Travel news: Glamping grounds, P.E.I.’s most delicious season, Saint Lucia’s buzzy golf destination

Stylish campgrounds

Think about a boutique resort the place the suites are literally a set of Airstream trailers and luxurious tents within the attractive outside — full with facilities like a communal hearth pit or all-season pool — and also you’ll have the thought behind AutoCamp. The lodging firm has simply introduced it should practically double its variety of glamping websites subsequent yr, starting with a location in Utah’s red-rock nation, about 20 minutes from Zion Nationwide Park. The opposite websites to observe might be in Asheville, N.C.; Texas Hill Nation; and close to Sequoia Nationwide Park in California.

Harvest season

“Prince Edward Island is a huge inexperienced farm floating within the deep blue sea.” That’s how star chef Michael Smith has described the province he now calls dwelling. To understand the bounty your self, September is an particularly scrumptious time to go: Tickets are on sale for the PEI Fall Flavours Festival (Sept. 8 to Oct. 8), with happenings throughout the province. The Sobeys-presented competition will kick off with a launch for the cookbook “Canada’s Food Island,” additionally touchdown in shops in Sept. New signature occasions will embrace “Megepaji: Experience Lennox Island” (a day of seafood and tradition on the normal unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq in Western P.E.I.), in addition to three-day, accommodations-included experiences (resembling Oysterlicious at Mill River Resort).

Within the works

Canopy by Hilton Toronto Yorkville has introduced a gap date: Nov. 2022. That includes inside design by Studio Munge, the 184-room property will mark Canada’s first Cover — Hilton’s tackle the boutique resort — and can embrace a café, a restaurant, an indoor pool and health areas. Regardless of the neighbourhood in its identify, the resort will lie east of Yorkville (387 Bloor St. E.) and share its constructing with the residences of Rosedale on Bloor.

Coming quickly

Ever because it opened, Cabot Cliffs, on the Cabot Cape Breton resort in Inverness, N.S., has taken the No. 1 spot on SCOREGolf’s listing of Canada’s top 100 golf courses — a streak that continues with its 2022 rating. So, it’s no shock that anticipation is excessive for the debut of Cabot Saint Lucia. Situated on the Caribbean island’s northern tip, the forthcoming vacation spot will embody a boutique oceanfront resort and the Level Hardy Golf Membership. The latter’s 18-hole course might be designed by acclaimed architects Invoice Coore and Ben Crenshaw, and formed by the extraordinary panorama.

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