1+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1135+ words) World Atlas Vail and Jackson Hole made their names on powder, Lake Placid has hosted the Winter Olympics twice, and Leavenworth spends December buried in fairy lights. Most of America's prettiest mountain towns read like ski brochures, which is exactly…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1012+ words) World Atlas Staying in a town known for its friendliness can make any vacation even more enjoyable, and New Mexico has plenty of towns that give visitors a warm welcome. Alamogordo sits close to a national park and offers community…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago  (484+ words) Tracy General Store has a history dating back to 1894. This store was first established by the Eames brothers as a way of supplying those settling on the frontier. Tracy still operates as the state's longest continuously operating general store and…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (393+ words) The Door County Maritime Museum sits near the center of town and lays out the shipbuilding history in full. Its ten-story Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower has an elevator to a top-floor view over the harbor and a theater on…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago  (325+ words) Estes Park serves as the eastern gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, 415 square miles of alpine lakes, high meadows, and granite peaks topping 14, 000 feet. The park ranks among the busiest in the United States. Most of its visitors pass through…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago  (629+ words) Just miles from the Oregon border, Walla Walla in southeast Washington suits retirees who enjoy wine country, golf, and live theater. Veterans Memorial Golf Course has 18 holes and lets golfers book tee times up to seven days in advance. Seven…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago  (956+ words) World Atlas The major Ontario cities get most of the attention, but the province's best downtowns sit a couple hours out from either. Stratford runs a year-round theatre scene built around the Avon River. Elora pairs 19th-century stone buildings with…...

6+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1027+ words) A lake-view room at George T. Bagby books for about $112 a night. The 60-room lodge looks out over Lake Eufaula at Fort Gaines, on the Alabama line. The Pilot House Grille downstairs serves fried catfish and a Sunday brunch. The marina…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1104+ words) World Atlas Jim Thorpe packs a walkable downtown, a scenic railway, and a state park into a borough of about 4, 500 people, and a home there sells for a median price of $249, 000, below Pennsylvania's statewide norm of roughly $273, 000. That pairing, a…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago  (968+ words) World Atlas The Emerald Coast of Florida runs along the Panhandle with sugar-white sand and the green-tinted Gulf water that gave the coast its name. Visitors come for the swimming and stay for the smaller town pace away from Florida's…...