Vacationers

The Huntington is a botanic garden, a library and an art museum, all on the same grounds.It’s best known for the plant life: There are 16 themed gardens, including a Chinese Garden, lily ponds, a conservatory of humidity-loving species, and areas dedicated to greenery from California, Australia, the desert and the subtropics. There’s even one inspired by the works of Shakespeare. You’ll recognize a lot of spots as backdrops from movies and TV shows, including “The Good Place,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Scandal” and many…

So much snow has hit Lake Arrowhead in the last several days that resident Lisa Griggs couldn’t recognize the highway outside her door when she walked to get groceries.She’s one of the lucky ones in the San Bernardino Mountain town.Five feet of snow in the last five days has blanketed the Lake Arrowhead area, according to the National Weather Service. The conditions have also trapped people in their homes and vacation rentals, and people are rationing food and other supplies as they wait for more information from local…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Oct. 21. I’m Corinne Purtill, a science and medicine reporter at The Times. Earlier this year, my husband and I decided to take our two children to Yellowstone National Park, a place none of us had seen.It was snowing in Yellowstone during the week we booked our tickets, more than typical for the season. By the time we got the kids new hiking shoes a few months later, it was warm at the park, unusually so, and the streams and rivers swelled…