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Ski Towns Where the Fall Foliage Is Almost Better Than the Snow
They flock to the forests to do some leaf peeping, appreciating a final burst of color before winter. For those looking to add a literal lift, check out one of these ski resorts, where you can ride a ski lift or gondola up a mountain covered with fall foliage, maximizing your views and getting a new perspective on an old activity. Copper Peak, Mich. From the top of the Copper Peak ski jump, you can see all the beautiful leaves all around. Take the ski lift up 800 feet to the peak, then ride a
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We Found Them! The Best Undiscovered National Parks
If you like nature, you may be one of the more than 10 million people who visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park last year or gazed at the Grand Canyon along with 4.7 million of your friends. The National Park Service recently released its visitor numbers for 2014, showing a record-high 293 million visits to parks in its system. Located off of “America’s Loneliest Road,” near the Nevada-Utah border, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Great Basin National Park doesn’t get a ton of visitors.
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WATCH: Detroit Bouncing Back from Bankruptcy
It was the city on the verge of collapse, perhaps the ultimate example of how a one-time metropolis turned into a sad memory. For the past four decades or so, Detroit, once a mecca for immigrants and the heart of America’s industrial revolution, not to mention pop culture, turned into a virtual ghost town. Businesses shut their doors and residents fled by the masses, from a peak of 1.8 million to around 700,000 today. The rapid decline of the auto industry, which the city once so proudly called
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The Sweetest Treats Taking Over Instagram
Since its New York debut in May 2013, chef Dominique Ansel’s croissant-donut hybrid has made news around the world, leaving hordes of fans and Internet attention in its wake. In addition to an inspired flavor of the month (October’s is Pumpkin Chai), Ansel has created signature pastries such as the Cookie Shot and the Pretzel Lobster Tail, a peanut-butter butter-crunch soft pretzel sprinkled with Maldon sea salt and accompanied by a brown butter-whipped honey dipping sauce.
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Go Now! Why Michigan's Lower Peninsula is the Perfect Summer Getaway
Sand, dune, and sky on the shores of Lake Michigan — who needs the ocean? This summer head inland to Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay, on the northwest coast of its Lower Peninsula (about the “tip of the ring finger,” as any local might point out). Cherry Capital Airport (TVC) is easy to navigate, gorgeous (its Arts and Crafts architecture is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright), and just 10 minutes from downtown Traverse City.
