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4 July 2007/08 America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller www.canadiantraveller.net The White House Washington

April 30, 2007

I send greetings to our Canadian neighbors, and on behalf of all Americans, I invite you to enjoy the beauty and excitement of our country.

The people of the United States are grateful to have Canada as an ally and a friend, and we are pleased to invite you to our home. Americans take great pride in our country’s natural and historical treasures. We hope you will take the opportunity to experience the magnificent landscapes and unique heritage that enrich our Nation. From our sandy beaches and towering mountains to our vibrant cities and fascinating cultural attractions, you will discover the extraordinary wonder of our country and the great character of our people.

The ties between the United States and Canada are deep and long lasting. By visiting each other’s countries, we can advance international friendship and strengthen the goodwill and welcoming spirit shared by our two nations.

Laura and I send our best wishes.

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By Richard Carret Chair, SeeAmerica Committee-Canada

y default, readers of this publication are either suppliers of U.S.A. travel Band tourism product, or buyers and resellers. In either case, you should be encouraged to know that you are buying, and selling, one hot commodity. The diversity of product in the U.S.A. is unparalleled in the world. Canadians have known this for some time, and are America’s most loyal visitors. They have proven it year after year. This is most evident these past two years, as America has faced a tourism crisis with the decline in overseas arrivals. But, as with any good neighbour, Canada has done an admirable job of supporting it’s friend to the south, with visitations climbing both years to almost-record highs. Each Other’s Most Important Partner • The two-year increase is over two million. that if you want to influence your present Let’s face it. America and Canada are each Fact: This represents approximately half business, look to your biggest customers and other’s largest trade partner, and each other’s the size of the entire UK market. approach them for a little more. largest tourism partner. We depend on one • In 2006, the air sector alone produced 5.125 And that’s exactly how the U.S.A. should another. Yes, we have plenty of alternatives, million overnight visitors. look upon Canada – its biggest and most and both of us have been busy exploring Fact: This is greater than the entire U.K. trustworthy market. these. The amount of product, its availability, market to the U.S.A. A fact that may not be well known is that and the growing network of nonstop flights Fact: Alternatively, this is larger than all of while the U.K., at 4.2-million visits a year, has made a lot of far flung destinations easily the Germany, France and Japan markets represents the Number 3 market to the U.S.A., accessible to all North Americans. And many added together. 50 per cent of all those visitors are going to have taken advantage. • That, in 2006, spending by Canadians in either New York City or Orlando. That leaves But it also remains a fact that, despite the U.S.A. rose to US $13.5 billion, 2.1 million visitors for the other 48 states and the multiplicity of other, very attractive overtaking the U.K., traditionally the many thousands of cities in America. alternatives, Canada has supported the Number 2 behind Japan. Whereas, Canadians travel to every state and every corner of America. We are as important to U.S. tourism industry like no other Fact: It’s abundantly clear that – when it New York City as we are to Boise, Idaho. country these past two years. comes to U.S.A. tourism, Canada matters! Did you know, there were more Canadian Just The Facts Canada Matters, leisure travellers going to Nebraska in 2005 than there were Chinese leisure travellers to And, speaking of facts, did you know… Especially Now the entire U.S.A. • Canadian outbound trips to the U.S. rose by We know that North American countries have over one million, to 16 million. been pursuing inbound tourism opportunities Ontario Still The Champ Fact: This increase is larger than the from emerging markets, China and India Ontario represents 39 per cent of population of increase from Europe, Japan and South foremost among them. But, as attractive as these Canada, but provides 47 per cent of travellers America combined prospects are, any good salesperson will tell you to the U.S. British Columbia is another

6 July 2007/08 America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller www.canadiantraveller.net province which has a higher share of visitors than population (17 per cent vs. 13 per cent). But, among provinces of traffic origin, there are only minor differences across trip purpose (e.g. Ontario 43 per cent of leisure). It’s Leisure…Mostly More than one half of Canadians visit the U.S. for the leisure-related purposes. Business accounts for only 15 per cent, visiting friends or relatives is 21 per cent, and the remaining includes other reasons. And, increasingly, We Love To Fly One-third of Canadians arrive in the U.S. by air, a number that continues to increase as airlines, especially Air Canada and United Airlines GST! Meaning that we Canadians are getting (TIA) and the Business Travel Roundtable continue to expand Canada/U.S.A. flying. a terrific break. It’s no longer dollars-at-par. (BTR), is making progress, working through Among all carriers, AC, UA and AA rank 1, 2, 3 It’s dollars-over-par. the U.S. Department of Commerce, in getting in capacity to the U.S.A. from Canada. the attention of lawmakers in passing Northwest serves the most cities in Canada. So, What’s On The Horizon? legislation that would enhance the ability of And, among all carriers, the most growth has Tourism across the border from Canada to the America to market itself and improve its come from United, almost doubling since 2000 U.S.A. has been buoyant. With the strength of image overseas. to over 11,000 daily seats by mid-2007. our economy, a rise in disposable income and a Included in this effort is a new ‘Blueprint to very strong Canadian dollar, there is no reason Discover America’, which promotes ideas that Where Do We Travel? to expect that things should change soon. would improve the border processing system, The top state for visitors is New York. Other Other than…WHTI (the passport issue)! defeat negative perceptions and create border states that have proximity to major Unquestionably, this legislative change, sustainable tourism promotion funding which Canadian cities also rank high. Washington and which requires Canadians and Americans both presently does not exist. Michigan are Numbers 3 and 4 respectively. to have either passports or other secure TIA is working closely with government to But also notice from the chart that a very documentation to cross between countries, come up with solutions, and has been candid important visitation measure is ‘visit-nights’– will have an impact. It is still too early to tell in its feedback relating to WHTI and the essentially the number of overnight visitors how severe this impact will be, as there has dangers of not “getting it right”. multiplied by the number of consecutive nights also been confusion of message with multiple In this writer’s opinion, WHTI will have they spend at their destination. You’ll notice that dates being proposed and difficulties in both some short-term impacts on Canada/U.S.A. Florida – while Number 2 in visitors – is countries in properly anticipating the demand tourism (especially northbound) but, longer actually Number 1 by a very wide margin in for passport issuance. term, the market will continue to expand. visit-nights. The American tourism industry, led by a We are, after all, neighbours and each

And, given these numbers, the visitor-night coalition of the Travel Industry Association other’s most reliable partner. v crown will not be relinquished anytime soon. One state whose visit-nights are climbing significantly is Arizona, as it becomes more and more attractive to Canadian snowbirds. Did Someone Say Shopping? It comes at no surprise that the Number 1 activity of Canadians in the U.S. is shopping! And, what choice…and great prices. Frankly, with a Canadian dollar in the mid-90s (at time of writing), the U.S.A. becomes an incredible bargain for shoppers. Not only is there expanded selection over what we have at home in Canada, but prices are generally more aggressive (can anyone say ‘outlet mall’?). And, taxes are, generally, lower. No www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 7 DAD’s The Best Inaugural Discover America Day Enjoys Huge Success

he inaugural Discover America Day, 1. 5. held June 20 in Toronto, was more than Ta good idea – it was a great day, with national trade media and leading tour operators taking advantage of the opportunity to meet and do business with representatives from 30 key U.S. suppliers. At a pre-event, invitation-only reception, U.S. Consul General John Nay and his wife Judy hosted Roger Dow, president and CEO of 2. 6. the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA), U.S. exhibitors, select tour operators and representatives from the SeeAmerica Committee-Canada. Mr. Nay noted he was pleased to see that events like DAD are now being organized to promote this important business sector. On Wednesday, the first-ever DAD kicked off with a exhibitor breakfast where Mr. Dow 3. 7. declared “…the Canadian market, they are our friends, but we must not take our friends for granted,” and Richard Carret, chair of SeeAmerica Committee-Canada provided an indepth market update. DAD boasted two marketplace sessions with five scheduled appointments for participants – a morning session for trade media and 4. an afternoon session for tour operators. All and 8. all a productive and positive day! Have a look. And, don’t’forget 2008! If you are a buyer or seller of travel to the U.S. look for your invitation in the mail.

Look Who Was There Alamo Rent-A-Car • Arizona Office of PHOTOS MARIE KLAUDE GAGNON Tourism • Best Western Global Marketing • Busch Entertainment 1. Roger Dow, president and CEO of TIA is director, Best Western Global Marketing Corporation • California Tourism presented with a souvenir of the first-ever Group; Rex Armstead, president, ACT • Chelsea Premium Outlets • City Pass Discover America Day in Canada by Susan Communications at the pre-event reception. • Colorado Tourism Office • Explore Wilson, VP, marketing communications, 5. Reagan Stulbaum (left), director, Minnesota Tourism • Greater Phoenix CityPass. Tourism, NYC & Company, chats with CVB • Greater Miami CVB • Hilton 2. Jean Guinup, senior director — journalist Gary Crallé. Hotels • Kansas City CVB • Kentucky marketing, Northeast Regional Office, 6. Linda Stillman, director of sales for the Tourism • Louisiana Tourism • LA Inc. Chelsea Premium Outlets chats with Jacqui Miami CVB talks shop with Ian Dawson of • Missouri Division of Tourism • Nevada Budd of Merit Travel. Merit Golf Vacations. Commission on Tourism • New England 3. Richard Carret (left) and Rex Armstead 7. Media, tour operators and exhibitors Tourism • New Mexico Tourism• North (centre) congratulate Cindy Gerhardt, enjoyed a chance to network and hear an Carolina Division of Tourism • NYC & buyer for WestJest Vacations on winning address by keynote speaker Roger Dow and Company • Orlando CVB $1,000 in travellers cheques. the DAD luncheon. • St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area CVB 4. Mark Trujillo, USA/Canada tour and trade 8. Consul General John Nay and his wife • State of Georgia Dept. of Economic director, State of New Mexico Tourism Judy, welcomed Roger Dow, president and Development • State of Illinois • Texas Department; Donna Cordle, Missouri Division CEO of the Travel Industry Association of Tourism in Canada • Tourico Holidays of Tourism; Roger Dow, president and CEO of America (TIA), U.S. exhibitors, select tour • Virginia Tourism Corporation TIA; Tom Tittel, general manager of Hilton operators and representatives from the • Visit Florida • Washington, D.C. CTC. Toronto Airport; Susan Wilson, VP, marketing SeeAmerica Committee-Canada to an communications, CityPass; Natalie Zima, exclusive invitation-only reception.

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new Montavista Courtyard and Suites in February. The resort’s total room count is now 119, S E M A including 17 Montavista guestrooms and suites featuring French doors, lush leather furni- J ture, and private balconies; and 45 Valencia guestrooms and suites splashed with rich tones, bold patterns and custom-designed furnishings. Rounding out the new rooms and suites is a two-bedroom Alvadora Spa Villa and six Alvadora Spa suites, created by world-renowned spa designer Sylvia Sepielli. The Claredon Hotel + Suites, a boutique hotel in midtown Phoenix, is making multiple improvements this summer, including a new restaurant featuring Japanese cuisine with a Southwestern twist; a two-storey, 18-metre-wide waterfall and new furnishings for Located just outside Tucson, the “White the pool area; and a rooftop deck that will offer stunning views of the Scottsdale and Dove of the Desert”, the San Xavier del Bac Phoenix skylines. Mission, is considered one of the finest In Old Town Scottsdale, Kimpton’s Firesky Resort & Spa opened in April after an examples of mission architecture in the U.S. extensive renovation to the former Caleo Resort & Spa. Firesky tells the story of the four elements of nature – fire, water, earth, and air – and features bold, contemporary decor, free ATTRACTIONS Wi-Fi resort-wide, yoga and meditation TV channels, a wine hour each evening, in-room • Grand Canyon National Park: One of the spa treatments and welcome amenities for pet guests and the signature “Forgot it? We got wonders of the natural world, the canyon can it.” Other highlights: Arizona’s only Jurlique-branded spa and Taggia, a full-service restau- be seen on foot, walking along the rim or rant that serves up coastal Italian cuisine. hiking; from the back of a mule; from a raft Meanwhile, a major enhancement and renovation to The Canyon Suites at The on the Colorado River; by train or by air. Phoenician has recently been completed. A boutique “hotel within a hotel,” The Canyon Suites has its own private lobby, check-in, concierge and swimming pool. Mondrian Scottsdale, the 194-room hotel from Morgans Hotel Group, debuted the fast long-awaited results of its multi-million-dollar renovation in January. This is the first hotel [ facts in downtown Scottsdale to offer an upscale, urban lodging experience with signature amenities like Agua Bathhouse spa and the dramatic open-air Skybar. The Mondrian’s Region: SOUTHWEST design scheme, an ode to the Garden of Eden, features apples, snakes and cherubs with America’s Byways: Coronado Trail Scenic minimal, chic guest rooms that house black furniture, white bedding, gray carpet and large Byway, Historic Route 66-AZ, Kaibab flat-screen TVs. Plateau-North Rim Parkway, Red Rock Currently under construction, the W Hotel and Residences is expected to open in down- Scenic Byway, Sky Island Scenic Byway. town Scottsdale in December 2007. The property will consist of a seven-storey building Direct Flights: Air Canada, USAirways, with 224 guestrooms, a ballroom, three meeting rooms, and the Bliss spa. The epicentre of WestJet the hotel, on the second floor, will be a 2,000-square-metre recreation and pool deck with Sales Tools: Official Visitors Guide, an infinity-edge swimming pool surrounded by a sand beach, private cabanas, fitness centre newsletter. and two bars. Also on this level will be seven spa suites, additional meeting space and a Info: Arizona Office of Tourism restaurant terrace. (416) 861-1240 • Gila River Indian Community Interpretive Trail: Guests staying at the Sheraton Wild www.ArizonaGuide.com Horse Pass Resort & Spa in Chandler are invited to explore the culture and history of the Gila River Indian Community by strolling along this new four-kilometre trail. More than 50 signs detailing the culture, history and plant life of the Gila River Indian Community can be found along the trail. • El Presidio San Agustín del Tucson: Experience life in Tucson during the period from the American Revolution through the Civil War. This new inter- Flagstaf• f pretive centre and museum is located on the site of Tucson’s original adobe- walled fortress (presidio), established by Spain in 1775 and in use until 1856. PHOENIX/Scottsdale/Mesa • Arizona’s First Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World: This 15,805-square-metre # • megastore in west Mesa, minutes from Downtown Phoenix, sells everything one Los Angeles needs for a great outdoor adventure, from golf balls and kayaks to climbing gear Tucson• and archery equipment. The store also features an indoor shooting and archery range, a putting green and golf simulator, 125,000 litres of aquariums, a casting pond for fisherman, a NASCAR simulator and taxidermy displays. www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 13 ARIZONA Arizona Office of Tourism (416) 861-1240 www.ArizonaGuide.com U A E R U B M S I R U O T U S A V A H E K A L

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explore this crater near Flagstaff that was an the Heard Museum West in Surprise and the P L A N O

active volcano more than 900 years ago. Heard Museum Scottsdale, which opened I T A • Rawhide Western Town: A taste of the June 30. N fun Old West, including street skits and • Canyon de Chelly National Monument: An mock gunfights, desert train rides, a canal amazing, 300-metre gorge carved eons ago ride, a petting zoo and stage show, and an by water and wind. Clients can explore its old-time saloon and steakhouse. Gila River wondrous sights from an easy rim drive or a Indian Community. journey inside the canyon on foot, horseback • Heard Museum: One of the most extensive or in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Near Chinle. displays of Native American artifacts and art • The Navajo and Hopi Reservations: The in the U.S., the Heard’s massive collection is Navajo are famous for their hand crafts – B V C X

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prehistoric cliff dwellings and a 207-metre C A S tunnel. Clarkdale. E M • Saguaro National Park: A forest of Saguaro cacti and a visitor centre with exhibits, plus biking trails, nature walks and picnic areas. Blooming season: May to June. Outside Tucson. • Out of Africa Wildlife Park: Wildlife Preserve and wildlife theme park on 42 wilderness hectares at the base of the Mingus Mountains, 30 minutes from Sedona and just over an hour from Phoenix. Home to more than 400 exotic animals.

EVENTS • The Fiesta Bowl (January), Phoenix. • The FBR Open (January/February), Phoenix. Affectionately known as “the Mighty MAC”, the Mesa Arts Center is Arizona’s largest arts • Scottsdale Fine Art & Chocolate and entertainment complex and features theatres, galleries and exhibition space, Festival (February). visual/performing arts studios and classrooms. • La Fiesta de los Vaqueros Tucson Rodeo & Parade (February), Tucson. • Tucson Winter Chamber Music •World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo •Arizona Scottish Highland Games Festival (March). (August), Payson. (March), Mesa. • Scottsdale Culinary Festival (April). • Route 66 Days (September), Flagstaff. • Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & • Hopi Festival of Arts & Culture • Jazz on the Rocks Benefit Festival Market (March), Phoenix. (June/July), Flagstaff. (September), Sedona.

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checked-baggage security system, and a deluxe comforts such as steaming hot [ what’s second boarding gate to accommodate large showers, gourmet cuisine, plush linens and new aircraft such as the Airbus 380 and Boeing feather-top beds are the target demographic • Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage: As part 747-800. The terminal will remain fully for California’s newest high country retreat. of the “Year of a Million Dreams” operational during construction. The 38- Located in the secluded backcountry of celebration, Disneyland Resort has intro- month project is scheduled for completion Sequoia National Forest, the Sequoia High duced this latest “E-Ticket” attraction to by March 2010. Sierra Camp will open for its first official Tomorrowland in Disneyland park. The • Fisherman’s Wharf Pass: Major attractions full season of operation from June 15 to underwater adventure will feature the eight at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf are October 7, 2007. Set amid lush Red Fir and submarines of the fondly remembered included in the new Wharf Pass being Lodgepole Pines at an elevation of 2,493 original Submarine Voyage attraction. offered by TourCorp, Inc. Buyers can select metres, Sequoia High Sierra Camp consists • Raging Waters Sacramento: Formerly six options from a group of 12 attractions for of 36 spacious canvas bungalows with known as Waterworld USA, this water park a savings of 33 per cent off admission fees. upscale amenities. A professional executive recently reopened after a multi-million dollar The pass allows users to visit each of the six chef will prepare three delicious meals a day investment in park improvements and new attractions once over the course of three made with fresh seasonal ingredients. For attractions. The park’s newest water thrill ride, consecutive days. Options include a choice recreation, guests can enjoy a multitude of Dragon’s Den, will drop adventure seekers at of a hop-on, hop-off CitySightseeing tour on scenic day hikes, or practice their cast in heart-pounding speeds for nearly five stories a double decker bus or a San Francisco Gray nearby creeks and mountain lakes. Access is while spiralling through enclosed tunnels into Line Trolley Hop tour; Bay cruise aboard by foot; guests have the option of driving a narrow crevice that finally shoots the two- the Blue & Gold Fleet or Red & White their vehicle to a trailhead and hiking an person raft into a clear pool of water. Fleet; Ripley’s Believe It or Not! or Pier 39’s easy 1.6 kilometres to Camp, or hiking the • Hotel Ménage: Anaheim’s newest premier Turbo Ride; Wax Museum at Fisherman’s full distance of 19 kilometres along a well- boutique hotel and resort is now open. Wharf or the USS Pampanito submarine marked backcountry trail. Formerly a Holiday Inn, the property tour; Aquarium of the Bay or tours of • Wild About Otters: Explore the fascinating recently completed a major renovation, historic ships at Hyde Street Pier; Boudin world of otters at this new exhibit at the including the addition of several new Sourdough Bakery Museum tour or a ride world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium. elements: the k’ya restaurant; a hip, candle- on the Pier 39 carousel. Five galleries and an intriguing array of live lit lobby bar and lounge; the Mist pool bar; • San Diego Harbor Nature Cruises: During exhibits and interactive displays feature the Red Room, a business centre with a lush San Diego Harbor Excursion’s new Nature resident California sea otters and 10 fresh- twist; and seven uniquely themed breakout Cruises, visitors sail into Mexican waters to water otters: six African spotted-necked rooms. Hotel Ménage offers 437 square explore Los Coronados Islands, located 22 otters and four Asian small-clawed otters in metres of flexible indoor conference and kilometres south of Point Loma. This fully exhibits that represent the animals’native special event space and an outdoor pool deck guided, 5 1/2-hour tour takes up to 120 guests lake and river habitats. Interactive graphic venue designed to host a nightclub on Friday for an up-close look at kelp forests, dolphins, panels tell the otters’personal stories and Saturday evenings. whales, sea lions, up to 80 varieties of sea through the use of caretaker’s journals, still • Sierra Sidewinder: Knott’s Berry Farm birds and other marine life, and an elephant images, video clips, and other displays. unveiled its newest thrill ride at the entrance seal rookery. The cruise features indoor and Conservation messages about how lakes, to Camp Snoopy in June. This coaster puts a outdoor seating and a full galley offering rivers and oceans are interconnected are new twist on traditional roller coasters with beverages and hot food made to order. delivered in video clips that feature actor the debut of a coaster that not only offers • Sequoia National Park Shuttle Service: John Cleese. Wild About Otters is scheduled speed, but spin. Sierra Sidewinder consists This new shuttle service debuted in May in to run into 2010. of two trains, each with four cars. Riders are the Giant Forest area of Sequoia National • Holiday Inn Palm Springs – City Center: taken through a series of nosedives, banks, Park. Visitors can ride the shuttle at no cost Scheduled to open in August 2007, this new dips and turns at a speed of 59 kilometres per inside the park to see the spectacular General hotel is located just five minutes from the hour, while continually rotating on its axis. Sherman Tree, and many other attractions Palm Springs International Airport and Though this thrilling whirlwind lasts little within the park. The shuttle operates daily downtown Palm Springs and features 249 over a minute, it covers 429 metres of track from Memorial Day weekend through guest rooms and suites. Facilities and that includes a drop of 12 metres. Labour Day. Routes and service times are services include 743 square metres of • LAX Breaks Ground At International available online at www.nps.gov/seki. The meeting and event space, convention Terminal: The much-anticipated renovation City of Visalia is planning to offer services, a restaurant, lounge and bar, patio of the Tom Bradley International Terminal connecting shuttle service from various dining, cabana bar, Olympic-size swimming (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport pickup points. pool with two heated whirlpools, dive-in broke ground in February. The US $723.5- • Sequoia High Sierra Camp: Outdoor movies, fitness facility, complimentary million project calls for major interior enthusiasts who enjoy the idea of a airport and downtown shuttle and pet- renovations, installation of an in-line wilderness camping experience, but prefer friendly accommodations.

