For Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month, Lawn Love ranked the worst and best cities for grass allergies this summer.
05.05.2024 - 13:41 / thepointsguy.com
Peering up at the snow-laced peaks hemming in the mountain town of Crested Butte, Colorado, it's hard to believe more than 1,400 people once crowded into this long narrow valley 8,885 feet up in the Colorado Rockies in the mid-1800s, weathering the winter in tents and shanties.
Settlers in this area survived a series of booms and busts that left the town barely hanging on by the time the first ski run was built in the early 1960s.
The tenacious spirit of those early pioneers is encapsulated in a local nickname: the Town That Wouldn't Die. It also describes the spirit enlivening many of the West's former pioneer towns. These spots have reinvented themselves as outdoor destinations that particularly shine in summer, showing travelers that going back in time just might be one of the best ways to get away from it all.
Here are three towns that preserve and celebrate their history, and truly turn up the fun and entertainment in summer to give visitors a true Wild West experience.
Shake off its modern trappings and Cody, Wyoming, looks like the Wild West town of every cowboy shoot-'em-up.
That's no accident. In fact, Cody was actually founded by showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody in the late 19th century to establish a real-life destination for visitors to experience the horsemanship and saloon-door duels they'd seen in his Wild West shows.
There was money to be made marketing the mythology of the wide open range, he knew, but it had to feel authentic, and Cody still does.
Frontier fans make a beeline for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The center houses the Buffalo Bill Museum, which delves into the fascinating life story of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody who started riding for the Pony Express at the age of 14 and went on to worldwide fame. The center is also the site of several other worthwhile collections including the Plains Indian Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum and the Cody Firearms Museum.
Next stop on the cowboy odyssey is Old Trail Town, a sprawling assortment of 26 historic buildings rescued and assembled from surrounding ghost towns. Stroll the wooden boardwalks and duck into the rough, plank-sided shops, offices and public buildings, and you'll feel like you should be decked out in a prairie bonnet or leather vest.
Don't miss the saloon and Hole-in-the-Wall cabin featured in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" or the grave of legendary mountain man Jeremiah Johnson in the cemetery. By Western Hands, both store and historic gallery, preserves and displays artisan leatherwork, carved wooden furniture and other traditional handicrafts of the plains and prairie.
Twenty minutes northeast of town, Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American Confinement Site, a national historic landmark,
For Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month, Lawn Love ranked the worst and best cities for grass allergies this summer.
The United States is a large and very diverse country, being the third largest country in terms of land mass and home to everything from forests to mountains to planes to deserts to even rainforests.
As people in the United States prepare for the Memorial Day holiday travel period, Airlines for America (A4A) expects that carriers will transport an estimated 271 million passengers around the world this summer.
Delta Air Lines is expecting a busy summer as it prepares to start rolling out its biggest-ever international schedule.
Southwest Airlines recently announced the launch of its new Orlando – Nassau route. Daily nonstop flights will connect Central Florida’s metropolitan hub with The Bahamas’ capital city at the height of the summer months. The Orlando – Nassau flights will operate from 4 June to 4 August, with departures from Orlando and arrivals in Nassau. “The expansion of Southwest Airlines’ Central Florida route map to include a new daily service to Nassau is another testimony to the government’s efforts and commitment to grow air stopover arrivals throughout our 16-islands destination aggressively,” says the Honourable I. Chester Cooper, Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments, and Aviation.
Fiji has seen increased interest from UK and global tourists for the first quarter of the year, with UK visitor numbers rising by 20 per cent in February 2024 versus 2023.
Denver PrideFest, one of the nation’s premier LGBTQ+ events, will celebrate its 50th anniversary June 22-23, 2024. The two-day festival unites communities from across Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region as the parade, run and festival attracted an estimated 550,000 people to downtown Denver in 2023.
More Manhattanites are making their way out East this summer, with popular downtown restaurants expanding their reach all the way to the Hamptons.
If you are not flying to Europe this summer but still want to experience charming towns, rich history, impressive architecture, cobblestone streets, and natural vineyards, look no further than Ontario.
If the summer travel seasons of 2022 and 2023 left you thinking airports couldn't possibly get any busier, think again.
Part of the and specialising in ranch holidays across the US and Canada, leading tour operator American Round-Up is thrilled to announce a fresh lineup of captivating Western adventures for 2024. The list includes Ranchlands’ new Paintrock Canyon Ranch, the stylish glamping retreat located at the base of the Big Horn Mountains in Northern Wyoming, and The True Collection’s latest Yellowstone ranch pop-up, the historic Blackwater Creek Ranch only 15 miles from the east gates of America’s first ever national park.
A Japanese convenience store in the northern foothills of Mount Fuji has turned into an unlikely tourist attraction in recent years thanks to a popular viewpoint of the iconic volcano.