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Ogden has a fresh new look
Try as they might, most cities simply cannot manufacture what Ogden, Utahs Historic 25th Street already has: authentic retro style. All the local merchants had to do was polish it up.Over the past decade, the old rail centers funky brick buildings, creaky antiques stores, 1950s nightclub, and C
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Northern Californias best late
KIRBY COVE, NEAR SAUSALITOGate escapeTucked just northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge, this pocket beach in the Marin Headlands is accessible only by a 1-mile downhill hike, which keeps away the crowds taking snapshots atop the headlands. The quiet coarse-sand beach is a good spot to watch ships
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Falling for Santa Cruz
The butterfly world has known for centuries that Santa Cruz is a
great place to spend the winter. Every year about this time,
thousands of monarch butterflies flit up from Mexico to the
beachside eucalyptus groves in Santa Cruz.
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Visit Estes Park, Colorado
Why go in fall: Rocky Mountain National Park crowds have cleared out, and you can get your fix of fall color and wildlife.Claim to fame: The town is the park’s eastern gateway.In the news: President Obama signed legislation in March designating most of the Rocky Mountain park as wilderness.Elev
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Essential No. 4: Aurora Borealis
See more essentialsThink of it as the ultimate holiday lights display―a spectacle so soul stirring that “people see the lights and start cheering,” says Karen Lundquist of the Fairbanks Convention & Visitors Bureau.The celestial shimmers of the aurora borealis―aka the northern lights―have t
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10 best bird hikes
Listening to one of my friends rave about the birds she saw on her trip to the spectacular Nogales sewage ponds, I realized that Im different from many serious bird-watchers.Arizona is legendary among birders worldwide, thanks to a diverse habitat, mild climate, and a prime location on the Paci
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One perfect day in Cody, WY
Why go in summer: Take a break from Yellowstone just when this Wild West town is at its wildest--in the height of rodeo season.Back then: The towns 1896 founder and namesake, William Cody (aka Buffalo Bill), was a Pony Express rider made famous with his Wild West show.Nowadays: Codys hung on to
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Discovery in Seattle
What should a city park be? A playground, a sanctuary in the
urban hubbub, a feast of botanical beauty, a refuge for wildlife,
an environmental-learning center?
Discovery Park is all of these, but most important, its a place
to learn. There are five major natural habitats ― forest,
thicket, me
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St. Edward State Park day trip
Why go now: Everything you want in August—leafy trails, uncrowded beaches, grassy picnic spots—is here, just a half-hour from Seattle.If you really want to earn your visit: Pedal the roughly 15 miles from Seattle to St. Edward on the Burke-Gilman Bike Trail (206/684-7583), which dumps you 2 mil
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High Sierra secret
Kings Canyon
travel planner: camping, lodging, hiking, and more
The first things that grab you about Kings Canyon are the
extremes: roaring whitewater, the worlds most massive trees,
hidden caves of solid marble, and ― just outside the parks
boundaries ― one of the deepest canyons in North Am
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Endless summer
Summer is the shortest season. At least, it feels that way.
Astronomically speaking, summer ends September 22 at 9:30 a.m. PDT,
but the seasons symbolic denouement is Labor Day: Kids are back in
school, and the proper set stops wearing white.
The West Coast, however, has never been particularl
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Northern California
One often overlooked element in designing a successful inn
is subtlety, so your first thought as you look for your room along
the car-lined row of New England-style cottages here might be,
Uh-oh. Dont worry.
Dont worry even if your room has a cramped entry and a
serviceable but ordinary bathro
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Shop and stroll in Utahs Kimball Junction
Sitting side by side at the northern end of Park City, Utah, is an unlikely pairing: the posh Redstone shopping plaza and the 1,200-acre Swaner Nature Preserve.Not your typical combo of activities, but thats what makes Kimball Junction unique. The newish Redstone is now fully occupied with loca
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Songbirds in concert
Birders, dont put those field glasses away yet. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, just off Interstate 25 about 20 miles south of Socorro, New Mexico, may be justifiably famous for its winter conclave of cranes and snow geese, but May is the best month to visit if you love the sound an
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Favorite Grand Canyon Campgrounds
The Grand Canyon’s dizzying cliffs and vast scope can easily overwhelm―as can its more than 4.5 million annual visitors. You’ll feel a greater sense of peaceful solitude when sleeping in a tent, and you’re more apt to capture the canyon’s dazzling light, particularly at sunrise and sunset.
If
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Posh Pacific Palisades
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Palisades travel planner
High above Pacific Palisades, the view from Temescal Ridge takes
in a vast area of Santa Monica Bay. As the sun drops to the
horizon, a hiker pauses to watch the denouement to the day.
Struck by beauty? asks a smiling woman passing him as she
races down
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New life for Orange County beach bungalows
Call them the little beach cottages that could. At Southern
Californias Crystal Cove State Park, 13 recently restored vintage
bungalows were set to open to the public in June 2006, ― and
reservations are already in high demand.
Dating back to the 1930s, the cottages are the last remnants of
a b
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Sausalito walk 2
The few nonlocals who venture to Caledonia Street most often
end up at Sushi Ran
(107 Caledonia St.; 415/332-3620), considered by many to be
the Bay Areas best sushi restaurant. And to be fair, thats a good
enough reason to visit Caledonia. But its certainly not the only
one.
The streets attr
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Southern Idahos giant rock garden still amazes
Hiking the easy half-mile Flaming Rock Trail in Idahos City of
Rocks National Reserve, my family spies a wall of tortured faces
that echo the elongated mask of the Scream movies. Undaunted, the
kids scramble over some of the most bodacious boulders theyll ever
see; me, I just savor the crisp fa
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Enjoy a winter day in Florence, Oregon
With an Old Town that packs in browsable, one-of-a-kind shops, its easy to spend a day in Florence and never even set foot on its famous beach. On rainy days, there are plenty of places to tuck into a bowl of chowder and enjoy views of the Siuslaw River.Hikeable weather isnt unusual here, even
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