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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Mar 9th
The plain facade of the 1901 mansion that houses this lesser-known museum gives no hint of the delights it conceals. Venture inside to marvel at the centerpiece of the interior, a dramatic four-storey courtyard surrounded by a skylight, and filled with seasonal blooms from the museum`s own greenhouse. The galleries that spread out from here hold an idiosyncratic assortment of European, Asian, and American art assembled to suit the museum`s unconventional founder and namesake. More >
The Currier Museum of Art
Mar 9th
The industrial city of Manchester conceals an unexpected but delightful surprise: one of the best small art museums in New England. The Currier Museum of Art, named for its founder, New Hampshire governor Moody Currier, not only houses impressive American and European collections, but also includes among its holdings an off-site Frank-Lloyd Wright house. More >
Back to the Ice Age – Alaska Glacier Bay
Jan 26th
Had he been interested, Captain George Vancouver, who charted the waters of Icy Strait in 1794, could have seen all of Glacier Bay in about an hour. In those days, however, the 5-mile-long indentation in the 100-mile (160-km) long, 20-mile (32-km) wide, and 4,450-ft (1,350-m) thick Grand Pacific Glacier was considerably less intriguing than it became over the next two centuries. By the time John Muir reached the site in 1879, that indent had grown to about 31 miles (50 km) long and today, due to further melting, Glacier Bay now stretches about 72 miles (115 km). More >
Yellowstone National Park – Wyoming
Jan 7th
Wikipedia
Around the Grand Loop Road loom the vistas, the sights and sounds and smells that bring the world flocking to Yellowstone: Mammoth Hot Springs’ amazing mineral formations; Roaring Mountain’s steaming fumaroles; Fountain Paint Pot’s bubbling cauldron of reddish mud; the delicate, brightly colored terraces of Grand Prismatic Spring; and the all-time favorites— the waterspouts of the Upper Geyser Basin, capped by Old Faithful. These features, together with the spectacular beauty of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and the abundant wildlife, supported the area’s designation in 1872 as the world’s first national park. Since then, it has developed into an important wildlife haven. More >
Guadalupe Mountains – Western Texas
Jan 3rd
northerncoloradooutdoors.com
Like the prow of a gallant ship, El Capitan, southern bluff of the Guadalupe Mountains, seems to cut through waves of gleaming gypsum sands. It is a moment to remember, that first glimpse of the massive escarpment rising 5,000 feet above the sere Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas. More >
