Travel in state Utah

Joshua Tree National Park is holding a literal star-studded event in the fall, and tickets are on sale now. The annual Night Sky Festival will take place on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5 at the Sky's The Limit Observatory located on Utah Trail 29 in Palms CA — just .1 miles from Joshua Tree's North Entrance Station.

Hyatt Hotels on Thursday entered a new alliance with Under Canvas, a brand that runs 13 luxury outdoor resorts. This move enables Hyatt to tap into the growing trend of upscale nature-based travel experiences, particularly near U.S. national parks.

Hyatt wants to take you on a luxurious camping adventure — almost like a safari.

As a kid growing up in rural Illinois, I dreamed of moving out of the cornfields that I knew and into a big city or far-flung locale. I moved out of state right after grad school, first to Louisiana — which I loved — but with a pull to the West that I couldn't ignore.

Jul 17, 2024 • 8 min read

Real estate billionaire Vladislav Doronin has built a hospitality empire beloved by celebrities and the ultrawealthy.

During the summer months, if you're not on vacation yourself, it feels nearly impossible to avoid seeing pictures or videos of everyone else's trips to popular hotspots.

Breeze Airways is adding two new cities and five new routes to its map. The growing low-cost carrier bolstered its winter schedule with new nonstops to popular leisure spots, including added service to Florida, Las Vegas and skiing destinations.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) just made its popular trusted traveler program more valuable, adding four more international airlines to TSA PreCheck. 

Jun 28, 2024 • 9 min read

Semi-private jet carrier JSX is adding a pair of new flights to Florida this fall just in time for cooler weather.

Breeze Airways is expanding its footprint in Florida.

After a full day’s lesson in monoskiing, stiff, slightly bruised, but euphoric nevertheless, I was pushing my wheelchair towards the Pig Pen pub, a local favorite après-ski in the heart of Utah's Park City, when my instructor Dale Hentzell stopped me in my tracks. “You see this building?” Dale said, nodding with a nostalgic head tilt towards a weather-beaten mobile trailer. It was attached clumsily to a couple of derelict sheds. “This is where the National Abilities Center (NAC) used to be based.”

National park vacations continue to be extremely popular, especially during the summer travel season.

Customary travel wisdom says spending a few hours in a city’s airport doesn’t “count” as experiencing the place itself. That’s because American airports today are often viewed as transitory hubs removed from space and time—like a mall or suburban highway strip—visit one and you could be anywhere in the US.

Nothing says summer in the USA like heading to the lake. The only challenge is finding the perfect place to make all your summer vacation dreams come true. We asked our expert writers and staff to share their favorite lakes for a vacation, and here are 11 amazing options. 

As I lounged in the hot tub on the deck of my cozy cabin at Red Cliffs Lodge just outside Moab, Utah, I watched the Colorado River rush by just a pebble's toss from my feet. Then, I realized that if I could scale the sheer rust-red cliffs beyond, I'd find myself in the world-famous Arches National Park.

If you’ve been stuck on the tarmac or stranded at the gate for what seems like an eternity, you’re not alone. A new study by travel website Places to Travel reveals which U.S. airports are the biggest culprits when it comes to lengthy flight delays. Places to Travel analyzed data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for nearly 2 million delayed domestic flights from January 2023 through February 2024 to find the airports with the longest average delay times.

For the past 10 years, I've obsessed over getting my hands on a permit to hike The Wave. Although I haven't had any luck, this experience has remained at the top of my bucket list.

Ghost towns, abandoned homes, and deserted spaces fascinate me. 

Utah might not have the most national parks of any state – that honor goes to California – but it certainly has the highest concentration.