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...
Beyond the resort towns of the Rockies, there are options for locals that promise affordability without sacrificing access to outdoor recreation. Across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah, smaller towns offer steady year-round employment, local health care,...
The best way to take the pulse of South Carolina is to park the car and walk a main street. Across the Palmetto State, small downtowns hum with front-porch conversation, antique-shop finds, ice cream counters, and opera houses that have been putting on a show for a...
New Mexico has traditionally been a preferred retirement destination, with its warm climate and smaller communities where open-air activities are close at hand. Be it desert towns or mountain communities, these locales strike the right balance between senior-friendly...
Camden was laying out streets before the Revolution, making it South Carolina's oldest inland town, while three hours east, the tide runs through the marsh at Port Royal on the moon's schedule. In between sit small towns shaped by water and by the foothills climbing...
Few entertainers — save for, perhaps, Loretta Lynn — have stayed as closely connected to their roots as Dolly Parton did. The late country music icon was born and raised in East Tennessee's Sevier County, and even after achieving global stardom, she consistently gave...