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Byline: Laura Randall For more than a century, the imposing Beaux-Arts-style building perched beside Horseshoe Falls harnessed the fierce flow of the Niagara River to bring electricity to western New [...]

Byline: Laura Randall - The South Rim is busy, hot and packed with visitors The majority of the millions of people who visit Grand Canyon National Park every year head [...]

Byline: Laura Randall - Better-known Long Beach has the flash Long Beach and San Pedro are adjacent areas in Southern California often defined by cargo vessels, leisure cruises and maritime [...]

Byline: Laura Randall The sun rose in a palette of blue and pink over the rugged, rolling terrain of eastern San Diego County as Cowboy Dave navigated his Hyundai Santa [...]

Byline: Laura Randall (EDITORS: Offering alternatives for overcrowded, overpriced or hard-to-reach destinations.) - - - - Entry to popular Sequoia and Kings Canyon parks can be difficult Winter can be [...]

Byline: Laura Randall (EDITORS: Offering alternatives to overcrowded or overpriced destinations.) - - - - L.A. spas dazzle with luxe environs and fancy treatments Considering its mix of money, movies, [...]

Byline: Laura Randall Zion Canyon's massive sandstone cliffs and slot canyons have inspired people for millennia, long before the area became Utah's first national park in the early 1900s. Native [...]

Byline: Laura Randall (EDITORS: Offering alternatives to overcrowded destinations.) - - - - Food and drinks - and crowds - can combine to make the French Quarter overwhelming New Orleans' [...]

Byline: Laura Randall (EDITORS: Offering alternatives to overcrowded or overhyped destinations.) - - - - If you imagine swanning through celebrity-filled Rodeo Drive stores, think again Los Angeles' Rodeo Drive [...]

Byline: Laura Randall (EDITORS: Offering alternatives to overcrowded destinations.) --- - Death Valley is predicted to be bloomless this year Mention a California winter escape that involves stargazing and vast [...]

Byline: Laura Randall(Editors: Offering alternatives to overcrowded destinations.)- At the Getty, long lines for a possibly underwhelming collectionTwo decades after it opened on a hilltop overlooking Los Angeles, the Getty [...]

Byline: Laura Randall(EDITORS: Offering alternatives to overcrowded destinations.)---- At the Liberty Bell, long lines and large crowdsPhiladelphia's iconic bronze bell sits at the heart of what is often called the [...]

Byline: Laura RandallLess than 24 hours after November's wildfires began in Northern and Southern California, Airbnb activated a temporary housing program that has been quietly growing since Hurricane Sandy struck [...]

Byline: Laura Randall It doesn't look like much from the outside, especially cloaked in Seattle's typical gray mist. But inside the three-story warehouse that contains Living Computers: Museum + Labs [...]

Byline: Laura Randall We were nearly 300 miles into our 1,400-mile trip on Amtrak's Coast Starlight when it dawned on me to check on the kids. I veered down the [...]

Byline: Laura Randall CAMPO, California - The Pacific Crest Trail begins on a barren hill about 25 feet from the U.S.-Mexican border. Three mini-obelisks mark the spot, reminding hikers that [...]

Byline: Laura Randall DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, Utah - Gray-green plateaus and rock formations in a palette of fiery oranges and browns take up much of the landscape on the 400-mile [...]