An hourly shuttle runs from Atlanta’s airport to Athens for about $55 one way. It takes a little under two hours door-to-door. You don’t have to deal with a rental counter, an insurance add-on, or a parking deck at the other end. These are the Georgia getaways that are surprisingly easy without a rental car….
The gate on Silver City Road closes every November 1 and doesn’t reopen until Memorial Day weekend. Snow has nothing to do with the date. Idaho’s back roads run on calendars set months in advance, and a few of the best ones have less than two weeks left. These are the Idaho drives Idahoans should…
Deception Pass draws more than three million visitors a year, the most of any park in Washington’s state system. Its bridge overlook lot fills before 10 a.m. on a summer weekend. By late September, it’s a different story. These are the Washington trips that get better the week the crowds leave. 1. San Juan Islands…
In 1961, roughly 700,000 North Carolina schoolchildren filled jars with dimes and raised the $330,000 that towed a 728-foot battleship to Wilmington. It’s still there, and their grandchildren climb it now. A trip that works for both sides of a generational gap is often hard to find. These are the North Carolina trips grandparents and…
The Twins and the Phillies played a nationally broadcast game in August on a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark built a quarter mile from a cornfield outside Dyersville. The original diamond is still there, free to visit, and open sunrise to sunset. These are the roadside stops Iowans send every out-of-state tourist to. 1. Iowa 80 Iowa…
Jordanelle charges $20 a vehicle for peak-season day use, and a Utah resident can skip it with a $125 annual pass good at all 46 state parks. A visitor pays the $20 every time. That split runs through the whole town, well past the ski hill. These are the things a Utah ski town charges…
Contrary to the past, hotel beds now typically run 30 to 32 inches off the floor because tall beds photograph better for websites. The catch is that a bed closer to 23 inches is easier to get out of. More than one in five Florida residents are 65 or older, and what they’d change about…
Delaware once had more than $143 million in overdue tolls sitting on driver accounts, enough that lawmakers weighed a one-time amnesty to collect it. A lot of that came from confusion, not defiance. These are the toll rules that confuse first-time Delaware visitors. Note: This is general information, not legal advice. Toll rates and violation…
A Nueces County beach parking sticker has cost $12 a year for roughly two decades. County commissioners voted this year to raise it to $20 in January 2027. That’s one sticker, on one stretch of sand, and every other beach on the Texas coast sets a different price. These are the beach-driving permits that catch…
Ruby Falls sits 260 feet inside Lookout Mountain, holding a steady 60 degrees whether the surface is baking or freezing. The cave doesn’t care what month it is. The line outside does. These are the Tennessee spots ruined by peak season and wonderful right after. Cades Cove Cades Cove sits inside Great Smoky Mountains National…
