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Zion / Kanab / KolobSouthern Utah
Southern Utah Without the Script
Beyond Angels Landing and the Narrows: permits, the Kolob backcountry, Kanab as a hub, swimming holes, and the stretches of southern Utah most visitors drive past.
Puna / VolcanoBig Island, Hawaii
The Wild East of the Big Island
Puna is the Big Island's best-kept secret — a lava coast of black sand beaches, thermal hot springs, ancient rainforest, and one of the most culturally alive communities in all of Hawaii. This is where the island is still being made.
Southern CaliforniaFallbrook / Valley Center / Julian, CA
Fallbrook & San Diego North County
Fallbrook sits at the center of one of the most accessible day-trip networks in California. From a single base in the San Diego North County hills, you can hit wine country, three distinct beach towns, the San Diego Zoo, Anza-Borrego Desert, and Legoland — all within 90 minutes.
CaliforniaJoshua Tree, CA
Joshua Tree & the High Desert
Joshua Tree is where two deserts meet — the Mojave and the Colorado — in 795,000 acres of ancient boulders, twisted trees, and absolute silence. It has become the architectural design retreat capital of California. This guide covers the park, the climbing, the dark skies, Pioneertown, and the stays that make it all worth extending.
UtahPark City, UT
Park City, Utah
Park City sits at 6,936 feet in the Wasatch Range, 32 miles from Salt Lake City and its international airport. It has two of the best ski resorts in North America, one of the great American main streets for food and drink, and a summer hiking and mountain biking scene that keeps it busy year-round.
MontanaWhitefish, MT
Whitefish & Glacier National Park
Whitefish sits at the edge of the Flathead Valley with a serious ski mountain above town, Glacier National Park 45 minutes east, and Flathead Lake — the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi in the lower 48 — 20 minutes south. It is one of the most complete mountain destinations in the American West.
MontanaBig Sky & Bozeman, MT
Big Sky, Bozeman & Yellowstone
Big Sky Resort has 5,800 skiable acres and 4,350 feet of vertical — the largest single ski area in the United States. Bozeman, 50 miles north, is the college town with the airport and the food scene. Yellowstone National Park is 45 minutes south. This corner of southwest Montana is one of the most complete mountain destinations in North America.
TexasTerlingua, TX
Terlingua & Big Bend, Texas
Terlingua is a mercury-mining ghost town on the Rio Grande with a population of 78. It is also the closest permanent settlement to Big Bend National Park, one of the least-visited and most spectacular parks in the American national park system. This is the Texas that people from outside Texas don't know exists.
TexasFredericksburg, TX
Fredericksburg & Texas Hill Country
Fredericksburg was founded in 1846 by German immigrants who brought their building traditions, their brewing culture, and their agricultural sensibility to the Texas Hill Country. A century and a half later, it's become the center of Texas wine country — 50+ wineries within 15 miles — while the town's limestone Main Street and German colonial architecture remain largely intact.
CaliforniaMalibu, CA
Malibu
Malibu is 27 miles of Pacific coastline in Los Angeles County with 68 beaches, a mountain backdrop in the Santa Monica Mountains, and a residential culture built around people who chose to live at the edge of things. It is not a resort destination in the conventional sense — it is a place where the Pacific Coast Highway is your main street, your neighbors have Academy Awards on the shelf, and the surf report is the first thing you check in the morning.
CaliforniaLake Tahoe, CA/NV
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe sits at 6,225 feet on the California-Nevada state line — a 22-mile-long alpine lake of such exceptional clarity that you can see objects 70 feet below the surface. The basin has 15 ski resorts within an hour of the lake, 72 miles of shoreline with public beaches and private waterfront estates, and a year-round visitor economy that makes it one of the most visited destinations in the American West.
ArizonaSedona, AZ
Sedona
Sedona sits in a high desert basin at 4,350 feet surrounded by red Schnebly Hill sandstone formations — Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, Courthouse Butte, the Chapel of the Holy Cross rock face — that turn progressively more vivid at dawn and dusk. It draws 3 million visitors a year to a town of 10,000 permanent residents, has the highest concentration of art galleries per capita of any city in Arizona, and sits at the southern end of Oak Creek Canyon, one of the most dramatic canyon drives in the American Southwest.
FloridaCaptiva Island, FL
Captiva Island
Captiva is a Gulf Coast barrier island 90 miles south of Tampa — 1.7 miles wide at most, 4.5 miles long, connected to Sanibel by a causeway but with its own distinct character. No traffic lights. No chain restaurants. The only road runs the length of the island and ends at the northern tip. The Gulf of Mexico is on the west; Pine Island Sound and the mangroves are on the east. It was once one of the most prized shelling beaches in the world, and on a low-tide morning it still is.
HawaiiKaua'i, HI
Kaua'i
Kaua'i is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands — formed five million years ago, long enough ago that erosion has had time to sculpt it into something dramatically different from the other islands. The Na Pali Coast on the northwest shore is a 17-mile wall of fluted sea cliffs rising 4,000 feet from the Pacific, accessible only by trail, boat, or helicopter. Waimea Canyon — the 'Grand Canyon of the Pacific' — drops 3,600 feet through the island's interior. The north shore around Hanalei Bay has the tropical valley character; the south shore at Poipu has the reliable sunshine. Together they make Kaua'i the most scenically varied island in the state.
CaliforniaThe Sea Ranch, CA
The Sea Ranch
The Sea Ranch is a 5,200-acre planned community on 10 miles of Sonoma County coastline, 3.5 hours north of San Francisco. It was designed in 1965 by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin with buildings by Joseph Esherick, Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull, and Richard Whitaker — an architecture that became internationally influential for how it sat inside the landscape rather than on top of it. No fences between lots. No visible utility lines. Hedgerows as windbreaks instead of walls. The Bluff Trail runs 3.5 miles along the top of the cliffs, accessible to all owners and guests.
