3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (553+ words) Ouray sits high in southwest Colorado, and its best surprise is just south of town. Box Cañon Falls drops 285 feet through a narrow canyon, where the sound arrives before the water comes into view. Box Cañon Falls is the sharpest…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (713+ words) Rockport has 10,070 residents, according to the 2020 census, and each winter it becomes a base for watching whooping cranes. That contrast is its appeal: a small Texas coastal town with a reason to look outward, toward the bays and the birds…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (748+ words) Waiheke sits 13.4 miles from downtown Auckland, and the ferry does it in 40 to 45 minutes. That’s shorter than the drive from most US airports to a hotel. And you land on an island with 9,310 residents, wineries, and beaches on the far…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (688+ words) The town is named for the water, not the mountains. Pagosa Springs sits at 7,126 feet on the western slope of the Continental Divide, and the Mother Spring underneath it has been measured past 1,002 feet deep without anyone hitting bottom. That…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (678+ words) Boulder, Utah, sat apart from the rest of southern Utah for so long that a year-round road arrived only in 1939. The route north across Boulder Mountain stayed unpaved until 1985, which explains why this tiny town still feels like a pause…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (668+ words) Pagosa Springs is overlooked in Colorado because it asks you to slow down. The town’s Mother Spring drops more than 1,001 feet below ground, a depth that gives this small mountain stop an outsized claim: it is presented as the world’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (682+ words) Joshua Tree National Park brings the Mojave and Colorado deserts together in one dry, strangely theatrical corner of Southern California. Since 1994, when it became a national park, the meeting point has given visitors a reason to look twice at every…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (708+ words) Bruny Island sits south of Hobart, and its headline bird is no small claim: this Tasmanian island holds the world’s largest population of the threatened forty-spotted pardalote. You come for the coast, sure. But the birds give the place its…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (659+ words) Cape Charles was founded in 1884 as a rail town and transfer port, but its best present-day feature costs nothing. The town’s Chesapeake Bay beach is public, with no admission charge and no parking fee. For a Virginia waterfront stop, that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (667+ words) Seward lost about 90% of the town to the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and tsunami. Yet the port at the end of Resurrection Bay remains Alaska’s practical doorway to Kenai Fjords National Park, where tidewater glaciers meet salt water. That contrast gives…...