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A Mission to Save the West Coast’s Last Racing Greyhounds

reading at home

Ask a Californian: America’s Only Child

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Lynell George on ‘Ode to Dena’

new york city

West Coast vs. Upper West Side

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The Country’s Best Trivia Team is in L.A.

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FROM THE MAGAZINE

Eyes on the Central Valley

If you think it’s a straight line through America’s “fruit basket,” you’re mistaken.

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Publisher’s Note: An Issue Dedicated to Road Trips

kurt russell and goldie hawn

Stop Hating on the Golden State

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An Owens Valley Travelogue

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The Original Frozen Dead Guy

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lew welch, illustration

Alta Folio: ‘I Went Southwest’

california native landscape plants

Bring Back the California Bloom

ask a californian, bird watching

Summer Is for the Birds

king gillette ranch in los angeles

Alta Picks: Taking the Long View

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Private Fabulousness

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road sights

5 Attractions Worth Pulling Over For

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The Lost Chinatowns

highway 89, dupuyer montana, the national park highway

Highway 89 Revisited

ashleigh grace mixes a booze free french 75 at goodnights prime steak and spirits in healdsburg california

Sober Sideways

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In the Ring, a Father and Son

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the 19 hopis as prisoners at alcatraz, 1895

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Hopis of Alcatraz

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