Usa Travel Stories

Aug 21, 2012 • 5 min read

You want to get close to nature, but the loud tourists want to get close to you. Here's how to get a slice of national park all to yourself.

Aug 8, 2012 • 7 min read

Ancient cliff dwellings, protected sea forts and the world's fourth-longest cave system - the USA's got some incredible parks beyond the big hitters. In…

Aug 7, 2012 • 4 min read

Willows Inn, Lummi Island - photo by carendt242. Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 2.0).

Aug 3, 2012 • 3 min read

Alcatraz is one of the world’s most notorious holding pens. When you visit, book the popular night tour and watch the sun set over ‘The Rock’, as it’s…

Aug 3, 2012 • 2 min read

Whenever something is clearly impossible, San Franciscans seem determined to do it, and Golden Gate Park is living proof. In 1866, forward-thinking San…

Jul 23, 2012 • 7 min read

What a story. Born Norma Jean Baker as the illegitimate daughter of a poor woman with mental illness, passing her youth in foster homes and orphanages,…

Jul 16, 2012 • 3 min read

American beer used to be the subject of jokes, and rightfully so - but no longer. These days you can find great beer everywhere from Brooklyn to Oakland,…

Jul 15, 2012 • 4 min read

One of the world's great towns for beer, weirdness, cheap food, funky neighborhoods, forest hikes and much more, Portland is the kind of city you visit…

Jul 11, 2012 • 3 min read

Surf's up! Image by Danita Delimont (Getty Images).

Jul 10, 2012 • 6 min read

Maybe the best decision I’ve ever made in my life was to go along with a bunch of friends on a two-week, 3000-mile motorcycle trip from Portland, Oregon,…

Jul 3, 2012 • 5 min read

Summer on ever-popular Cape Cod, Massachusetts conjures up images of traffic-clogged streets and jam-packed beaches. “That's the problem with peninsulas”,…

Jul 1, 2012 • 2 min read

For a classic American road trip, nothing beats good ol’ Route 66. Nicknamed the nation's 'Mother Road' by novelist John Steinbeck, this string of small…

Jun 29, 2012 • 4 min read

No matter what age you are, from the cute, playful dinosaurs of The Land Before Time, to the truly terrifying killers of Jurassic Park, dinosaurs never…

Jun 29, 2012 • 4 min read

The world may chide America for its supersized ways, but when it comes to the Grand Canyon, the more-is-better approach is clearly the right way to go…

Jun 27, 2012 • 5 min read

This is an excerpt from the Shopping chapter of Lonely Planet's New York City guide.

Jun 22, 2012 • 5 min read

This itinerary from Lonely Planet's USA's Best Trips, written by local expert authors Amy Balfour, Alison Bing, Jennifer Denniston, Lisa Dunford and Karla…

Jun 21, 2012 • 2 min read

It's an age-old travel tradition - comparing what we find on the road to life back home, be it Jefferson City, Minsk or Wolverhampton. And it got us…

Jun 20, 2012 • 11 min read

Roadtripping in Autumn can be an especially photogenic time, and the US affords some lush landscape to motor through. Here are 10 trips for fall across…

Jun 20, 2012 • 6 min read

Lonely Planet has produced this article for Moloka'i Visitors Association. All views are Lonely Planet's alone and reflect our view of editorial…

Jun 19, 2012 • 4 min read

If a night on the town in New York City for you means knocking back mojitos at an über slick Manhattan rooftop bar or single-malts at a swanky Wall Street…

Jun 17, 2012 • 5 min read

Sue, the grand dame of Chicago's Field Museum, is the largest T-Rex skeleton in the world and just one of the many amazing collectibles on show in America…

Jun 17, 2012 • 2 min read

Hollywood has long had a love affair with America’s Wild West of yesteryear. Southwestern towns in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada have…