Tagged: california

Historic Queen Mary Is In Dire Straits As Operator Collapses

January 2021 kept people occupied with a few other news headlines, so you're forgiven if you missed this one: The company that operates the famous and irreplaceable Queen Mary filed…

2020’s Best Underwater Photos: Dive into the Wondrous World Below

Underwater photography can be as strange and wondrous as images taken from outer space, but the view from beneath the waves often has the added benefit of containing peculiar…

SoCal's Six Dazzling Holiday Drive-Throughs, from Stranger Things to Elf on the Shelf

The notion that Southern Californians spend all their time in their cars is a tired cliché—but in 2020, it feels freshly apt. As one of the few options for getting out of the house…

How Tourists Can Buy Marijuana in California

Search online for a "recreational cannabis dispensary." Some California dispensaries only serve medical clients with local addresses, but retail dispensaries are open to the public.…

How to Rose Parade: Getting Tickets, Where to Sit, What to Bring to Pasadena

UPDATED JANUARY 9, 2020The Rose Parade is to Los Angeles what the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is to New York City: kind of a big deal. Every year on January 1st (or the next day if…

California Improving Coastal Access with New Beach Wheelchairs

Eighteen coastal sites in California—from Clam Beach, where Highway 101 meets the Pacific in northern Arcata, to lively Ocean Beach in San Diego—are getting new wheelchairs and other…

Travel Podcasts: Cruising, California, Cuba, and Kentucky

Each week, Frommer's brings you two fresh podcasts stuffed with travel tips, news, and inspiration. Recordings are made from our weekly call-in show on WABC-770AM in New York and our…

Superbloom! In California, Flowergeddon Approaches

Superbloom may sound like the name of a '90s rock band to you, but in Borrego Springs, California, it means millions of rare wildflowers carpeting thousands of acres of desert. And…

California's Scenic Highway 1 Soon to Reopen in Full

For the first time in more than a year, all of California's spectacular Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles will soon reopen to drivers. Parts of the 650-mile route, famous…

How Not to Do Yosemite in Winter

I sometimes think my real job as a travel writer is to be an idiot. It's my job to make mistakes and then report on them so that my readers can have fun, safe, and error-free…

Want a Cannabis Vacation? Now There's a Whole Town for That

One day after California, America's most populous state, made recreational cannabis consumption legal, the Los Angeles Times reported on an entire town where getting stoned is the…

Paid Reservations Now Required to Visit California's Muir Woods

From Dubrovnik to Machu Picchu, popular tourist destinations around the world are devising new sign-up strategies to combat overcrowding caused by hordes of temporary visitors.The…

Spectacular Holiday Show Added to Universal's Hogwarts Castle

Harry Potter is getting into the holiday spirit at Universal theme parks in Orlando and Southern California for the first time this year. In Central Florida, seasonal features at…

Starting Oct. 13, Drive California's Highway 1 from Carmel to Big Sur Again

With the completion of the new Pfeiffer Creek Bridge in Big Sur, California, a key portion of the state's spectacularly scenic Highway 1 is set to reopen on October 13. The original…

California Desert Caves Soon to Reopen to the Public

The only limestone caves in the California state parks system will soon reopen to the public, the Los Angeles Times reports. Located in the remote Mojave Desert in the southeastern…

New Reservations Website for California State Parks

A new website for making reservations for campsites and activities at California's state parks debuts this week.From now on, you'll need to go to ReserveCalifornia to book tent space…

Wait Times at Disneyland Keep Going Up

Despite rising ticket prices and efforts to fine-tune ride reservation systems, wait times at Disneyland keep going up.An extensive analysis of lines at the Anaheim, California…

Christ the Redeemer Robberies, Disneyland Wait Times, and a Star-Studded Airplane Safety Video: Today's Travel Briefing

JULY 20, 2017 — Good morning, everybody! Here's the latest from the world's landmarks, theme parks, and airplane cabins.WAIT TIMES AT DISNEYLAND KEEP GOING UP (Los Angeles…

California Wine Country for Foodies

If you’re a gourmand, Napa is a dream come true. Oodles of specialty food stores, wineries, farms, and culinary institutes are here to pique your senses. There’s a farmers’ market…

Looking for a New California City to Love? Don't Sleep on Sacramento

Right along the well-traveled route between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, handsome Sacramento is one of those places most everyone's heard of but far fewer know terribly well. Barely…

Parts of California's Highway 1 Remain Closed Following Landslides

Significant portions of California's Highway 1 between Monterey and San Simeon—a stretch that recently made our list of the country's most scenic drives for the way it showcases Big…

Grand Canyon Visitor Numbers, California Highway 1 Closures, Hamilton Tours at Monticello: Today's Travel Briefing

APRIL 7, 2017 — Good morning, everybody! Today's travel news is all about American icons—the Grand Canyon, California's Highway 1, and Broadway's favorite Founding Father. PARTS OF…

Toll Proposed for San Francisco's Crooked Lombard Street

A San Francisco city supervisor has proposed a toll for cars traveling on the city's famously crooked Lombard Street in order to ease the 600-foot thoroughfare's overwhelming…

In Final Days in Office, Obama Designates Five New National Monuments

On Thursday, during Barack Obama's last full week in office, the president did for the (probably) last time something he's done more than anybody else who's occupied the White House:…

Five New National Monuments, Free Wi-Fi on JetBlue, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Good morning, everybody! Here's the latest from the world's monuments, airplane cabins, and tourism boards. * IN FINAL DAYS IN OFFICE, OBAMA DESIGNATES FIVE NEW NATIONAL MONUMENTS…