Shelter Cove might be the most remote beach town on our entire list. This tiny community sits at the end of a winding mountain road in California’s Lost Coast region. Getting here takes effort, but ...

Library Park serves as Lakeport’s front porch, a green space where the town meets the lake in a handshake of public access and natural beauty. The park’s gazebo stands like a Victorian-era sentinel, ...

Along the town’s shoreline, you’ll also find a “unique and fragile” dune ecosystem. In fact, it’s one of the few intact ...