US Touring Areas

Did You Know? The Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo is the world’s largest fishing tournament, 3,000+ anglers and 75,000+ spectators. Dauphin Island was first called Massacre Island because of a suspected massacre ...

Did You Know … ? Juneau’s city limits encompass 3,108 square miles, 12 times the size of Singapore. In Alaska, glaciers cover an area roughly equal to South Carolina. The Valdez oil spill ...

Did You Know? Miners took more than $46 million in gold from the Nome area (1899-1910), or $1.34 billion today. The Chilkoot Trail, in U.S. and Canadian parks, is considered the world’s ...

Did You Know? The name Alaska has its roots in a Unangan Aleut word, Alaxsxax, which means mainland. Almost a quarter of Alaska’s indigenous people live in Anchorage. For about a year during ...

Did You Know? In Gold Rush days, prospectors sifted $3 million in gold from Nome’s beaches. Lake Hood is the world’s busiest floatplane base, averaging 800 takeoffs and landings on a peak ...

Did You Know? More bald eagles are found in Alaska than in all the lower 48 states combined. Humpback whales require up to a ton of food daily. Kodiak brown bears can catch ...

Did You Know? Residents of the Amana Colonies conducted their first English-language church services in 1961. George C. Foerstner founded Amana Refrigeration in Middle Amana (1934). Amana introduced the side-by-side refrigerator (1949) and ...

Did You Know? Eight national (or quasi national) flags have flown over Amelia Island, more than at any other U.S. site. The area once harbored the largest concentration of pirates in America. The ...

Did You Know? Although Indiana’s Amish reject telephones at home, they often have current model cellphones. Alka-Seltzer was created at Miles Laboratories in Elkhart (1931). Amish-owned Bender Camel Farm in Shipshewana sells camels’ ...

Did You Know? The 36,000 to 38,000 Amish residents in and around Holmes County comprise the world’s largest Amish community. Every mile of state and federal highway in Holmes County has been ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cape Ann, Massachusetts

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 ...

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 ...

Did You Know? Adirondack Park is larger than the Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone parks combined. The Woodstock festival of 1969 was held on a farm in Bethel. “The Last of the ...

Did You Know? There are more than 17,000 mining claims in southern Gilpin County, location of Central City. Dearfield was an all-black town launched by more than 700 settlers in the early ...

Did You Know? The Rockies harbor the headwaters of the Arkansas, Colorado, Platte and Rio Grande rivers. Fifty-four of Colorado’s mountain peaks surpass 14,000 feet; they are the Fourteeners. Royal Gorge Bridge, 1,053 ...

Did You Know? Forests cover 56% of Connecticut, and roughly three-quarters of the forests are privately owned. Connecticut’s forest-based recreation economy generates roughly $1.2 billion annually. Oak/hickory trees make up more than 72% ...

Did You Know? Death Valley recorded Earth’s highest reliably recorded air temperature (134 F) on July 10, 1913. When in full operation, the Harmony Borax Works produced three tons of borax daily ...

Did You Know? For Americans, shopping malls are the third most frequented location, after home and work. Southern Delaware counts more than 500 antiques dealers. DuPont built the world’s first nylon ...

Did You Know? Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 80% of North America’s seabirds (40 million). Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is America’s largest national park (13.2 million acres). Glacier Bay National ...

Did You Know? Door County has more miles of shoreline (300) than any other county in the U.S. Door County is named for Death’s Door, the dodgy waterway at the tip of ...

Did You Know? Lake Superior is the world’s largest lake based on surface area (31,800 square miles). Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan was born in Duluth. Lake Superior’s water could cover all of North America ...

Did You Know? The original Everglades had a sheet of slow-moving water covering 11,000 square miles (7 million acres). Forty-four kinds of orchids have been identified in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, ...

Did You Know … ? The 100-plus wineries in the Finger Lakes region produce 40 million bottles a year. Angela Bloomer, for whom bloomers were named, was born in the village of ...