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atmosphere of its inland agricultural commu- R E B O nities, make this tranquil expanse between R San Francisco and Los Angeles an idyllic destination. Just a few of the highlights: Monterey, home of the renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row; Salinas, birthplace of John Steinbeck and site of the National Steinbeck Center; the romantic town of Carmel-by-the-Sea; the dramatic coastline of Big Sur; Pismo Beach, gateway to Hearst Castle and the Oceano Sand Dunes, the most extensive coastal dunes remaining in California; Santa Maria, home to family- friendly attractions like the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum and the Museum of Flight, as well as several wineries that welcome visitors; Santa Barbara, the “American Riviera”, where travellers can go whale-watching, step into the past at the Santa Barbara Mission, visit vineyards and The Napa Valley Wine Train takes passengers on a three-hour excursion, complete with organic markets or just laze on a fabulous gourmet meal, from the historic town of Napa through one of the world’s great wine beach; and the charming Danish village of valleys to the village of St. Helena. Vineyard tours are available. s AngelesLos Angeles Los Ange Los Angeles Los A“seengelesmy LA”

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Christian Andersen Museum, the Solvang / S E M Vintage Motorcylce Museum, and the nearby L O H T R

Old Mission Santa Ines. E B O • High Sierra: With three of the nation’s most R treasured national parks, this region is truly an expression of American wilderness. The incomparable Sierra Nevada is the backbone and natural attractions include emerald-hued Lake Tahoe, sparkling Mammoth Lakes and towering Mt. Whitney. • California’s Islands: California’s many islands offer spectacular scenery, fascinating histories and a wealth of outdoor adventure opportunities. A small sampling of favourites: the resort island of Santa Catalina, just 15 minutes by air from Los Angeles; Channel Islands National Park, located off Santa Barbara, whose caves, arches and grottos are home to abundant wildlife and marine mammals; Coronado Island, directly across the bay from downtown San Diego, is home to the Travel Channel’s pick for “America’s top family beach”; Negit and Paoha Islands in the middle of Mono Lake, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Range, where clients can view millions of shore birds by kayak or naturalist-led canoe trips; and Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, known as the “Ellis Island of the West”. R U O T L A C / S E M L O H T R E B O R

Nestled in the heart of the Santa Barbara wine country, Solvang is known as the “Danish capital of America”. In addition to the authentic European village, travellers can enjoy visits to area wineries and historic colonial missions.

• Golden Gate National Recreational Area: The largest urban park in the world and the largest single open space in San Francisco. • Huntington State Beach & Bolsa Chica State Beach: Eight kilometres of sandy recreation south of Los Angeles with wildlife-watching in the adjacent, ecologi- cally sensitive wetlands. • Orange County: Since the opening of California’s famed Highway 1 – renowned for some of the most spectacular coastal scenery Disneyland in 1955, Orange County has in the world – runs along California’s Pacific coast between San Juan Capistrano in the blossomed into the ultimate family vacation south to Leggett in Mendocino County in the north. destination, with sunny beaches, luxurious

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Oregon border, the North Coast region also L A offers lush vineyards and quaint villages P filled with antique shops inland. • Inland Empire: With its soaring mountains, alpine lakes, historic sites, lush vineyards and colourful entertainment, the Inland Empire is a year-round destination. • Gold Country: This region preserves remnants of its wild days when the 1849 Gold Rush triggered the largest human migration ever known. Clients can explore Sacramento, the state capital, and follow the gold miners’ saga along historic Highway 49. • Deserts: California’s deserts are a study in contrasts: soft sand dunes and deeply eroded cliffs, golden poppies and spiny cacti, creeping tortoises and soaring eagles, and snow-capped mountains and glittering resort cities. Palm Springs isn’t known as “the golf capital of the world” for nothing. • Shasta Cascade: This outdoor lover’s There are more than 100 golf courses and resorts in the greater Palm Springs area, and 12 paradise is a beautiful and unspoiled months of sunshine make it the perfect year-round destination for avid golfers.

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Redding, the second-sunniest city in the R E B O U.S. and home to plenty of great attractions R itself. Must-sees include the spectacular – and car-free –Sundial Bridge, a 213-metre- long, glass-floored suspension bridge over the Sacramento River; and the 121-hectare Turtle Bay Exploration Park, which includes an art and history museum, arboretum and gardens, a butterfly house, logging and ecology exhibits and an 83,000-litre aquarium filled with river life.

HIDDEN GEMS • Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve: A few miles north of the hustle and bustle of downtown Huntington Beach, this 486- hectare reserve boasts one of the country’s most diverse nesting grounds. More than 200 species of birds – many rare or endangered – The most photographed sand dunes in the world, the Mesquite Dunes are adjacent to are documented here each year. Sightings of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park. The park, the largest in the U.S. National Park Great Blue Herons, Snowy Egrets and system, encompasses the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and is one of the hottest Brown Pelicans are common, as well as places on Earth.

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multiple varieties of hummingbirds, finches, O T L A C owls, swallows, terns, sandpipers and / S E M L

kingfishers. Visitors walk a 2.4-kilometre O H T R

trail that crosses inland over Inner Bolsa Bay E B O then continues to the Bolsa Chica bluffs and R through a coastal sand dune system. • Free Friday Night Bands on the Beach, Santa Cruz: If there’s one thing that brings Santa Cruz locals and visitors together, it’s this free concert series on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, where you can enjoy the feel of warm sand between your toes, a panoramic view of Monterey Bay from your favourite beach chair and the music of a fun- loving band on a Friday night. • Fresno County Fruit Trail: Find out where the locals go to get the very best fruits, berries, and nuts direct from the family farms in eastern Fresno County and enjoy a trip through the beautiful countryside experiencing the family farm tradition that has been passed on through the generations. • Point Loma Tidepools: While most visitors to San Diego can be found enjoying the sweeping ocean views from the Cabrillo National Monument, perched high atop the Point Loma peninsula, locals instead head down to explore the large, rocky shoreline of tidepools, where they can see flowery anemones, scampering shore crabs, elusive octopuses, spongy deadman’s fingers and many other magnificent creatures of the sea. The best time to visit the tidepools is during winter and spring low tides; the Cabrillo Monument offers ranger-guided tidepool walks at most low tides. • Palm Springs Aerial Tramway: Summertime visitors to Palm Springs can escape the blazing afternoon heat on a visit to Known as the “Queen of the Missions”, Mission Santa Barbara was founded in December Mt. San Jacinto. Starting in Chino Canyon 1786 and was the tenth of 21 Franciscan missions built in California. Visitors can take a self- near Palm Springs, the tram takes passengers guided or docent-led tour of the mission. from Valley Station at 806 metres elevation to Mountain Station on the edge of the wilderness, elevation 2,596 metres. At the top are a restaurant, gift shop, snack bar, a visitor centre, the Long Valley Ranger Station, a picnic area with barbecue stoves and restrooms, a ski centre, a self-guided nature trail and Desert View Trail, which offers panoramas of the high country including several peaks over 3,000 metres in elevation. • Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur: No obvious road sign directs visitors to Pfeiffer Beach from

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Sunny California also offers plenty of adventure for winter sports enthusiasts. Heavenly Mountain Resort is just one of Lake Tahoe’s acclaimed alpine ski resorts.

Highway 1 – rumour has it that locals have removed it in their quest to keep the beach’s purple sands and awe-inspiring rock formations a secret. Less than half a kilometre south of Big Sur Ranger Station, guests turn west on Sycamore Canyon road and wind slowly back about three kilometres to the beach. Or, head north on Highway 1 to the Soberanes Canyon Trail at Garrapata State Park, a strenuous hike that burns calories and brings big rewards – stunning vistas of the Big Sur coast some 550 metres above sea level.

DID YOU KNOW? State Motto: Eureka! State Flower: Golden poppy State Bird: California quail R U O T L A C / S E M L O H T R E B O R

Sequoia National Park has trees, peaks and canyons without peer – including the largest trees on Earth in the Giant Forest.

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C • The Ouray Ice Festival (January), Ouray. • Great Fruitcake Toss (January), Manitou Springs. • Crested Butte Wildflower Festival (July), Crested Butte. • The Palisade Peach Festival (August), Palisade. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge • Colorado State Fair (August- Railroad provides a scenic trip year-round. Famous for views – one-third of the park is September), Pueblo. Special excursions are available each August, above the tree line – Rocky Mountain during the Durango Narrow Gauge Railfest. • The Colorado Balloon Classic National Park near Estes Park offers (September), Colorado Springs. everything for outdoor enthusiasts. • The Great American Beer Festival DID YOU KNOW? (October), Denver. State Motto: Nothing Without Providence ATTRACTIONS • The Telluride Film Festival State Flower: Rocky Mountain Columbine • The Denver Museum of Nature & (October), Telluride. State Bird: Lark Bunting Science: Houses one of the world’s first digital planetariums, plus an array of inno- PLACES vative, interactive exhibits. • Boulder: Home to The Boulder Dushanbe fast • Cherry Creek Shopping Center: Teahouse, Celestial Seasonings tea manu- [ facts Adjacent to the 320 shops, galleries, spas facturer, the Leaning Tree Museum of and restaurants of Cherry Creek North, Western Art and Historic Chautauqua Park. Region: MOUNTAIN WEST Denver’s top attraction includes 160 dis- • Great Sand Dunes National Monument America’s Byways: Colorado River tinctive shops, restaurants. and Preserve: Dunes rising more than Headwaters Byway, Dinosaur Diamond • Pikes Peak Cog Railway: The highest 210 metres against the rugged Sangre de Prehistoric Highway, Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byway, Gold Belt railroad in the U.S. reveals a continuous Cristo mountains in southern Colorado. Tour Scenic and Historic Byway, Grand • Bent’s Old Fort: National Historic Site Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway, San where costumed interpreters recount stories Juan Skyway, Santa Fe Trail Scenic and [ what’s of this significant fur trading post and cul- Historic Byway, Top of the Rockies, Trail new tural crossroads along the Santa Fe Trail. of the Ancients, Trail Ridge Road/Beaver •Aspen Adventure Activities: There are two Meadow Road new options imported straight from New HIDDEN GEMS Direct Flights: Air Canada, Frontier Airlines Zealand for thrill-seekers in Aspen/ • The Little Circle Farm: During the Sales Tools: Official State Vacation Guide, Snowmass. White Water Sledging combines December holiday period this farm in www.COLORADO.com, eNewsletter. Penrose, just outside Colorado Springs, white water rafting and swimming using a Info: Colorado Tourism Office specially designed river sledge. Plunging sells handmade knitted hats, scarves, 1-800-COLORADO head first into the Arkansas or Roaring Fork sweaters, gloves www.COLORADO.com River, “sledgers” traverse the river, shooting and mittens using through frothy whitewater rapids. “Zorbing” yarn made from involves strapping into a three-metre alpacas. The farm inflatable ball and rolling down Aspen is open year-round Phoenix Snowmass’lush, rolling hills. and visitors can • • “Soaring Tree Top Adventures”: Visitors view and pet the Fort Collins can glide high above Aspens and Ponderosa alpacas. • Boulder • Pines along stainless steel cables at the five- • Sand Creek # star Tall Timber Resort, home to Soaring Massacre National Historic DENVER America. This activity, the only one of its Site: Opened on June 1, 2007, this site situated on more than • kind in the continental U.S., is guided by Colorado Springs professional Sky Rangers. Accessible only 4,850 hectares memorializes the mas- by the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge sacre of nearly 160 peaceful Cheyenne Railroad, the ride to the attraction is truly and Arapaho Indians by a force of some half the fun. 700 volunteers in a Colorado regiment on November 29, 1864.

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Let’s talk breathtaking views. Let’s talk long drives. Let’s talk Colorado. Plan the perfect golfing getaway at COLORADO.COM. COLORADO.COM 1-800-COLORADO ATTRACTIONS EVENTS • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: • Buick Championship America’s oldest art museum houses 50,000 (June/July/August), works spanning 5,000 years. Hartford. Cromwel. • Gillette Castle: Overlooking the • Litchfield Jazz Connecticut River, this castle built by Festival William Gillette sits on 73 hectares of land. (August), Litchfield. East Haddam. • Norwalk Oyster • Fort Trumbull: Egyptian-revival-style fort Festival built between 1839 and 1852; park over- (September), Norwalk. looking the Thames River offers fishing piers, walkways. New London. PLACES • Foxwoods Resort Casino: World’s largest • Mystic Seaport: A The Mark Twain House, in Hartford, was the author’s home from gaming facility, at more than 29,000 square nationally acclaimed 1874 to 1891, during which time he wrote eight famous works, metres. Mashantucket. re-creation of a 19th- including Huckleberry Finn. Visitors can tour 19 rooms and view

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P large collection of antique shops. America’s Byways: Connecticut State • Stonington Borough: Picturesque New Route 169, Merritt Parkway. England seaport nestled on the Direct Flights: Air Canada, Continental Autumn is a particularly glorious season in coastline, with quaint Airlines, Northwest Airlines, United Connecticut. Visitors from across North houses, restaurants, Airlines America and around the world flock to the shopping, and boating. Cruise Lines: American Cruise Lines, state to view the “fall colours” each year. • Hammonasett State Park: Home to the Camelot Cruises, Inc., American state’s largest beach area and a treasure Canadian Caribbean Line, Inc., Clipper, Deep River Navigation Company • Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk: trove for bird watchers. Madison. Exploration of marine life and maritime cul- Sales Tools: Connecticut Vacation Guide ture of Long Island Sound. IMAX theatre. HIDDEN GEMS 2007 and Arts & Culture Guide, E- newsletters, “52 Great Getaways” • The Connecticut Art Trail: Fourteen • Antique District: Discover the less-trav- (sample itineraries). museums and historic sites, each offering elled antique district in Bantam, along outstanding examples of world-class Route 202. After working up an appetite, Info: The Connecticut Commission on art collections. stop at one of the town’s many bistros. Culture and Tourism • Henry Whitfield State Museum: The old- 1-888-CTVisit est (1639) stone house in New England. www.ctvisit.com [ what’s Dine in elegance on the Town Green or new head east on US 1 for some lobster in the rough. • The Winvian: This new resort in • Audubon Arts District: A “cultural Morris offers some of the most luxuri- Mecca” on Audubon Street in New ous accommodations in Litchfield Hills. Haven. Galleries, bookstores, restaurants Rising culinary star Chris Eddy will be and shops. the resort’s head chef. • Philip Johnson’s Glass House: Open DID YOU KNOW? Waterbury to the public for the first time in its 50- State Motto: Qui # year history, the 19-hectare site, with Transtulit Sustinet (He HARTFORD • • buildings designed in each decade of who transplanted still • • Philip Johnson’s life, represents a sustains) New Haven survey of architecture, art, and State Flower: Mountain •NewYork landscape design from the second half Laurel Bridgeport of the twentieth century. State Bird: American Stamford Robin

40 July 2007/08 America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller www.canadiantraveller.net through artifacts, films, photos, [ what’snew oral histories. EVENTS • Operation Spy: In this interactive • National Cherry Blossom Festival experience at the International Spy (March to April) Museum, would-be spies take on the • Smithsonian Kite Festival (March) role of real US Intelligence Officers on • DC Caribbean Carnival (June) an international mission to locate a • Smithsonian Folklife Festival missing nuclear device. (June/July) • Newseum: Scheduled to open October 15, • Capital Fringe Festival (July) 2007, the “Interactive Museum of News” • Labor Day Concert (September) will include galleries examining the history • Pageant of Peace (December) of news; an interactive newsroom; a broad- Free guided tours of the U.S. Capitol include the Statuary Hall and the original Supreme cast studio; and a Journalists Memorial. PLACES Court chamber, as well as a visit to the • Madame Tussauds: The museum • Women in Military Service Memorial: galleries of both the House and the Senate known for its life-like wax interpreta- America’s first major national memorial when Congress is in session. tions of A-listers plans to open its doors to honour military womeny. Arlington in the historic Woodward & Lothrop National Cemetery. DID YOU KNOW? building at the corner of 10th and F • Old Post Office Pavilion: Shops, restau- Official Motto: Justitia omnibus (Justice Streets in October 2007. rants, daily entertainment and a dramatic to All) city view from the 96-metre clock tower. Official Flower: American beauty rose ATTRACTIONS • Hillwood Museum and Gardens: Most Official Bird: Wood thrush • Smithsonian Institution: World’s largest comprehensive collection of Russian museum complex includes National Air imperial art outside Russia and a world- and Space Museum, Smithsonian renowned collection of eighteenth-century fast American Art Gallery, National Museum French decorative arts. Two hectares of [ facts of Natural History and National Museum formal gardens. • Washington National Cathedral: Gothic of the American Indian. Region: MID-ATLANTIC cathedral with magnificent stained glass, • National World War II Memorial: Direct Flights: Air Canada, United Airlines, sculptures, gargoyles, peaceful gardens. Honours America’s “Greatest Generation”: US Airways Daily worship, concerts, tours, programs. those who served in battle and on Sales Tools: Official Visitors Guide, the homefront. HIDDEN GEMS Destination Guide, Unique Spaces • FDR Memorial: Four outdoor gallery Guide, Pride in DC - Official GLBT • Ben’s Chili-Bowl: Celebrities, locals and rooms featuring 10 bronze sculptures Travelers Guide, Accessibility Guide, depicting the Roosevelts. tourists alike have come to this landmark Meeting and Conventions Calendar. • United States Holocaust Memorial in the U Street area for more than 46 years Visit www.washington.org for Museum: Story of the Holocaust told for its famous chili-dogs, milkshakes and more information. chili half-smokes – voted Washington’s Info: Washington D.C. Convention and N

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O • NASCAR Races H P (June & September), Dover. Known as Delaware’s sea-going goodwill ATTRACTIONS • Nanticoke Riverfest (July), Seaford. ambassador, the Kalmar Nyckel is a • Hagley Museum & Library: Wilmington • Delaware State Fair (July), Harrington. recreation of the Swedish tall ship that museum dedicated to American industry brought the first European settlers to and enterprise. Located along the banks of present-day Wilmington. the Brandywine River on the site of the fast gunpowder works founded by E. I. du Pont [ facts in 1802, the site includes restored mills, a Region: MID-ATLANTIC [ what’s workers’ community, and the ancestral America’s Byways: Brandywine Valley new home and gardens of the du Pont family. Scenic Byway. • Route 9 Scenic Highway: For many • Kalmar Nyckel: “The Tall Ship of Connecting Flights: Via Atlanta. visitors, Route 9 remains the road less Delaware” is a recreation of the Swedish Sales Tools: Visitor Guide; www.visit taken, winding its way from Historic New ship that brought the first European set- delaware.com tlers to present-day Wilmington in 1638. Castle down to the John Dickinson Info: Delaware Tourism Office • Casinos: Three gaming facilities – one in Plantation just south of Dover Air Force 1-866-2-VISIT-DE each region of the state – deliver high-ener- Base. Lush with the wildlife, wetlands www.visitdelaware.com and ecosystems of the Delaware River and gy stage shows, action-packed spectator Bay estuary, the landscape is dotted with sports and high-quality dining. In the the record of Delaware’s history in the Wilmington area, clients can try their luck form of quaint towns and old buildings. at Delaware Park. Entering Central Recently, the 83-kilometre, two-lane Delaware, the pace never slows at Dover corridor was designated “Route 9, Coastal Downs. Midway Slots and Simulcast are • Wilmington Heritage Scenic Byway.” near the beaches. • Newark • Captain John Smith Historic Trail: This • Tax-Free Outlet new trail allows paddlers to retrace John Shopping: Three Smith’s voyages of exploration that neighbouring Tanger New• York # DOVER occurred between 1607 and 1709. Smith Outlet locations, open and his crew sailed and rowed over 5,800 year-round in Rehoboth kilometres along the Chesapeake Bay, the Beach, offer 130 brand- nation’s largest estuary, and its tributaries name outlet stores – all in Delaware and nearby states. just a Frisbee-toss from boardwalk vendors and

