Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City Travel Guide

Sitting at the foot of the rugged Wasatch Mountains and extending to the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City has some of the best scenery in the country. The interface between city and nature draws residents and visitors alike to the Salt Lake Valley. There are few other places…

Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta Travel Guide

Throughout the region, from the Riviera Nayarit to the Costalegre, long, flat beaches invite walking, and reefs and offshore breaks draw divers, snorkelers, and surfers. In places, untouristy hideaways, with little to distract you beyond waves lapping the shore, may be accessible by land or by sea. Omnipresent seafood shanties are perfect vantage points for…

Cape Cod

Cape Cod Travel Guide

Cape Cod is a land at sea: More than 500 miles of coast and beaches for every taste. Our guarantee: The salt air will make you hungry. Luckily, the ocean will provide the choicest of morsels: Wellfleet oysters, Chatham mussels, Provincetown swordfish, and Harwich lobsters to name a few. Dig in

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Savannah

Savannah Travel Guide

General James Oglethorpe, Savannah’s founder, set sail for England in 1743, never to return. His last instructions, it’s said, were,”Don’t change a thing until I get back.” That local joke holds more than a bit of truth. Savannah’s elegant mansions, dripping Spanish moss, and sticky summer heat can make the city seem sleepy and stubbornly resistant to…

Taos

Taos Travel Guide

Taos casts a lingering spell. Set on a rolling mesa at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it’s a place of piercing light and spectacular views, where the desert palette changes almost hourly as the sun moves across the sky. Adobe buildings—some of them centuries old—lie nestled amid pine trees and scrub, some in the…

Nantucket

Nantucket Travel Guide

Essentially Nantucket is all beach—a boomerang-shape sand spit consisting of detritus left by a glacier that receded millennia ago. Off Cape Cod, some 26 mi out to sea, the island measures 3½ by 14 mi at its widest points, while encompassing—such are the miracles of inlets and bays—about 80 mi of sandy shoreline, all of it open,…

Honolulu and Oahu

Honolulu and Oahu Travel Guide

Traveling to Hawaii is as close as an American can get to visiting another country while staying within the United States. O’ahu—where Honolulu and Waikiki are—is the third largest Hawaiian island and has 75% of the state’s population. Honolulu is the perfect place to experience the state’s indigenous culture, the hundred years of…

Cancun

Cancun Travel Guide

Cancun is a great place to experience 21st-century Mexico. There isn’t much that’s quaint or historical in this distinctively modern city, many of whose residents have embraced the accoutrements of urban middle-class life—cell phones, cable TV—that are found all over the world.

Most locals live on the mainland, in the part of the city known as El Centro,…

Jamaica

Jamaica Travel Guide

“Do you see the ackee?” We were strolling the banks of the Black River on Jamaica’s south coast when we heard the call of a man from a nearby car. He gestured up at an ordinary-looking tree we were near. Between its green leaves peeked small, red fruit, bursting open to reveal large, black seeds like eyes…

Lanai

Lanai Travel Guide

With no traffic or traffic lights and miles of open space, Lanai seems lost in time, and that can be a good thing. Small (141 square mi) and sparsely populated, it is the smallest inhabited Hawaiian Island and has just 3,500 residents, most of them living Upcountry.

Though it may seem a world away, Lanai is separated from…

Punta Cana

Punta Cana Travel Guide

As the sun rises on Hispaniola, Punta Cana awakens to the lapping ocean, its clear, unspoiled blue brushing up against the pristine stretches of sugar-white sand, and swaying coco palms in the backdrop.

The region commonly referred to as Punta Cana actually encompasses the beaches and villages of Juanillo, Punta Cana, Bávaro, Cabeza de Toro, El…