AllWays Traveller Features

St. Pete Beach on Florida's Gulf of Mexico was first named St. Petersburg Beach, when it was incorporated in 1957. Then, in 1994, its residents voted for a name change to St. Pete Beach, to make the distinction between their city and that of St. Petersburg, a few miles to the east. And the name defines this destination, offering, as it does, a 'ste...

Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been listed in the top 10 healthiest US states, according to the 28th annual report from the United Health Foundation and American Public Health Association. The Association, which examined 35 measures including environment, obesity and air pollution, also highlighted Maine and Rhode Island. New Eng...

A great beach and much more beside Longboat Key, an affluent Gulf Coast community located between Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, forms the Bradenton Gulf Islands with the adjoining Anna Maria Island. For the traveller, Longboat Key's attraction is its 12 miles of wonderful white sand beach and string of fine dining restaurants and elegant wat...

The Great Lakes region of the USA offers a wide range of winter sports ranging from skiing to ice skating to tobogganing to the more unusual pursuit of climbing a frozen waterfall. The Great Lakes USA is the largest expanse of freshwater in the world. This region which is the size of continental Europe, comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana Mic...

The Broadmoor, which is the world's longest-running Forbes Five Star and AAA Five Diamond property, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2018. Located at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, the Broadmoor sits within 5,000 acres with its own canyon with mountain waterfalls. It encompasses Cloud Camp at 9,200 feet up Cheyenne Moun...

A half a kilometer off the west coast of O'ahu, Matthew Solomona is in the midst of an esoteric explanation of why the water is so blue. It has something to do with the Pacific Ocean being a prism that captures and concentrates the wavelengths of all the azure in the visible light spectrum. It's very informative. But really, all we want to do is su...