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• World Championship Punkin’ Located conveniently along I-95, just 30 • Fort Delaware: Civil War era fortress and Chunkin’ (November), Millsboro. minutes from Chester County, Pa. prison to more than 30,000 Confederate, • Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Federal and political prisoners. Features Festival (November). HIDDEN GEMS living history programming with highly • First State Heritage Park: This urban interactive interpreters in period attire. PLACES “park without boundaries” links historic and Daily demonstrations of 20-centimetre • Old New Castle: Delaware’s restored cultural sites in Dover, home to one of the Columbiad cannon, Civil War cooking, colonial capital on the Delaware River, most beautifully preserved capitol complexes prisoners and civilian life on the island. with original cobble-stoned streets and in the nation. The park includes museums, • Historic Houses of Odessa: Step into the guided historical tours. The entire town has walking tours and special activities. past with a tour of restored 18th- and 19th- been preserved in an authentic history site century houses. with original courthouse, mansions, • Winterthur Museum: The home of col- gardens, bed and breakfasts, restaurants lector and horticulturist Henry Francis du and shopping opportunities. Pont (1880-1969), Winterthur is one of the • Beaches: Forty kilometres of sandy beaches greatest surviving country estates of its – rated among the cleanest in the nation by kind in the nation. Magnificent mansion the Clean Beaches Council – border the tours, holiday tours, garden tram tours, Atlantic Ocean from the mouth of the new exhibitions, annual events, dining and Delaware Bay to the Maryland border. tax-free shopping. It will be even more • Riverfront Wilmington: A unique cultural than you expected. The Johnson Victrola Museum is a tribute to and entertainment destination where you Delaware native Eldridge Reeves Johnson, can enjoy restaurants, shops, museums, who founded the Victor Talking Machine DID YOU KNOW? sports and entertainment as you stroll along Company in 1901. Exhibits include State Slogan: It’s Good Being First the Riverfront. Learn about the history of phonographs, recordings, memorabilia, State Flower: Peach Blossom the Christina River on a water taxi tour. trademarks, objects, and paintings. State Bird: Blue Hen

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[ H new P and is home to •Amelia Island Plantation: Recently the reconstructed became the only beachfront destination in 18th-century Florida to offer an all-inclusive package, Spanish Quarter making vacationing in northeast Florida and the 17th- virtually effortless. Three full meals, century fort Castillo de San unlimited golf and tennis and participation Marcos. in youth and teen programs are included in one low price, as well as use of the health and fitness centre, bicycles, fishing rods and reels, beach chairs and umbrellas. ATTRACTIONS fast • South Seas Island Resort: Sprawling- •Walt Disney World Resort: There’s [ facts yet-personal plantation-style retreat on the something for everyone at the Walt Disney Gulf of Mexico, celebrating their grand re- World Resort in Florida, including four theme Region: THE SOUTH opening this spring, after a $140 million parks, two water adventure parks, 20 themed America’s Byways: A1A Scenic & Historic renovation. Amenities include the Captiva resort hotels, 99 holes of golf, Disney’s Coastal Byway, Indian River Lagoon Golf Club, designed by Chip Powell and Wedding Pavilion, Disney’s Wide World of Scenic Highway, Tamiami Trail Scenic recently named one of the Top-Five Short Sports complex and Downtown Disney. Highway. Courses in the world after a $4 million • Universal Orlando Resort: Home to Direct Flights: Air Canada, Air Transat, renovation; new lagoon pool and cabana Universal Studios Florida, a working movie American Airlines, Delta Airlines complex, 465 newly refurbished rooms studio with more than 40 rides, shows and Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, US and more. attractions; five themed areas at Universal Airways, WestJet. • Key West Express: Ajet-propelled Studios Islands of Adventure; CityWalk, a Cruise Lines: Carnival Cruise Lines, catamaran launching from the Miami 12-hectare entertainment complex; and three Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruise Lines, Crystal Cruises, Cunard Line, Discovery Seaquarium. No traffic, no long drive. Loews Hotels. Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Line, Holland Getting to the Southernmost Point is half • Discovery Cove: A reservations-only tropical paradise where guests can swim with America, Norwegian Cruise Line, the fun on the three-deck ship, which Premier Cruises, Princess Cruises, dolphins, rays and thousands of fascinating offers indoor and outdoor seating, onboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Regal sea animals. Adjacent to, and run by, food with full bar service and flat screen Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, SeaWorld Orlando. TVs throughout. Return sail on the same Royal Olympic Cruises, Seabourn Cruise day or on a different day. • Kennedy Space Center: Visitors explore Line, Silversea Cruises, Windjammer • Aquatica: The park is scheduled to America’s space program with exhibits of Barefoot Cruises. spacecraft, IMAX films and the U.S. debut in March 2008 and will feature Sales Tools: The UNIVERSITY of VISIT Astronaut Hall of Fame. Titusville. up-close animal experiences, high- FLORIDA® (www.universityofvisit • Daytona International Speedway: The speed thrills and sandy beaches. florida.com) International Tourist Guide “World Center of Racing” and home of "The Animals from all over the world will (published in French, The Official Great American Race", the Daytona 500. make their homes in the park, including Florida Vacation Guide, Florida Also on site is Daytona USA, featuring Transportation Map. dolphins, macaws and fish. Thirty-six Speedway tours; "NASCAR 3D: The IMAX water slides, six rivers and lagoons and Info: VISIT FLORIDA Experience" and "DAYTONA 500: 1-800-268-3791 more than 7,432 square metres of beach The Movie"; and simulator rides. www.VISITFLORIDA.com area will cover Aquatica. • Everglades National Park: • Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort: Is Encompassing 600,000 continuing to grow with the addition of hectares, four new properties this year, bringing this is the only ATLANTA the resort’s total accommodations to # ecosystem of its kind in • 1,800. Among the additions, the second Augusta the world. A freshwater tower of Luau, the two-tower Asian- river, only inches deep • • inspired condominium and first Macon Savannah in most places, creeps beachside rental condominium built since seaward through the 1997 and Elation, a 100-unit luxury Everglades on a gently condominium located in The Village of sloping riverbed. Baytowne Wharf. •Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum: One Miami• of the finest American Indian

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museums in the country highlights the life and culture of the unconquered Florida Seminoles through exhibits, rare artifacts and cultural displays. On Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation Clewiston in the Everglades. •World’s Largest Artificial Reef: The 270- metre USS Oriskany was sunk 35 kilometres southwest of Pensacola Pass in 2006, and serves as a fishing and diving playground for outdoor enthusiasts. • Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art: The largest modern and contemporary art museum in the Southeast. The permanent collection consists of works in a wide range of media, representing prominent national and international artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. • Fort Clinch State Park: Visitors can explore Florida’s military history by touring the park’s well-preserved Civil War-era garrison. The park also offers miles of beaches, a fishing pier, hiking and biking trails a nature walk and campsites. Fernandina Beach, near Jacksonville. Miami is home to the world’s largest collection of Art Deco architecture. South • St.Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Beach’s Art Deco District, an area stretching from 5th to 15th Streets, is a designated Park: Founded in 1893 and listed on the National Landmark.

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attraction has hosted millions of visitors E S who come to view and learn about alligators, endangered monkeys and tropical birds. • Mission San Luis: The only reconstructed Spanish mission in Florida offers living history, hands-on exhibits, re-created period buildings and archaeological excavations. The site was the capital of Florida’s western missions from 1656 to 1704 and was home to 1,500 Spanish and Apalachee Indian residents. Talahassee. • Cypress Gardens Adventure Park: Classic Central Florida theme park recently completed major enhancements to resurrect its trademark traditions, along with some thoroughly modern twists. Highlights include the butterfly arboretum and ice- skating extravaganzas, along with five roller coasters and 33 other rides. Winter Haven. • Silver Springs: This 142-hectare theme park surrounds the headwaters of the beautiful Silver River, the largest artesian spring formation in the world. Visitors can explore the underground springs from glass-bottom boats, and see fish, shellfish, turtles and alligators. Then walk the grounds and view the natural habitats of Florida’s largest alligators, endangered bears and panthers; the Kritter Korral petting zoo; and an enter-

SeaWorld Orlando has introduced several new attractions this summer, including three new family-friendly rides to Shamu’s Happy Harbor, a special Sesame Street live-action musical show and Shamu Rocks, a massive rock ‘n’ roll concert in Shamu Stadium, where killer whales leap, splash and soar along to live guitar music. taining variety of wildlife shows from Birds • Florida Citrus Festival (January), of Prey to snakes and reptiles. Near Ocala. Winter Haven. • Great Florida Birding Trail: A 3,200- • Florida State Fair (February), Tampa. kilometre scenic route throughout the state • Mount Dora Arts Festival (February), allows birders to view more than 470 species Mount Dora. and to embrace a variety of environmental • Everglades Seafood Fesitval education opportunities. (February), Naples. • Caladesi Island State Park: Consistently • South Beach Wine & Food Festival ranked among America’s top beaches, this (February), Miami Beach. island off the coast of St. Petersburg/ • Little Havana Calle Ocho Festival Clearwater is one of Florida’s few remaining (March), Miami. undisturbed barrier islands. Accessible only • Springing the Blues Festival by boat, and open daily from 8 a.m. to sunset, (April), Jacksonville. the island offers excellent opportunities for • Sunfest (May), West Palm Beach. swimming, shelling, fishing, picnics and • Florida Folk Festival (May), White Springs. With more than 483 kilometres of • Orlando Carnival (May). navigable inland waterways, Greater Fort nature study. • Pensacola Crawfish Creole Fiesta Lauderdale has earned the nickname of “Venice of America”. Other highlights EVENTS (May), Pensacola. include great beaches, fashionable Las Olas •Art Deco Weekend Festival (January), • Hemingway Days Festival (July), Key West. Boulevard, diving, fishing and golf. Miami Beach. • Biketoberfest (October), Daytona Beach.

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• Sarasota Blues Fest (October), Sarasota. beaches perfect for watersports and • Jacksonville Jazz Festival (November). relaxation. Home of the world-renowned •American Indian Arts Celebration Daytona International Speedway, the city (November), Seminole Big famous for auto racing is also a great desti- Cypress Reservation. nation for shopping, dining and nightlife. • Fernandina Beach Lighted Holiday • Greater Miami and the Beaches: Parade (December), Amelia Island. Florida’s largest city is home to the world’s •Winterfest (December), Fort Lauderdale. largest collection of Art Deco architecture; and fashionable restaurants, clubs, PLACES shopping and accommodations. • Daytona Beach Area: From Ormond-by- • Orlando: Home to a collection of world- the-Sea to Ponce Inlet, the Daytona Beach class theme parks, including SeaWorld area boasts 37 kilometres of white-sand Orlando, Universal Orlando Resort and Walt

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Disney World Resort, Orlando is a place where fantasy meets reality – everyday. • Tallahassee: Florida’s capital evokes the genteel charm of the Old South. The city is home to several great attractions, including one of the world’s deepest freshwater springs, a wildlife habitat, Capitol buildings, fascinating museums of history, sprawling plantations and excellent fishing and hunting opportunities. • St.Augustine: America’s oldest continually settled European city dates to the Spanish conquistadores of the 16th century. Travellers can step back in time in the Colonial Spanish Quarter, a living history museum that brings to life the world of the early Spanish colonists in a military town; and Old St. Augustine Village, where on one city block are nine historic houses original to the site. Outside the Old City walls are several fine golf courses. • St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area: Twenty- six unique communities comprise this region on Florida’s west coast. Home to several top- ranked beaches, the Salvador Dali Museum, the Florida International Museum, the Sunken Gardens, the BayWalk shopping district and the Pier, a shopping and entertainment complex. • Palm Beach County: The county boasts nearly 150 golf courses and 75 kilometres Made famous more than a century ago by auto manufacturers who tested and raced their of beaches. Art lovers also flock here for creations on the sand, Daytona Beach remains a top destination for race fans. Drivers can ballet, opera, theatre, music, modern dance still go for a ride on the beach between sunrise and sunset, tide conditions permitting. and art museums.

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• Fort Lauderdale: With more than 483 kilometres of navigable inland waterways, Greater Fort Lauderdale has earned the nickname of “Venice of America”. Other highlights include great beaches, fashionable Las Olas Boulevard, diving, fishing and golf. • Key West: This southernmost point of the U.S. embraces an eclectic mix of history, eccentricity and island charm. Visitors can take in Civil War-era fort ruins, famous writers’ homes, the Key West Aquarium and sidewalk cafés. • Lake Okeechobee Area: Sometimes referred to as Florida’s inland sea, Lake Okeechobee offers excellent fishing, boating and trails. The area is home to a thriving sugarcane industry; the town of Clewiston, known as “America’s Sweetest Town”, conducts a “Sugarland Express” tour of a local farm and mill.

HIDDEN GEMS • Sip Florida’s Finest – Orange Grove Tours: Come and get a true taste of Florida, literally. Florida’s fertile soil and warm conditions produce perfect oranges; they’re 25 per cent heavier than those from other states with thinner skin and more juice. Orange groves are aplenty in the Sunshine State and so are eager farmers ready to show

The southernmost point of the U.S., Key West embraces an eclectic mix of history, eccentricity and island charm. In addition to spectacular beaches, visitors can take in Civil War-era fort ruins, Ernest Hemingway’s house (shown here) and sidewalk cafés.

you around. Tour the 121-hectare Mixon • Florida’s Wineries: Florida is home to 13 Fruit Farm in Bradenton on the Orange wineries, and many offer tours and tastings. Blossom Express and visit the gift shop and Visitors of the San Sebastian Winery, housed packinghouse later, where you can grab free in a historic East Coast Railway Building samples of fresh fruit, juice and homemade downtown, can enjoy complimentary tours of fudge. Don’t forget to try a scoop of the the 1,700-square-metre facility and learn the famous “Orange Swirl” ice cream during secrets to tasting and truly savouring wines. your visit. Visit www.floridajuice.com for a While you’re there, check out the Cellar complete list of the state’s groves. Upstairs, the rooftop jazz and wine bar. Visit • Hidden Talents Revealed – The Museums Lakeridge Winery, the state’s largest of Florida: Florida is a diverse state when it premium winery, located in Clermont, 40 comes to culture. In local museums, Florida’s kilometres west of downtown Orlando. diversity is revealed. At the Norton Museum Tours of the 51-hectare facility, including of Art in Palm Beach, see a large collection the 31-hectare vineyard, are offered seven of art from the 19th and 20th centuries. days a week. The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation In Ft. Lauderdale, the Museum of Discovery Clewiston in the Everglades highlights the and Science brings you into a world full of DID YOU KNOW? life and culture of the unconquered Florida intrigue and mystery. To get an idea of State Motto: In God We Trust Seminoles through exhibits, rare artifacts Florida’s rich history, visit the Museum of State Flower: Orange blossom and cultural displays. Florida History in Tallahassee. State Bird: Mockingbird

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PLACES • Brunswick & The Golden Isles: Enjoy sun- Southbound drenched beaches, 234 holes of golf, historic sites, tennis and other recreations one hour in the Fall, south of Savannah in Brunswick, St. Simons or Northbound Island, Sea Island, Little St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island. in the Spring: •Warm Springs: This charming town is the ® location of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous retreat, the “Little White House.” Come Coast Awhile ! Tour the house for a fascinating glimpse of Come bask in the gloriously inviting warmth and welcome of FDR’s enduring legacy. Brunswick & The Golden Isles of Georgia. From mainland Brunswick •Wine Trail: Tour the tasting rooms and take to the enchanting Golden Isles of St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Little St. Simons Island in the special events at the distinctive and Jekyll Island come discover breathtaking beauty, rich history, vineyards and wineries along North warm hospitality, miles of sun-drenched beaches, 198 holes of golf, Georgia’s Wine Trail. tennis, fishing, boating, casino/cruise ship, interesting shops and galleries, and great restaurants wherever you go. There are accommodations to fit every budget, from convenient Interstate hotels on the mainland to full-service island resorts, charming bed-and-breakfast inns, rental cottages, campgrounds and even a private island retreat. CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU All just minutes from I-95 at Exits 42, 38, 36 and 29. For your free Vacation Guide call 1-800-933-COAST (2627) COMECOASTAWHILE.COM

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HIDDEN GEMS • Providence Canyon State Park: Explore Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon” in Lumpkin. Spanning 405 hectares, the park includes 16 canyons, some as deep as 46 metres. An interpretive centre explains how the massive gullies were caused by erosion because of poor farming practices in the 1800s. • Georgia Mountains: Several state parks in this beautiful region – including Unicoi, Vogel, Fort Mountain, Cloudland Canyon and Black Rock Mountain – are ideal venues for a secluded getaway. • Ocmulgee National Monument: For an adventure rooted in the past, experience 12,000 years of Native American history at Training & Development For Travel Professionals this 284-hectare site in Macon. DID YOU KNOW? Contact: [email protected] t: 250-752-0106 State Motto: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation www.smptraining.com State Flower: Cherokee rose State Bird: Brown thrasher www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 55 B C V H ATTRACTIONS Kapalua Wine and • Hawaii’s Plantation Village: Living his- Food Festival tory museum situated just below the Oahu (July), Maui. Sugar Mill in Waipahu. Aloha Festivals • Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Unique (late August to volcanic formations, forests of giant tree October), ferns, steaming craters display results of Statewide. 70 million years of volcanism. Big Island. Kauai Mokihana • Iolani Palace: The only royal palace in Festival the United States. Oahu. (September). • Kauai Plantation Railway: Travel Molokai Hoe through Kilohana Plantation’s grounds and Canoe Race former cane fields now thriving with trop- (October), Molokai and Oahu. Visitors can see the visual splendour of Maui’s at Haleakala (“House ical exotic fruits and hardwood trees. of the Sun”) National Park, named for the majestic 3,000-metre Kona Coffee • Polynesian Cultural Center: Recreation volcano with a crater more than 11 kilometres long. of heritage, lifestyles and culture of Cultural Festival Polynesia. Oahu. (November), land is perpetuated in righteousness • USS Arizona National Memorial: Tribute Hawaii’s Big Island. State Flower: Pua aloalo/Yellow hibiscus to 1,177 sailors and marines killed during Vans Triple Crown of Surfing (November State Bird: Nene/Hawaiian goose the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, to December), Oahu. 1941. Oahu. PLACES fast EVENTS • Kohala: Birthplace of Kamehameha the [ facts Honolulu Festival (March), Oahu. Great. Walk remnants of the King’s Trail; Merrie Monarch Festival (April), visit Puukohola Heiau National Historic Region: The Hawaiian Islands Hawaii’s Big Island. Site, the last temple built during his reign. Airlines: Air Canada, WestJet (seasonally) International Festival of Canoes Big Island. Cruise Lines: Carnival Cruise Lines, (May), Maui. • Parker Ranch Museum & Historic Celebrity Cruises, Crystal Cruises, Homes: One of America’s largest and Cunard Line, Hapad-Lloyd Cruises, B C

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• The Route of the Hiawatha: Mountain HIDDEN GEMS •Lewiston bike/hiking trail, the "crown jewel" of all • Cataldo Mission State rail-to-trail adventures. Near Lookout Pass Park: The Mission of Ski Area Idaho/Montana border. the Sacred Heart was • World Center for Birds of Prey: constructed between # Encounters with live birds of prey, includ- 1850 and 1853 by BOISE ing endangered California Condor, Harpy Catholic missionaries and Eagle, Aplomado Falcon. Near Boise. members of the Coeur Los• Angeles • The Idaho Potato Exposition: Fun d’Alene Tribe. museum dedicated to Idaho's most

www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 57 SPRINGFIELD CVB (MTL); ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM (GLOVES) law and beginning his political career. Costumed interpreters take on the characters of the people who lived and worked here more than 150 years ago. • The Field Museum: One of the world’s great natural history museums, The Field uses an interdisciplinary approach combining anthropology, botany, geology, paleontology and zoology. • Fort de Chartres State Historic Site: This great stone fort in Prairie de Rocher was built in 1753 and became the seat of government for the French colony here. Although parts of the fort have been reconstructed, it is the oldest building still standing in Illinois. Employing both state-of-the-art technology and authentic artifacts, such as the blood-stained leather gloves worn by the President on the EVENTS night of his assassination, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and • Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Museum in Springfield brings the 19th century back to life. The Parade (March). museum’s one-of-a-kind exhibit Mary Todd Lincoln: First Lady of • Chicago Blues Festival (June). Controversy runs until October 28, 2007. • Annual Superman Celebration (June), Metropolis. ATTRACTIONS • Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site: This continued on page 60 • Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library World Heritage Site in Collinsville is the and Museum: Visitors to this Springfield only pre-Colombian Native American city fast Museum are immersed in and surrounded north of Mexico. [ facts by “you-are-there” historical accounts of • Oak Park: Historic Chicago community the drama and emotion of Lincoln’s home to the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Region: GREAT LAKES remarkable journey. Wright-designed buildings and the America’s Byways: Great River Road, • Millennium Park: Award-winning 10- birthplace of Ernest Hemingway. Historic National Road, Historic Route hectare centre for art, music, architecture • Lincoln Heritage Trail State Monument: 66, Illinois River Road: Route of the and landscape design located right in the First site on trail of more than 13 historical Voyageurs, Lincoln Highway, Meeting of heart of downtown Chicago. Free concerts, sites through nine counties paying homage the Great Rivers Scenic Route, Ohio River Scenic Byway. exhibitions and events held throughout to Abraham Lincoln. Lawrenceville. the year. • Historic Route 66: This world-famous route Direct Flights: Air Canada, American winds its way through southwest Illinois, Airlines, United Airlines past quaint cafés and antique shops. Sales Tools: Illinois Travel Kit, Illinois what’s • The Magnificent Mile: North Michigan Tourism News (online newsletter) [ new Avenue in downtown Chicago offers eight Info: Illinois Bureau of Tourism spectacular blocks of world-class shopping, 1-800-2CONNECT • New Halifax-Chicago Service: United dining and entertainment. www.enjoyillinois.com Airlines has begun daily seasonal serv- • The MY Garage R & D Center/Museum: ice between Halifax and Chicago Featuring more than 30 classic Corvettes and O’Hare. The non-stop service, which Rockford• Corvette memorabilia displayed in a 1950s- • runs through October 27, departs Chicago 60s style backdrop. Effingham. Halifax at 7:30 a.m., arriving in • Lincoln’s New Salem State Historical Chicago at 8:42 a.m., with the return Site: Abraham Lincoln spent six years living flight leaving Chicago at 1:25 p.m., • Peoria here, working as a store clerk, serving as arriving in Halifax at 6:23 p.m. Decatur postmaster and deputy surveyor, studying • • Mondrian Chicago: This 200-room # hotel is expected to open in 2010 on SPRINGFIELD the existing site of the Cedar Hotel in Chicago’s desirable Gold Coast New York• region, near dining, nightlife and high-end boutiques.

