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Charred by fire, these grand California redwoods rise again. How to hike among them

• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, near Santa Cruz, is recovering after fire scorched almost the entire park in 2020.• Of 115...

Want to see Yosemite's famed 'firefall'? Reservations open next week

For a rare, if not lucky, few days a year, Yosemite National Park’s famed El Capitan granite cliff converts into what looks...

How to tour a haunting Santa Barbara estate that's been frozen in time for half a century

The house, a French palace on a Santa Barbara bluff, stands as undisturbed as a crime scene, a pair of unstrung harps...

How not to be a terrible tourist: What Europeans want travelers to know

AMSTERDAM —  Travel can be exhilarating or awful, and like it or not, we all leave footprints. Of course, some tourists tread...

Why some residents of European hot spots just want tourists to stay away

AMSTERDAM —  For people who live in particularly picturesque quarters of charming European cities, the words “Instagrammable” or “Tik-Tok famous” can feel...

What it's like to travel to Maui right now — one year after the catastrophic wildfire

Five hundred feet outside the Lahaina burn zone, the tourists receive their leis. As the torches of the Old Lahaina Luau flicker,...