and along a 1.65-mile hilly section of the Millennium Trail adjacent to the Winter Sports Area at Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda. Though regular preserve hours are 6:30 a.m. to sunset ...

One of the most striking places one can visit during the winter to experience such stark contrasts created by ice and fire is Sunset Crater ... the Coconino National Forest and the deep greens ...

(So yes, by some definitions, winter started last Sunday.) But it might surprise you to learn the earliest sunset of the year is not on the winter solstice, despite its dark and gloomy reputation.