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continued from page 58 • Champaign County: Located in east • Taste of Chicago (end of June to early July). central Illinois, Champaign County offers • Illinois State Fair (August), Springfield. something for travellers of all ages and • International Route 66 Mother Road tastes. Highlights include the Lake of the Festival (September), Springfield. Woods Forest Preserve, where clients can golf, fish, hike, bike, picnic, cross-country PLACES ski, and visit the Early American Museum • Rockford: Illinois’ second-largest city, just and Mabery Gelvin Botanical Gardens; the a 60-minute drive from Chicago’s O’Hare Orpheum Children’s Science Museum; and Airport, is a family-friendly destination Hardy’s Reindeer Ranch. offering big-city amenities and attractions • The Blackhawk Chocolate Trail: Four- with small-town friendliness and prices. county trail leading pilgrims to small-town Highlights include the Burpee Museum of shops, restaurants, soda-fountains and cafés Natural History, home to Jane the T-Rex; serving a variety of exotic, sweet creations. The Great River Road, an 885-kilometre the Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden, a • Northern Illinois Wine Trail: Connects 15 route on Illinois’ western border, offers “living museum” offering four seasons of of Northern Illinois’popular wineries, all of breathtaking views and majestic landscapes beauty; Magic Waters Waterpark, the which are a one- to two-hour drive from the that inspire and sooth the soul. largest in the Midwest; and the stunning Chicagoland area. Coronado Theater, home to the Rockford • Long Grove: Rest and relaxation is the key at has everything from canals and cabins to 11 Symphony Orchestra. this 1850s Midwest town with carriage rides, state parks. • Springfield: The capital of Illinois is the restored homesteads, farm shops, quaint •Galena: 19th-century steamboat port famous “Land of Lincoln”: in addition to the boutiques and delicious homecooked meals. for its homes and buildings, most of which are Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and • Arcola: Home to more than 3,000 members listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Museum and Lincoln’s New Salem, of the Old Order Amish. The Amish • Chicago Southland: The metropolitan area’s travellers can visit Lincoln’s home, tomb Interpretive Center provides guided largest concentration of forest preserves, and law office plus the Old State Capitol. community tours and arranges meals in shopping and antiquing, outstanding restau- Springfield is also an important Amish homes. rants and sports and entertainment facilities. destination for Route 66 buffs; the city is • Illinois & Michigan Heritage Corridor: • Shawnee National Forest: Located between home to the International Route 66 Mother Stretching almost 160 kilometres from the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in southern Road Festival, held each September. Chicago to LaSalle/Peru, this scenic route Illinois, these 110,000 hectares are home to the Garden of the Gods, with its rock forma- Z L

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DID YOU KNOW? State Motto: State Sovereignty, Connecting downtown Chicago’s Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Plaza, the 282- National Union metre-long BP Bridge, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, provides State Flower: Purple violet incomparable views of the Chicago skyline, Grant Park and Lake Michigan. State Bird: Cardinal

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O • French Lick Springs Resort and Casino: I HIDDEN GEMS S O T Indiana’s largest casino: 440 guest rooms and O • The Joseph Decuis Experience: Located in H P suites and a 7,800-square-metre, nautically the small northern Indiana town of Roanoke, themed casino. Joseph Decuis offers guests extraordinary cuisine and wine in a magical setting. The EVENTS restaurant serves American Kobe Beef, • Indianapolis 500 Festival (May). raising its own private herd to ensure • Great Indiana State Fair superb quality. (August), Indianapolis. • Traders Point Farm Organics & • Feast of The Hunter’s Moon (September), Creamery: Indiana’s only USDA-certified West Lafayette. organic creamery, in Zionsville. Its herd of • Native American Days (September), Angel Brown Swiss cows is 100 per cent grass-fed, Visitors can immerse themselves in five Mounds State Historic Park. spending all of its time on pastures. The historic periods at Conner Prairie, a living • Covered Bridges (October), Putnam & American Cheese Society awarded Trader’s history village in Fishers with 37 historical Parke counties. Point Creamery a blue ribbon for its whole- buildings and costumed interpreters. milk yogurt. Self-serve farm store, Creamery ATTRACTIONS Café and Dairy Bar, weekly Green Markets, • White River State Park: Home to trails, farm tours and tastings. waterways, NCAA Hall of Champions, Indianapolis Zoo, Eiteljorg Museum of DID YOU KNOW? American Indians and Western Art and the State Motto: The Crossroads of America Congressional Medal of Honor State Flower: Peony Memorial. Indianapolis. State Bird: Cardinal • The Ohio River Scenic Route: From Lawrenceburg to Mount Vernon, more than 280 kilometres of gentle hills, river views fast and picturesque small towns. [ facts • Indiana Uplands Wine Trail: Seven wineries Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and in scenic South Central Indiana countryside State Park boasts 41 kilometres of wind- Region: GREAT LAKES welcome visitors for tours, tastings. shifted ridges and beaches along Lake America’s Byways: Historic National • The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Michigan’s southern shore. Road, Ohio River Scenic Byway. World’s largest children’s museum. Eleven Airlines: Air Canada, US Airways galleries explore physical and natural Sales Tools: Industry website: sciences, history, world cultures and the arts. PLACES www.in.gov/tourism. Industry newslet- • Angel Mounds State Historic Park: One ter, Travel Guide, Festival Guide, Play of the best-preserved prehistoric Native Pack with coupons, golf guide, attrac- [ what’s American sites in the United States. tion map. new Near Evansville. Info: Indiana Office of Tourism Development •West Baden Springs Hotel: Once dubbed • Nashville: Quaint town boasting a notable 1-800-677-9800 VisitIndiana.com the “Eighth Wonder of the World” because artists’colony, more than 300 specialty shops of its spectacular domed atrium, this and restaurants, and Brown County landmark reopened in May 2007 after State Park. being closed as a hotel for 75 years. It • Evansville Riverside features 246 luxury guest rooms and Historic District: suites, a fine-dining restaurant, atrium bar, Diverse collection five stores and spa recreated from the of historic homes Fort Wayne• original 1902 design. Shuttle service to the in about 12 French Lick Resort Casino is available. blocks. Styles • Koch Family Children’s Museum of include British-

Evansville: This vibrant museum sparks inspired Federal, New York• the imaginations of children and their Gothic and Queen Terre Haute• # families through interactive play and fun Anne; Italian, INDIANAPOLIS exhibits like the Quack Factory, which Greek Revival and spans 2 1/2 floors and is filled with the Frank Lloyd pulleys, simple machines, balls and water. Wright-inspired Prairie style.

62 July 2007/08 America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller www.canadiantraveller.net ATTRACTIONS • Ice Cream Capital of the • Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, World, LeMars: More ice Sioux City: Visitors to this interactive cream is produced here than museum can experience a day soldiering anywhere else in the world. and serving with Lewis & Clark. The 1920s-style ice cream • Bridges of Madison County: Five cov- parlour serves up tasty treats. ered bridges, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, inspired the EVENTS best-selling novel by Robert Waller. • Okoboji Winter Games • Field of Dreams Movie Site: Bring your (January), Okoboji. own baseball equipment and play on the • Tulip Time Festival Guests can stroll through five periods from the 1700s world-famous field at the Dyersville farm. (May), Pella. • Grant Wood Art Festival Ioway Indian Village to the 1900s horse-powered farm at E

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PLACES DID YOU KNOW? • Des Moines: Tour the gold-domed State State Motto: Our Liberties We Prize and Capitol, visit historical museums, an Our Rights We Will Maintain antique district, zoo and botanical centre. State Flower: Wild Prairie Rose Summer months bring colourful festivals State Bird: Eastern Goldfinch The sights, tastes and sounds of Holland celebrating art and jazz. come alive at the historical village of Pella, • Amana Colonies: National Historic with its Dutch buildings, shops, crafts and Landmark consists of seven historic vil- fast souvenirs, plus restaurants and pastries. lages founded by German immigrants as a [ facts religious communal society in 1855. • Dubuque: Located along the Mississippi Region: GREAT FRONTIER what’s River, Dubuque is home to the National America’s Byways: Great River Road, [ new Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, Loess Hills Scenic Byway. • King’s Pointe Resort, Storm Lake: casino gaming, Victorian mansions, tower- Connecting Flights Via: Chicago, Denver, Home to one of the Midwest’s most ing river bluffs and the world’s shortest, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Las spectacular indoor/outdoor waterparks. steepest scenic railway. Vegas, Houston, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Cutting-edge technology lets riders • Clear Lake/Mason City: These sister Dallas, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Memphis experience eight different virtual reality cities include the Surf Ballroom (site of action themes, including sea creatures, Buddy Holly’s last concert), Frank Lloyd Sales Tools: Online Travel Guide, photo gallery, community contacts. storms, hot air balloon rides and sharks. Wright architecture, The Music Man Riders select their "adventure" from a Square (a recreation of the town in Info: Iowa Tourism Office www.traveliowa.com touch screen at the top of the slide and The Music Man), art galleries 1-800-345-IOWA experience it on the descent – complete and lake recreation. with sights and sounds. • American Gothic Visitors Center: The HIDDEN GEMS • Galleria de Paco: Paco Eldon home used as the backdrop for Waterloo Rosic, a 27-year old Sioux City • Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is still • standing, and guests can view the house Bosnian-born artist, •Cedar Rapids from the outside only. This new facility recreated Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling DES MOINES • • includes overalls and aprons for visitors # Davenport Chicago to wear in photos as well as a gallery of using cans of spray paint parodies of the painting. Gothic Day is to interpret the world- celebrated the second Saturday in June renowned masterpiece in every year. his own style in this Waterloo restaurant.

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• Amelia Earhart Birthplace: The house • Boot Hill Museum: Living history C F O . in Atchison in which Amelia Earhart was museum offering a taste of the T P E D . born in 1897 and lived until she was seven 1870s Wild West. Dodge City. S K is now a museum with mementos of the • Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area: famous pilot. 8,080 hectares at Great Bend offer- • Museum of World Treasures: America’s ing some of the best springtime most extensive collection of European shorebird and waterfowl viewing in royal manuscripts, coinage, jewelry and the U.S. weaponry; and the Karpeles/Kardatzke • Tallgrass Prairie National Historic Manuscript Library, which Preserve: The only unit in the The Eisenhower Center in Abilene is home includes the original Bill of Rights and the National Park System dedicated to the to the former general and president’s Nazi Surrender Document. Wichita. rich natural and cultural history of the boyhood home, a museum, visitors centre • Kansas Cosmosphere and Space tallgrass prairie. and Presidential Library.

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EVENTS • C.O.W.B.O.Y.S Spring Gather (April), [ fast Ellsworth. facts • Symphony in the Flint Hills (June), Also known as the Chalk Pyramids, Region: GREAT FRONTIER Alma. Monument Rocks near Oakley is a National Natural Landmark. The formations, which America’s Byways: Flint Hills Scenic Byway, • The Great Lenexa Barbeque Battle and reach up to 21 metres, are remnants of a Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway Kansas State Championship (June). vast inland sea that stretched from the Direct Flights: Air Canada • Dodge City Days (late July-early August). present-day Gulf of Mexico into Canada Connecting Flights Via: Chicago, • Kansas State Fair (September), Hutchinson. some 80 million years ago. Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, • Lenexa Spinach Festival (September). Minneapolis, Seattle • Ellsworth Cowtown Days & Great Sales Tools: Kansas Visitor Guides, American Cattle Drive (September). HIDDEN GEMS Event Calendars and KDOT Highway • Fort Scott Frontier Candlelight Tour • Hays House 1857 Restaurant & Tavern: Located in Council Grove, celebrates 150 maps. images available through (December). online newsroom. years. It is the oldest continuously operating restaurant west of Info: Kansas Department of Commerce, Travel and the Mississippi River. what’s Tourism Division [ new • Town of Lucas: Visit (785) 296-2009 • Kansas Underground Salt Museum: the Grassroots Arts www.travelKS.com Hands-on, interactive displays about salt Center, home of more mining history and production almost than 20 examples of 200 metres below ground. Hutchinson. self-taught, outsider # • Kansas Speedway: One of the nation’s art; the Florence most exciting race venues, and home to Deeble Rock TOPEKA NASCAR, IRL, and ARCA racing Garden; and the Wichita events. A tour of this 78,000-seat state-of- Garden of Eden, • the-art facility can include visits to the which is internationally concourse/grandstand, spotter’s stand, recognized as a monu- infield garage, Sprint FanWalk, ment to individualism. Autograph Alley, inspection station, and Created by Civil War veteran Dallas• Gatorade Victory Lane. Samuel Perry Dinsmoor between the years of 1907 and 1932, the garden’s

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EVENTS • Rolex Three Day Event (April), Lexington. • International Bar-B-Q Festival (May), Owensboro. Roaring water pours over the rocks in a 37- • Great American Brass Band Festival metre wide curtain and drops 20 metres (June), Danville. into the gorge below at Cumberland Falls • Kentucky State Fair (August), Louisville. State Resort Park in Corbin. • World Chicken Festival (September), London. linens, dolls, jewelry, rugs, decorative acces- sories and International giftware. The Glitz, PLACES located in the lower level, is an experience A woman works on a traditional quilt at • Land Between the Lakes: Located in itself. Nonesuch. the Shaker Village Of Pleasant Hill, the between Lake Barkley and Kentucky largest restored 19th-century Shaker village in America. Harrodsburg. Lake, this recreation area has 320 kilome- DID YOU KNOW? tres of scenic woodland trails. Accessed State Motto: United we stand, divided ATTRACTIONS from Golden Pond Visitor’s Center. we fall • Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom: More • Cumberland Gap National Historic State Flower: Goldenrod than 110 rides and attractions, including Park: Largest National Historic Park in State Bird: Cardinal seven roller coasters and Spashwater the U.S. Used for centuries as a pass Kingdom, the largest expansion in its through the Appalachian Mountains to the water park history. Louisville. bluegrass region. • Newport On The Levee: Newport enter- fast • Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory: [ facts Covers all the bases, including a four- tainment complex featuring an storey baseball bat that rests against the aquarium, movie theatres, shopping and Region: THE SOUTH building. Louisville. live entertainment. America’s Byways: Country Music • Churchill Downs Race Track: This reno- • Bourbon Trail: Self-guided tour through Highway, Red River Gorge Scenic Byway, vated Louisville racetrack is home to the north-central Kentucky of the seven distill- Wilderness Road Heritage Highway. Kentucky Derby. eries that produce the finest bourbons. Direct Flights: Delta (Comair) Sales Tools: www.kentuckytourism.com: HIDDEN GEMS “Travel Professionals” section; download- [ what’s • Sam’s Restaurant: Located outside able images; Visitors Guide, Multicultural new Georgetown, this restaurant opened in the Guide, regional publications. • Triple Crown Winner Exhibition: 50s as a truck stop. After 50+ years it Info: Kentucky Department of Tourism 1-800-225-TRIP (8747) This permanent exhibit at the Kentucky is still going strong offering www.kentuckytourism.com Horse Park in Lexington features Triple good quality, Kentucky home Crown winner, Affirmed, who in 1978 cooking. became the third horse of the decade • Speed Art Museum: Kentucky’s oldest and FRANKFORT and the last horse to win the elusive Louisville Triple Crown of racing. largest art museum • # with over 12,000 • Cub Run Cave: Travel along an Lexington elevated walkway to view the spectacular pieces, spanning 6,000 • formations which include a “boxwood” years, in its permanent Washington, DC • pattern that some speleologists say is collection. Louisville. found in only four caves in the United • Irish Acres Antique States. 24 kilometres west of Gallery & Glitz Restaurant: Munfordville. American and European furniture, glassware, china, crystal, silver,

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Region: THE SOUTH America’s Byways: Creole Nature Trail (Note: affected by Katrina; visit www.creolenaturetrail.org for current Located in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter, Preservation Hall is a no-alcohol, no-frills conditions.) club that packs audiences in nightly for traditional New Orleans Jazz. Direct Flights: Air Canada ATTRACTIONS • Mulate’s, The Original Cajun Cruise Lines: Carnival, Delta Queen, Norwegian, River Barge Excursions, • Alexandria Zoological Park: Nine Restaurant and Dance Hall: Authentic Royal Caribbean Line shady hectares, 600 animals, 20 endan- Cajun cuisine, live Cajun music and danc- Sales Tools: Louisiana Specialist Program, gered species. Award-winning Louisiana ing nightly, weekend lunch. New Orleans. Travel Planning Kit, e-mail newsletter Habitat Exhibit. Train, seasonal snack • National WW II Museum: Opened as Info: Louisiana Office of Tourism bar, gift shop. the D-Day Museum in 2000, this New Orleans facility has been desig- 1-800-677-4383 www.LouisianaTravel.com nated the country’s official [ what’s museum of the Second new World War. • “Space Dome” Planetarium: The latest • Louisiana Art attraction at Shreveport’s SciPort and Science Monr• oe Shr• eveport Discovery Center is this state-of-the-art Museum: Fine planetarium that expands this hand-on art exhibitions; children’s inter- children’s learning facility to 8,600 Alexandria• active galleries, square metres. Over 290 exhibits and BATON ROUGE interactive areas are featured. Ancient Egypt # • Black Bear Golf Course: The newest Gallery; simulated • Lake Charles Lafayette• New• Orleans addition to Louisiana’s Audubon Golf space travel in Trail, Black Bear Golf Course sits on the Challenger approximately 120 hectares atop the Learning Center. Macon Ridge in Delhi, near the city Baton Rouge. of Monroe. • Bayou Pierre Gator Park: Alligator farm that’s been converted into an

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alligator, reptile and Louisiana wildlife theme park. Natchitoches. • Frogmore Plantation & Gins: Working cotton plantation with 18 antebellum buildings and authentically furnished cabins dating back to 1810. Frogmore. • Audubon Aquarium of the Americas: One of America’s top five aquariums. New Orleans.

EVENTS • Courir De Mardi Gras (February), Church Point. • Festival International de Louisiane (April), Lafayette. • New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (late April to early May). • Mudbug Madness (May), Shreveport. • Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival (May), Breaux Bridge. • Louisiana Catfish Festival (July), Des Allemands. • Satchmo Summerfest (August), New Orleans. • State Fair of Louisiana (October 25- November 11, 2007), Shreveport.

