China Ranch Date Farm near Death Valley is a popular cool-season destination with wide-ranging appeal.
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Call it a new battleground in the war on selfies — the Indian city of Mumbai is launching police patrols to prevent photo-related fatalities. The move follows a string of incidents that have made India a world leader in deaths by selfie.
If you’re looking to get the best price on airfare, start shopping nearly eight weeks before you plan to leave.
Wildflower watchers across the Desert Southwest expect a very good blooming season for 2016, following an El Nino weather pattern that delivered fall and winter rains to much of the region. Gloomy January skies, snow in unusual places and cold nights have slowed plant growth in some areas, but that may just extend the season.
Sure, planning a trip can be as simple and as serendipitous as planting a finger on a spinning globe. But for most of us, it’s a more complicated process that includes online research, poring over travel guides and talking to others who’ve already been to the places we’d like to go.
Spring break is approaching, and young adults and college students hoping for a fun time should start planning and shopping for travel deals now.
A busy 2015 at Lake Mead National Recreation Area helped the park east of Las Vegas vault past the D.C.-area George Washington Memorial Parkway and back into fifth place among the nation’s most visited National Park Service sites.
Visiting a country that doesn’t even exist — now that would be niche. We’re not talking Narnia or Oz, but places here on planet Earth. And there’s at least 50 of them.
West Coast Harry Potter fans, rejoice! The “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” at Universal Studios Hollywood is one step closer to becoming a reality. In order to run “technical rehearsals” before the magical land officially opens on April 7, the theme park has cracked open the gates to Hogsmeade Village.
In just a matter of days, U.S. airlines will begin a fierce bidding war to win routes and airport slots to a destination that’s been off-limits to them for more than 50 years: Cuba.
Bitter Spring Byway explores a region of rugged foothills and desert arroyos that seems remote from the sprawl of the urban Las Vegas Valley but actually lies not far to the north.
America’s national parks are undeniably huge. Collectively, they cover a land mass roughly the size of Germany. “National Parks Adventure,” a new IMAX 3D documentary narrated by Robert Redford and scheduled for global release on February 12, is shooting for those mega-sized proportions.
As Philadelphia prepares to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original “Rocky” movie, there’s one more reason to celebrate. The City of Brotherly Love been named the top U.S. spot to visit in Lonely Planet’s 2016 “Best in the U.S.” list.
Often called “America’s best idea,” the creation of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone wasn’t intended to be a radical new idea by a young nation.
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