The White Mountains Travel Guide

Automobile ads love to show shiny vehicles cruising open highways under blue skies, with mountains and beaches nearby. But when was the last time you... Read More

“There’s nothing like a hot tub and ski-in, ski-out lodging, but a great ski town needs more than that,” says Steve Kopitz, founder of specialty gear... Read More

Smoke from an unseen forest fire cleared as we crossed the White Mountains through Windy Gap, our string of horses clopping toward a far slope. Ahead of... Read More

Each year as March fades into April, acres of Indian paintbrush and Mexican poppies blossom across Arizona’s Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park. It is... Read More

Last month I reported on great après-ski traditions at resorts out West. Don't worry, East Coasters, here are four top-notch resorts closer to home,... Read More

Twenty-two million: that's how many made it to Niagara Falls last year. Yes, it’s touristy, but travelers—even hipsters—clearly can’t resist snapping... Read More

Driving across America, it’s all too easy to lose your mooring amid the commercial thicket of the same old fast-food outlets and big-box stores.But push... Read More

You know the clichés: long-stemmed roses, soft lighting, strolling violinists.Well, forget all that. Real romantic restaurants have cut the fluff.... Read More

How would you build the perfect ski hotel? Start with a slope-side location at a notable mountain, add a world-class spa, and decorate the hotel with... Read More

From views of the Serengeti to panoramas of Manhattan skyscrapers, bathing is never dull in these bathrooms.You stumble from bed in the morning, bleary... Read More

It’s almost impossible to deny the appeal of a classic New England inn, especially in winter—when fires in guest rooms are actually encouraged, hearty... Read More

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Look out your log cabin window at the snow-covered grounds of the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta, Canada, and there’s a reasonably good chance... Read More

Everyone knows where to find America’s boldest fall colors: the crimson of a maple leaf in Vermont, an oak’s burnished orange in the Smoky Mountains,... Read More

Of the many resorts I've taken my wife and two daughters to to over the years, the Balsams, in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, is by far... Read More