E XPLORE THE R EAL L OUISIANA PLACES • Cajun Coast: Travel the 200-kilometre Experience Bayou Teche Scenic Byway to more than 100 historic properties, many on the the Exotic Beauty National Register of Historic Properties. Test your luck at the Cypress Bayou of the Atchafalaya Casino, visit the International Petroleum Museum & Exposition and the Morgan On the Cajun Coast, festivals. Antebellum City Historic District Riverfront; and you can wake up to homes and plantations, golf the Atchafalaya at Idlewild. coffee on a bayou museums, golf • West Baton Rouge: Plantations and the houseboat as the sun and casino stories of life on the river abound in the Baton Rouge area. View the Mighty rises over the cypress gaming. Sample Mississippi up close and personal and moss-draped the Cajun Coast at the Riverfront Scenic Overlook. live oaks. We’re a for a taste of the The River Road Plantation Tour starts sampler of everything real Louisiana. just blocks away at the West Baton Louisiana offers, in Rouge Museum. View authentic pre-Civil a friendly, relaxed War slave cabins and the 1830 Aillet House, a French Creole home on the atmosphere. Swamp tours National Register. of the exotic • Greater New Orleans: The French Atchafalaya. Quarter: Start at the Old U.S. Mint and Cajun food, tour a world-renowned exhibit that fun and music Visit www.cajuncoast.com for returns to the days when jazz was born. comprehensive visitor information at some of the nation’s best 985-395-4905 Take a tour of Gallier House, 1850 House, and the Hermann-Grima House. St. Mary Parish. Only 90 minutes from New Orleans, Lafayette or Baton Rouge Check out the always-changing exhibits at the Aquarium of the Americas, or visit

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Take the St. Charles A R A Streetcar to the S Garden District and Uptown area. Tour the Cities of the Dead, the above-ground cemeteries. • Lafayette: The heart of Acadiana is brimming with cultural attractions including the Jean Lafitte Acadian Cultural Center; Vermilionville, a Cajun/Creole Heritage and Folklife Park; and Downtown Alive!, featuring free Situated on the banks of the Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Vermilionville is a Cajun/Creole heritage and folklife outdoor live music park that recreates life in the Acadian region between 1765 and 1890.

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Visitors can catch a glimpse of the working life of a plantation at the Rural Life Museum near Baton Rouge. Buildings include slave cabins, a schoolroom and an overseer’s house. from rock and roll to reggae, zydeco to Cajun on Friday nights. Garden lovers can enjoy the spring colours along the 32-kilometre Lafayette Azalea Trail.

HIDDEN GEMS • Wildlife Gardens: This little zoo lies buried in a natural swamp setting on the outskirts of Houma. Visitors can get up close to alligators and other swamp reptiles, small mammals and birds. For the really adventurous, there are four hidden cabins for overnights in the swamp. • Cane River National Heritage Area: This area south of Natchitoches preserves the history and culture of the rural antebellum Creoles, the French and the Native-Americans who occupied northwest Louisiana’s Red River Valley from the 18th century to modern times. • Atchafalaya Basin: The largest (340,000 hectares) river basin swamp in the U.S. spans over 160 kilometres through more than a dozen south central Louisiana parishes and is home to hundreds of species of fish, birds, mammals and reptiles. Recently named a federal heritage area, it offers adventure seekers wildlife and nature watching via swamp tours, boating, fishing, camping and hiking.

DID YOU KNOW? State Motto: Union, Justice and Confidence State Flower: Magnolia State Bird: Eastern Brown Pelican

70 July 2007/08 America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller www.canadiantraveller.net Y T H N P E • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum: A M R P G O L Home to the Western Hemisphere’s oldest, O T E O V E H D most comprehensive collection of railroad P R M E S I D R D U artifacts. Baltimore. A T O T M F I T O • National Aquarium in Baltimore: E C I F F World-renowned facility – Maryland’s top O D N

A tourist attraction – home to more than L Y R A 11,000 creatures in naturalistc habitats. M • Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards: An unprecedented journey through American history focusing on Ocean City welcomes visitors throughout pop culture in all media. Baltimore. the year; its beach is tailor-made for sunbathing, barefoot strolls, kite flying and sandcastle building. EVENTS • Preakness Stakes (May), Baltimore. • Maryland State Fair (August/September), incredible episode in American history Lutherville Timonium. while blazing the path for America’s first • National Hard Crab Derby and Fair National Historic Water Trail. (Labour Day Weekend), Crisfield. The Antietam National Battlefield preserves • Autumn Glory Festival (October), the scene of the bloodiest one-day battle in DID YOU KNOW? Oakland and throughout Garrett County. U.S. history, when in 1862 Union soldiers State Motto: Industry The Means, Plenty fought to end the first northern invasion of The Result General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate soldiers. PLACES State Flower: Black-eyed Susan • Baltimore: The state’s largest and most- State Bird: Baltimore Oriole visited city. Known for its redeveloped what’s Inner Harbor. [ new • Eastern Shore: Especially popular from fast May to October, when visitors can sail by [ facts • Maryland Byways Guidebook and day and participate in an old-fashioned Map: These free companion pieces crab feast at night. Notable towns include Region: MID-ATLANTIC guide travellers along 19 byways St. Michaels, Chestertown, Cambridge America’s Byways: Catoctin Mountain throughout Maryland, taking them off and Crisfield. Scenic Byway, Chesapeake Country the state’s major highways to routes Scenic Byway, Historic National Road. tracing the Underground Railroad, the HIDDEN GEMS Direct Flights: Air Canada, Northwest, Historic National Road and Chesapeake • Cunningham Falls State Park: Clients United Airlines, US Airways Bay Country. can enjoy “easy” to “steep and strenuous” Cruise Lines: Celebrity Cruises • Maryland Zoo in Baltimore Several : day hikes with rock outcrops and water- Sales Tools: Destination Maryland travel new and expanded exhibits include a falls. Two trails, Old Misery and Cat Rock, guide; Maryland Calendar of Events giraffe feeding station built to the same link together and rise to an elevation of 475 Info: Maryland Office of Tourism height as the giraffe’s neck, as well as new metres. Another leads to the historic Development 1-877-333-4455 African songbirds and benches to let visi- Catoctin Iron Furnace. www.visitmaryland.org tors linger in its African aviary exhibit. • Captain John Smith Re- • Gaylord National Resort & enactment Voyage: On Convention Centre One of the world’s : May 12, 2007, a crew of 10 largest hotel projects, scheduled for modern explorers set off completion in early 2008. The property from Jamestown aboard a will have 2,000 guestrooms, including nine-metre open boat, or more than 100 suites. National Harbour. New York• “shallop,” to re-trace Baltimore• Captain John Smith’s 1608 # ATTRACTIONS Chesapeake expedition. ANNAPOLIS • Historic St. Mary’s City: Original Travelling for 121 days point of settlement in Maryland, today by oar and sail, the group a living history museum with cos- visited every corner of the tumed interpreters re-enacting life in Chesapeake, introducing the 1600s. millions of people to this

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I • Maine Wildlife Park: Home to animals here in June and July; recently restored R U O T that are injured, orphaned or are too 1876 Little River Lighthouse is accessible F O E C

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O sheer, black-rock and white-spray cliffs H P EVENTS overlooking Grand Manan Channel. • Windjammer Days Festival (June), Boothbay Harbor. DID YOU KNOW? • Clam Festival (July), Yarmouth. State Motto: Dirigo (“I Direct” or Spectacular Acadia National Park encom- • Maine Lobster Festival “I Lead”) passes more than 19,000 hectares of wood- (July-August), Rockland. State Bird: Chickadee lands, lakes, ponds, mountains and coastal seashore on Maine’s coast. It’s an ideal • Bangor State Fair State Flower: White Pine Cone & Tassel place for bikers, hikers, kayakers, canoers (July/August). and campers. PLACES fast ATTRACTIONS • Maine’s South Coast: Home to breathtak- [ facts • Maine Maritime Museum: Maine’s mar- ing coastal scenery, broad beaches and pic- Region: NEW ENGLAND itime history told through gallery exhibits, turesque New England villages, including America’s Byways: Acadia Byway, Old an historic shipyard site, educational pro- Kittery, The Yorks, Wells, Ogunquit, The Canada Road Scenic Byway, Rangeley grams and narrated excursions along the Kennebunks and Old Orchard Beach. Lakes Scenic Byway, Schoodic rivers and coast. Bath. • Swan Island Wildlife Management Scenic Byway. • Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co: Daily Area: This island in the Kennebec River Connecting Flights Via: Boston summer whale-watching excursions: hump- is known for deer, bald eagles and wild Cruise Lines: American Canadian Caribbean backs, finbacks, minke whales, dolphins, turkeys as well as its rich history and Line, American Cruise Lines, Costa porpoises, seals, puffins, eagles. historic buildings. Richmond. Cruises, Crystal Cruises, Carnival, • Whitewater Rafting: Exceptional rafting Celebrity, Clipper, CruiseWest, experiences await clients on the Moose, HIDDEN GEMS Cunard/Seabourn, Fred Olsen Cruises, Kennebec and Penobscot rivers. • Burnt Island Living Lighthouse Tour: Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise This three-hour program begins in Line, Orient Lines, P&O Lines, Princess, Radisson Seven Seas Cruises, Regal Boothbay Harbor where a boat takes pas- Cruises, Royal Caribbean, sengers to Burnt Island where they meet the what’s Seabourn, Silversea. [ new lighthouse keeper and his family. Visitors Sales Tools: Sample itineraries; dedicated tour the keeper’s house, the lighthouse • Penobscot Narrows Bridge & agent website tower, take a natural history walk and learn Observatory: Linking the towns of www.travel.visitmaine.com; travel plan- about Maine fisheries. ner, online travel planner; brochures/elec- Prospect and Verona Island, this is the • Cutler: Tour boats head to Machias Seal tronic brochures; promotional DVD; only bridge in North America to have Island and its colony of puffins that roost image CD; e-postcard campaign. an observation deck. A high-speed ele- Info: Maine Office of Tourism vator whisks visitors 128 metres to the (207) 287-5711 360-degree observation room providing www.visitmaine.com views of the Camden Hills, Atlantic Ocean, Mount Katahdin and a birds-eye view of historic Fort Knox. • Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: Embodies the elements that have inspired countless artists and writers – craggy shoreland, fern-filled woodlands, massive rock ledges covered with moss and lichen, and antique stone Bangor walls. From the Shoreland Trail, visitors • •New York can view lobstermen unloading their # Portland, Maine’s largest metropolitan AUGUSTA catch. Boothbay. area, boasts historic buildings, a vibrant arts scene and a spectacular location on • Portland a peninsula jutting out onto Casco Bay.

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10 tons and still manages to jump is obviously remarkable.

So, check out a whale watch and then see what else Maine has to offer.

visitmaine.com 1.800.947maine T T O M ATTRACTIONS from the Colonial and Revolu- • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of tionary eras. Fame: Shrine to the popular sport invent- • Plimoth Plantation: Experience ed by Canadian Dr. James Naismith in life in the 17th century at the 1891. Springfield. recreated Pilgrim Village, native • The Irish Heritage Trail: Clients learn homesite and onboard Mayflower about the vibrant history of the Boston II. Plymouth. Irish on this self-guided, five-kilometre • Dr. Seuss National Memorial walking tour. Sculpture Garden: Larger-than- • Salem Witch Museum: This museum re- life bronze sculptures of the creates the drama of the infamous Salem Grinch, Yertle the Turtle and Witch Trials of 1692. Salem. Horton the Elephant. Springfield. The Norman Rockwell Museum in • John F. Kennedy Library and Museum: • Concord Museum: Visitors can see Paul Stockbridge is home to the world’s largest and most significant collection of works This Boston museum portrays the life and Revere’s signal lantern from the Old from the renowned American illustrator. legacy of JFK through exhibits, video pre- North Church, Henry David Thoreau’s sentations and period settings. belongings from Walden Pond and Ralph of an area that is often overlooked. • Boston’s Freedom Trail: Four-kilometre Waldo Emerson’s study. Concord. • Black Heritage Trail: The Black Heritage red-brick walking trail of 16 historic sites EVENTS Trail® is a walking tour that explores the B V

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E (September), West Springfield. R G • Haunted Happenings (October), Salem. DID YOU KNOW? PLACES State Motto: By the sword we seek peace, • Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet: but peace only under liberty National Park comprised of 17,441 hectares State Flower: Mayflower of shoreline and inland landscape, includ- State Bird: Black-capped chickadee ing a 64-kilometres stretch of pristine sandy beach. Set on 81 hectares and open year-round, fast Old Sturbridge Village, about one hour from • The Berkshires: An unbeatable array of [ facts Boston, is the largest living history museum visual and performing arts experiences and Region: NEW ENGLAND in the northeast. It recreates a rural New outdoor adventure in a rural setting. England town of the 1830s. • Martha’s Vineyard: New England’s largest Direct Flights: Air Canada, American island features seven quaint towns, plus an Airlines, Delta Airlines incredible coastline offering pristine sandy Cruise Lines: Holland America Cruise Line, what’s beaches and dramatic bluffs. Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean [ new • Nantucket Island: Originally a whaling International, Norwegian Cruise Line, Carnival Cruise Line and Seabourn port, this National Historic District has • Coco Key Water Resort: Part of the Cruise Line Sheraton Ferncroft Hotel in Danvers, changed little, architecturally, since the Sales Tools: Massachusetts Getaway 17th century. Fine beaches, bou- this 6,000-square-metre indoor water Guides, E-Offers newsletter, images. park is fun for the whole family. tiques, galleries and restau- Info: Tourism Massachusetts rants abound. • Boston Movie Tours: Whether by trol- 416-253-5989 ley or foot, clients can see where many www.massvacation.com of the made-in-Massachusetts movies HIDDEN GEMS and television shows – including Mystic • North Quabbin Garlic and Arts River, Good Will Hunting, Cheers and Worcester• more – were filmed. Festival: “The # Springfield • Institute of Contemporary Art: This, Festival That Stinks.” • BOSTON the first new art museum built in A celebration of the Boston in more than 100 years, opened artistic, agricultural and late last year right on Boston’s water- cultural bounty of the front and is destined to become one of region. The purpose of the New York the premiere museums in the country. festival is to invite both locals • and visitors to experience the richness

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• Heritagefest (July), New Ulm. S • Lindbergh House: Aviator Charles I V Lindbergh spent boyhood summers at this • Bayfront Blues Festival home on the Mississippi River. (August), Duluth. • International Wolf Center, Ely: A resi- • Minnesota State Fair dent wolf pack can be observed plus tours (August/September), St. Paul. of the ‘Wolves and Humans’ exhibit. • Grand Marais Arts Fair & Festival • Canterbury Park Racetrack & Card (October). Club: Live summertime horse racing, poker 24 hours year-round. Shakopee. PLACES • Wabasha Street Caves: Once housed a • Mall of America: More than 400 retail stores, 50+ restaurants, thrill-seeking Duluth is the world’s largest inland port, so it’s speakeasy during St. Paul’s gangster era. not surprising that Lake Superior figures flight simulator ride and the world’s Starting point for several guided motor- prominently in the city’s top attractions. Two largest indoor aquarium. coach tours. favourites: Vista Fleet narrated cruises and the • Water Park of America: America’s largest • Mille Lacs Indian Museum and North Shore Scenic Railroad. indoor water park, including lazy river, wave Trading Post: History of the Mille Lacs pool, 10-storey thrill ride. Bloomington. Band of Ojibwe through videos, interac- DID YOU KNOW? tive computer programs, exhibits. Local State Motto: The Star Of The North Objibwe guides. Onamia. EVENTS State Flower: Pink and white lady’s-slipper • The Big Bog: Three-kilometre round-trip • Saint Paul Winter Carnival (late January State Bird: Common loon to early February). boardwalk features interpretive signs about the bog’s early history, geology, Y T E I

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I America’s Byways: Edge of the M Cannon River valleys. Wilderness, Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, Great River Road, Historic Bluff HIDDEN GEMS Country Scenic Byway, Minnesota River • Crosby: This town in the heart of the Valley Scenic Byway, North Shore Scenic Cuyuna Iron Range is one of the state’s Drive, Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway. most popular lakes areas. The many Direct Flights: Air Canada, Northwest shops and antique stores on its quaint Airlines Built within the ruins of the Washburn A Main Street have prompted it to be Sales Tools: Group Tour Planner, State Mill, the Mill City Museum chronicles the dubbed “Antique Capitol of the Lakes Travel Guide, series of specialty publica- flour milling industry that dominated world Area.” tions such as Minnesota Explorer (seasonal) newspaper, Golf, Bicycling, flour production for roughly a half-century • Warroad Estates Golf Club: Golf Fishing, Watching Wildlife, Scenic and fuelled the growth of Minneapolis. course specializing in fun, with a Byways and more. Custom FAM tours Minnesota-shaped green and “The Big for group tour leaders and Bertha”, a full pound hamburger and travel agents. fries; if consumed you get a sleeve of Big Info: Explore Minnesota Tourism [ what’s Bertha golf 1-800-657-3700 new balls. Warroad. www.exploreminnesota.com • Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum: • Chanhassen Dinner This new museum in downtown Theatres: One of Alexandria celebrates the rich maritime America’s largest heritage of Minnesota’s lakes. A public professional dinner park with walking paths and picnic theaters. As many

areas is located on the grounds. as 1,000 dinners • Duluth • Minnesota Marine Art Museum: are served in the Experience one of America’s largest two-hour period • St. Cloud • private marina art collections and before each perform- Chicago explore 2.4 hectares of gardens and ance. Just west of # grounds. Winona. Minneapolis. Saint Paul

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For more information, contact Millie Philipp in Mall of America Tourism at 952.883.8843, [email protected] or visit moainformation.com Celebrating 15 Years ATTRACTIONS • Casinos: 29 casinos in Tunica, Greenville, Lula, Vicksburg, Natchez, Philadelphia/ Choctaw, Biloxi, Bay St. Louis and Gulfport. • Magnolia Golf Trail: An organized 14-course trail with a minimal membership fee that enables golfers to enjoy Mississippi’s premier courses at affordable prices. • Civil War History: Re-enactments occur at various times throughout the year. Cornith, Tupelo, Iuka, Coffeeville, Holly Springs, Vicksburg, Port Gibson and Raymond are just some of the locations where travellers can learn about battle history and troop movement. Among the last great mansions built before the Civil War, Walter Place in Holly Springs M S I

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P classic Greek Revival mansion in Jackson Fall), Natchez. P I S S I

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H National Historic Landmark. (June), Indianola. P • Tunica River Park Museum: This 2,230-square-metre museum is centred on Mississippi paddle trips offer scenic beauty the life of the Mississippi River and [ fast with high bluffs, large cypress trees and its history. facts abundant wildlife waiting around every bend. • Delta Blues Museum: Preserves, Region: THE SOUTH interprets and encourages a deep interest America’s Byways: Lower Mississippi Great in this uniquely American music. River Road, Natchez Trace Parkway. Clarksdale. what’s Connecting Flights Via: Atlanta, [ new • Elvis Presley Birthplace & Museum: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Memphis Includes the modest home Elvis' father • Mississippi Blues Trail: The Sales Tools: State tour guides and other built, a statue of Elvis with his first guitar, Mississippi Blues Trail is composed brochures, group travel planning memorial chapel, walk of life, fountain of of more than 100 historical markers guides, website photo gallery, on-site and interpretive sites located through- life, park, story wall, gift shop, and training, Certified Mississippi Tour out the state. Each is identified with a recently remodeled museum, “Times And Planner program. Things Remembered”. Tupelo. distinctive cast marker, featuring Info: Mississippi Development Authority, • DeSoto County Museum: This Hernando high-resolution maps, photographs, Division of Tourism museum showcases DeSoto County text and downloadable sounds and 1-866-SEE-MISS (733.6477) history, including depictions of Hernando music of the area. www.visitmississippi.org • Mississippi Museum of Art: DeSoto’s 1541 explorations of the Mississippi’s largest art museum and Southeastern U.S., Jerry Lee Lewis’s home to a permanent collection of over piano and a restored log cabin from 3,800 paintings, sculptures, prints, 1850 filled with period objects drawings and photographs. The MMA and exhibits. features an emphasis on mid-19th and JACKSON 20th-century American art. EVENTS Vicksburg # • Hard Rock Hotel and Casino: Biloxi’s • World Catfish Festival • Hard Rock Hotel and Casino joins the (April), Belzoni. • Natchez Mississippi Gulf Coast’s casinos, bring- • Juke Joint Festival (April), Clarksdale. • ing premium accommodations, dining, Biloxi entertainment and gaming. • Double Decker Arts Festival • New Orleans (April), Oxford.

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• Choctaw Indian Fair (July), Choctaw. • Mississippi State Fair (October), Jackson. • Mistletoe Marketplace (November), Jackson

PLACES • Vicksburg National Military Park: Established in 1899. This beautiful park, with its marble and granite monuments, strategic markers, and cannon displays, commemorates the 47-day Civil War siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863. Includes Vicksburg National Cemetery. • The Natchez Trace Parkway: Quite possibly the most historic roadway in North America. First appearing more than 8,000 years ago as a buffalo and Indian trail, the path was used by explorer Hernando DeSoto in his search for gold around 1540. • Mississippi Petrified Forest: One-of-a-kind petrified forest includes nature trail among the petrified logs, picnic area, museum, gift shop and campground. Flora. • Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center: This impressive facility features exhibits that explain military and civilian experiences during the Civil War, as well as exhibits relevant to African- American heritage. • Club Ebony: One of the best-known and most authentic juke joints in the state. Since 1945, the club has hosted such icons as Count Basie, Ray Charles, James Brown, Ike Turner, Howlin’ Wolf and B.B. King.

