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Tips for traveling the length of the Mother Road

Driving Route 66 sounds so simple: Pick up the road in Chicago and follow it 2,448 miles to Los Angeles. If only. The patchwork of roads zigs and zags, switches names and numbers, and someti...

DATE: Jan 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Frommer’s marks 60 years of guidebooks

NEW YORK – This year the legendary travel guidebook writer Arthur Frommer celebrates 60 years since the publication of his 1957 book, Europe on $5 a Day. Frommer began writing about travel w...

DATE: Jan 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Ski industry targeting millennials to keep coffers intact

WILMINGTON, N.Y. – When Aaron Kellett peers out the window of his office at Whiteface Mountain, these days he’s usually smiling. “My office is right next to our beginner trail, an...

DATE: Jan 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Ski industry skews big, so smaller resorts tout authenticity

Independent ski resorts use personality to stand out

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Powder paradise: At Deer Valley, the woods beckon

PARK CITY, Utah – Skiers who’ve ducked into the trees at Deer Valley know that this mountain resort, for all its luxury accommodations and film-star guests, isn’t just a pretty place. ...

DATE: Jan 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

No winter lull at Zion National Park in Utah

Winter no longer a slow season

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Sink neck-deep in hot mineral waters at Budapest baths

Romans tapped hot springs, now you can soak in their grandeur

DATE: Jan 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

America’s Rust Belt: A political force and a destination

From its culture to food, ‘flyover country’ should not be missed

DATE: Jan 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Massive geodesic dome inspired by fly’s eye

Buckminster Fuller creation to be installed at Arkansas museum

DATE: Dec 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hot travel destinations for 2017: Where you should go

Total solar eclipse, weak British pound drive choices

DATE: Dec 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Secret tricks, gadgets of 20th-century spies

Paris exhibit features tools of the trade

DATE: Dec 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

A list of top travel lists: So many places to go

Where should you travel in 2017? Here’s a list of top destination lists from expert sources across the travel industry, from guidebook and magazine publishers to travel agents, tour operator...

DATE: Dec 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday