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A Snowy Telluride Getaway
Telluride
Snowcapped Colorado mountains surround this mining village turned ski resort, where the scent of pine fills the air. Its streets are lined with 19th-century gingerbread houses and family-run shops.
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Affordable Breckenridge
Breckenridge
The Colorado slopes are steep, but a ski trip there doesn't have to be. Breckenridge has less attitude than its posh neighbors, plus a price tag as soft as its powder.
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An Arts & Crafts Ski Trip in Mad River Valley
Waitsfield, Warren
The isolation and rugged beauty of Vermont’s Mad River Valley breeds a particular kind of character: practical, communitarian, apt to value substance over flash, and always very resourceful. They’re v
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Central Vermont's Winter Playground
Barnard, Waitsfield, Warren, Burlington + Northern Vermont, Central Vermont
Ironically, despite efforts in recent decades to make it more accessible (two four-lane highways, the expansion of the Burlington International Airport), Vermont steadfastly remains caught in a unique
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Christmas in Quebec City
Quebec City
Even when it's 10 degrees outside (yes, 10!), 402-year-old Quebec City rivals any European capital: French is the main language and snow-dusted castle turrets make up the wintertime views.
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How to Experience the Next Great Ski Area: Whistler, B.C.
Whistler
Whistler sits in a lake-dotted glacial valley north of Vancouver, and until the 1940's it was accessible only by a combination of steamship and train. People came mostly to fish. The first ski lifts o
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Mini Guide to Off-season on Lake Michigan
Charlevoix
All north woods, beach dunes, and lakeshore, this northern region in Michigan was both Hemingway's boyhood vacationland and location of most of his Nick Adams stories. It's bracingly cold here in wint
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Mini Guide to Off-season on San Juan Island, WA
San Juan Island
Even Heathcliff and Cathy would agree: dramatically gray and misty days are even more romantic when watched from a window seat in a cozy hotel room. If a beach stroll is on the agenda, bring a waterpr
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Mini Guide to Spotting Seals and Whales in San Simeon, CA
San Simeon
Winter temperatures stay comfortable (in the fifties and sixties), perfect for spying two-ton elephant seals and migrating gray whales from the long stretches of empty beach in San Simeon, CA. What to
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Mini Guide to Winter in the Hamptons
East Hampton, Southampton
The celebrities have packed up croquet mallets, backed their SUVs over the commoners, and driven back to the city for the season leaving, in their wake, silence. With no traffic, no restaurant lines,
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