HIDDEN GEMS • Hattiesburg: Mississippi’s “Hub City” of Hattiesburg is an emerging arts community of beautiful galleries, boutiques and the elegant and entertaining Saenger Theater. Be sure to stop in to one of the town’s many outstanding restaurants and pay tribute to all branches of the American military at the state-of-the-art Armed Forces Museum at THIS GOLFER JUST FOUND Camp Shelby. • Walter Anderson Museum of Art: WAMA is dedicated to the celebration of the works NIRVANA. of Walter Inglis Anderson, whose depictions of the plants, animals, and people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast have placed him among the forefront of American painters of the 20th Century. • Neshoba County Fair: Visit “Mississippi’s Giant House Party” each year in July for the nation’s largest campground fair and location for racing programs, an open-air market, carnival rides and political speaking. A Mississippi tradition for more than 100 years. VisitMississippi.org DID YOU KNOW? 1-866-801-8551 State Motto: By Valor And Arms Y- P C C E V State Flower: Magnolia State Bird: Mockingbird www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 79 ATTRACTIONS • Jesse James: Visit the farm, grave and • National Frontier Trails Museum: home of one of Missouri’s most infamous America’s only museum devoted exclu- sons. St. Joseph and Kearney. sively to the Santa Fe, Oregon and California Trails, which all began in or EVENTS nearby Independence. • BransonFest (April), Branson. • Fantastic Caverns: Missouri is known as • National Tom Sawyer Days (July), the Cave State; don’t miss the chance to Hannibal. enjoy America’s only ride-through cave. • Missouri State Fair (August), Sedalia. Springfield. • Ozark Mountain Christmas (November to January), Branson. • Country Club Plaza Lighting [ what’snew (November to January), Kansas City. • National WWI Museum: Designated PLACES by Congress as America’s official WWI • Branson: Dubbed the “Live Entertainment Museum, the new state-of-the-art com- Capital of the World,” this Ozark Mountain plex at Liberty Memorial uses highly town boasts more than 500 theatres; 100 interactive technology to bring history shows per day offer a wide variety of to life. Kansas City. musical entertainment and attractions. The Gateway Arch Riverfront in St. Louis • Lake of the Ozarks: “The Midwest’s • Lumiere Place Gaming Complex: offers several activities. Travel to the top of Scheduled to open this fall near the Premier Lake Vacation Destination” offers America’s tallest monument, visit the famed Gateway Arch, this entertainment more than 1,900 kilometres of shoreline; Museum of Westward Expansion and take a complex will feature a large casino, a spectacular state parks; world-class golf, sightseeing cruise aboard the Tom Sawyer Four Seasons hotel, spa, business cen- shopping, spas and fishing; and a wide or Becky Thatcher riverboats. tre, fine restaurants and meeting and variety of lodging, restaurants and live convention space. St. Louis. entertainment. • Branson Landing: Shopping, dining • Ste. Genevieve: Settled on the west bank fast and entertainment on the waterfront of of the Mississippi in the late 1740s, this [ facts Lake Taneycomo in downtown was one of several French communities Branson. Explore Bass Pro Shops and forming a region known as the "Illinois Region: GREAT FRONTIER over 100 specialty stores and restau- Country". Remarkable preservation of the America’s Byways: Crowley’s Ridge rants. Don’t miss the magnificent water features of the colonial settlement. Parkway, Little Dixie Highway of the fountain spectacular, synchronized to Great River Road. light, sound, music and fire. Branson. HIDDEN GEMS Direct Flights: Air Canada, United Airlines • Weston: Experience old-fashioned shop- Sales Tools: VisitMO newsletter, hard copy

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• Interlochen Center for the Arts: Marquette Situated on a 1,200-acre campus, • this remarkable facility brings together a 2,000-student summer arts camp program for children; a fine arts boarding high school; two Flint 24-hour listener-supported Grand Rapids • public radio stations; year- • A National Historic Landmark, Mackinac Detroit Island is a carefully preserved – and round arts programs for adults; LANSING# • automobile-free – 19th-century summer and 600 arts presentations annually resort between Michigan’s upper and by students, faculty and world- lower peninsula. renowned guest artists.

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EVENTS E V E T • C.M. Russell Auction Of Original S Western Art & Exhibitors Show (March), Great Falls. • Fort Union Rendezvous (June). •Augusta American Legion Rodeo and Parade (June). • Montana State Fair (July/August), Yellowstone National Park is a paradise for lovers of Great Falls. the great outdoors. There are three Montana entrances to Yellowstone, at Cooke City, Gardiner and • Running Of The Sheep West Yellowstone. (September), Reedpoint. enthusiasts congregate after a tiring day in the PLACES mountains or on the water. Menu favourites • Missouri Headwaters State Park: include buffalo burgers, huckleberry Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin rivers chocolate-chip cookies and a wide selection Glendive’s Maskoshika Dinosaur Museum is merge to form the Missouri River within of local microbrews. A sand volleyball court, one of 13 stops in 15 communities along live music, and cozy rental cabins let guests Montana’s Dinosaur Trail. New this year is park’s boundaries. Geographical focal point the “Prehistoric Passport”, which provides important to early Native Americans, finish their visit completely off the beaten information about the displays and dig trappers, traders and settlers. track in style. programs and space for a unique stamp • Northeastern Plains Birding Trail: Twelve from each site. birding sites along Montana’s “hi line” in DID YOU KNOW? Missouri River Country, a rich haven for State Motto: Gold and Silver State Flower: Bitterroot ATTRACTIONS migratory birds, raptors and waterfowl. • Glacier National Park: World’s first inter- State Bird: Western Meadowlark • Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail national peace park has 404,000 hectares of Interpretive Center: Exhibits covering the alpine landscape, joins Canada's Waterton explorers’entire 12,800-kilometre trek. National Park at the border. Great Falls. [ fastfacts • Little Bighorn Battlefield: West’s most HIDDEN GEMS famous memorial to clash between Plains Region: MOUNTAIN WEST Indians and U.S. 7th Cavalry. • Miles City Bucking Horse Sale: This wild America’s Byways: Beartooth Highway. • The Copper King Express: Journey west event has drawn a cult-like following Connecting Flights Via: Denver, between Anaconda and Butte provides from residents across Montana, and from Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Salt Lake every cultural and social group, from flip- City, Seattle flop wearing college students from Missoula Sales Tools: Vacation planner; to fifth-generation ranching families from [ what’s comprehensive websites for tour new Judith Gap. Bucking horse auction with operators: (www.montanagroups.com) •Apgar Transit Center (ATC): Visitors to bareback and saddle bronc riding; bull and meeting planners Glacier National Park now have access to riding; wild horse races; a concert; street (www.montanameetings.com). this new transit and shuttle area, located dances; and a parade. Info: Travel Montana approximately 1.6 kilometres from the • Northern Lights Saloon: Eighty- 1-800-VISIT MT three kilometres north of park’s west entrance. The free service offers Alberta www.visitmt.com two-way shuttle trips to 18 stops in Glacier. Columbia Falls on gravel road • Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky: This #486 is the quirky town of Saskatchewan exhibit, part of the new Siebel Dinosaur Polebridge, where there’s no • Kalispell electricity, no stoplights and Complex at the Museum of the Rockies in Great Falls no paved roads…and that’s • • Bozeman, features skulls and eggs from Missoula #HELENA world-famous Egg Mountain and how the locals like it. With highlights dinosaurs found in Montana. sweeping vistas of Glacier Bozeman • •Billings Real-time links with fossil dig sites let National Park and easy access visitors learn about dinosaurs and the to the Upper Middle Fork of the process of excavating fossils. Flathead River, the Northern Lights • Saloon is where hard-core outdoor Salt Lake City

www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 83 ATTRACTIONS • Oregon Trail Days (July), Gering. • Fort Robinson State Park: The history of • Kool-Aid Days (August), Hastings. this frontier fort in the scenic Pine Ridge • Nebraska State Fair (August/ area includes notables like Crazy Horse September), Lincoln. and General George Crook. Crawford. • Niobara National Scenic River: Six eco- PLACES logical systems meet and mix along a 48- • Indian Cave State Park: On the kilometre stretch popular for bluffs above and along the Missouri canoeing/floating excursions. Valentine. River; includes a reconstructed 18th- • Rowe Sanctuary and the Iain Nicolson century village. Schubert. Audubon Center: More than half a mil- • Harold Warp Pioneer Village: 26 lion sandhill cranes roost here along the buildings, including Pony Express Platte River on their northward station and one-room school with dis- migration. Gibbon. plays of 50,000 items. Minden. • Chimney Rock National Historic EVENTS Site and Visitors Center: Most doc- • Summer Arts Festival umented landmark on the Oregon (late June), Omaha. Trail; accessible through Visitors • Wine and Arts Festival (July), Sprigfield Center or on the Oregon Trail Wagon Train. D E D • Dancing Leaf Earth Lodge & A K S A

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O lodge, medicine wheel. Wellfleet. Clients can come face to face with the wild H P • Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer: at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo. Mutual of Features 1890s Railroad Town with 60 Omaha’s Exploration Station is new this year. original buildings and the childhood home of actor Henry Fonda. fast HIDDEN GEMS [ facts • Fremont Dinner Train: Board the train Region: GREAT FRONTIER for a tasty meal and a wonderful view of the Nebraska prairie. Fremont. Connecting Flights Via: Minneapolis, Chimney Rock was perhaps the most Chicago, Denver, Detroit. significant signpost for thousands of • Brownville: Charming historic town with Sales Tools: Nebraska Travel Guide, E- pioneers during the Great Migration. Book winery, village theatre, used book stores Newsletter, Group Travel Planner, high- clients on a covered-wagon excursion at and museums. resolution photos. Chimney Rock National Historic Site and • Toadstool Geologic Park: A lunar-like Info: Nebraska Division of Travel Visitors Center. landscape filled with fossils and other- and Tourism wordly rock formations in Nebraska’s 1-877-NEBRASKA western panhandle. Crawford. www.VisitNebraska.org what’s • Ashfall Fossil Beds State [ new Historical Park: Fossilized remains of a • Henry Doorly Zoo: See Mutual Of Norfolk Omaha’s Exploration Station, the 12-million-year-old world’s largest indoor jungle and desert herd of rhinoceros Scottsbluff Grand Island Fremont dome. Voted Number One Zoo in the that died after a • • U.S. by Reader’s Digest. Omaha. volcanic eruption. Omaha Chicago North Platte • • • • Wineries: The state boasts many Royal. • • Kearney # award-winning wineries with new ones • Hastings• coming into production every year. DID YOU KNOW? LINCOLN • Homestead National Monument of State Motto: Equality America: New heritage Center features Before the Law expanded exhibits and an impressive State Flower: Goldenrod view of the tall-grass prairie. Beatrice. State Bird: Western Meadowlark

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PLACES • Virginia City: Once one of the richest mining towns in the world, and the heart of the Comstock Lode, this lively historic town is America’s largest historical monument. • Hoover Dam: Built more than 70 years ago with enough concrete to pave a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York, Hoover Dam in southern Nevada is considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world. • Lunar Crater: A volcanic field on US Highway 6 between Ely and Tonopah, featuring recent volcanic activity, black lava rock craters and unique formations. • Great Basin National Park: Dominated by Wheeler Peak, this pristine wilderness in eastern Nevada is also home to ancient pines and the highly decorated limestone Lehman Caves. Clients will also discover streams, lakes, alpine plants and abundant wildlife. • Cathedral Gorge: Little-known state park in eastern Nevada with breathtaking cathedral-like spires and dramatic cliffs and caves carved into the hillside by ages of erosion.

One of the highlights of a visit to downtown Las Vegas is taking in the Fremont Street Expeience, an exciting pedestrian promenade with a one-of-a-kind light and sound show derived from more than two million lights and 540,000 watts of concert-quality sound.

• Reno: A must-see destination for any trip to Nevada, Reno is popularly known as “America’s Adventure Place” thanks to an abundance of outdoor recreation, arts and culture, gaming and nightlife. Nestled in the foothills of the majestic Sierra Nevada Range, Reno is Nevada’s third largest city, boasting a rich arts scene and year-round outdoor activities. • Laughlin: 144 kilometres south of Las Vegas, Laughlin boasts nine casino/resorts with affordable first-class accommodations and a multitude of recreational activities along with special events that include everything from world-class rodeo action to daring, off-road racing and an amateur longest drive golf competition.

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and plants that have adapted to this envi- C I X family in a high-tech E M

ronment. Southwest of Alamogordo. W E • Carlsbad Caverns National Park: One design. Albuquerque. N of the largest and most spectacular lime- • Indian Pueblo stone cave complexes in the world. South Cultural Center: of Carlsbad. Visitors can learn • Space Center: With the focus on “hands- about varied histories on” experiences, the complex includes the and cultures of New International Space Hall of Fame, Mexico’s Indian Omnimax Theatre and Planetarium, Space Pueblos at this popu- Park and Shuttle Camp. Alamogordo. lar attraction. Traditional dance M S

I performances are R U O T held every weekend, T P E D and a gift shop sells O C I X

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W E Albuquerque. N gigantic subterranean chambers and • Billy the Kid Museum: One of the state’s formations, including over 97 known caves, top attractions, this museum keeps the leg- like Lechuguilla Cave, the deepest limestone end of the infamous outlaw alive and well. cave and the third longest in the U.S. It houses 60,000 relics, including Billy the Kid’s rifle, chaps and spurs, and the original Wanted poster. The Fort Sumner [ fast Military cemetery, where Billy the Kid is facts Outlaw Billy the Kid may be buried in the buried, is nearby. Fort Sumner. Fort Sumner Military cemetery, but his Region: SOUTHWEST • Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u legend is alive and well at the nearby Billy America’s Byways: Billy The Kid Trail, El Museum: Learn about the rich cultural the Kid Museum, that boasts 60,000 Camino Real, Geronimo Trail Scenic artifacts that chronicle his rise and fall. traditions of the Acoma people through Byway, Historic Route 66, Jemez permanent exhibits of the renowned Mountain Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Trail Of Acoma pottery and never before displayed The Mountain Spirits Scenic Byway, [ what’s textiles. West of Albuquerque. Turquoise Trail. new • Chaco Culture National Historical Connecting Flights Via: Chicago, Dallas, Park: A UNESCO World Heritage Site Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, • The Unser Racing Museum: that preserves the most sophisticated 12th- Minneapolis, Seattle Highlights the Unser family’s long century Ancestral Pueblo economic and Sales Tools: New Mexico Magazine, The legacy in car racing, the design and ceremonial centre in the United States. New Mexico Visitor’s Guide engineering evolution of race cars, plus Info: New Mexico Tourism Department a variety of changing exhibits related to EVENTS 1-800-733-6396 ext 751 the racing world. Los Ranchos de • International Balloon www.newmexico.org Albuquerque. Fiesta (October), • Visitor Center at Pancho Villa State Albuquerque Park: On March 9, 1916, soldiers led by • Gathering of Mexican Gen. Francisco “Pancho” Villa Nations Pow attacked the military camp at the sleepy Wow (April), Farmington• border town of Columbus, New Mexico, Albuquerque. Gallup killing 18 Americans. Pancho Villa State • Roswell UFO • #SANTA FE Park’s extensive historical exhibits Festival • Albuquerque Los Angeles depicting the raid and the U.S. Army’s (July), Roswell. • • subsequent Punitive Expedition into Roswell • Santa Fe • Las Cruces Mexico are now housed in the park’s Spanish Market & new US $1.8 million Exhibit Hall. Fiestas (July), Santa Fe

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• All-American Futurity Horse Race • Turquoise Trail: Attractions include the I R U O T (September), Ruidoso Downs ghost towns of Madrid, Cerrillos and T P E D • Hatch Valley Chile Festival Golden, the Pueblo Indian history of San O C I X

(September), Hatch. Marcos Pueblo, and the ancient Turquoise E M

W • Whole Enchilada Fiesta (September), mines in the Cerrillos area. E N Las Cruces. • Billy the Kid Trail: This National Scenic • New Mexico State Fair at Expo New and Historic Byway links the hamlets Mexico (September), Albuquerque where the legend of this famous • Intertribal Indian Ceremonial outlaw began. (August), Gallup • Roswell: The town’s International UFO • International Bat Festival (September), Museum and Research Center opened in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. 1991 and has become the clearinghouse • Santa Fe Indian Market (August), for information related to UFOs and the Santa Fe phenomenon surrounding them. • Festival of the Cranes (November), near Socorro HIDDEN GEMS • Smokey Bear Museum and State Park: M S

I Commemorates the career of Smokey R U O T

Bear who is buried in the Lincoln T P

E Roswell’s International UFO Museum and D National Forest. Capitan. O C

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E star, Buddy Holly, recorded his hit songs N related to UFOs and the phenomenon That’ll Be the Day and Peggy Sue here in surrounding them. 1957. The studio is open for tours. Clovis. • Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge: historic railroad depot, saved from a New Sinkholes and water conditions seem to Mexico village that no longer exists, and be responsible for this dragonfly haven. from a railroad that went out of business The Refuge may have the most diverse before the First World War. The depot is population of dragonflies and dam- complete with a one-fifth-scale train you can ride around a city park. Alamogordo Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a selflies in the world and is home to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, preserves the annual Dragonfly Festival in most sophisticated 12th-century Ancestral August. Roswell. DID YOU KNOW? Pueblo economic and ceremonial centre in • The Toy Train Depot: Houses more than State Motto: It Grows As It Goes the United States. 8,000 model trains from around the State Flower: Yucca world in all scales and gauges in a State Bird: Roadrunner L H O N PLACES K R A M

• Taos: The best known and oldest of the / M S I

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pied for 1,000 years. Nearby Taos Ski W E Valley offers some of the finest skiing in N North America. • Navajo Lake State Park: Three recreation areas, Pine, Sims Mesa and San Juan River, overlook the largest lake in northwestern New Mexico. • Santa Fe: The oldest seat of government in the United States, starting around 1610, Santa Fe is known for its variety of cultural and historic sites. • Elephant Butte Lake State Park: Visitor centre, campsites, water sports (with par- ticular emphasis on great fishing) and Santa Fe’s Indian market draws crowds from around the globe to shop for crafts produced nature trails in the southwest region. by 1,200 artists from about 100 tribes.

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ATTRACTIONS • Mohonk Preserve: Hiking, horseback • Hudson Valley Mansions: Ranging from riding, cycling, rock-climbing and a Vanderbilt to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Victorian castle, Mohonk Mountain House to Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estates. House. New Paltz. • Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden: • Howe Caverns: This 10-million-year- Butterflies fly freely in the Strong National old living limestone cave is located 48 Museum of Play conservatory. Rochester. metres below the earth’s surface. • Natural History Museum of the Adiron- Howes Cave. dacks: Animals, habitats, waterways, ice • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: This national baseball shrine wall and wide-screen theatre. Tupper Lake. Minutes from Manhattan, Long Island is a beach is a perennial favourite. Cooperstown. lover's paradise that boasts seaside villages like D E D S Bridgehampton that offer super shopping, fishing, Y N

S swimming and boating. O T O

H • Harborfest (July), Oswego. P • French and Indian War Encampment • Capital-Saratoga: Steeped in tradition and (July), Old Fort Niagara. history from world-class thoroughbred races • French and Indian War 250th Celebration to rich Dutch heritage. (May to October), Statewide • Catskills: Known for spectacular mountain •Annual Spiedie Fest & Balloon Rally scenery, lakes and resorts; one highlight is (August), Binghamton. the Kaaterskill Falls, a favourite of Henry • Great New York State Fair (August to David Thoreau. September), Syracuse. • 250th Anniversary Reenactment of the fast 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry [ facts (September), Lake George. •Adirondack Balloon Festival Region: MID-ATLANTIC (September), Queensbury. America’s Byways: Lakes to Locks • National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Passage, Mohawk Towpath Byway, Weekend (July), Cooperstown. Seaway Trail • Brotherhood Winery’s Annual Grape Direct Flights: Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Harmony The historic Saratoga Springs Race Course Stomping Festival (September – Airways, United Airlines attracts global visitors to the sport of kings October), Washingtonville. and the resort village of Saratoga Springs. • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Cruises: Carnival, Celebrity Cruises, (November), New York City. Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Regal Cruises, Royal Caribbean what’s PLACES International [ new • Thousand Island-Seaway: Great fishing, Sales Tools: New York State Travel Guide & beautiful state parks and the Seaway Trail, a State Map, New York City Travel Guide, • NewYork Wine & Culinary Center: Travel Ideas E-Zine Less than a year old, it offers the best of 725-kilometre scenic and recreational byway Info: New York State Department of the Empire State’s dining, wine and and home to the romantic Boldt Castle. •Adirondacks: A haven for outdoor enthu- Economic Development agriculture and serves as a gateway to the 1-800-CALL-NYS siasts, featuring Lake Placid’s Olympic agriculture, food and wine of New York www.iloveny.com State. Canandaigua. village, the beaches and amusement parks of • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts: This Lake George and championship golf. new, state-of-the-art cultural centre, • Finger Lakes: This land of lakes, waterfalls commemorates the 1969 Woodstock and steep hillsides, covering Music & Arts Fair, dubbed by some as more than 10,356 square kilometres, is home to more Toronto “the greatest musical and cultural event of • Syracuse the millennium.” Bethel. than 55 wineries. • Rochester• # • National Purple Heart Hall of Honor: • Greater Niagara: Niagara ALBANY Buffalo• Located near West Point, this is the first Falls is just one natural U.S. tribute to the extraordinary sacrifices wonder; highlights include the Genessee River Gorge in of more than 1.7 million American New •York City servicemen and servicewomen killed or Letchworth State Park, wounded in combat. Vails Gate. known as the Grand Canyon of the East.