South CarolinaCharleston, SC
Charleston
Charleston was founded in 1670 and has 1,400 historic structures within a peninsula bounded by the Ashley and Cooper rivers. It has Rainbow Row — 13 Georgian row houses on East Bay Street painted in pastels, built in the 1740s. It has the Battery, a seawall promenade lined with antebellum mansions looking out at Fort Sumter. It has King Street, a 25-block stretch from Calhoun to Broad with the best independent retail and restaurant concentration in the American South. It also has the Low Country culinary tradition — shrimp and grits, she-crab soup, fried green tomatoes — that has made it one of the most discussed food cities in the country.
ArizonaScottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale
Scottsdale is a city of 265,000 on the eastern edge of Phoenix in the Sonoran Desert — one of the richest desert biomes in the world. It has 300 days of sun per year, 200+ golf courses in the metro, 15 Major League Baseball teams running spring training in the Valley of the Sun, Camelback Mountain rising 1,420 feet from the desert floor inside the city limits, and Taliesin West — Frank Lloyd Wright's winter campus, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the most developed resort market in the Southwest and one of the busiest spring destinations in the country.
New MexicoSanta Fe, NM
Santa Fe
Santa Fe was founded in 1610, making it the oldest state capital in the US and the second-oldest European-founded city in North America. It sits at 7,000 feet in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains — the altitude produces a high-desert light that attracted artists in the early 20th century and has never stopped. The city has a building code that requires new construction in the historic core to maintain Pueblo Revival or Spanish Colonial character, which means it looks like it has for 400 years. Canyon Road has more art galleries per square mile than any street in the country. The green or red chile question you will be asked at every meal is a genuine regional identity marker.
North CarolinaOuter Banks, NC
Outer Banks
The Outer Banks is a 100-mile chain of narrow barrier islands off the North Carolina coast, separated from the mainland by Pamlico Sound. It has wild Spanish Mustangs roaming the 4WD beach north of Corolla — descendants of horses that survived 16th-century shipwrecks. It has Kill Devil Hills, where Orville Wright flew the first powered airplane on December 17, 1903. It has Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the tallest brick lighthouse in the US. And it has Nags Head, which has been a beach vacation destination since the 1830s and still has cottages from the 1930s and 40s that cost less per night than a hotel in Raleigh.
North CarolinaAsheville, NC
Asheville
Asheville sits at 2,134 feet in a bowl formed by the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. It has the Biltmore Estate — George Vanderbilt's 1895 French Renaissance château, the largest private home ever built in the United States. It has the Blue Ridge Parkway at its eastern edge, running 469 miles along the Appalachian ridge from Shenandoah to the Smokies. It has a downtown arts scene centered on the River Arts District. And it has a craft beer culture that has made it one of the most-visited small cities in the South.
FloridaKey West, FL
Key West
Key West sits at the end of US-1, 125 miles south of Miami and 90 miles north of Cuba, on a 2x4-mile island that is the southernmost point in the continental United States. It has the largest collection of 19th-century frame vernacular architecture in the US — the conch houses of Old Town, built by ship carpenters using salvage timber and fitted with wide porches and louvered shutters to catch the trade winds. It has the Curry Mansion (1869) and the James House on Caroline Street. It has Ernest Hemingway's house on Whitehead Street. And it has Duval Street, which is what happens when an island that has historically operated outside normal American social norms gets discovered by tourism.
CaliforniaPalm Springs, CA
Palm Springs & the Coachella Valley
Palm Springs is where mid-century modern architecture met the California desert and found its natural home. Anchored by the San Jacinto Mountains at the northwest end of the Coachella Valley, it holds the largest collection of preserved mid-century modern architecture in the world — butterfly rooflines, clerestory windows, and pool terraces designed to dissolve the line between inside and out. The valley stretches east to Indio, where the Empire Polo Club hosts Coachella each April, south to the resort corridor of La Quinta. Joshua Tree National Park is under an hour away. This guide covers the architecture, the mountains, the music, and the stays worth coming for.
South CarolinaHilton Head Island, SC
Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island is a 42-square-mile barrier island off the South Carolina coast with 13 miles of Atlantic beachfront, over 60 miles of paved bike trails, and a live-oak canopy ordinance that keeps the island reading as forest before it reads as resort. Organized around gated plantation communities anchored by the iconic Sea Pines Resort and Harbour Town marina, the island offers golf at Harbour Town Golf Links, sailing on Calibogue Sound, lagoon kayaking, and wide beaches protected from direct commercial development. The result is a Lowcountry barrier island that has been carefully planned since 1957 and still shows it.
CaliforniaThree Rivers, CA
Sequoia & the Southern Sierra
Sequoia National Park is home to the largest trees on earth. But the surrounding Southern Sierra — Three Rivers, Kernville, Shaver Lake, the wild Kern River — is a complete mountain destination that most visitors drive past on the way in. This guide covers all of it.
TennesseeGatlinburg, TN
Gatlinburg & the Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains are the most visited national park in the United States — 12 million people a year come for the ancient forests, the mist-draped ridgelines, and the fireflies. But the towns around them — Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Townsend — have their own pull. This guide covers the mountains and everything around them.
NevadaLas Vegas, NV
Las Vegas & the Desert Beyond
Las Vegas is one thing at night and something completely different in daylight. This guide covers both — the Strip, Fremont Street, and the casinos, but also Red Rock Canyon, Valley of Fire, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead. It's a region that rewards staying longer than you planned.