napa valley

True to Calistoga’s time-honored tradition as one of the nation’s historic spa towns, The Auberge Spa reinvents the classic curative “taking of the waters” in a rejuvenating natural Napa spa sanctuary. Nestled away in a wooded canyon in Napa, your inner cowgirl will discover soothing soaking pools overlooking a creek and moss-laden oaks, while you...

From the heights of Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Cowgirls can see all the way to the San Francisco Bay–and even farther back into California’s winemaking history. Darley Newman takes a wine country trail ride back in history. By Darley Newman As I sauntered through an open meadow on Romer, a black-and-white Tennessee Walking horse, I thought...