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Seagrove is a pottery town, Oriental is a sailing town, Pinehurst is a golf town, Tryon is a horse town, and nobody who lives in any of them would argue with the label. That is the whole idea behind this list. In each of these eleven towns the thing to do is settled...

Retirement in South Carolina can mean morning walks beneath century-old oaks, afternoons on the lake, and a home that doesn't drain the savings. With a median home listing price of $360,000 as of September 2026, the state offers plenty of reasons to put down roots. In...

In most of the country, private landowners legally own whatever water falls or flows across their property, but in parts of the American West, water is public, or state, property. It's written directly into state constitutions and water codes, some dating back over a...

There is a river outside Lander, Wyoming that disappears into a limestone cavern, stays underground for two hours, and comes out somewhere else with more water than went in. Nobody has fully explained it. That is the kind of thing the Rockies keep in the towns most...

The difficult water situation at Grand Canyon National Park is poised to disrupt RV camping well into the fall, according to some of the latest reports. Trailer Village, the South Rim’s only full-hookup RV park, has been closed since August, and other campgrounds are...

A good retirement town hits a sweet spot: quiet and safe, close enough to a hospital and a grocery run, yet near enough to the water or the woods that an ordinary Tuesday can feel like a getaway. South Carolina has a deep bench of them, helped along by a mild climate,...

A weekend in Wyoming does not have to mean fighting the summer crowds at the entrance gates to Yellowstone. The eight towns here all sit below 50,000 residents, and each one packs enough into a short visit to justify the drive. In Jackson, the Teton Range rises...

South Carolina counted 1,120,107 Medicare beneficiaries who qualified by age in 2025, up from 941,369 in 2020. By a separate count, the state's population of 65 and older grew 21.1% between 2020 and 2025, well ahead of the 16.2% national rate. Horry County on the...

The difficult water situation at the Grand Canyon National Park is poised to disrupt RV camping well into the fall, according to some of the latest reports. Trailer Village, the South Rim’s only full-hookup RV park has been closed since August, and other campgrounds...