The last registered prisoner at Alcatraz was Frank Clay Weatherman, who arrived on December 14, 1962. He was also the last of the final prisoners to board the boat leaving Alcatraz Island when the prison closed on March 21, 1963. Read more...
The LA Galaxy MLS soccer team plays its home games at the Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly called the Home Depot Center and the StubHub Center) in Carson, California, 15 miles south of Los Angeles. The stadium is part of a multi-sports complex located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Read more...
The nearest hotel to the Honda Center in Anaheim is the Ayres Hotel located just across the street at East Katella Avenue and Douglass Road. Read more...
There is a 24 hour Starbucks Coffee at Southeast 102nd Ave and Southeast Stark Street in East Portland. It’s a Drive Thru with a walk-up window and some outdoor seating but no indoor seating. Read more...
The Radisson Blu Hotel is connected to Manchester Airport’s Skylink covered walkway to all terminals. The DoubleTree by Hilton, Clayton Hotel, and Crowne Plaza are also on-airport hotels but, without a direct link to the terminals, they have a free 24 hour shuttle instead. Read more...
The nearest hotels to the Abbotsford Centre are the Travelodge By Wyndham Abbotsford Bakerview and the Super 8 by Wyndham. They are neighbouring hotels located 2.5 kilometres away (5 minutes by car or 30 minutes on foot) on Sumas Way, Abbotsford, British Columbia. Read more...
The Grand Hyatt at SFO hotel is the on-airport hotel at San Francisco International Airport and connected to the terminals by the AirTrain. Off airport, the nearest hotels to SFO are Aloft San Francisco Airport and The Westin San Francisco Airport, neighboring hotels located a 2-mile (or 4-minute) drive away in Millbrae. Both offer free 24-hour airport shuttle service. Read more...
The Staten Island Ferry leaves Manhattan from the Whitehall Terminal (also called South Ferry) on Whitehall Street and South Street, near Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan. Read more...
Two local newspapers cover Canmore, Alberta: the Rocky Mountain Outlook is published every Thursday and the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon is published every Wednesday. Read more...
The capital of the US state of Nevada is Carson City. It is home to the Nevada State Capitol building, the Nevada Legislative Building, and the Supreme Court of Nevada When the Territory of Nevada was formed in the separation from the Utah Territory during the American Civil War in 1861, Genoa served as the first capital until it was Read more...
The Grouse Grind trailhead is near Grouse Mountain’s Valley Station Skyride aerial tramway terminal at 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more...
Yankee Stadium is a 10-minute walk from MTA Metro-North’s Yankees-East 153rd Street station on the Hudson line running between Poughkeepsie and Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. On game days the station is also served by the Harlem and New Haven lines, and frequent shuttles run between the station, Harlem-125th Street station, and Grand Central. Read more...
The Winnipeg Jets NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Bell MTS Place arena (formerly called the MTS Centre) in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Jets started playing at the arena in 2011 after the team moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta, Georgia, where they played as the Atlanta Thrashers from 1999. The Manitoba Moose, the American Hockey League affiliate Read more...
The Edmonton Oilers NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The Oilers moved to the newly-constructed arena in 2016, having previously played at Edmonton’s Northlands Coliseum (also known as Rexall Place). Rogers Place, which has a capacity of 18,500 for hockey games, is also home to the Edmonton Oil Kings major junior Read more...
The Calgary Flames ice hockey team plays its home games at the Scotiabank Saddledome (formerly called the Olympic Saddledome) in downtown Calgary, Alberta. Read more...
The Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Arena (formerly called GM Place) in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The NHL team moved to the newly-built arena in 1995, having been based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver’s Hastings Park for the preceding 25 years. The first Canucks game at the new arena was a pre-season NHL Read more...