USA Today Go Escape—magazines & special sections

• Tacoma’s Heart of Glass: Tour Chihuly’s hometown.
• Venerable lodges show visitors rusticity with an elegant touch.
• Savory trips to the Midwest’s pizza farms.

Midwest Living

This wonderful regional magazine passionately captures life in the Midwest and thoroughly checks out everything it prints. I contribute to the annual Best of the Midwest Travel edition and ongoing bi-monthly magazine issues.

• Cool Art in Minnesota’s Grand Marais
• Seven reasons you’ll love Stillwater, Minnesota
• Autumn Getaway to Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula
• Six reasons to return to Minnesota’s Mall of America
• Eight reasons you should return to South Dakota’s Rapid City
• More blog features written for Midwest Living

Twin Cities Star Tribune

• Finding beauty in South Dakota’s Badlands
• A tour of Oregon, from orchards to ocean
• Learning to cook in Puerto Morelos, Mexico
• A tour of Oregon from orchards to ocean
• A Whale of a Time in Manitoba.
  • Life Lessons in the Wild.
  • Longing for Light: Germany’s Ore Mountains
  • Ontario: Wilderness and Wonder.
• Digging History: Unearthing dinosaur bones in Thermopolis, Wyo.
• Take a dolphin swim in the Florida Keys

Family Vacation Critic

This online website devotes itself to traveling with kids—which is its own kind of adventure. Look for resort reviews, the low-down on destinations and tips for parents.

• A beginner’s how-to guide to family camping
• Minocqua, Wis., Family Vacation
• Traverse City, Mich., Family Vacation
• Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells
• The Wilderness, Wisconsin Dells
• Great Wolf Lodge, Wisconsin Dells
• Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, Calif.
• Lake Superior Family Vacation
• Brainerd Lakes Family Vacation
• Black Hills Family Vacation

Specialties

• Adventures such as dog-sledding, caving, mountain-biking and rock-climbing.
• Family travel.
• Hands-on vacations such as art studios, cooking classes and farm stays.
• Off-the-beaten-path discoveries from Finnish cafes to ice-fishing festivals.
• Local foods (think farm-stands & markets, vineyards, slow-food cafes, and ethnic neighborhoods).
• National and state parks.

Lisa Meyers McClintick
Freelance Travel Writer/Photographer
St. Cloud, Minnesota
lmcclintick@charter.net