Everyone wants to spend a summer week in the Colorado Rockies. The problem is that Aspen costs $400 a night, Telluride fills up six months out, and Vail's restaurants run like Manhattan menus. But Colorado's mountain landscape doesn't end at the famous names — there's a whole tier of smaller...

There's something deeply satisfying about soaking in a hot tub while pine trees sway overhead and your dog sprawls out on the deck beside you. The Blue Ridge Mountains around Asheville, NC are tailor-made for this kind of trip — and finding a cabin that genuinely welcomes dogs (rather than...