Just north of Clearwater, along a quieter stretch of Florida’s Gulf Coast, is a town where the waterfront stays open and the buildings never seem to loom.
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About halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, just off Highway 1, sits a coastal town that feels nothing like the typical California beach destination.
This tiny town sits about seven miles off the Eastern Shore, connected to the mainland by a single causeway.
With just over 2,300 people here, this town runs on oysters, shrimp boats, and a downtown that hasn’t changed much in a hundred years.
If you’ve eyed Napa or Sonoma but crave something smaller, less crowded, and friendlier on your wallet, this place makes a solid argument.
New England certainly doesn’t have a quality problem when it comes to its attractions; it’s just that most people don’t know where to look.
California’s big names like Los Angeles and San Francisco are but a small slice of a majorly diverse state.
Florida’s marketing machine pushes the same handful of destinations so relentlessly that most visitors never discover what the state actually does well.
Along the banks of Cane River Lake in northwestern Louisiana sits a town with brick streets, iron-railed balconies, and a pace that’s, well, pretty unhurried.
About 80 miles east of Springdale and roughly 75 miles south of Bryce Canyon, this small southern Utah town sits against the Vermilion Cliffs near the Arizona state line.