A vast wilderness around Denali, the highest mountain in North America at 6,190 m. Private cars can drive only the first 24 km of the park road; buses go further into the wilderness, with sightings of grizzly bears, moose, caribou and Dall sheep. (A landslide has closed the road beyond about mile 43.)
The mountain is often hidden in cloud. Flightseeing tours from Talkeetna land on glaciers. The season is late May to mid-September.
Three parks in one in Washington State: the moss-draped Hoh Rain Forest, wild Pacific beaches with sea stacks such as Rialto and Ruby Beach, and the …
A long-running, family-owned Italian restaurant in downtown Kirkland on the shore of Lake Washington, run by a chef-owner from Sardinia.
One of the oldest continuously operating public markets in the USA, opened in 1907, above the waterfront, with fishmongers throwing salmon, flower st…
A wild mountain park in Montana with glacier-carved valleys, turquoise lakes and grizzly bears.
Forests of coast redwoods, the tallest trees on earth, some over 110 m, along the foggy northern California coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The world's first national park, founded in 1872, on a volcanic plateau with more than half of the world's geysers, including Old Faithful, which eru…
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