More on California
By Terry Gardner
Whether you're shopping at Tiffany, contemplating the Liberty Bell, hiking in Yosemite National Park or throwing dice inLas Vegas, odds...
By Mary Forgione
California's budget passed...
By Laura Randall, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Call it the accidental road trip. Looking for a less monotonous route home from Northern California last summer, my family and I took...
By Michele Bigley
The Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway yawns languidly for 500 miles from the southern reaches of California's Cascade Range to lower Oregon....
By Michele Bigley, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Full disclosure: I am no Bigfoot junkie. In fact, before strapping my mom, my 3-year-old and myself in the car and traveling north on U.S....
By Mark Boster
It is not the profusion of wild flowers, the gently swaying grasses or the golden sun on Half Dome that brings most people to Yosemite in...
By Rosemary McClure
In the age-old war between cats and dogs, the Fidos of America have scored another victory.
By Chris Erskine
Travelers usually try to get in and get out of Los Angeles International Airport as quickly as possible. Who wouldn't? But in their haste,...
By Benoit Lebourgeois
Visitors to Jalama Beach
By Mary Forgione
There are few things sweeter than going on vacation and plugging into summer beach concerts -- especially when they're free. If you're...
By Erin Van Rheenen
Delicate flowers didn't do well on the Rock. I'm not talking about prisoners, though criminals such as Al Capone and George "Machine Gun"...
By Mark Boster
Spring in Yosemite unfolds like the complex opening movement of a symphony that becomes increasingly frenzied. Fortunately, the conductor...
Here are apps that do more than explore California; several may help alleviate travel stress. Apps that work on iPhone also work on iPad and...
By Christopher Reynolds
It's no easy job, being the lungs of Los Angeles.
By Jay Jones
Despite the rumble of locomotives idling on a track just a few yards away, there's a sense of serenity at a memorial tucked into the...
By Dan Blackburn
In the summer, the sun in Death Valley shows no mercy, pushing the mercury over the 115-degree mark, sucking every drop of moisture from the...
By Jane Engle
With Valentine's Day two weeks away, hotels are romancing travelers' pocketbooks with Champagne, chocolates, flowers and more. Hand over...
By Phil Zimmerman
I had my doubts as I turned off the isolated highway onto the sandy open desert.
The coming year will bring major new attractions at Disney parks on both coasts, big roller-coaster additions at Six Flags and Busch Gardens...
By Anne Harnagel
Who wants to hang around you when you're down on your luck? And yet California, mired in budget distress and other economic woes,...