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Marzamemi has fewer than 400 full-time residents, no train station, and a harbor small enough to walk around in ten minutes. It has also appeared on camera more often than towns a hundred times its size — a run of…
Backcountry camping is closed Backcountry camping at White Sands National Park is closed while park staff assess environmental conditions, and the National Park Service says overnight stays are not currently permitted anywhere in the park, with no reopening date set…
New Zealand’s South Island has huge amounts of scenery and long, quiet roads between towns, and that is part of the problem. The roads that make the postcard shots possible — one-lane bridges over braided rivers, alpine passes that close…
Hallstatt is a village of roughly 750 people wrapped around a lake in Austria’s Salzkammergut, and on a peak summer day it can receive more visitors than it has residents by a factor of ten or more. Locals have blocked…
The Wave doesn’t look fragile. Photographs of its swirling red-and-cream sandstone make it look like solid rock that’s been there for millions of years and will be there for millions more, no matter how many boots cross it. That’s exactly…
The Azores reward a rental car more than almost anywhere else in Europe — the islands were built for driving, with volcanic crater lakes and hot springs scattered across winding roads that no bus route was ever designed to serve.…
Abergynolwyn is not a place most people have heard of, and it isn’t trying to be. It’s a village of a few hundred people tucked into a green valley in Gwynedd, and it has no visitor center, no gift shop,…
Most Denver-area hiking guides funnel visitors toward the same handful of trailheads — and a few of those trailheads now require a permit just to show up. This guide covers four hikes within about two hours of Denver that don’t:…
Most of New Mexico’s famous rock country comes with a parking lot, a paved overlook, and a permit lottery. The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness has none of that. There’s no marked trail, no ranger station, no cell signal, and no fee —…
Havasu Falls is not hidden. It’s one of the most photographed waterfalls in the country, and getting there now means competing for a limited number of permits sold online each year. What almost none of those photos explain, though, is…