Travel

It’s best to visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from April-June and September-October.

We made a vow to visit more national parks this year. But we aren’t the only ones and our parks have been suffering from overcrowding, traffic jams and frustrated visitors.

Air New Zealand is at it again. First the airline introduced Skycouch, which is three economy seats in a row with bedding and pillows.

Looking to plan some fun in the summertime? According to Rachel Strong, brand director of Contiki, a social travel company, “The reason we travel is, at its core, to create memories

As summer arrives, here are some top summer travel essentials and tips to ensure you have a smooth and enjoyable trip.

A rare 1.7-mile stretch of pristine beach beckons visitors to Avalon State Park on North Hutchinson Island.

Just an hour from the mainland, lies a 965-acre oasis of breathtaking scenery and abundant wildlife that was once Henry Flagler’s Long Key Fishing Camp – luxurious enough to draw celebrities like newspaper magnate William Hearst and U.

Lignumvitae Key, translating to “wood of life” from Latin, is 185 acres of hardwood hammock accessible only by watercraft in the Upper Keys.

From the sea to the sky, this year is going to be a busy one for travel.

At the southern edge of Key West, at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, attendees will find an historical bonanza – the world’s largest Civil War armaments cache – as well as a natural setting worthy of the Great Florida Birding Trail.

If you’re tired of winter and cannot wait to start jumpstart your summer, Naples is warm and sunny in January.

Mangrove swamps, rockland hammocks and seagrass beds – all essential to the Florida Keys’ ecosystem – beckon visitors to Curry Hammock State Park.

We’re sharing our best insider tips for your next trip to Portugal, including a section on tips for visiting Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve.

Footsteps in empty hallways, ghostly apparitions, lights flickering on and off and things that go bump in the nights.

With more than 1,000 acres just 30 minutes from downtown Miami, Oleta River State Park is the state’s largest urban park.

Located between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park could have easily become more condos.

Southeast Florida’s largest state park is a 10,500-acre swath along the intercoastal Hobe Sound, just north of Jupiter, that invites exploring by land or water 16 unique ecosystems: coastal sand hills, upland lakes and scrub forests as well as the Loxahatchee River.

The Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park, located south of Port Everglades in Dania Beach, is the last stretch of undeveloped coastal ecosystem in Broward County, not far from a bustling South Florida city.

Determined not to join the sad Lost Luggage Club whose membership is exploding in Europe, I vowed to  pack for six weeks in a carryon.

A name as true to its location as can be, Between Beaches Alaska is perfectly situated on Alaska’s MacDonald Spit near Seldovia between two beaches.

Marriott Puerto Vallarta in Mexico has a gorgeous infinity pool, six restaurants, kids’ area with pool and dozens of complimentary chairs and umbrellas on the beach.

I looked up and down the wide beach and saw a few houses, old dock pilings festooned with painted palm fronds, a skittering sea gull and an endless vista of stark white beach.

Florida will see the busiest Memorial Day weekend travel in three years, according to AAA.

You’re going to need a bigger ocean. To paraphrase Roy Scheider’s character in “Jaws,” that’s what I thought when I saw the sheer massiveness of Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world.

Local author and journalist Kristen Hare knows how the locals think, and where the locals go – knowledge she shares in her latest edition of “100 Things to Do in Tampa Bay Before You Die.”

June: A time when the world saw a light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.

Naples Zoo Director of Conservation Tim Tetzlaff coordinates Naples Zoo’s global portfolio of field conservation and has travelled many times to Africa.

The space race has taken new meaning with the possibility of mere mortals (albeit wealthy ones) to hop on the next flight to the edge of space, or even Mars, as a new form of tourism.

With air travel demand rising and the TSA offering $1,000 bonuses to add 6,000 new agents, now is the time to qualify for TSA PreCheck.

We don’t have to tell you — July is hot in SWFL. Here are our splash down road trip suggestions to keep cool without getting on a plane to go north.