The 2025 Sunset Travel Awards Open Soon—Here’s How to Enter

It’s never been a better time to travel the West. From glamorous resorts to buzzy restaurants to thrilling nature experiences to luxe wellness retreats, there is just so much to explore. 

But because there are endless options, it can be overwhelming to plan your next trip. That’s why we want your recommendations on the best of travel in the West to make trip-prep easier and to celebrate the stellar destinations, hotels, restaurants, wineries, activities, and more in this corner of the world. Tell us about those secret spots, exciting newcomers, tried-and-true favorites… we want to hear it all!

The 2025 Sunset Travel Awards are opening soon—we’ll be accepting submissions from March 3 to April 18. Sunset’s editors will judge the entries, and the lucky winners will be honored in our fall Travel print issue, on social media, and in a robust online package. We’ll be including every entrant in a dedicated online travel directory, too. We hope you’ll submit and be a part of this year’s awards. Go to awards.sunset.com to learn more.

The submissions will be divided into these categories:

• Where to Go: The best destinations in the West, from bustling cities to quiet mountain towns, beachside getaways, national parks, and everything in between—and beyond.
• Where to Stay: The high-end hotels, national park lodges, unique inns, glamping sites, and hip B&Bs across the West that are newly opened, newly renovated, or have stood the test of time. If you can sleep there, this is your category.
• What to Do: The tours, parks, museums and galleries, zoos and aquariums, music venues, festivals of all kinds, wineries, spas, and every other sort of Western amusement you can think of.
• Where to Eat & Drink: The very best bars and restaurants across the region, from historic diners and rowdy beer halls to James Beard Award–winning establishments and invite-only cocktail bars.
• How to Get There: The West’s best airlines, train routes, public transport, rental-car agencies, ferries, cruises, bike shares, and other ways to get from point A to point B.

We can’t wait to read all of the submissions. Best of luck!