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Beach Chairs With Canopies: Shade Blocks Less UV Than You Think
A canopy stops the sun coming down. It does nothing about the UV bouncing up off the sand, which is most of what burns people who thought they were in the shade.
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Weir Creek Hot Springs: The Night Closure Most Guides Leave Out
Free, unimproved and half a mile off Highway 12, with a Forest Service order that closes it every night at 8pm. Here is the access, the trail and the rule that catches people out.
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Boat Box Hot Springs: A Metal Tub You Have to Plumb Yourself
One metal tub on the bank of the Salmon River, fed by a 136F spring through a length of pipe. Getting a soakable temperature is a job you do yourself, with a bucket.
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Lake Conroe: A 21,000-Acre Reservoir With Very Little Public Shoreline
Twenty-one miles of water an hour north of Houston, almost all of it fronted by private property. The trick is knowing which handful of places will actually let you in.
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Galveston Beaches: Why the Water Is Brown and What Parking Costs
Two things put people off Galveston before they arrive: the colour of the water and the seaweed. Both have straightforward explanations, and neither is a reason to skip it.
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Fort Lauderdale Beaches: Six Options and One Month to Avoid
For one month a year the city bans the things people bring to a beach. The rest of the year, six stretches of Broward coastline offer genuinely different days out.
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Wakesurfing: Why It Suits Most People, and the One Boat Rule
No rope, low speed, soft landings. Wakesurfing is the most accessible tow sport there is, provided you never do it behind the wrong kind of boat.
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Things to Do in Rock Hill, SC: A City That Bet on Sport
A South Carolina city of 75,000 that deliberately built itself into a national sports destination, and kept its best two attractions free.