The American Southwest is an incredibly rich – and endlessly diverse – travel destination. Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado each offer unique landscapes, vibrant and fascinating culture and history, cool towns and cities, rivers to fish or raft, mountain and canyon trails to hike or bike, wildlife to watch, and national parks at […]

The Serengeti of North America. The world’s first national park. Wonderland. Whatever you want to call it, Yellowstone National Park is a place unlike any other. With half the world’s thermal features – not to mention iconic wildlife and gorgeous Rocky Mountain scenery – Yellowstone has a lot to offer a curious traveler. The park […]

As an in-house writer for Off the Beaten Path, a good chunk of my day is spent researching travel destinations – reading magazine articles, perusing traveler reviews, gaining insight from travelers’ blogs, and speaking with locals. And whether I’m writing about Sedona, Steamboat, San Francisco, or Silver City (New Mexico, in case you didn’t know), […]