People picture Denver in winter as a frozen tundra. It isn’t. The city sits on the plains, east of the mountains, and gets far more sunshine than you’d expect. A snowstorm can drop half a foot overnight and by the next afternoon it’s 50 degrees and people are on patios. That’s the trick to Denver
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Boston in October is about as good as a city weekend gets in the US. The air turns crisp, the trees along the Back Bay streets go orange, and everyone suddenly owns a quarter-zip. If it’s your first trip, you’ll probably want the Freedom Trail and the North End, and you should. This plan is
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Some winter trips are about adrenaline. This isn’t that list. These are the places you go to sit by a fire with a hot drink, walk through a small town under fresh snow, and not check your email. Six getaways across the country, all of which do winter well, whether you ski or not. A
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New York in winter is really two different trips. December is the movie version: the tree, the windows, skaters under the skyscrapers, and more people than you thought could fit on a pavement. January and February are quieter, colder and much cheaper. Both are worth doing. Here are eight things that are at their best
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Let’s get this out of the way: Chicago in winter is cold. Not “bring a jumper” cold. January averages a high around 31F, and the wind off Lake Michigan can make it feel well below zero. But here’s what nobody tells you. It’s also the cheapest time of year for hotels, the lines at the
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New York in the fall is great, until you realise everyone else is having a great time in it too. The good news is that some of the best autumn scenery in the country starts about an hour from Grand Central. Here are eight weekend trips from the city, roughly in order of how far
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When people say “fall in New York” they usually mean Central Park. Lovely, sure. But drive a couple of hours north and the state turns into something else entirely: millions of acres of forest, gorges with waterfalls stacked inside them, and lakes that reflect all of it back. Upstate gets less attention than Vermont, and
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Fall in New England lasts about five weeks, and for those five weeks it’s probably the most photographed landscape in the country. The maples turn, the white churches look like they were placed there by a film crew, and every farm stand piles up pumpkins. The trick is that colour moves. It starts in northern
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Charleston has a summer problem. July and August are hot in a way that makes you rethink walking anywhere, the air feels like soup and the afternoon thunderstorms arrive on a timetable. Then October happens. Highs drop into the mid-70s, the humidity backs off, and the city becomes what everyone imagines it is: a beautiful
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Boston is a good city most of the year. In the fall it’s a great one. The humidity’s gone, the students are back, the trees along the Common turn yellow and red, and the whole place looks like the cover of a college brochure. If you’ve already done the Freedom Trail, this is the list
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