Santa Barbara County’s Montecito Hot Springs are highly popular but navigating parking and following the trail can be tricky.

Water flows and pools proliferate around the main lake at Murrieta Hot Springs Resort. The site is a geothermal spa that goes back more than a century. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Murrieta Hot ...

The Great North American Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico are vast arid regions where a highly diverse population of plants, animals and even humans have adapted to the ...

This waterfront gem in Western Canada is the perfect place to hide away, tucked along the stunning Upper Arrow Lake and ...

It's midafternoon, and the hot sun beats down on a remote desert road laying before me. I'm deep in the Mexican desert, thinking of shinrin-yoku. Shinrin-yoku is the Japanese practice of "forest ...

Construction is underway on the first and only public park in the eastern Coachella Valley community of Oasis, according to the Desert Recreation District. Announced in a news release issued Tuesday, ...

Murrieta Hot Springs, a palm-shaded haven of steaming streams and coveted mud just north of Temecula, has been home to a Christian Bible college, a TV-free vegetarian commune and a popular mostly ...