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Virginia is listed in one of the Hidden Gems USA & America's most historically layered states, more than 400 years of documented European settlement compressed into a geography that ranges from tidewater coastline to mountain ridgeline, from the colonial Tidewater to the Appalachian frontier.
Within that landscape, Virginia's small towns carry history the way other places carry scenery: as...
Washington State is more than Seattle and Mount Rainier. Beyond the Space Needle and the ferry terminals, beyond the coffee shops and the tech campuses, Washington holds a remarkable collection of small towns that most visitors never find, and most Seattle residents have never visited despite living within two or three hours of them.
This guide of best small towns...
Looking for the Best Things to Do in Tubac AZ? Tubac has a legitimate claim to being the most historically significant small community in Arizona. Established in 1752 as a Spanish colonial presidio, a military garrison protecting the missions and settlers of the Pimería Alta, Tubac predates Tucson by more than 20 years and stands as Arizona's first European...
Patagonia sits at 4,000 feet in the Santa Cruz Valley of southern Arizona, a town of 900 people surrounded by some of the most ecologically and scenically significant landscape in the American Southwest. It has a Nature Conservancy preserve that serious birders from around the world visit specifically.
It has wine tasting rooms within walking distance of its single...
The Copper Queen Hotel Bisbee AZ opened in 1902 as the finest hotel between El Paso and Tucson. Phelps Dodge Corporation built it to house visiting mining executives, territorial officials, and the occasional celebrity passing through what was then one of the most prosperous cities in the American Southwest. John Wayne allegedly drank at the bar.
Curious about how...