Winter flowers aren't as rare as they sound: With the right planning and care, you can add pops of color to dormant beds and brighten up your landscaping even during the year's shortest and darkest days. Hellebores, camellias, cabbages, cyclamen, snowdrops, and the other pretty blooms here offer bright inspiration.
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico: Join a guided tour of the Ancestral Puebloan ruins at this Unesco World Heritage site, then bed down in the shadow of ancient cliff dwellings.
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah: Gawk at fossil-stuffed, multihued rock layers stacked like prehistoric pancakes that trace 275 million years of human and geologic history.
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A viewing platform at Cumberland Island National Seashore (
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Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia: Consult a tide table, then kayak across Cumberland Sound to pitch your tent at one of five campgrounds scattered around this barrier island.