind of place where Friday night's fish fry... |
South Dakota: Where Presidents Compete with Tumbleweeds and Brontoburgers
Day 1: Rapid City to Badlands Pre-trip research showed that the region has something for everyone, from wholesome families to thrillseeking bikers. Shawnda and I fall somewhere in between. Friends since high school, we now live on separate coasts and meet up once a year for a generally silly road... |
Vintage Fashion in Vancouver That Qualifies as New
Two Vancouver neighborhoods--the Gastown district and South Main--are emerging as hubs for boutiques with reworked vintage clothing. "Designers for our shop use fabrics like curtains and crocheted afghans and create new items out of them," says Wendy de Kruyff, owner of Dream, in Gastown (311 W.... |
Land of the Watchmen: The Queen Charlotte Islands
The spongy forest floor, studded with stumps and toadstools, looks like it's been draped with a damask of emerald moss. I'm standing still, transfixed by the twisted roots of a toppled Sitka spruce. The upended root bell, as it's called, must be 30 feet in diameter and has created an intimate... |
A Long Weekend in Tucson Is Hot Stuff
It's 10 p.m. at the Hotel Congress, the neon-lit epicenter of bohemia in Tucson. In Club Congress, the hotel's cavernous nightclub, a local avant-garde French pop singer, Marianne Dissard, is warbling a French song about love's "little lies" with unusual forcefulness. She's accompanied on electric... |
Why Haven't You Heard Of Bardstown, Kentucky?
The smell is the first thing you'll notice: vanilla, some caramel. That's the scent of bourbon in the air. Workers at nearby distilleries call the fumes "the angel's share"--a fitting term, considering that this town about 40 miles south of Louisville is home to both whiskey men and monks. |
Furnitureville, U.S.A.: High Point, N.C.
Twice a year, more than 70,000 furniture experts, including store buyers and suppliers, descend on the small town of High Point, N.C., for the International Home Furnishings Market. They come to scout next season's trends in sofas, settees, and so forth. But the real boon for the rest of us is what... |
50 All-Star Family Camps
What you'll find in this article: family camp listings, family camp activities, family vacation ideas, and outdoor activities for families |
Shut Up and Ski
UTAH ?POWDER MOUNTAIN Elevation: 8,900 feet? ?Vertical drop: 2,005 feet? ?Skiable terrain: 5,500 acres ??Annual snowfall: 500 inches? ?Lift ticket: $45 or less? ?Info: 801/745-3772, powdermountain.com |
Beat the Crowds
November/December Masses of people head to Hawaii, Florida, and the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year's simply because that's when it's convenient for work and school schedules--not because the weather is better then. Travelers who are flexible with their vacation time don't have to cope with... |
Where Foodies Love to Eat
We?pestered?33 experts?until they shared every last tip from their recent trips. It's food for the soul, from people whose taste you can trust (and check back next week for more places where foodies love to eat). |
When The Snow Melts, Ski Resorts Are Just Getting Warmed Up
Snowbird, Utah Festival: As part of the Wasatch Wildflower Festival, guides run free wildflower walks from the top of Snowbird (July 29 to August 1, 801/947-8263, wasatchwildflowerfestival.org, $5 tram ride to where the walk starts). Off-Mountain Adventure: A half hour away, Solitude resort has an... |
Historic Baseball Tours
It's already become a summertime ritual for many baseball fans--touring as many ballparks as you can. However, beyond the bright, shiny new palaces like Petco and Minute Maid lie some fascinating remnants of baseball past: the spots where the most hallowed old stadiums used to sit. |
Seven Budget Hotels in Heavenly Kauai
Lots of people have complained that various islands of Hawaii were not what they expected -- but no one says that about Kauai. This is the place of your dreams, a tropical vision of Bali Hai-like cliffs and voluptuous vegetation, of mountain gullies dark with ferns and peppered with vertiginous... |
The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
Its new CulturePass grants entry to all 14 state museums and monuments, including Santa Fe's Museum of Fine Arts, Albuquerque's National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner, for $20. Admission costs average $5 for state museums and $3 for monuments, so pass... |
Hiking the Grand Canyon
It's a piece of cake," said Grand Canyon National Park Ranger Pam Cox. Her face a giant smile, she was making a gung-ho try at bolstering our courage for the rigorous 9.6-mile hike we faced the next morning. Having descended to famed Phantom Ranch at the very bottom of the Arizona canyon the day... |
New York City B&Bs
With the average Manhattan hotel room weighing in at a whopping $250 a night, finding an affordable place to bed down in the Big Apple can seem as impossible as locating an empty taxi on a rainy day at rush hour. Even so-called budget hotels have become prohibitively pricey, thanks to the droves of... |
A Guide to Memphis, Tennessee, Northern Mississippi, and Tunica
Memphis is that rare thing in twenty-first-century America: An Old South city that still feels old. With a working streetcar system, blocks of austerely proportioned stone buildings, and some of America's best postwar neon signs, it's hard to shake the sensation that King Cotton and the King of... |
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