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Oregon Coast Dining Information
Fine coastal dining
Beach food favorites
Great coastal picnic spots
FINE COASTAL DINING
Here are our favorite places for a special-occasion dinner
with plenty of local flavor (restaurants are listed from north to
south).
CANNON BEACH
1.
The
Stephanie Inn. Theres no ocean view at this sumpt
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Make tracks
It took the Lewis and Clark party four wet days to travel
nearly 100 miles from the mouth of Oregons Willamette River to the
site of present-day Astoria in 1805. Today you can zip there in an
hour and a half by car, but consider a compromise: a four-hour
train trip along the Columbia Rivers so
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Tame but still game
A leafy residential thoroughfare lined with Victorian houses, Colorado Avenue is the main drag through sprawling Colorado Springs and is also the main street of the neighborhood known as Old Colorado City. Highlighted by a compact retail strip packed with interesting galleries, shops, and resta
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Gourmet gulch
The epicenter of Denvers neighborhood restaurant scene has shifted once again. Stately, tree-lined Governors Park ― located just minutes from downtown Denver ― is home to 5 of the top 10 restaurants in the city, and may soon be home to a half-dozen. The much-anticipated Table 6 (609 Corona St.;
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Explore Edmonds, WA
Why go: This waterfront ferry port stop is just 18 miles north of Seattle but offers plenty of small town charm.Daily sighting: The steady back-and-forth sailings of the ferries, from sunrise to after dark.Street scene: Hanging baskets of geraniums and begonias brighten up downtown, filled with
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Maverick mountains
Three
scenic mountain days
South of San Francisco, the Santa Cruz Mountains ruck and rimple
from Woodside to Mt. Madonna, offering challenges every mile along
the way. Here, roads wind perilously through steep canyons;
earthquakes shake the hills; fog and heat and rain vie for
dominance o
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New money and no money
They may be buffered by salt water from some of the pressures of
the mainland, but the islands are not immune to change. San Juan
Countys population grew 40 percent in a decade, from 10,035 in
1990 to 14,077 in 2000 ― more, apparently, than nature had
designed for. Water, of all things, is beco
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Orient Express
The plot is as predictable as a Hollywood script: Artists discover an almost-forgotten neighborhood, chic boutiques and bistros move in, developers get wind of the action, and then the artists are priced out.Los Angeles Chinatown seems to provide the ultimate backdrop for this gentrification sto
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Things to do in Santa Fes ToCa neighborhood
Santa Fe day trip travel plannerWhy go now: This hidden east-side micro-hood offers a mix of shops and galleries from the funky to the sublime, all within a five-block radius; June is ideal walking weather.The coordinates: Cross Camino del Monte Sol on Canyon Road, and you’ve unofficially enter
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The valley of baseball
The Central Valley is home to teams in the California League (Single-A) and the Pacific Coast League (Triple-A, one step below the majors). Major-league affiliates are listed in parentheses. The regular season runs through August.CALIFORNIA LEAGUEBakersfield Blaze (Tampa Bay Devil Rays). A reno
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One perfect day in Geyserville, CA
Why go in summer: To kick it vine-side, and poolside, in low-key Alexander Valley.Main drag: Geyserville Avenue is 2 blocks of Wild West-looking brick storefronts housing galleries, tasting rooms, and one especially tasty pizza parlor.Looking for an actual geyser? Head about 25 miles southeast
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Get away to B.C.s Okanagan Valley
For more than a century, British Columbias Okanagan Valley has been Canadas fruit bowl, known throughout the western provinces for its fragrant, perfectly ripe peaches and sunny beaches. But its beginning to change. In the late 1980s, vintners started taking advantage of the Okanagans warm clim
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Moab keeps you moving
Weekend
planner
Friday
Moab is fueled by locomotion. Paddling rivers, cycling
slickrock, hiking through the worlds grandest collection of stone
archways ― this southeastern Utah destination is a slice of
high-energy nirvana.
Sandals, T-shirts, shorts, and sunglasses are de rigueur here
f
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Miracles in Goldstream
The Goldstream River is alive with one of natures miracles.
Too many salmon to count hover in the shallow water. They dart
around each other, stopping to rest before pushing upstream again.
The river, at this point more like a wide stream coursing over
boulders and sand, is so clear you can se
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48 hours in Sausalito, California
FridayCheck into Cavallo Point, the Lodge at the Golden Gate, the first major new luxury hotel in a national park in years (from $250; cavallopoint.com). The Fort Baker fishing pier is a 10-minute walk toward the bridge, past the resort and the Coast Guard station.Loop back for a glass of wine
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Sip with style in Saratoga
Once strictly a special-occasion town ― somewhat oversupplied with old-school French restaurants ― Saratoga has diversified.Find your Zen in one of Northern Californias most authentic Japanese gardens. Or your inner explorer, on horseback overlooking the whole of Silicon Valley.Then dip back in
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The Art of Tucson
Candice Davis and Mike Dominguezs contemporary-art gallery in Tucson resides in the roomy shell of a former Packard dealership built in the 1930s. Its a terrific space in a lousy neighborhood for art, as the passing traffic is usually vectored into the wheel-alignment shop on the block. But in
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Old Meets New
Just inside Pasadenas city limits, Colorado Boulevard opens up as it reaches the Arroyo Seco. There, a curving quarter-mile bridge crosses the gorge, its roadbed hanging 150 feet above the canyon. The old Vista del Arroyo Hotel, now a courthouse, looms like a sentry tower guarding the city. The
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Chelan attractions
The areas main attractions lie along the lake and in the
towns of Chelan and Manson, 7 miles to the west via State 150. The
wineries listed here are all open daily. For more information,
contact the Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce & Visitor
Information Center (
www.lakechelan.com or
800/42
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Garden shopping in Denver, Colorado
Namesake flower: Denver daisyState flower: Rocky Mountain columbineNumber of parks: More than 300. Check out denvergov.org/parksNumber of Denver Botanic Gardens locations: 3; the main downtown location (1005 York St.), plus Littleton and Mt. Evans. botanicgardens.orgNumber of community gardens:
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