Did You Know? Confederate soldiers escaped from Lookout Mountain at night under a full eclipse of the moon (Nov. 25, 1863). In 14 months, nearly 13,000 of the more than 45,000 Union ...

Did You Know? In 1908, the Eagle Pencil Company paid $12,500 for Little St. Simons Island to cut its cedars for pencils; the wood was unsuitable. The U.S. hosted the G8 Summit ...

Did You Know … ? Glacier National Park and Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park were the first International Peace Park (1932). The park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. Welcome ...

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Did You Know? The Grand Canyon has an average depth of 4,000 feet for its entire 277 miles. Traversing the climate zones in the canyon is like driving from Mexico to Canada. Much ...

Did You Know? Sixty percent of all U.S. grain exports are shipped on the Mississippi River. Actress and singer Judy Garland (“The Wizard of Oz”) was born in Grand Rapids, Minn. Waterskiing was ...

Did You Know … ? The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is America’s most visited park. The park is home to about 100 native tree species, more than all of northern Europe. In ...

Did You Know … ? America’s first alpine ski tow was built on a Woodstock, Vt., farm (1934). In 1940, it cost 60 cents to ride the new chairlift at Stowe’s Mount ...

Did You Know? Hawaii’s macadamia nuts, mostly produced on the Big Island, originated in Australia. Kilauea’s eruptions since 1983 have added around 500 new acres to the Big Island. Hawaii’s state fish is ...

Did You Know? The Walkway Over the Hudson (Highland to Poughkeepsie) is the world’s longest pedestrian bridge (1.28 miles). West Point is America’s oldest continuously occupied military post (1779). New Paltz’s Huguenot Street ...

Did You Know? Hot Springs Reservation (later national park) was America’s first federally protected land (1832). Approximately 15% of Eureka Springs’ residents are working artists. Blue Spring at Eureka Springs ...

Did You Know? Hells Canyon is North America’s deepest river gorge, 8,913 feet at its deepest. Idaho has more river miles (3,100) than any other U.S. state. Idaho is the nation’s largest producer ...

Did You Know? Cave-in-Rock State Park is named for a cave that sheltered outlaws until the 1830s. Edward Everett Hale used Illinois’ Fort Massac as a setting for his classic, “The Man ...

Did You Know? There are more than 1,135 native plant species in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The national park’s 126-foot-high Mount Baldy moves inland at an average rate of four feet ...

Did You Know … ? Tongass is America’s largest national forest at 16.8 million acres. Juneau is the only state capital in the U.S. with no road access. Admiralty Island claims North America’s ...

Did You Know? The Diamond Lady docked at Bettendorf was America’s first casino riverboat in the modern era (1991). The U.S. Lock and Dam No. 19 at Keokuk was the world’s largest ...

Did You Know? Joshua trees don’t have growth rings, making it hard to calculate their ages. Prospectors developed about 300 mines within today’s park, most not worth much. But, the park’s Lost Horse ...

Did You Know? The westernmost inhabited spot in the U.S. is on Kauai. Kauai has Hawaii’s only navigable rivers. “South Pacific” (1958) is among the more than 60 films and TV shows with ...

Did You Know … ? The 1964 Good Friday earthquake, the continent’s largest, destroyed 90% of Seward. More than 100,000 birds feed on the 4.5-mile sliver of land called Homer Spit. The Harding ...

Did You Know? Riders travel 176 feet per second (120 mph) on the Top Thrill Dragster, the fastest coaster in Cedar Point Amusement Park. It is thought the phrase “Holy Toledo!” was ...

Did You Know? Winds and pounding surf have created the world’s largest freshwater dune system on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore. Michigan is America’s top producer of blueberries and tart cherries. A ghost town ...

Did You Know? Lake Tahoe is North America’s largest alpine lake, with a surface area of 193 square miles. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation controls the top 6.1 feet of Lake Tahoe ...

