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November/December 2007
What’s New in the West

Salvador Dali

By Laurie Isola

Planning a ski trip? Log on to www.liftopia.com, an online marketplace with exclusive lift-ticket deals at 40 ski resorts including Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Colo., Moonlight Basin, Mont., Snow King Resort, Wyo., Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, Brundage Mountain Resort, Idaho, Mt. Seymour Resort, B.C., Bear Valley Mountain Resort, Calif., and Mt. Rose–Ski Tahoe, Nev.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores Salvador Dalí’s ties to the likes of Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock in Dalí: Painting & Film. A hundred of his works appear along with showings of his major movie projects, including Spellbound (1945) and Chaos and Creation (1960). Through January 6. (323) 857-6000, www.lacma.org.

You can now book tickets for the Las Vegas Monorail on Cheaptickets.com and Orbitz.com. Prices from $5 to $40 for single-ride tickets or unlimited three-day passes. (702) 699-8200, www.lvmonorail.com.

With Green Getaways, a Portland ecotravel package, you can sip organic coffee in a hybrid rental car and stay in a green hotel. (877) 678-5263, www.travelportland.com.

Spokane’s sleek art deco gem, the 1931 Fox Theater, reopens November 17 after a major renovation—check out the murals by movie-palace maestro Anthony Heinsbergen. Tony Bennett and Frederica von Stade kick off the unveiling. (509) 624-5992, www.foxtheaterspokane.com.

Cannon Beach’s landmark Haystack Rock can be seen from most rooms at the Surfsand Resort, recently upgraded with $12 million in user-friendly amenities such as deep soaking tubs, gas fireplaces, and granite countertops. From $159. (800) 547-6100, www.surfsand.com.

Take the road less traveled at www.idahobyways.gov, a new Web site exploring Idaho’s scenic routes, with interactive maps, an itin-erary planner, photos, and details on local attractions.

Learn how arrowheads are made, decipher Morse code, and pinpoint gas and oil fields on a huge map at the newly enlarged Fort Caspar Museum in Casper, Wyo. (307) 235-8462, www.fortcasparwyoming.com.

Trade that parka for a swimsuit. On December 9, Alaska Airlines begins seasonal Anchorage-Honolulu round-trips. (800) 252-7522, www.alaskaair.com.

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center—"MOMA of the Mountains"—now has 11 galleries and a sculpture courtyard. (719) 634-5583, www.csfineartscenter.org.

 

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