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• Central-Leatherstocking: History, geo- HIDDEN GEMS logical wonders, sports and music. Tour a • Bannerman’s Castle: 19th-century village; experience Native Located on Pollepel Island American heritage. in the Hudson River, this • Chautauqua-Allegheny: Home to New abandoned military surplus York’s largest state park, the region offers warehouse was constructed hiking trails and wineries on Lake Erie’s by Francis Bannerman VI shores, plus golf, boating and fishing. in the style of a castle. Boat • Hudson Valley: The valley presents pano- service is available to ferry ramic vistas, antique shops and hidden art visitors to the island, where treasures, picturesque cottages, palatial they can explore the homes and lush gardens on the Hudson River. grounds and remains of the Romantic Boldt Castle, on Heart Island in the 1000 Islands • New York City: The largest collection of structure. Glenham. region of New York, is a monument to love that George museums and galleries in the U.S.; great • The Museum of the C. Boldt build for his wife Louise. The castle is accessible by theatre on and off Broadway; the finest Moving Image: Immerse boat tours. dining; shopping second-to-none; plus Times yourself in 1,380 square Square, the Empire State Building, Central metres of art, history, technology and television with their sitcom, I Love Lucy. The Park and the Statue of Liberty. screening rooms. This fascinating museum city is home to the official museum • Oswego: World-class outdoor adventure, is located within the Historic Astoria honouring their mark in pop culture history fascinating historical attractions, charming Studio in Queens. Features include exhibi- and commemorates the couple each year towns and villages. Highlights include tions of film and television artifacts, with “Lucy-Desi Days.” Jamestown. military history sites like Fort Brewerton, artworks and interactive experiences. Fort Ontario; largest number of documented New York City. DID YOU KNOW? Underground Railroad sites in the state, • Lucy-Desi Museum: Jamestown shows its State Motto: Excelsior historic homes, interesting museums and love for native daughter Lucille Ball and her State Flower: Rose plenty of motor racing action. husband, Desi Arnaz, who revolutionized State Bird: Bluebird

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& • North Carolina Zoo: One of the world’s M L

I fast F , largest and finest walk-through natural-habitat [ M facts S I R

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O Charlotte,” Lowe’s Motor Speedway, is a Direct Flights: Air Canada, US Airways H P Mecca for NASCAR fans. Guided tours Sales Tools: Travel Package, online Travel include a high-speed lap around the 1.5-mile Guide, e-newsletters, online Travel banked oval. Concord. Professionals section • North Carolina Museum of Life and Info: North Carolina Division of Tourism Science: This interactive facility mixes science (416) 622-1680 and fun. Visitors can ride a train through the 1-800-VISIT-NC nature park and wander through a 465-square- www.visitnc.com The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll metre glass conservatory filled with more than Shores offers a living shipwreck exhibit, 1,000 tropical butterflies. Durham. EVENTS complete with sharks, fish and turtles, plus • North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll • North Carolina Azalea Festival (April), a replica of a German U-boat sunk in 1942. Shores:Among the many exhibits and activ- Historic Wilmington and the Cape Fear Coast. ities at this popular facility is a 1.2 million-litre • Mayberry Days (September), Mount Airy. living shipwreck exhibit with tiger sharks, • North Carolina State Fair [ what’s schools of fish and loggerhead turtles (October), Raleigh. new swimming in and around a replica of the • Chimney Rock Park: The state has agreed German U-352 submarine to purchase the 402-hectare privately owned sunk off the North Carolina park with its signature 96-metre spire coast in 1942. overlooking Lake Lure and will make it the • Wright Brothers National centrepiece of a new state park under devel- Memorial: The site of man’s opment in Hickory Nut Gorge. Chimney first powered flight by Wilbur Rock Park has been a tourist attraction in and Orville Wright in 1903, western North Carolina since a stairway was the Wright Brothers National built to the rock’s summit in 1885. Facilities Memorial boasts an 18- currently include a tunnel and elevator to the metre-high granite pylon atop summit, a visitor centre, nature centre and a a 27-metre hill to commem- network of hiking trails to geologic points of orate the brothers as well as a interest and the 123-metre Hickory Nut Falls. museum, a reconstructed • Ghost Town in the Sky: After being closed hangar and daily for several years, one of North Carolina’s presentations on their historic oldest family theme parks has reopened first flight. Kill Devil Hills The state of North Carolina has purchased privately-owned Chimney Rock Park, with its signature spire overlooking Lake featuring many of the original attractions, • Fort Fisher State Historic Lure, and will develop it as the centrepiece of a new state park. classic amusements and live-action shows. Site: Once the largest and one Located 48 kilometres west of Asheville, of the most important the 40-hectare park has staged gunfights, earthwork fortifica- special performances, a roller coaster called tions in the South. Cliff Hanger that runs on the edge of Buck Approximately 10 Mountain, historical and heritage exhibits per cent of Fort Durham Fisher remains along and a variety of restaurants and Greensboro concessions. Maggie Valley. with a restored • • • • Billy Graham Library: This innovative palisade fence. The Winston- # and interactive facility chronicles the life, visitor centre Salem RALEIGH •Charlotte ministry and message of Billy Graham with contains an exhibits, multimedia displays and films. exhibition hall with The family-friendly complex also includes new interpretive the original Graham family homestead, a exhibits and an audio- resource centre and restaurant. Charlotte. visual presentation. •Miami Kure Beach.

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hotel, lush gardens, walking trails and an award-winning winery. Asheville. • Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Lighthouse: This popular National Seashore preserves and protects 120 kilometres of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and includes the area of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse as well as visitor centres at Buxton, Bodie Island and Ocracoke Island. • Blue Ridge Parkway: Nicknamed “America’s Favorite Drive,” this 750-kilometre scenic route connects the Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks. • Cherokee Indian Reservation: Homeland of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Indian reservation welcomes thousands of visitors each year. Popular attractions include Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Museum of the Cherokee, Oconaluftee Indian Village, the outdoor drama Unto These Hills, Qualla Co-op, arts The Biltmore Estate, completed in 1895 is and crafts and shopping. America’s largest privately owned home and a National Historic Landmark boasting HIDDEN GEMS a four-star hotel, gardens, walking trails • Sylvan Heights, Scotland Neck: Sylvan and an award-winning winery. Heights Waterfowl Center, a breeding centre that features the world’s largest collection of • Christmas at the Biltmore Estate waterfowl including many rare and endan- (November/December),Asheville. gered species, has now opened an Eco Center for the public. The centre, located in north- PLACES eastern North Carolina, provides • Charlotte: In the state’s largest city, cosmo- conservation oriented programs and avian politan flair and Southern charm blend exhibits showcasing more than 170 species Find together in music, art, world-class dining, of birds including animals from Australia, professional sports and exhilarating nightlife. Africa, Eurasia, North and South America. • Great Smoky Mountains National Park:A • The U.S. National Whitewater Center: your haven for hikers, bikers, equestrians and water The nation’s premier outdoor recreation and sports enthusiasts; the largest part of America’s environmental education centre features the speed. most visited national park is located in North world’s only multi-channel re-circulating Carolina. Accessed from Cherokee. whitewater river. The facility also offers • Southern Pines: The Pinehurst, Southern mountain-biking and running trails, a Pines, Aberdeen area is home to 43 of the climbing centre, challenge course and the finest North Carolina golf courses – all within customized river for rafting and a 25-kilometre radius. Other diversions include canoeing/kayaking. Charlotte. exceptional shopping and antiquing, day spas, • The Children’s Museum of Wilmington: pottery trails, gardens, historic sites and tours. Interactive hands-on museum for children • Historic Wilmington: Offers visitors more offers seven exhibits, performing and visual than 45 attractions, including riverboat cruises arts spaces and two outdoor gardens. Stations museums showcasing North Carolina artists include a grocery store, restaurant, pirate ship, and history and a variety of tours of the historic art centre, science lab, toddler exploration and district, nature preserves and movie studios. cultural storytelling areas. Wilmington. • Biltmore Estate: The 250-room French- GoWrightsville.com Renaissance chateau, completed in 1895 by DID YOU KNOW? 1-800-650-8921 George Vanderbilt, is America’s largest State Motto: To be, rather than to seem privately owned home and a National Historic State Flower: Dogwood Landmark. Facilities include shops, a four-star State Bird: Cardinal www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 101 N O I

• North Dakota Heritage Center: Move S I

ATTRACTIONS V I from an Indian camp into a homesteader’s D • Theodore Roosevelt National Park: M S I R

yard through vast displays of history and U O

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Clark Trail with markers placed near sites /

• Knife River Indian Villages National E N Y

where specific events occurred. A Historic Site: Offers a glimpse of P N A I

• Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park: R

American Plains Indians heritage dating B back 11,000 years. Stanton. Reconstructed home of General George • Fort Mandan: Full-sized reconstruction Custer; 7th Cavalry buildings; museum of fort that was winter home of Lewis and and Mandan Indian village. Mandan. Clark Expedition 1804 to1805. Washburn. • Bonanzaville, U.S.A.: More than 40 HIDDEN GEMS buildings depict life in Red River Valley • Woodland Resort: Near Devils Lake, one of the best fishing lakes in North The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in in late 1800s and early 1900s. Medora is an interpretive centre for the

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• United Tribes V State Motto: Liberty and Union Now and A International Pow Wow D Forever, One and Inseparable (September), Bismark. State Flower: Wild prairie rose • Norsk Hostfest (October), State Bird: Western meadowlark Minot. PLACES fast • Medora: Historic, frontier [ facts town with boardwalks, museums, restaurants, gift shops, Region: MOUNTAIN WEST horseback riding and a pitch- One of the outstanding historic areas in North Dakota, Fort America’s Byways: Native American fork fondue. Abraham Lincoln State Park near Mandan holds the Scenic Byway, Sheyenne River Valley • Fort Union National reconstructed home of General Custer, several 7th Cavalry Scenic Byway. Historic Site: Was the most buildings, museum and Mandan Indian village. Connecting Flights Via: Minneapolis important fur trading post Sales Tools: North Dakota Travel Guide on upper Missouri River in early-to-mid America for walleye, northern pike, Info: North Dakota Department of 1800s. Williston. white bass and perch; full-service resort, Commerce Tourism Division with modern lodging, excellent dining, 1-800-435-5663 boat rentals and good advice on www.ndtourism.com where the fish are biting. what’s • Pipestem Creek: The [ new place to find Ann MANITOBA • Cowboy Hall of Fame: Chronicles trail Hoffert’s farm and her drivers, homesteaders, the sport of all-natural indoor rodeo and the impact of the horse on wreaths, designed the development of life on the plains of for later use as out- North Dakota. Medora. door squirrel and # Fargo • World’s Largest Scheels Store: bird feeders, seen on BISMARCK • Flagship location is the largest all sports Martha Stewart store in the world with 85 specialty Living. There’s room for eight birders • shops, park-style Ferris Wheel, hunting, Denver fishing and recreation equipment and overnight, and Pipestem Gramma Ginna’s Restaurant. Fargo. Creek is included in a route developed by Birding Drives

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• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and S I D .

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single collection of rock and roll M S I R U

memorabilia. Cleveland. O T D N

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ings of football history, interactive R T F exhibits. Canton. O N O I S I V

• National Museum of the United States I D O I

Air Force: Boasts more than 300 aircraft H O : S O

and aerospace vehicles and thousands T O H of artifacts. P • TECUMSEH!: The epic life story of the legendary Shawnee leader who struggled to defend his homelands during the late 1700s. Chillicothe. The Toledo Museum of Art has an impressive glass collection, spanning more than 2,000 years of heritage and art. Its new Glass Pavilion will house the glass collection when it EVENTS opens in August. • Twins Days Festival (August), Twinsburg. • The Ohio State Fair (August), Columbus. snorkelling around shipwrecks, local win- • Grand River Valley Wine Country: Ohio • Circleville Pumpkin Show (October), ery tour and sailing. now has nearly 100 wineries, with the largest Circleville. • Cleveland: Cleveland Orchestra, Museum concentration in the Grand River Valley appel- • The Columbus International Festival of Art, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Great lation. Twenty wineries within the narrow strip (November), Columbus. Lakes Science Center, Metroparks Zoo. of land bordering Lake Erie boast tough clay • Ripley: Rankin House was one of several soils, extended growing season and a climate PLACES prominent Underground Railroad stops similar to Alsace and produce world-class vin- • Hocking Hills State Parks: Featuring in town. tages. Ashtabula and Lake Counties. sandstone cliffs, waterfalls, caves and forested trails for hiking, biking and HIDDEN GEMS DID YOU KNOW? horseback riding. • The Wilds: North America’s largest State Motto: With God, All Things Are Possible • Lake Erie Islands: Options include tour of wildlife conservation facility is home to State Flower: Scarlet carnation Marblehead Lighthouse, fishing, the most rhinos in the U. S., as well as State Bird: Cardinal giraffes, antelope, camels, bison, African wild dogs, Indian wild dogs and cheetahs. fast [ what’snew Safari-style tours are offered. Cumberland. [ facts • Water Parks: Coco Key at Cherry Valley Region: GREAT LAKES Lodge features thrill rides, water slides Direct Flights: Air Canada, Continental and interactive adventure land; Great Wolf Airlines, Delta, Northwest, United Lodge boasts 11 waterslides, six polls and Airlines, US Air a four-storey treehouse; Coco Key Water Sales Tools: Discover Ohio Travel Planner Resort at Sheraton Cincinnati North, to Info: Ohio Division of Travel and Tourism open in fall 2007, will have water slides, 1-800-BUCKEYE private cabanas and interactive wave play www.DiscoverOhio.com island; Kalahari Waterpark Resort, opens its expanded facilities December 2007. • Coasters: Maverick at Cedar Point Cleveland Toledo• • Youngstown opened its new coaster Maverick this year; Akron• • Firehawk at King’s Island adds its 14th coaster this year. Marblehead Lighthouse is COLUMBUS • Akron Art Museum: A dynamic, soaring the oldest operating • Dayton• # addition, built adjacent to the existing lighthouse on the Great Chicago •Cincinnati museum will triple gallery space, allowing Lakes, dating back to 1822 greater display of the museum’s and offers one of the most permanent collection. scenic views of the Lake Erie Islands across the bay. www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 103 ATTRACTIONS • Oklahoma City National Memorial and • Gilcrease Museum of Art: One of Museum: The site of the April 19, 1995 the world's largest collections of art bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building. of the American West, plus themed • Oklahoma History Center: Self-guided gardens. Tulsa. exploration of Oklahoma, with more than • Cherokee Heritage Center: Devoted to 200 audio, video and computer activities. the preservation and promotion of Oklahoma City. Cherokee history and culture. Tahlequah. • Oklahoma Route 66 Museum: EVENTS Celebrates Oklahoma’s portion of • Azalea Festival (April), Muskogee. “America’s Main Street”. Clinton. • Festival of the Arts (April), Oklahoma City.

M • Medieval Fair of Norman S I

R Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival, U

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A held in June, is Oklahoma’s largest Native M

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O and a prestigious fine art competition, show H P August), Tulsa. and art market. • Beavers Bend Folk Festival and Craft Show (November), Broken Bow. DID YOU KNOW? State Motto: Labor Conquers All Things PLACES State Flower Emblem: Oklahoma Rose • Historic Guthrie Urban Area: Restored State Bird: Scissor-tailed flycatcher Victorian buildings in America's largest historic district and Oklahoma's territorial capital. fast • Tulsa: Art of the American West, art deco [ facts architecture and the historic Black Wall Street district. Region: GREAT FRONTIER The Will Rogers Memorial is the final • Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge: America’s Byways: Talimena Scenic Drive resting place of the humorist and movie Habitat for over 300 species of birds, like Connecting Flights Via: Dallas star. Exhibits include memorabilia and films. whooping cranes, eagles and migrating Sales Tools: Oklahoma Travel Guide & waterfowl. Jet. State Highway Map; Hot Deals • Historic Fort Reno: Military post was section online what’s established in 1874; more than 25 Info: Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation [ new structures listed on National Register of 1-800-652-6552 • Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City: Historic Places. El Reno. www.TravelOK.com Historic hotel with 225 refurbished rooms boasting wired and wireless HIDDEN GEMS internet connectivity, 42-inch flat • Toy and Action Figure Museum: Offers a plasma TVs, two phones (each with two behind-the-scenes look at how toys are lines), voicemail and dataport. made, from concept through manufacturing, • Dallas • Oklahoma Heritage Center: Exhibits with a comprehensive collection of classic tell Oklahoma’s history through its "pop culture" toys. Pauls Valley. people including influential Okies like • Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum: aviation innovator Wiley Post, BMX Homestead and mansion of Pawnee Bill, rider Mat Hoffman, country music competitor and sometime partner of Buffalo Bill of Wild West Show fame. legend Reba McEntire and ballerina Tulsa Maria Tallchief. Oklahoma City. Highlights include arts and crafts-style • house and original furnishings and # • POPS: New, cool landmark along OKLAHOMA Historic Route 66 with ultra-modern artivacts. Pawnee. gas station, restaurant, shake shop, gift • Flying W Guest Ranch: More than CITY shop, convenience store, event venue 800 hectares of native prairie. Tour the and 400 flavours of sodas and frontier town, or saddle up for a trail ride. beverages. Arcadia. Accommodations include cabins, RV sites, or picturesque teepees. Sayre.

