Category: Travel

Yosemite has five different park entrances, which makes it easily accessible from a variety of destinations. For those traveling from San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas, here are the easiest ways to get to the park.

In the Northern Rockies, you’ll come across young mountains, a steaming supervolcano, and fast-melting glaciers. With this weeklong road trip route, you can see all of them by stitching together three national parks: Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Glacier.

Baby boomer Joanne Ostrow relates her experience, tips, and advice for checking off the infamous bucket-list trek to Machu Picchu as a senior.

In Israel, the two most widely-practiced traditions celebrating Hanukkah are lighting menorah candles and enjoying two special fried foods: fancy donuts and potato latkes.

Having traveled solo across Cuba as a woman, I have so many memories of men and women, young and old, reaching out to enrich and help me in my journey. I also have far too many memories of otherwise harmless men cat calling me day in and day out with the same pick-up lines.

Kentucky’s most pressing environmental issues are related to mining. Learn more about the effects of mining as well as what the air and water quality is like in the state.

California is ready-made for road-tripping. In only a few hours, you can drive from the lowest spot in the western hemisphere—Death Valley’s Badwater at minus 282 feet—to 10,000 feet in elevation near the Sierra’s crest. With saw-toothed granite peaks on one side and the arid desert on the other, US 395 is the highway that…

Both Charleston and Savannah share an abiding respect for social manners and mores, for history, for making money, and for good food and strong drink. This tour begins in Charleston and gives you ten days to explore these two great cities.

Take a walk through U Street and Shaw, a center of African-American life and culture for much of the 20th century, and the childhood home of Duke Ellington, who later played at the jazz clubs around U Street, known as "Black Broadway."

Perfect for out-of-state visitors, this best of Southern California itinerary plans for at least four days to spend exploring Los Angeles, nearby Santa Monica, and sunny San Diego.

If you find yourself only having one day to venture through Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, there are several short hikes that will offer you a glimpse of what it’s like to live next to an active volcano.

Rome is an expensive place to live. It’s still not quite at the level of London, or even Paris, but it’s close.