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For a destination long reputed for its national park play, the Red-Rocked canvass of southern Utah is living a visitor script flip in real time.  Since the stated 2023 debut of Black Desert Resort (Ivins, Utah), the region is now more apt to see travelers arriving with Titleists, instead of off-road tires, and soft spikes, in lieu of hiking boots. …

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Sometimes, out-of-the-way is the best way. Opened to national raves in 2005, Osprey Meadows at Tamarack Resort in the mountain and meadow bounty of west-central Idaho’s Valley County would enjoy a buoyant, but brief debut. After a quick trip in the spotlight, the 3,600-acre resort property’s ill-timed unveiling amid national economic downtown would see the Robert Trent Jones II-designed course …

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Long known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” Branson, Missouri, with its ceaseless marque of family-style shows, has adjoined with a burgeoning playing partner to redefine the region amid the heart of the Ozarks.  (And no, it’s not Jason Bateman, whose acclaimed Netflix series was set 120 miles northeast, in Lake of the Ozarks). Rather, famed and native …

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For the golf destination traveler, the compass continues to point north. For players making a run toward the upper border: Cut between Nebraska’s sandhills to the west and the Ozark’s rocky outcrops to the east; as the terrain transitions from Iowa’s heartlands and Wisconsin’s canvass of stream cities and railroad towns to the Land of 10,000 Lakes, a visit to …

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This probably isn’t the Southern California pictured in your mind. It’s better. Rolling, rustic and verdant, SoCal’s all-seasons Temecula Valley is on the rise for travelers seeking a primo pairing of golf and wine. Ideally triangulated between the better-known destinations of Los Angeles, San Diego and Palm Springs (and less than a two-hour drive from each), the rising rep of …

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