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Across Colorado, there are reminders of a colorful past when precious metals were scraped, pulled, dug, and washed from the earth, where boomtowns sprung up overnight and just as quickly [...]

Recon's mission statement is diverse and substantive: build an RV where the MSRP fits easily into the family budget, provide the features necessary to enjoy the RV lifestyle, size it [...]

Back in the day, a fledgling van converter in Indiana called Sportsmobile specialized only in converting Volkswagen vans into mobile domiciles. Today, you can see one of these museum pieces [...]

In central southern Colorado's San Luis Valley, where jagged canyons sweep down west from the 14,000-plus-foot Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountains to the valley floor, sits the 103,000-acre [...]

First called the 'Defense Highway to Alaska' and then the 'AlCan Highway,' today it's called the Alaska Highway. Originally 1,800 miles long, it's been shortened to less than 1,500, but [...]

The farming and ranching families of Salazars in the San Luis Valley of Colorado trace their roots back to the 1700s. Just ask the current generation of Salazars, who know [...]

There are four-wheel-drive enthusiasts who choose take on the challenge of this grueling trail. It's an exciting adventure and one that 99.9 percent of the population will never make. Called [...]

Minutes north of St George, Utah, off I-15 rests Silver Reef, a ghost of a mining town nestled among red rock formations often canopied by pastel blue skies laced with [...]

Through his public murals Colorado artist Fred 'Lightning Heart' Haberlein related stories unique to the locales in which he painted, including La Jara, Manassa, Alamosa, Antonito, Glenwood Springs and Carbondale. [...]

Held where California coastal breezes wash up and over live oaks and black sage atop canyon walls that sweep down to the pounding surf of the Pacific Ocean, the Festival [...]

Dotting America's landscape are skeletons of old trucks and tractors--rusting hulks of metal garnished with weeds poking through the floorboards and around the axles of equipment that once helped build [...]

Whenever Nebraska is mentioned, typically what comes to mind is Com Huskers football, beef cattle, and the fact that within the state lies America's 'breadbasket.' All are correct. However--and this [...]

TO HELL AND BACK IN A POWER WAGON: In the late 1950s. while the Glen Canyon Darn was being built on the Colorado River--the dam that created the 190-mile-long Lake [...]

Since the 2007 model year; approximately 350,000 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited models (four-doors) have been built. That's a solid base of owners with real enthusiasm for off-road adventure. This platform, which [...]

Their horses come first, but running a close second is the love cowboys and cowgirls have for their pickup trucks. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the vast ranch [...]

Livin' Lite designs and builds affordable, lightweight, towable RVs and truck campers. It offers a complete lineup of towable RVs, sport/utility RVs, VRVs (Versatile Recreational Vehicles), and soft - and [...]

Wandering at our leisure, with only the blue lines on our road map as our guide, we headed for the Rocky Mountains and the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado. [...]

Loosely interpreted, the American Indian word 'spokane' means 'children of the sun.' Indeed, the sunshine that blankets Spokane, Washington, and the upper northeast corner of the Evergreen State makes this [...]

Jakob and Theresia Weinheimer and their six children left the Hessian village of Ubernthal (north of Frankfurt) in 1845 to start anew in what within a few years would become [...]

Since the 1500s, northern New Mexico has attracted visitors from around the world. It's a place you can return to after an absence and feel as though you are discovering [...]

The manufacturers of towable RVs (solid wall and pop-up trailers) recognize that times are changing. People are buying smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, so the RV industry is designing lighter-weight travel [...]

A five-hour road trip from Seattle in an Inferno Red Crystal Dodge Journey put us in the middle of a playground we had only heard about. From Spokane, Washington, to [...]

The year was 1946. The Great Depression and World War II were in America's rearview mirror, and people across the land were champing at the bit to hit the road [...]

The life story of many a Western boomtown turned ghost town pivots on the lure of mineral wealth--real or imagined. Others were born of a different sort of anticipated wealth, [...]

We wanted it all. It had to be visually smart, yield excellent fuel economy, and have rugged off-road capability and lots of prowess, luxury, and comfort. Taking delivery of a [...]