Did You Know? Gatsby’s home in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” was inspired by Oheka Castle on Long Island. Charles Lindbergh launched the world’s first solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field ...

Did You Know? Nottoway was saved from destruction in the Civil War by a Union officer who had been a guest there. The same family has occupied the Butler Greenwood Plantation home ...

Did You Know … ? The Grand Hotel’s 660-foot porch is the world’s largest. When the Grand Hotel opened in 1887, room rates were $3 to $5 per night. In summer, there are ...

Did You Know? Seven Maine-based windjammers have been designated National Historic Landmarks. Maine Windjammer Cruises was the first to offer sailing vacations in America (1936). Maine has 65 lighthouses on 5,500 miles of ...

Did You Know … ? Machias was the site of the first naval battle of the American Revolution (June 1775). Andrew Wyeth was staying in Rockland when he painted “Christina’s World.” Cabot Cove, ...

Did You Know? Maine rarely replants after cutting trees because its forests reseed themselves. Each American uses the equivalent of a 100-foot tree per year. Maine’s lobster harvest averages nearly 40 million pounds ...

Did You Know? Maine’s 32,000 miles of rivers and streams together are longer than the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile and Yangtze combined. The state boasts 330 bird species. Maine produces more blueberries than any ...

Did You Know? Grammar school dropout Chester Greenwood of Farmington invented earmuffs at age 15 (1873). The L.L. Bean flagship store, open 24/7, has no locks on the doors. A Freeport business, Sea ...

Did You Know? Acadia National Park was the first U.S. national park east of the Mississippi (1919). Quoddy Head State Park is the country’s easternmost point. Maine has more than 1 million acres ...

Did You Know? It would take 86 hours to spend 10 minutes in each Mall of America store. There are 4.3 miles of total storefront footage in Mall of America. America’s first suburban ...

Did You Know? Approximately 63% of the Island’s housing stock is second homes for seasonal residents. The first Bible printed in the U.S. was written in the language of the Wampanoag Indians ...

Did You Know? The red maple, which can grow to 120 feet, is America’s most common tree. About 400 of North America’s 1,000 cranberry farms are in Massachusetts. The Topsfield Fair, first called ...

Did You Know? The Revolutionary War monument in Lexington is America’s oldest war memorial (July 4, 1799). Female mill workers in Lowell struck in 1845 and won a workday reduction from 14 ...

Did You Know? Hawaii’s last sugar plantation, on Maui, was set to cease operations in 2016. Bats are Hawaii’s only native warm-blooded land animals. Maui’s Puu Kukui mountain holds the U.S. record for ...

Did You Know? Boonville has had a locally invented dialect, called Boontling, now dying out, since the late 19th century. Philo Ridge Vineyards (Mendocino County) is the world’s first off‐the‐grid winery, relying ...

Did You Know? The Ancestral Puebloans occupied cliff dwellings for only 100 years of their 700-plus years at Mesa Verde. Great Sand Dunes National Park has North America’s tallest dunes (the highest, ...

Did You Know? Pass Christian Yacht Club was the South’s first yacht club (1849). The Biloxi Lighthouse stands in the middle of a four-lane highway. The world’s longest manmade sand beach stretches for ...

Did You Know? Rock Island gangster John Looney was inspiration for the John Rooney character in “The Road to Perdition” (2002). Alton resident and U.S. Sen. Lyman Trumbull wrote the 13th ...

Did You Know? In 1938 the entire city of Vidalia was moved a mile inland because of a huge river-widening project. Fully 78% of the world’s exports in feed grains and soybeans ...

Did you know …? Monterey was the first capital when California became a U.S. state (1849). Bing Crosby launched winter golf tourneys (1947) with the Pebble Beach National Pro-Amateur event. A permit is ...

Did You Know … ? Herman Melville’s book, “Moby Dick,” was based on the true story of a Nantucket whaling ship. The first European owner of the island sold it to nine ...

