Windansea Beach: La Jolla’s Legendary Surf Shack and Sunset Shore
Some beaches are famous for what people built on them. Windansea Beach, on the La Jolla coast of San Diego, is famous for a palm-thatched...
Category : Places
Wissahickon Valley Park: Philadelphia’s Wild Wooded Gorge in Peak Fall Color
Philadelphia has a wilderness hiding in plain sight. In the northwest of the city, Wissahickon Valley Park protects a deep, wooded gorge carved by Wissahickon...
A Desert Oasis for the Whole Family: Corn Creek at Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Las Vegas
Just north of Las Vegas, a spring-fed oasis opens the door to one of America’s great wild places. Corn Creek is the welcoming gateway to...
International Rose Test Garden: Portland’s Free Hillside of 10,000 Roses
Portland calls itself the City of Roses, and nowhere proves it better than the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park. Founded in 1917, it...
Barton Springs Pool: Austin’s Year-Round Spring-Fed Swimming Hole
Every city has one place that feels like its backyard, and in Austin that place is filled with spring water. Barton Springs Pool, inside Zilker...
Barton Springs Pool: Austin’s Year-Round Spring-Fed Swimming Hole
Every city has one place that feels like its backyard, and in Austin that place is filled with spring water. Barton Springs Pool, inside Zilker...
Baldwin Lake Is Getting Its Sparkle Back at the LA County Arboretum
Wonderful news is rippling across the water in Arcadia: historic Baldwin Lake, the beloved heart of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, is...
Trinity River Audubon Center: Dallas’s 120-Acre Prairie Comeback on the Great Trinity Forest
Ten miles south of downtown Dallas, the Blackland Prairie is singing again. The Trinity River Audubon Center, at 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way, is a...
Inwood Hill Park: Manhattan’s Last Wild Forest Glows in Autumn
At the very northern tip of Manhattan, Inwood Hill Park offers something no other park on the island can: a walk through real, wild forest....
Lake Harriet: Minneapolis’s Lakeside Stage, With a Bandshell, Beaches and a Vintage Streetcar
Some places explain a city better than any skyline. In Minneapolis, Lake Harriet is that place: a sparkling lake ringed by parkland in the southwest...