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Why hike in L.A.? There are as many answers as there are Angelenos who lace up boots and hit trails. Southern California’s mountains and forests can serve as an outdoor gym, a sanctuary from the urban buzz, a spiritual space to heal and reflect, a place to pose and be seen (especially on Instagram), an entry to the natural world of tarantulas and newts, and a place to scale an unthinkably high peak. For the devout, it’s a lifestyle choice that in nonpandemic times brings us closer as a community.
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Where to start? There are roughly 1 million acres to explore in the L.A. area. The nation’s largest national park in an urban setting, the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, offers 154,000 acres from Hollywood to Point Mugu. Continue east to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area and Griffith Park, handy urban green spaces that are a freeway off-ramp away, then head east and north to the wilder Angeles National Forest where you can roam 700,
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Getting Ready for Travel in a Post-Vaccine World: Women Who Travel Podcast Meredith Carey, Lale Arikoglu
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Inspired by the “Women Who Travel Guide to Getting Back Out There” package, which launched earlier this month, we re spending this episode looking to the future whether that be tackling travel anxieties bought on by the pandemic, relearning how to meet new people, or redefining our comfort zones. Joined by
Traveler associate editor Megan Spurrell and travel writer Jessica Poitevien, we also swap notes on the big trips we re hoping to take when it s safe to do so.
The conversation doesn t end there, either. We want to know where you are dreaming of going on your first trip back out there. Email a voice memo to womenwhotravel@cntraveler.com with your name, where you re based, and what you re planning, and you might hear yourself in an upcoming episode.
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