It's agreed among all that from Memphis down to Vicksburg is the cradle of the Delta blues, a genre of American root music that has left an indelible mark on [...]

On the left coast of lower Michigan, just south of Traverse City and minutes from the shores of Lake Michigan, the topography presents rolling mountains with vertical drops reaching 400 [...]

It's true: both Johnny Carson and the entire Corps of Discovery slept here; however, the opportunities for discovery when poking around the northeast corner of Nebraska go far beyond that. [...]

After you've gotten out of your system the animated fantasy worlds found in the greater Orlando area, it might be time to seek out off-the-beaten-path venues with hidden treasures to [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For many, the idea that bigger is better is not a sound or prudent attitude. Not only that, it seems we all have less money to spend. That's […]

When the daily grind gets to be too much, there is nothing better than a road trip to cure what ails you. We chose to visit northeast Georgia and had [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Class B motorhomes, which are typically chassis-cab van conversions, combine the best of two worlds, blending the versatility of full-size van/chassis with many of the same features of […]

We had finished nearly all the preparations for the big trip. Locking and pinning the coupler to the hitch ball, tensioning the spring bars on the load leveler, and adjusting [...]

Although many historians believe the 'Last Spike Site' is the most historically important site in the United States west of Independence Hall, it was virtually abandoned and ignored for almost [...]

Any way you slice it, the Fleetwood Folding Element is a towable RV that makes good sense for many families. All three models, the Graphite, Cobalt and Neon, offer more [...]

With ATV and motorcycle sales at all-time highs, the RV industry is responding with new and innovative toy haulers that marry the world of creature comforts with the utility of […]

The name says it all. The EarthRoamer XV-LT is a go-anywhere, four-season 4WD motorhome that's equally comfortable in a luxury RV campground in Sarasota, Florida, as it is rockcrawling through […]

WHERE IN AMERICA CAN YOU hide a city of 75,000 people for three years, and not permit the rest of the world to know it exists? No, this is not [...]

From its conservative travel length of just over 20 feet, the TrailManor 2720 SL folding travel trailer opens into a liberally sized domicile (27 feet long) that yields 180 square [...]

THERE ARE SECRETS THAT SHOULD BE KEPT AND there are those that need to be revealed. Bartlesville, Oklahoma, falls into that latter category. Like an island in a vast sea [...]

In real estate, the mantra is location, location, location. In a camping trailer, it's floorplan, floorplan, floorplan. The right combination of components, arrangements, interior volume and accessibility makes or breaks [...]

'This is your basic Born Free twenty-four-foot, rear-bath coach,' Fernandez said. 'But instead of a fold-out sleeper couch over here, we have a bank of computers, GPS, Doppler radar, FLIR, [...]

Fifth-wheel trailers offer many advantages. Cavernous interior height, increased storage room, and towing stability are just a few. But their size and weight are such that most require a one-ton [...]

Our first impression of the Alpenlite Aspen was that it's not just a good-looking recreational travel trailer; it's a home on the range with styling and construction that clearly position [...]

Some folks in the RV industry will tell you that RV owners climb a ladder of purchases from small, inexpensive tent trailers when they're young to huge, high-priced, bus-like motorhomes [...]

There's no doubt that the sport-utility trailer (SUT), or 'toy box' as it's been popularly known for decades, is the hottest thing on the towable RV market. Anyone looking for [...]

Over the last decade the use and enjoyment of ATVs, motorcycles, snowmobiles and other motorized toys has experienced unprecedented growth. To accommodate the synergy that exists between the use of [...]

It's called Big Sky Country, and for good reason: The horizon stretches endlessly in every direction. When you're straddling the seat of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV), just 34 inches off [...]

The image of El Paso, Texas, as painted by singer Marty Rohbins in his classic 1960 ballad, is a picture of the West in a wilder era--a place where desperados, [...]

Inclined at an extraordinary 31 degrees, the legendary banks of Florida's Daytona international Speedway are so steep that most racing enthusiasts would have difficulty walking across the 40-foot-wide track. Race [...]