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Fall Foliage

From road trips to local guides, here's everything you need to enjoy the great autumn outdoors and see the most beautiful fall foliage in your part of the country (plus the best times to see it).

Fall Foliage in the US: Autumnal Guide to the Outdoors

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Travel

Explore adventure guides and design a custom itinerary for the destination of your choice in and around the city.

Best Travel Guides, Cool Hotels and Interesting Events - Thrillist

All across the United States, chlorophyll is starting to break down in green leaves, revealing vibrant pigments and transforming verdant summer scenery into a red, orange, and yellow harbinger of sweater weather.

The Ultimate Leaf Peeper's Guide to Fall Foliage Hikes

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Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

What do a lot of your favorite snacks have in common?

Here are 17 Snacks You Never Knew Were Vegan

Paris

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Everyone remembers their first trip to Paris.

38 Things You Need to Know Before Your First Trip to Paris

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The pernicious insistence women’s interest publications place on the idea of being a “stress-free host” is ruining exactly what makes home entertaining over the holidays (and beyond) appealing.

The Misguided Myth of the 'Stress Free' Party Host

Chicago

A neighborhood institution since 1994, it’s most famous for hosting a secret Rolling Stones show in 1997, but also for being name-dropped in High Fidelity.

Door #3

Participating or people watching, it’ll be a good time so long as you have a table to call home base.

Louie's Pub

Nothing says Celtic-authenticity quite like 80oz beer towers and Guinness-spiked mac and cheese.

DIVISION STREET

New York

A three-minute walk from MSG yields this Rangers fan command post with plenty of screens for game-viewing and a rooftop bar stocked with all the standards.

Rocky pub

When faced with something as hellish as Penn Station Purgatory, you have two options: 1) continue to bear the crowd, or 2) pound nine beers while eating shrimp cocktail.

Tracks Raw Bar & Grill

The food is classic American, as in deep fry, mayo, burger-based and vaguely Asian -- like the BBQ chicken spring roll -- and you can add shrimp to anything for only $6 extra dollars!!

Local West

Affectionately known as "The Farm," this gastropub in Flatbush is wholly dedicated to natural eating.

303 Flatbush

Kevin Read, former bartender at Lucky Strike, opened Alchemy as a nod to townhouse gastropubs in London, going so far as to bring in a 100-year-old bar to provide extra authenticity.