Sunset

SUNSET celebrates your love of Western living. Discover new weekend and day trip destinations, inspiring homes and gardens, and fast and fresh recipes that highlight the West's great local ingredients.

Thank You, Ted

Sunset

New Wave Stays • These are the hottest new hotels and resorts on the California coast.

Wide Open Spaces • Thanks to a home renovation that created an expansive open-air living and dining room, a Montecito family takes full advantage of their access to the great outdoors.

THE NEW BACKYARD ESSENTIAL • Today’s outdoor spaces need to do more than look beautiful. Here’s how TimberTech’s decking materials deliver wood-inspired design, fire-resistance, and performance that supports a resilient home.

Best Coast • Designer Clara Jung, the color-obsessed Bay Area founder of Banner Day Interiors, celebrates her career with a new book featuring her own historic, boho-utopian NorCal retreat.

A Home Designed to Age Beautifully

YOUR Late Summer GARDEN CHECKLIST • Late summer gardens are bursting with color and flavor. From sun-warmed fruits to fragrant herbs, it’s a time to savor the harvest, tuck in new roots, and set your beds up for a thriving fall.

Concrete Jungle • Concrete Collaborative co-founder Kate Balsis, brings life and personality into her outdoor space through tonal hardscaping, playful pattern, and lush plant palettes designed to soften every edge.

Material Matters • Master the softer side of hardscaping.

Santa Ynez Valley: Where Great Wine Meets Great Stories

SEEDY BUSINESS • At this Northern California farm growing stunning native plant seeds, restoration begins after the bloom.

Pollinator Pathway • Make your yard a buzzing, blooming hotspot.

Slope Saver • Turn tricky slopes into living landscapes.

Lawn, Reimagined • Ditch the thirsty turf. Welcome a meadow-minded landscape instead.

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS • A winemaking couple with a penchant for warm modernism creates a dream home and a transportive tasting room in the rolling hills of Healdsburg.

Summer Traditions • From ancestral ingredients to weeknight tables, Pyet DeSpain’s Rooted in Fire brings Indigenous and Mexican flavors into vivid, living conversation.

Ultimate Summer Steak • Nicole Dragon’s Grilled Skirt Steak puts a fresh spin on a seasonal favorite.

66 Things to Do on Route 66 • From roadside diners to lava fields, these stops capture the enduring myth of America’s most legendary highway.

TED TURNER’S WESTERN WISH • At Vermejo, the late Ted Turner’s vast private wilderness in northern New Mexico, conservation and hospitality converge in an experiment as big as the West itself.

Insider • Seasonal diversions and secret travel tips from local experts.

Currents of Hope • Photographer and conservationist Pete McBride shares the story of the Colorado River, a troubled water system of epic beauty.