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There's Still Time For A Death Valley Experience That Doesn't Include Heat Stroke

Where: Stovepipe Wells Village, Highway 190 [map], Death Valley Junction, CA, United States, 92328

Death Valley may not be the most attractive vacation prospect right now, what with the obscene gas prices, but if you want to see it soon (and you should), we couldn’t help but notice that temperatures right now are a pretty mild 90 degrees, with a high of 99 for tomorrow and back to 96 for Sunday.

Which, seeing as summer temperatures are normally soaring by now, really isn’t bad. Maybe it’s suffering from the same cold weather front as Vegas (currently a miserable 79) has been for the past few days.

If you want to make a run for it this weekend, we’d advise bypassing the swanky Furnace Creek - because you don’t go to Death Valley to play golf and live in a resort, do you?

No, you go to Death Valley to soak in nature, escape civilization and contemplate the magnitude of the earth and all that jazz.

And for that, we recommend Stovepipe Wells. It used to be the official National Park property in the Valley, before they switched to Furnace Creek (heresy!), and it’s just what you think of Death Valley as. Half an hour from the bustle of Furnace Creek, there’s just a motel, a restaurant and a general store.

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Celebrate the Last Weeks of 2010 For $20.10 With a Retreat to the Olympic National Park

Where: Olympic National Park, WA, United States

The Quinault rainforest, as seen by HotelChatter last week. Sadly we failed to find Edward Cullen

Sometimes you want to end the year by partying your brain into a gutter and sometimes you want to turn your back on all the fake-happy Christmas parties and ignore the fact that another year is about to finish. And if you’re leaning the latter way this year, then you’re in for a treat, because two of the properties within Washington State’s Olympic National Park are offering a pretty good deal for the tail end of the year.

Stay one night for $99 at either Lake Quinault Lodge, in the middle of the Quinault Rainforest, or Kalaloch Lodge, on the coastal road up to Forks, and you can book a second night for $20.10 (because it’s the end of 2010, see).

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Sleep with Lewis & Clarke and Annie Oakley in Wyoming

Where: 232 W Yellowstone Ave [map], Cody, WY, United States, 82414

We knew there was something fun in Wyoming! Get this: a cool hotel has popped up in Cody, Wyoming and features six themed suites. Among them: Annie Oakley and Lewis & Clarke.

The Cody, whose walls are made with lumber taken from planks that once surrounded Old Faithful, is also hardcore eco-conscious. Says the owner:

We have no paper products in the hotel except for tissue paper and that is biodegradable.  Our breakfast has cloth napkins, china, and glass wear.  So we're washing a lot of dishes.

You know, we might consider going totally paperless if we were to stay in the Lewis and Clark room. When in Rome, do as the Romans do ... and when in a themed room, you might as well apply the theme to your -- okay, we're done.