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Best small towns for outdoor adventure
MOAB, UTBike, raft, climb rocks, thinkPopulation: 4,779 What a house costs: $265,000The vibe: How in love with the outdoors is Moab? So in love that one of the community’s main activities is trail maintenance. What do you expect from a town surrounded by millions of acres of public lands ― Cany
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Top 10 Day Spas
Refuge, Carmel, CA. Refuge opened in 2012 as a sort of anti-spa—or anti-the type of spa that requires a long weekend and half a year’s salary to visit. It has no superfood cafe or body polish treatments, masks, wraps, esoteric peels, or facials, each with its own sub-tier of add-on pricing. “Al
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Best camp sites for families
Near Los Alamos, NMJuniper Campground: Here’s your home base for Bandelier National Monument (pictured). Climb in and out of Ancestral Pueblo cave rooms, complete with kid-friendly ladders. Then hike the 2.5-mile Falls Trail past two waterfalls to the Rio Grande. (Come in May, because June 1, t
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Top Affordable Romantic Hotels
In the West, we’ve got a leg up on romance. For one thing, we’ve got natural beauty galore. But we’re also a breeding ground (forgive us) for cultivating the three golden rules of romance: making things beautiful, new, and interesting.RATES$ = $100 or less$$ = $100-$175$$$ = $175-$250$$$$ = ove
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Western wine regions travel guide
If you like Malbecs, go to Walla WallaArgentina might have claimed this gutsy grape first, but Eastern Washington is producing beautiful Malbecs, with intense fruit and restrained muscle.À Maurice 2007 Malbec (Columbia Valley; $35). Warm-spiced blueberry, plum, and black cherry with black peppe
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Affordable beach retreats
1. Olympic National Park, WAKALALOCH LODGEPicture a cluster of weathered gray cabins perched on a grassy bluff above a wind- and rain-swept beach, and youve got the drift of Kalaloch Lodge. A step above basic, the cabins have knotty-pine paneling, wood stoves, compact kitchens, and, most import
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Glide into bliss
Gear up
for less than $365
Dont think and remember to breathe. Though they sound
like meditation guidelines, the activity in this case is
cross-country ski lessons. Im spending the weekend at Royal Gorge,
Northern Californias largest cross-country ski resort, learning to
use my new nordi
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Top 13 Public Gardens
Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR. Japanese maples are at their most vivid in autumn at the Portland Japanese Garden, set on a hilly 5.5 acres among tall cedars, Douglas firs, and hemlocks. Enjoy the views of downtown and Mt. Hood from the Pavilion’s lookout, then meander the trails throug
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Top 8 Agritourism Experiences
The allure of the farm has always been powerful: It’s a throwback to a simpler way of life, in a setting that’s a whole lot more scenic than our daily office park habitat. And for many farmers, new tourist interest has allowed their farms to thrive. “Farmers are recognizing that people are will
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Send in the clowns
Think of the antics and acrobatic energy of circus seals and
youll know something of their wild brethren, California sea lions.
After a summer of breeding and raising pups off the Southern
California coast, the families move northward during the winter and
show up in bays and on coastal docks
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Backroads Road Trip: Rock n Roller
Kemmerer, Wyoming is the sort of middle-of-nowhere small town that doesnt see many visitors. The closest major city is Salt Lake, two hours away, and its only claim to semi-fame is the J.C. Penney Mother Store, circa 1902. But for Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, Kemmerer is a must-stop—one of
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Best small towns for foodies
WALLA WALLA, WA A Cab capital stays true to its rural soulPopulation: 30,794 What a house costs: $224,900The vibe: This southeastern Washington town was once famous for wheat and sweet onions. These days, show up at Saffron Mediterranean Kitchen on a Friday night, and you’ll see it filled with
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Relaxing vacations
1. Alta, WYSkiing like you remember it: Mountains like Grand Targhee are a dying breed: No parking lot hassles, no mile-long schlep to the ticket window, no $20 hamburgers.Instead, drive right up to the ski lift, put on your boots, and drop into 2,500 acres of steeps, cruisers, and glades. The
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The Wests greatest small towns, neighborhoods, and new communities
Best small townSandpoint, IdahoBest neighborhoodCalifornia Heights, Long Beach, CaliforniaBest new communityCivano, near TucsonBest gathering placeVashon Island ferriesFor Sunsets fourth biennial salute to the Wests best communities, we turned to the ultimate experts: our readers. It was inspir
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Best bounce
The category: Towns that create or resuscitate a downtown, ending the reign of strip malls.The stats: In northeast Orange County, 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles; population 40,000.The residents: Christine and Greg Marick (31 and 37) and their 2-year-old daughter. Christine works in muni
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Uncrowded, untamed, unforgettable
THEY ARE THE WESTS UNTAPPED TREASURES, national parks and
monuments that get a fraction of the visitation seen by the Grand
Canyon, Yellowstone, or Yosemite. These unheralded parks offer all
the drama and grandeur of their more famous cousins: giants of the
ancient forest, mysterious caves, sun
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From the Sunset Magazine archive: 1956 Cover Photo Champagne Flights
The text reads: Now you can enjoy Americas smartest air service from San Francisco and Oakland to Reno and Salt Lake City, Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul. These newest Champagne Flights feature Westerns celebrated luxury service - vintage champagne, gourmet dining, orchids for the ladies, rese
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Camping
CAPE LOOKOUT STATE PARK
Near Tillamook, Oregon
The only late-night noise youre likely to hear at this
campground on a sand spit is the roar of the ocean just across a
narrow dune. Miles away from busy U.S. 101, the park is tucked
between Netarts Spit and tall, narrow Cape Lookout, projecting
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Koreatown, Los Angeles
Its girls night out in K-town. Im wedged in at a tiny table in a buzzing pub called Dansungsa, looking up at photos of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean juxtaposed with Kim Jong-il. A hint of cigarette smoke hangs in the air here in this 3 square miles of no-man’s-land somewhere between America and
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Best Bike Paths in the West
Here are our favorite routes for exploring the West on two wheels. For even more trails, including descriptions, maps, and GPS coordinates, visit the Rails to Trails Conservancys trailink.com
1 | SAMMAMISH RIVER TRAIL, REDMOND, WA (11 miles)
The Sammamish connects to the northeastern terminus
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