Category: weekender - Travel - Los Angeles magazine

Vegas

Posted on 5/17/2013 9:20:00 AM by Dave Gardetta

Between the revitalization of downtown—with its new restaurants and watering holes—and a roster of incoming properties on the Strip, the desert playground is reinventing itself again Read More

Vegas Rising

Posted on 5/16/2013 10:05:00 AM by Dave Gardetta

With its long-neglected downtown transforming into something hip—even a little intimate—and dapper boutique properties popping up along the strip, L.A.’s favorite cross-border playground is dusting itself off and launching into a new era Read More

San Francisco

Posted on 4/4/2013 8:44:00 AM by Elina Shatkin

Roaming two neighborhoods that offer a smart—and tasty—alternative to the tourist haunts Read More

Todos Santos

Posted on 1/17/2013 8:30:00 AM by Bonnie Tsui

Just an hour north of the resort-dense shores of Cabo San Lucas, the village of Todos Santos is a true oasis Read More

Range Roving: From Big Bear To Baldy, How To Make The Most Of The Local Terrain

Posted on 12/13/2012 9:21:00 AM by

Five tips to ski (and drive and lodge) by Read More

Mammoth

Posted on 12/1/2012 3:36:00 PM by Claire Martin

While most other ski towns lead with the photogenic brick-and-cedar skeletons of their former mining days, Mammoth Lakes, a city of more recent vintage, is known first—and only—for its terrain. Read More

Steamboat

Posted on 12/1/2012 2:50:00 PM by Kelly Bastone

Colorado’s thickest snows cushion the mountains surrounding Steamboat Springs, an Old West town where false-front buildings line streets and leather-skinned ranchers still stop by the saddlery. Read More

Idyllwild

Posted on 12/1/2012 11:51:00 AM by Linda Immediato

There is no glamour in Idyllwild. There are no resorts or gondolas or Ugg retailers. That’s not why you come here. Less Burton and more Birkenstock, it’s a sylvan realm for low-budget artists and low-key travelers. Read More

Death Valley

Posted on 12/1/2012 11:50:00 AM by Matt Jaffe

Death Valley National Park recently reclaimed bragging rights as Earth’s hottest place after the World Meteorological Organization ruled that a 136.4-degree temperature reading taken in Libya in 1922 was invalid (it was apparently recorded on asphalt). Read More

Taos

Posted on 12/1/2012 11:35:00 AM by Claire Martin

Almost 7,000 feet up in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos is what Santa Fe once was: a high-desert village where art galleries outnumber stop signs, the Native American and Spanish influences prevail, and the most pressing decision is whether you’ll be ordering the red or green chile sauce. Read More