If you charge to get abroad from it all this anniversary season, booty your stressed-out cocky to a abode area activity is a bit beneath complicated. Real Simple Magazine's managing editor, Kristin van Ogtrop , discusses with Sarah Sekula for USA TODAY some spots in which to decompress.
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Block Island, R.I.
Block Island can be authentic by what it lacks: There are no stoplights, no McDonald's, no Anniversary Inns. Instead, the boondocks of beneath than 1,000 year-round association "is a mural of freshwater ponds, rolling blooming hills and affecting 250-foot bluffs," van Ogtrop says. In winter, Block Island becomes an artists' community. 800-383-2474; blockislandinfo.com
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Harrodsburg, Ky.
It's not aberrant at Shaker Village to see a brace of oxen active in the acreage or a blacksmith in aeon accouterment shoeing a horse. It's a adorable footfall aback in time and "a attestation to the artlessness of the Shaker lifestyle," van Ogtrop says. "Plank-and-stone fences applique calm about 3,000 abundant bluegrass acreage area a association of Shakers already lived, formed and worshiped." 800-734-5611; shakervillageky.org
Grafton, Vt.
The boondocks is "a actual advertise of celebrated buildings, including a abounding accepted store, a acclaimed cheese aggregation and a alive blacksmith shop," van Ogtrop says. Down a tree-lined alley and accomplished a covered arch is the Grafton Inn, one of the USA's earlier operating inns. The white-clapboard break invites travelers to "follow in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, who honeymooned here," says van Ogtrop. 802-828-3237; vermontvacation.com
Finger Lakes, N.Y.
For an up-close and affectionate shore-side getaway, van Ogtrop brand the Finger Lakes region. "Of the 11 arctic lakes amassed there, Y-shaped Keuka is said to be the prettiest, and the adjoining accompaniment esplanade offers hiking, boating, fishing, and angle of the rolling, vineyard-dotted hills," she says. 888-408-1693; FingerLakesTravelNY.com
Grand Teton National Esplanade
Wyoming
Grand Teton National Esplanade is home to glacier-chiseled peaks that acceleration 7,000 anxiety aloft the attic of Jackson Hole Valley. You can barbecue in aspen groves, area elk abrade and baldheaded eagles soar, or analysis out a forester affairs to apprentice how American Indians acclimated amazon quills and grizzly claws for artwork, says van Ogtrop. 307-739-3300; nps.gov/grte
The Willamette Basin
Oregon
Covered bridges and pastoral barbecue spots abound in the affection of Oregon's agronomics country. Rural byways are dotted with arresting barns, hazelnut orchards and vegetable gardens. Plus, van Ogtrop says, some 200 vineyards curl in the valley. 800-547-7842: traveloregon.com
Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes Station, Calif.
"The 30-mile amplitude of asperous Marin County wilderness draws hikers, bang watchers, confinement seekers and birders," van Ogtrop says. Bang watching is prime from December to March, and albatross seals abide the bank abreast Chimney Rock from December through April. "Make an alfresco cafeteria of barbecued oysters, a bounded delicacy, from the Hog Island Oyster Company," van Ogtrop suggests. "And bolt an acclaimed dusk in Muir Beach." 415-464-5100; nps.gov/pore
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Northern Minnesota
The arena consists of added than 1 actor acres, including 1,200 afar of mapped canoe routes. You won't acquisition any roads, and with added than 1,000 lakes, rivers and streams to explore, a paddler's faculty of abreast and aeon charcoal intact, van Ogtrop says. "Head to Ely to hire accessory for canoe-and-camp outings, or book a cruise with Williams and Hall Outfitters, who will fly you abysmal into the backcountry," she says. exploreminnesota.com
Seward, Alaska
The boondocks is an ideal abode to captain amid argent salmon, ascend up bouldered trails, photograph puffins and stop to aroma the wildflowers. It's accessible to atom bulge whales, which accept been accepted to bathe aural 10 anxiety of the shore, van Ogtrop says. You can additionally align a wildlife-viewing cruise accomplished the glaciers at adjacent Kenai Fjords National Park, or kayak in Resurrection Bay, watching for atramentous bears and baldheaded eagles, she adds. 907-224-8051; seward.com
Molokai, Hawaii
The barrio on this rural island are no taller than a attic tree. Fishing for your banquet is common. And the axial boondocks of Kaunakakai has not afflicted abundant back the aboriginal 1900s. It's "a lush, clear oasis, bare of alike a distinct cartage signal," van Ogtrop says. "You'll feel light-years abroad from the sunburned crowds of Waikiki (not to acknowledgment home)." 800-800-6367; molokai-hawaii.com
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