1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die
Patricia Schultz
Language: English
Pages: 1200
ISBN: 0761136916
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Now, shipping in time for the tens of millions of travelers heading out for summer trips, comes 1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die. Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City—from Arthur Bryant's to Gates to B.B.'s Lawnside to Danny Edward's to LC's to Snead's. There's the ice hotel in Quebec, the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, cowboy poetry readings, what to do in Louisville after the Derby's over, and for every city, dozens of unexpected suggestions and essential destinations.
The book is organized by region, and subject-specific indices in the back sort the book by interest—wilderness, great dining, best beaches, world-class museums, sports and adventures, road trips, and more. There's also an index that breaks out the best destinations for families with children. Following each entry is the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone numbers, costs, best times to visit.
is already the largest construction project in Smithsonian history, big enough to allow display of some of its biggest birds in open hangarlike settings. The main Aviation Hangar, ten stories high and three football fields long, houses more than 100 aircraft, some on its main floor, others suspended from two hanging levels beside elevated overlooks. Highlights include a Concorde supersonic airliner; the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; and the only surviving Boeing 307
Averell Harriman, it is still considered one of the finest ski resorts on the continent. Harriman was chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad in the 1930s, when he created the resort and its centerpiece, the luxurious Sun Valley Lodge, as a way to fill his trains during the quieter winter months. With the area’s Sawtooth Mountains substituting when the Alps seemed just too far to go for the weekend, the resort attracted a celebrity crowd from its infancy. At the opening, some 300 guests,
bemoaning the decimation of buffalo, President Theodore Roosevelt named the Wichita Mountains the country’s first national wildlife preserve in 1907. Fifteen bison were returned to the plains (from the New York City Zoo, ironically), and in the 1920s the endangered Texas longhorn cattle joined them on the 60,000-acre refuge. Numbers for both are now so high that there’s an annual roundup and auction to keep the refuge from being overgrazed. The buyers are usually ranchers or sometimes Indian
lunch counter serving spicy Filipino delicacies, a local-style plate-lunch wagon, a classic American diner, and an upscale exemplar of Hawaiian regional cuisine. It wasn’t long ago that few foodies would deign to use “Hawaiian” and “cuisine” in the same sentence. But in the early 1990s, a band of creative local chefs combined Hawaiian ingredients with a variety of traditions to produce cross-cultural fusions—Euro-Asian and Indo-Pacific cooking. A revered figure in Hawaiian regional cuisine, Alan
and upscale boutiques. There’s also a busy fishing harbor full of charter boats whose captains hunt the Kauai Channel daily for tuna, mahimahi, and marlin. The local tradition for a trip to the North Shore includes stopping at one of the shrimp trucks, located around Hale’iwa or Kahuku on the Kamehameha Highway, selling farm-raised North Shore shrimp. The menu usually offers shrimp prepared spicy, garlic, Cajun, coconut, buttered, lemon, or just plain, and most trucks have picnic tables