The best coastal towns in California, free concerts in Portland, and more great weekend travel finds

3 Reasons Why Portland Should Be Called Suds City

Toast to National Tequila Day, celebrate cycling in Oakland, and more great travel finds

8 secret gems in Portland

Vintage Beetles, now with electric motors!

Links We Love: On Trend

Eating Up the West Coast: Travels with Stella

Where to hike this weekend: the new John Nicholas Trail

California bans bobcat trapping

Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort’s Founder Turns 100, and He Only Stopped Skiing a Few Years Ago

In Alaska, Obama renames Mount McKinley to Denali

Burning Man style rules the desert

Where to go this weekend: Squamish, B.C.

Wood bison, a Lazarus species, is back from extinction

Eating Up the West Coast: A woman walks into a bar

Links we love: Fun with fall decorating

Not Your Abuela’s Día de los Muertos

Where to go this weekend: Mesa, AZ

Links we love: What’s old is new again

Where to Go This Weekend: Oakland’s Jack London Square

Links we love: Halloween decorating tricks & treats

8 Secret Gems on Oahu

Where to go this weekend: Astoria, OR

4 smart booking strategies for a spontaneous trip

Oregon’s wolves might lose endangered species status

Snow! Snow! Snow! (And music too.)

3 Ways to Enjoy Yosemite in Winter

Play tourist in your hometown: The Carnegie Arts Center

A new Colorado hot springs resort

Links we love: New Year’s resolutions