Did You Know? Ninety-five percent of Napa Valley’s wineries are family owned and operated. In Sonoma Valley, one acre of grapes produces 15,940 glasses of wine. California’s wine industry began in Sonoma Valley, ...

Did You Know? Artificial rain was first used to fight a forest fire in 1947, near Concord, N.H. Nine of the 48 tallest peaks in New Hampshire’s White Mountains are named for ...

Did You Know? The Barnstormers in Tamworth is the world’s last theater to stage eight plays in eight weeks during summer. Wolfeboro boasts of being the oldest summer resort in America (1770s). North ...

Did You Know? Sandy Hook Lighthouse is America’s oldest standing lighthouse (1764). Congress Hall in Cape May is America’s oldest seaside resort (1816). The Wildwoods Boardwalk boasts more eateries (100-plus) than Mall of ...

Did You Know? Zia Pueblo is the birthplace of the Zia sun symbol seen on the New Mexico state flag. In pueblos, when originally built, entry to homes was via the roof. During ...

Did You Know? Fort Ontario was used as a Holocaust refugee center (1944-1946), the only one in the U.S. Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold led America’s first Revolutionary War victory (1775), capturing ...

Did You Know … ? NASCAR traces its roots to North Carolina bootleggers who souped up their cars to avoid the law. Around 1900, North Carolina was the country’s leading wine-producing region. “The ...

Did You Know? The 28 lakes of the Eagle River Chain O’Lakes comprise the world’s largest chain of inland lakes. Wisconsin sells around 1.3 million fishing licenses annually, and anglers catch about ...

Did You Know? The Ala Moana Center is the world’s largest outdoor mall with 290 shops and eateries. Traditional Hawaiian society dictated that men and women didn’t eat together or eat the ...

Did You Know? The “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” occurred in a vacant lot, not the O.K. Corral, and lasted about 30 seconds. The modern professional rodeo was born in Prescott (1888), ...

Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Did You Know? Seven of Oregon’s 13 ski areas sit on volcanoes. The Timberline ski area boasts North America’s only year-round ski area. The Pacific Crest Trail takes its hikers over 57 major ...

Did You Know … ? North Willamette Valley is on the same latitude as France’s Bordeaux wine region. The wine industry generates more than $3.35 billion annually in economic activity in Oregon. Harry & ...

Did You Know? The site of the Wright Brothers’ first flight (1903) is Kill Devil Hills (no longer part of Kitty Hawk). The pirate Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, rests under water ...

Did You Know? The fiddle is the Arkansas state instrument and the square dance, the state dance. J. William Fulbright, the senator who created Fulbright Fellowships, grew up in Fayetteville. Sam Walton opened ...

Did You Know? Missouri native Paul Henning created TV’s “The Beverly Hillbillies” based on people he met in the Ozarks as a kid. The Lake of the Ozarks’ squiggly shoreline is longer ...

Did You Know? When withdrawing at Gettysburg, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s train of wounded Confederate soldiers stretched more than 14 miles. A bronze likeness of Albert Woolson, the last surviving Union veteran, ...

Did You Know? The skies are so dark at Cherry Springs State Park that, with a clear sky, the Milky Way casts a shadow. Twyford Motor Car Co., operating 1905-1907 in Brookville, ...

Did You Know … ? At one time, Traverse City’s (now-defunct) asylum held more inmates than the town had residents. Petoskey stone, Michigan’s state stone, is fossilized coral that is about 350 ...

Did You Know? During Prohibition, Poconos resorts did not permit golf, tennis or other sports on Sundays. Honesdale-born Richard B. Smith wrote the lyrics for “Winter Wonderland” (1930s). Harry Packer Mansion in Jim ...

 Did You Know? Tacoma’s Harold LeMay amassed the world’s largest private car collection (nearly 3,000). The Washington capitol building was the last great domed structure built in the U.S. (1928). The Great Peninsula ...

