The business of Bigfoot

Sasquatch tourism brings cryptid-curious to Colorado.

The quieter side of California’s Central Coast

With its “Slo-Cal” slogan, the Central Coast stretch of iconic Highway 1 invites visitors to slow down and marvel at the grandeur around them.

New Vegas attraction lets you become a player in a video game world

Dozens of radically interactive and immersive games are featured at the Electric Playhouse, a 10,000-square-foot high-tech new attraction that opened in June at the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas.

‘The Bear’ food tour serves fans a taste of the action in Chicago

“‘The Bear’ does such an amazing job of highlighting Chicago’s diverse food scene,” said Hannah Gleeson, director of operations at Chicago Food & City Tours. The company began the 3-hour themed excursions in November after months of requests from guests. “And it’s so much more fun to do something like this than just walk up to Mr. Beef.”

We rode America’s new tallest waterslide in Wisconsin Dells, and it was wild

Minneapolis Star Tribune travel editor gets an after-hours preview of the 145-foot-tall Rise of Icarus at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells.

Tired of crowded campgrounds? Colorado company taps businesses to host RV travelers overnight

Harvest Hosts coordinates with businesses across the U.S., listing more than 5,000 sites as potential stopovers for RVs to park overnight. In exchange, campers pay Harvest Hosts an annual membership fee ranging from about $84 to $143 and also agree to patronize or support the sites they visit.

10 underrated national parks to visit this summer

The locations on the list span the U.S. from the coasts of Maryland and Virginia to the coast of Washington state and offer plenty of things to see, do and photograph.

Amtrak’s Acela upgrades its menu to match its speed

After introducing a menu for first-class Acela travelers, Amtrak is turning its attention to the rest of us in the cheap(er) seats in business class. Business-class travelers are getting a new menu all their own, in an effort to make the faster (and pricier) ride feel distinct from the regular Northeast Regional line.

The history of radio is thriving in this fascinating, hidden Bay Area museum

Run by volunteers from the California Historical Radio Society, the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame in Alameda, Calif., is devoted to everything under the sun related to wireless communication, stretching back some 120 years to the invention of radio. Its thousands of mostly donated artifacts were located in Berkeley’s old KRE radio station before moving here in 2014. For much of its existence, the building has functioned as a social club and hangout space for die-hard radio collectors. But this summer, it plans to open as a full-fledged museum, with rotating exhibits and a burning mission to teach the public that radio is anything but dead.

St. George Island a short distance from Florida’s coast but a world away

A favorite destination for beachgoers, anglers and bird watchers, the 28-mile-long and 1-mile-wide Panhandle barrier island community, only a short drive from Tallahassee and tourist-crammed Panama City, is considered part of Florida’s so-called “Forgotten Coast,” those small, pristine and relatively undiscovered islands and towns like its cousins of Mexico Beach, Cape San Blas and Carrabelle that don’t get the party-hardy crowds of Miami, Daytona and Clearwater beaches.