Did You Know? Mount Baker recorded the world’s heaviest snowfall in the 1998-1999 winter — 1,140 inches, nearly 100 feet. More than half of all glaciers in the contiguous 48 states are in the region called the North Cascades. Mount Rainier’s glaciers are the source of six major rivers. The
Did You Know? Before Plymouth, the Pilgrims landed at Provincetown where they wrote the Mayflower Compact framing their plans for self-governance. Old King’s Highway on Cape Cod is the largest contiguous historic district in the U.S. Screen legend Bette Davis was once an usherette at the Cape Playhouse. Eugene O’Neill
Did You Know? The Abbeville Giant Omelette Celebration ends with a 5,000-egg omelette. Eighty-eight percent of U.S. offshore rigs are off Louisiana’s coast. Edmund McIlhenny, creator of Tabasco sauce on Avery Island, was a banker. The Jean Lafitte national park is named for a pirate (but he helped the U.S.
Did You Know? George Washington’s famous 1776 crossing of the Delaware started from a riverbank in Bucks County. Tiles from Doylestown’s Moravian Pottery and Tile Works were used in Monte Carlo’s casino. Ringing Rocks Park is full of rocks that ring hollow when struck with a hammer. The Bristol-to-Easton Delaware
Did You Know? Brown County hosts the world’s longest-running bluegrass festival, dating from 1967. Artists came to rural Indiana for its vistas, inspired by the Impressionists who painted in the countryside. County village names include Bean Blossom and Gnaw Bone, not to mention Stone Head. Brown County only has three
Did You Know? A raindrop falling into Lake Itasca arrives at the Mississippi Delta 90 days later. At its headwaters, the Mississippi River moves roughly 1.2 miles an hour, about a third as fast as a walking human. More than 50 cities rely on the Mississippi for their daily water
Did You Know ... ? Much of “A River Runs Through It” (1992) was filmed in and around Bozeman. Montana-born newscaster Chet Huntley conceived the idea for Big Sky Resort and was a founding investor (1969). Moonlight Basin was America’s first new destination ski resort in 20 years when it
Did You Know? The Blue Ridge Parkway is the most visited unit in the U.S. national park system. When first contemplated, Skyline Drive was to be a dead-end road. Thomas Jefferson bought the Natural Bridge (15 miles from the parkway) from King George III (1774). The Roanoke Farmers Market is
Did You Know? Rocks from the Blue Ridge eastern slope date back as much as 1.2 billion years. Etowah Indian mounds, in the Blue Ridge foothills, are North America’s largest such mounds. Dahlonega had the largest gold-mining operation east of the Mississippi. Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite. Cherokee Indians
Did You Know? The Black Hills, at 60 million years, are America's oldest mountains. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was 60 years old when he started the 14-year Mount Rushmore project. General Custer (of Custer’s Last Stand) led the 1874 Army expedition that found gold in the Black Hills. The presidents on
