Travel Dispatch: It’s Finally Fall
Welcome the season with ghost towns and food festivals.
Travel Dispatch
September 23, 2026

When it comes to where to travel, we don’t like to play favorites — but when it comes to when, it’s hard to argue that autumn isn’t a superior season. Here are some ideas to kick off your planning.

The crumbling walls of a three-story building in Rhyolite, Nevada, stand amid piles of rock and concrete in a desert landscape with low, brown hills.

Gabe Castro-Root

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About a dozen reindeer stand on a patch of snow surrounded by a rocky landscape.

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Beneath a clear sky, red buttes and rocky formations tower over a desert landscape and a curving highway with a single car on it.

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At sunset, a street in an Italian town of four- and five-story stone buildings is lined with white tents and a large crowd of people milling about.

SGP Grandi Eventi

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