Did You Know? Mount Whitney, at 14,497 feet, is America’s tallest mountain outside of Alaska. Ribbon Falls, in Yosemite, is the highest waterfall (1,612 feet) on the continent. The world’s largest living thing ...

Did You Know? In Lewes, the Ryves Holt House (c. 1665) is Delaware’s oldest documented house. Rehoboth Beach hosted America’s first beauty pageant (1880) with Thomas Edison one of three judges. Lewes has ...

Did You Know? Walt Disney named his Thunder Mountain ride after the tallest butte in West Sedona. At least eight Sedona streets are named for movies made there, such as “Johnny Guitar” ...

Did You Know? Redding’s Sundial Bridge is the world’s largest sundial and tells time correctly only on June 21. The largest population (500-plus) of bald eagles in the lower 48 winters at ...

Did You Know? The young George Washington surveyed part of what is now the valley’s Route 11. Forebears of more than 43 million Americans migrated along the valley’s Wilderness Road. During the Civil ...

Did You Know … ? Ansel Adams’ first published photographs appeared in the Sierra Club’s 1922 Bulletin. Mono Lake is saltier than the oceans and as alkaline as household ammonia. The Sequoia and ...

Did You Know? The Lincolns bought their home and an empty lot for $1,500 (1844) and remodeled or enlarged the house six times. Detective Allan Pinkerton thwarted the first plot to kill ...

Did You Know? Erle Stanley Gardner wrote many of his Perry Mason books in Temecula where he lived for 33 years. The slot machine count at Pechanga Resort and Casino beats the ...

Did You Know? The Texas oil industry started with the 1901 strike at the Spindletop oilfield at Beaumont. Galveston’s first known European settler was a pirate, Jean Laffite, who started a colony ...

Did You Know? The Soo Locks comprise the world’s busiest lock system, averaging 10,000 vessels yearly. Sault Ste. Marie is Michigan’s oldest city, dating from 1668. Native people were mining copper on Keweenaw ...

Did You Know? America’s first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 when two lines met near Brigham City. Lake Powell has more shoreline (1,800+ miles) than the western U.S. Great Salt Lake is ...

Did You Know? Richmond was burned in the Revolutionary War (by the British, 1781) and the Civil War (by residents, 1865). British reinforcements departed for Virginia on the very day Gen. Charles ...

Did You Know? Washington state has 3,036 miles of saltwater shoreline. The Sequim Irrigation Festival, dating from 1896, is Washington’s oldest continuous festival. The Grand Coulee Dam is American’s largest dam and one ...

Did You Know? A new winery opens in Washington almost every 15 days. Washington averages 16 hours of daily sunlight in summer, one hour more than in California’s top wine region. Yakima Valley ...

Did You Know? Arlington National Cemetery, the nation’s largest military cemetery, sees 27 to 30 funerals each weekday. George Washington’s farm sold produce at Alexandria’s Saturday market, which dates from 1753. The Pentagon ...

Did You Know? Gray whales make the longest migration of any mammal —10,000 to 14,000 miles roundtrip yearly. English explorer John Meares gave Cape Disappointment its name after he missed the mouth ...

Did You Know? Mount Washington is the tallest mountain in the U.S. Northeast, 6,288 feet. Crawford Path is America’s oldest continuously maintained hiking trail (1819). The engine and passenger car on Mount Washington’s ...

Did You Know? Hollywood filmmakers have logged more than 400 film-related credits in the Wilmington area. The Venus flytrap grows naturally only within a 60- to 100-mile radius of Wilmington. Orton’s Music and ...

Did You Know? More than 2,000 land-to-water vehicles known as Ducks, now used for sightseeing, were used in the Normandy Landing (1944). There are more than 16 million gallons of water in ...

Did You Know? The Army protected Yellowstone from poachers, developers — and tourists — from 1886 to 1918. The park has more geysers and hot springs than the rest of the world ...

Did You Know? Part of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) was filmed in Zion National Park. Zion’s Virgin River carries a million tons of sediment out of the park and ...