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With the leaves already starting to change around home, it may be too late to think about heading north for a fall folliage tour. But if you go, consider going all the way. Copper Harbor, the northernmost point in Michigan’s Upper Pennisula, about 450 north of Chicago (head straight up through Wisconsin) was founded as a copper mining town in the ...

If you're heading south this weekend and will be anywhere near Louisville, Ky., take a detour to Marengo Cave in far southern Indiana. The cave is celebrating the 125th anniversary of its discovery in 1883 on Saturday, Sept. 6, with special $1.25 admission rates and a big festival with music by Grease Gravy, the Vittle Pickers, The Boot ...

Generally, I hate to travel on busy holiday weekends. The airports and roads are flooded with rookies--people who rarely travel and whose belief that traveling is a nightmare is reinforced because of the huge crowds and irritatingly long waits for everything on holiday weekends. Despite my general aversion to holiday travel, my family and I will ...

If you're one of those trendy new staycationers (don't you love how the marketers find a way to make not getting an exotic vacation sound cool?), then you'll want to know that Six Flags Great America has a twofer deal going on. It's only available online and only good for visits through July 3. The deal means it costs just $27.50 a person to get ...

As if it isn’t already tough (and expensive) enough to fly with kids, the airlines are making it worse by charging us to check our bags. Luckily, my kids are old enough to be responsible for their own luggage, so they each get one carry-on bag and that’s it. But when they were smaller—why is it that the younger they are, the more stuff they ...