US Touring Areas

Bozeman/Big Sky ski area, Montana

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

2012-01-16T17:26:25-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Blue Ridge Parkway/Skyline Drive, Virginia

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

2012-01-16T17:25:58-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Blue Ridge Mountains, Georgia

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

2012-01-16T17:25:29-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Black Hills/Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

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

2012-01-16T17:24:58-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Berkshires, Massachusetts

Did You Know? The movie, “Cider House Rules” (1999), was filmed at Ventfort Hall, the Museum of the Gilded Age, in Lenox. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie wrote “Alice’s Restaurant” based on a true incident that occurred in Stockbridge (1965). Crane and Company in Dalton makes the cotton-based paper used in

2012-01-16T17:24:35-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Arizona lakes

Did You Know? Lake Mead is America’s largest manmade lake based on water volume. Lake Powell has 1,960 miles of shoreline, more than the West Coast of the continental U.S. On Jan. 7, 1971, Hawley Lake reported Arizona’s lowest-recorded temperature — minus 40F. Robert McCulloch, buyer of London Bridge, diverted

2012-01-16T17:24:00-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Arizona Native American experiences

Did You Know? The Hopi village of Oraibi is America’s oldest Native American settlement, dating to 1100. The 290-foot-tall Rainbow Bridge, on the Navajo Nation reservation, is the world’s largest known natural bridge. Canals built by the Hohokam people, adopted by white men in the 1860s, led to the founding

2012-01-16T17:22:45-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Arizona national parks/nature preserves

Did You Know? Petrified wood in Petrified Forest National Park is quartz, weighing 168 pounds per cubic foot. A saguaro cactus may weigh six tons, grow to 50 feet and live 150 to 175 years. Rattlesnakes bite about 1,000 people a year in the U.S., but death from lightning is

2012-01-16T17:22:21-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|

Amish country/Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Did You Know? About two-thirds (63%) of North America’s Amish live in Ohio, Pennsylvania or Indiana. Lancaster was capital of the American colonies for one day in 1777 and of Pennsylvania 1799-1812. The still-occupied Benjamin Mishler house in Lancaster was built in 10 hours. Overall, the Amish population doubles about

2012-01-16T17:21:49-05:00January 16th, 2012|US Destinations, US Touring Areas|
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