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This town in the heart of Sonoma wine country is a charmer, with a quaint downtown quarter featuring boutiques, bookstores, and fair trade stores you could lose yourself in for hours. We loved that we could get into Silver Oak’s new winery facility without a reservation, and their sleek, modern Leed-certified building showcased the vineyards with rain falling on the vines outside. Here, we enjoyed another adorable town center to explore before heading to Cline Cellars , where we toured this eccentric property that was once a carp farm and then a horse ranch before growing grapes. If you’d rather stay in town, Sonoma boasts dozens of tasting rooms within its city center, allowing you to sample even more efficiently.

While residents of the Lower 48 states begin making plans for gardening or baseball season come March, most Alaskans are still shoveling snow off their front porches. Dogsledding is Alaska’s state sport, with deep cultural connections ranging from Arctic transportation for hunting to the famous Iditarod Sled Dog Race, a 1000-mile haul from Anchorage to Nome. Most of those arrive between the months of May and September, getting their sled dog fix through short kennel tours offering cart rides, or more expensive heli-mushing experiences high atop glacial snowfields. In March and April though, fewer tourists vying for a spot and more moderate temperatures (think 20 degrees above Zero rather than 20-below), families with dog-crazy kids wanting the real deal – huskies, mushers, and sleds with all the trappings – show up for a day or more of sleddogging the way it was meant to be experienced.

While residents of the Lower 48 states begin making plans for gardening or baseball season come March, most Alaskans are still shoveling snow off their front porches. Dogsledding is Alaska’s state sport, with deep cultural connections ranging from Arctic transportation for hunting to the famous Iditarod Sled Dog Race, a 1000-mile haul from Anchorage to Nome. Most of those arrive between the months of May and September, getting their sled dog fix through short kennel tours offering cart rides, or more expensive heli-mushing experiences high atop glacial snowfields. In March and April though, fewer tourists vying for a spot and more moderate temperatures (think 20 degrees above Zero rather than 20-below), families with dog-crazy kids wanting the real deal – huskies, mushers, and sleds with all the trappings – show up for a day or more of sleddogging the way it was meant to be experienced.

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