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ATTRACTIONS R A • Tamastslikt Cultural Institute: This L museum is the only one of Oregon’s five Oregon Trail Interpretive Centers to offer visitors a unique view of history through the eyes of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Walla Walla Indians. Near Pendleton. • National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center: Visitors can relive the pioneers’ experiences through life- size exhibits and living history. Near Baker City. • John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: See a record of earth’s ancient history through the remains of sabre-toothed tigers, three-toed horses and giant pigs. Educational classes, out- ings and hikes are offered. Portland attractions include Forest Park, the largest forested municipal park in the United

N States; the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry; the Metro Washington Park Zoo and O I S S I activities at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. M M O C M

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Region: MID-ATLANTIC America’s Byways: Historic National ATTRACTIONS Waterfront, across from Penn’s Landing and Road, Seaway Trail. • Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: Named Center City Philadelphia. Clients can take a Direct Flights: Air Canada, US Airways for the Pittsburgh industrialist and docent-assisted tour and discover the bridge, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, these four communications centre, captain and admiral’s Sales Tools: 2007 Pennsylvania Travel Guide, e-newsletter, online museums – the Carnegie Museum of Art, cabins, officers’wardroom and much more. discount centre Carnegie Museum of Natural History, • Civil War Library and Museum: Civil War Info: Pennsylvania Tourism Office Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy buffs will enjoy this museum, the oldest 1-800-A Friend (1-800-237-4363) Warhol Museum – welcome more than 1.6 chartered Civil War institution in the country. www.VisitPA.com millions visitors each year. Three floors of exhibits include original • Cherry Springs State Park: Home to uniforms, weapons, photographs and images, Pennsylvania’s first Official Dark Sky Park. flags and other artifacts. In Philadelphia. Under ideal conditions, visitors can see over 6,000 stars blanketing the sky from horizon to horizon, and see near-space objects like satellites, iridium flares, and the planets and Allentown HARRISBURG • moons of our solar system. Distant galaxies, # New York colourful nebulae, comets and other deep • Philadelphia • space objects are often seen and • Pittsburgh photographed at Cherry Springs. • Battleship New Jersey Memorial and Museum: The New Jersey, the nation’s most decorated battleship, is berthed on the Camden

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EVENTS destination for travellers of all ages and tastes. • Mummers Parade Must-sees for history buffs include (New Year’s Day), Philadelphia. Independence National Historical Park; • Groundhog Day (February 2), Punxsutawney. Congress Hall, where the U.S. Congress and • Philadelphia Flower Show (March). Senate met between 1790 and 1800; the Betsy • Pittsburgh Folk Festival (May). Ross House, home of America’s most famous •Three Rivers Arts Festival (June), Pittsburgh. flag maker; Franklin Court, the site of • Kutztown Pa-German Festival Benjamin Franklin’s home that now contains a (late June-early July), Kutztown. complex of exhibits about Franklin, an archae- • Musikfest (August), Bethlehem. ological exhibit and an underground, multi- • Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire media museum; Elfreth’s Alley, the oldest (weekends, August-October), Manheim. continuously occupied residential street in the • Philadelphia Fringe Festival (September). United States; and the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, which chronicles the city’s In the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, Butler • Fall Foliage Festival (October), Bedford. County is blessed with plenty of outdoor rich history. Art aficionados will want to take • National Apple Harvest Festival recreation set against beautiful scenery. The in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a striking, (October), Biglerville. CVB offers three fall foliage driving routes • Holiday Lights on the Lake neo-classical building featuring more than that show the region at its best in autumn. (late November-early January), Altoona. 2,000 years of human creativity in paintings, sculpture and decorative arts; the Rodin oldest botanical garden in the U.S.; Fairmount PLACES Museum, which houses the largest collection Park, the country’s largest city park; the • Philadelphia: Long known as the “City of of Rodin sculptures outside Paris; the fine Morris Arboretum and Gardens of the Brotherly Love” and the “Birthplace of collection of American paintings and University of Pennsylvania; and the annual America”, Philadelphia was recently named sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Philadelphia Flower Show, the world’s largest the “next great American city” by National Fine Arts; and the collection of indoor and indoor flower show. Families will love the Geographic Traveler magazine. Philadelphia outdoor art of the Mural Arts Program, found Philadelphia Zoo and Sesame Park, America’s is crammed full of excellent attractions, scattered throughout the city. Green thumbs only theme park based on Sesame Street. restaurants and events that make it an ideal itch to visit Historic Bartram’s Garden, the Foodies in the know head to Rittenhouse Row and Old City for world-class dining; and

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covers several blocks of Olde City Philadelphia. All of the park buildings and sites are associated with colonial Philadelphia and the American Revolution. Major attractions include the Liberty Bell, Christ Church, Independence Hall, National Constitution Center and City Tavern. • Pennsylvania Wilds: Covering 12 counties in Northcentral Pennsylvania, this region includes more than 600,000 hectares of state forest and game lands; 27 state parks; the 200,000-hectare Allegheny National Forest; Pine Creek Gorge; the largest elk herd in the Northeast United States; hundreds of kilometres of backpacking trails, bike paths, trout fishing streams; and so much more. • Clearfield County: Part of the Pennsylvania Wilds, Clearfield County boasts a wide variety of boating opportunities, from power boating at Curwensville Lake Recreation Area to a gentle canoe trip at Janesville Dam. There are four state parks within 45 minutes of Clearfield, the county seat. S E C I V R E S A I D E M H T L A E W N O M M O C / Y A W

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Just 90 minutes from Pittsburgh in Mill Run, Fallingwater is the only remaining Frank Hiking and Biking Trails – Fishing and Boating Lloyd Wright house with its setting, original furnishings and artwork intact. Jimmy Stewart Museum – Covered Bridges Smicksburg Amish Country – Historic Landmarks • Indiana County: Located in the scenic Call or go on line for your complimentary foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, Visitor Guide 1-877-7INDIANA Indiana County offers a host of recreation WWW.VISITINDIANACOUNTYPA.ORG opportunities, including golfing, hiking and biking. The county seat, Indiana, boasts an

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PLACES • Providence: Boasts an abundance of historic and Known as the “Sailing Capital of the cultural attractions and World”, Newport boasts beautiful colonial Virtually unspoiled by progress, Block Island is a Victorian- immaculately preserved landmarks, fine small museums, the Tennis era treasure with quaint architecture and great views. Colonial, Federal, Greek Hall of Fame and excellent music festivals. Revival and Victorian ATTRACTIONS architecture. • East Bay: Steeped in British and colonial • Providence Place Mall: This immense, heritage; East Bay Bike Path offers unpar- state-of-the-art shopping mall features 150 alleled views of Narragansett Bay. fast specialty shops housed in its 115,000- [ • South County: Boasts historic homes, facts square-metre space. Providence. museums and reminders of a rich Indian • Slater Mill Historic Site: First factory in Region: NEW ENGLAND heritage. Watch Hill and Narragansett are America to produce yarn with water-pow- Direct Flights: Air Canada, US Airways famous 19th-century seaside resorts. ered machines illustrates the cloth-making Cruise Lines: American Classic Voyages, • Rhode Island Nature Trails: Four self- process. Pawtucket. American Cruise Lines, Crystal Cruises, directed trails that highlight the state’s • Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Cunard Cruise Line, Delta Queen diverse environment and detail some of Arboretum: This 45-room turn-of-the- Steamboat Company, Hapag Lloyd, the best spots to visit. 20th-century mansion has 13 hectares of Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, P&O Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, beautifully landscaped gardens. Bristol. HIDDEN GEMS • Newport Mansions: America’s premier Regency Cruises, Seabourn Cruises, • Gilbert Stuart Birthplace: Stuart, born Silversea Cruises collection of historic houses and gardens here in 1755, was foremost Colonial por- open to the public. Sales Tools: Official Rhode Island Travel traitist in America and best known for his Guide; online discount packages; Group EVENTS portrait of George Washington. Operating Package Planner; Spring/Summer and 18th-century snuff mill, the first in Fall/Winter Events Guide. • WaterFire Providence (May through America, with water wheel. Info: Rhode Island Tourism Division October), Provindence. Saunderstown. 1-800-556-2484 • Watch Hill: Historic landmark communi- www.VisitRhodeIsland.com ty in the town of Westerly with a what’s picturesque lighthouse and [ new incredible sunsets. • Roger Williams Park Botanical • Museum of Work and Center: Largest public indoor display Culture: Presents the gardens in New England. Providence. compelling and • Rhode Island Market Tours: Behind- poignant story of the-scenes tour of the great Italian food French Canadians shops, restaurants and butchers on who left the farms of Federal Hill, Providence’s famous Quebec for the facto- PROVIDENCE Italian neighbourhood. ries of New England. # • Johnson & Wales Culinary Archive Woonsocket. • Warwick Museum: From short order cooks to Newport• celebrity chefs, celebrates the history DID YOU KNOW? State Motto: Hope of the cooking and hospitality indus- • tries. Providence. State Flower: Violet New York State Bird: Rhode Island Red

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(October), Beaufort. H C A E B E L T R PLACES Y M • Myrtle Beach Area: The Myrtle Beach area, long a top destination for Canadians, boasts a wide variety of attractions. Highlights include: more than 125 championship golf courses; Brookgreen Gardens; Alligator Adventure; Ripley’s Aquarium; amusement and water parks; the Waccatee Zoo; and the Children’s Museum of South Carolina. • Hunting Island State Park: This popular state park near historic Beaufort is a Myrtle Beach, the hub of the Grand Strand, has long been a popular vacation spot. Besides secluded semi-tropical barrier island. A the beach, attractions include 125 golf courses, amusement and water parks, Ripleys 19th-century lighthouse is listed on the U.S. Aquarium and plenty of live entertanment. National Register of Historic Places. • Historic Brattonsville: This Revolutionary HIDDEN GEMS • Cheraw: A charming small town with block War battle site features 29 historic structures • Hobcaw Barony: The 7,070-hectare after block of immaculate antebellum homes and trails for hiking, biking and horseback wildlife refuge began as a royal land grant and other buildings in its 86-hectare riding. McConnells. in 1718 and was eventually subdivided into National Register Historic District. Located • Landsford Canal State Park: The best 14 individual plantations. A three-hour at the head of navigation on the Great Pee preserved of numerous South Carolina river guided van tour travels a portion of the Dee River in the state’s northeast corner, it canals from the 19th century retains remnants original King’s Highway and includes was an important seat of commerce for the of all its major structural features. Catawba. highlights of Hobcaw’s history; a tour region and served by the steamboat trade. Its • SC Artisans Center: Located just off I-95 inside the 1930 mansion that hosted politi- occupation by Sherman and his troops in the in historic Walterboro, this centre features cians, generals and newspapermen as well waning days of the Civil War is recorded in jewelry, baskets and pottery, all handmade as Winston Churchill and President the town’s museum. Also well remembered by South Carolina artists. Franklin Roosevelt; a drive by the home is jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, who grew up • Chattooga National Wild & Scenic River: and stables of Bellefield Plantation and here and is memorialized in a life-size statue Designated the South’s first National Wild Friendfield Village, the last 19th-century in the centre of town. and Scenic River in 1974, the Chattooga is slave village on the Waccamaw Neck; and • Conway: Often overlooked in the rush to also one of the premier whitewater rafting information on coastal ecology, wildlife Myrtle Beach, this town has plenty of attrac- rivers in the eastern U.S. and endangered species. tions of its own. The historic trails map sets out a self-guided tour of stately old homes, M S I R

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www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 123 ATTRACTIONS • Black Hills Reptile • Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Gardens: World’s largest World-famous, carved granite likenesses of reptile collection in a four presidents. Keystone. setting of fossils, minerals • Crazy Horse Memorial: Tribute to the and sculptures. Rapid City. leader who defeated Custer at the Little Big Horn. Custer. EVENTS • Fort Sisseton State Park: Well-preserved •Wild Bill Hickok Days fort; 14 original buildings, many dating to (June), Deadwood. 1864. Northeastern South Dakota. • Fort Sisseton Historical • Badlands National Park: Landscape Festival (June), Fort created by 37 million years of erosion; Sisseton State Park. The Akta Lakota Museum in Chamberlain offers a fascinating lookouts to natural formations. • Laura Ingalls Wilder look at the Lakota culture through exhibits on weaponry, tools • President’s Alpine Slide: Chairlift up for Pageant (June to July), and ceremonial dress along with interactive displays and an Mt. Rushmore view; return down alpine slide De Smet. audio-visual observation area. tracks. Keystone. • Sturgis Rally and Races (August), Sturgis. •Akta Lakota Museum: Lakota culture seen Company, complete with a watch • Riverboat Days & Summer Arts Festival through weaponry, tools, ceremonial dress tower. Yankton. (August), Yankton. and interactive displays. Chamberlain. • Fort Sisseton: National Historic Landmark • South Dakota State Fair (late August to open for guided tours. Also offers camping

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H and Isaac Hayes. Memphis. P EVENTS • Dogwood Arts Festival (April), Knoxville. From the free-flying song birds in River • CMA Music Festival (June), Nashville. Journey’s Cove Forest to the Undersea • Elvis Week (August), Memphis. Cavern of the Ocean Journey building, the • Tennessee State Fair (September), Nashville. Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga has combined freshwater and marine habitats to PLACES give visitors an experience unlike any other. • Beale Street Historic District: Four historic blocks of restaurants and clubs that celebrate ATTRACTIONS blues, jazz and rock ’n’roll. Memphis. • Lynchburg: Home of the Jack Daniel • National Civil Rights Museum: Where One of the largest protected land areas Distillery, the nation’s oldest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was east of the Rockies, the Great Smoky registered distillery. assassinated; dedicated to the civil rights Mountains National Park preserves more movement. Memphis. • Graceland: Spend a day at the home of than 202,000 hectares of forest, and offers • The Grand Ole Opry and Ryman Elvis Presley, the “King of Rock and Roll.” a wide range of recreational activities. Auditorium: Home to world-famous radio • Great Smoky Mountains National Park: show. Ryman Auditorium offers live perform- One of the largest protected areas east of ances, memorabilia and tours. Nashville. the Rockies; boasts a wide range of fast • Dollywood: Over 40 live musical shows recreational activities. [ facts daily; adventure rides, and Appalachian arts • Shiloh National Military Park: Site of and crafts. Pigeon Forge. major Civil War battle; considered one of the Region: THE SOUTH best preserved battlefields in the U.S. Shiloh. America’s Byways: Cherohala Skyway, Natchez Trace Parkway what’s HIDDEN GEMS Direct Flights: Air Canada, Continental [ new • Trenton Teapot Museum: The world’s Airlines, United Airlines • Westin Beale Street Hotel: Tennessee’s largest, 526-piece, rare porcelain night light Sales Tools: Tennessee Vacation Guide first Westin features 203 rooms and suites teapots from Asia, Europe and Africa. If Info: Tennessee Department of Tourist and is located directly across from the clients want to see the museum, they are given Development FedExForum, home of the Memphis a key to enter through the Police Department 1-800-GO-2-TENN Grizzlies of the NBA and the University of entrance. Guided and self-guided tours www.tnvacation.com Memphis Tigers basketball team. Memphis. available. Trenton. • Mystery Mine at Dollywood: The new • Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park: steel roller coaster is set in an abandoned Located in the northwestern part of downtown coal mine where eight-passenger mine Nashville between Jefferson Street and James carts plunge riders into darkness before Robertson Parkway, this 7.5-hectare park was careening through the ruins of an early built in honor of Tennessee’s 200th year of 1900s mine. Pigeon Forge. statehood and offers a serene and • Hiwassee River Rail Adventures: Offers captivating look into Tennessee history at a series of rail excursions through the every turn. Nashville. # Knoxville• spectacular scenery of the Hiwassee River NASHVILLE Chattanooga Gorge, Hiwassee River and the Cherokee Memphis• • National Forest. The route is part of the Old Line, an historic railroad line built in Atlanta• 1890 as part of the old Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Etowah.

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EVENTS The Tropics of Texas is the 1,000-kilometre coastline along the state’s Gulf Coast. Family fun • Galveston Mardi Gras (January/ includes beaches, golf and warm Gulf waters for jet skiing, deep-sea fishing, parasailing, February), Galveston. dolphin watching and windsurfing. • Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (March), Houston. popular beach vacation or long-stay winter desert expanses. Ideal for hiking, horseback • Texas State Fair (September/ destination. From Houston and Galveston to riding, mountain biking and river rafting October), Dallas. Corpus Christi and South Padre Island, this down the Rio Grande or a guided tour with • The Bats of Austin (mid-March to early- region boasts beaches, golf and warm Gulf park rangers. After a day or two of high October), Austin. waters for jet skiing, deep-sea fishing, adventure, kick back and relax at Lajitas’The • San Antonio Fiesta (April), San Antonio. parasailing, dolphin watching and Ultimate Hideout, a luxury resort located • Texas Folklife Festival (June), San Antonio. windsurfing. The Gulf Coast is also home to outside of the park. • Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering and the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail. • The Texas BBQ Trail: Take your taste buds Western Swing Festival (October), • Dude Ranches: Almost 100 working for mouth-watering barbecue at family Fort Worth. ranches offer western hospitality and a owned joints that have been serving it up for • Annual Rio Grande Valley Birding chance to test your cowboy skills. Bandera is generations. Located in the Hill Country Festival (November), Harlingen. hailed as the Cowboy Capital of the World Region, stops on the self-drive trail include • Austin City Limits Music Festival for its dude ranches, champion rodeo Elgin, Lockhart, Luling, Round Rock and (September), Austin. cowboys, western shops and authentic Taylor. Brisket, ribs, chicken and sausage are • South by Southwest (March), Austin. Honky Tonks. served with tempting sides on butcher paper. • Big Thicket National Preserve: In the That's real Texas BBQ! PLACES southern part of the Piney Woods region, the • Destination Spas: For true relaxation and • The Tropics of Texas: With 1,000 towering trees give way to bald cypress and pampering, Texas spas are at the top of the list. kilometres of coastline, the Gulf Coast is a lush swampland in Big Thicket National Lake Austin Spa Resort offers world-class

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daily activities, museum shop and dairy E State Flower: Red clover D bar. Woodstock. State Bird: Hermit thrush • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum: Exhibits, maritime collections, nautical archaeology and replica of Revolutionary The Burlington area offers plenty of cultural [ fast gunboat Philadelphia II. Basin Harbor. activities and events, great dining and facts nightlife, outdoor recreation and a gateway • Vermont Covered Bridge Museum: Region: NEW ENGLAND Explores history of the bridges and offers to beautiful Lake Champlain. America’s Byways: Connecticut River exhibits on engineering, history, railroad- Byway ing and nature. Bennington. • Vermont History Expo (June), Tunbridge. Connecting Flights via: Boston, Chicago, • Annual Vermont Quilt Festival New York City, Albany, Philadelphia, EVENTS Detroit, Washington, D.C., Hartford. • Annual Ice Harvest (January), Brookfield. (June), Northfield. • Vermont Mozart Festival (mid-July to Sales Tools: Vermont Vacation Guide, • Vermont Maple Open House Weekend Vermont Life Magazine (March), statewide. mid-August), statewide. • Vermont State Fair (September), Info: Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing Rutland. what’s 1-800-VERMONT [ new www.VermontVacation.com • Danforth Pewter Workshop Store: PLACES Showcases the traditional art of pewter- • Historic Grafton Burlington Village: Restored making, and offers hands-on demonstra- St. Johnsbury tions. Middlebury. 19th-century com- • • • Honora Winery & Vineyard: 80- munity considered # hectare vineyard and estate with spec- one of finest MONTPELIER tacular mountain views, tasting room examples of rural and shop. Halifax. New England archi- Rutland • •New York • Cabot Cheese: Farmer-owned tecture and life. producer of award-winning cheddar Chester. cheese. Quechee. • Chimney Point State Historic Site: 18th-century

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N Bluegrass music. Located along the I • Old Fiddlers’ Convention (August), Galax. G R I V • State Fair of Virginia (late September to Crooked Road. Clintwood. early October), Virginia. DID YOU KNOW? PLACES State Motto: Thus Always To Tyrants • Jamestown Settlement: First permanent State Flower: Dogwood English settlement in America featuring State Bird: Cardinal .

films, exhibits and living history. C N I , N O Skyline Drive, a 169-kilometre mountaintop • Alexandria: Charming waterfront community I T A D

roadway, meanders through Shenandoah with 18th- and 19th-century architecture, N U O F

National Park. Set in Virginia’s spectacular historic sites, tours, shops and restaurants. N O S R

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ATTRACTIONS N beach, five-kilometre boardwalk, kayak- O Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop M • Colonial Williamsburg: 18th-century ing, biking and golf. home, in Charlotesville, includes original capital restored to its colonial splendour • George Washington’s Mount Vernon: furnishings, beautiful gardens, Jefferson’s with more than 500 buildings. Mansion and outbuildings, including slave Williamsburg. grave and Mulberry Row, an excavated site quarters, greenhouse and gardens. of the slave community once present here. • Crooked Road: Heritage Music Trail Alexandria City. includes Blue Ridge Music Center, • Monticello: Thomas Jefferson’s mountain- Birthplace of Country Music Alliance and top home featuring original furnishings, Carter Family Fold. fast gardens and Jefferson’s Grave. [ facts • Museum and White House of the Charlotesville. Confederacy: World’s largest collection Region: MID-ATLANTIC of Confederate artifacts. Richmond. HIDDEN GEMS America’s Byways: Blue Ridge Parkway, • Manassas National Battlefield Park: Site • Museum of the Shenandoah Valley: Colonial Parkway, George Washington of the first major battle of the Civil War. Complex includes the 1794 Glen Burnie Memorial Parkway, Skyline Drive. Historic House surrounded by two and a Direct Flights: Air Canada, United Express half hectares of gardens with intimate Cruise Lines: Carnival, Holland America, what’s garden rooms, a Grand Allee, fountains, [ new Royal Caribbean sculpture, garden “follies,” Family • US Monitor Center at the Mariners’ Sales Tools: Virginia Is For Lovers Travel Cemetery and Visitors’ Center. The new Museum: Features a full-scale replica Guide, Virginia eNewsletter, Balance Museum of the Shenandoah Valley of the ship, interactive exhibits, a high- program at www.Virginia.org/Balance explores Valley history and displays definition battle theatre and artifacts. Info: Virginia Tourism Corporation decorative arts, paintings and furniture. Set on a 222-hectare woodland park 1-800-671-4195 with the eight-kilometre Noland Trail Winchester. www.virginia.org around Lake Maury. Newport News. • The American Civil War Center: Here • George Washington Hotel: Built in all of the stories – Union, Confederate and 1924, with restoration set for comple- African American – share significant tion in August, the 90-room property is space together for the first time. Located at the historic Tredegar Iron Works along located in the heart of the Historic RICHMOND District. Winchester. the James River. Also on # • Williamsburg Winery, Wedmore site is the Richmond New York Place: Like a country chateau with 28 Civil War Visitor Center. • Newport News • Virginia Visitors can stroll the Norfolk •Beach themed suites and wine tours, spa, Roanoke• • walking trails, country biking, canoeing Canal Walk and take the and the Gabriel Archer Tavern. Slated to pedestrian bridge over the open this summer. Near Colonial James River to Belle Isle, Williamsburg’s Historic Area. once a prisoner of war camp. Richmond.

www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 135 ATTRACTIONS EVENTS • Experience Music Project: Interactive • Skagit Valley Tulip museum features 80,000 artifacts, includ- Festival (April), Mount ing a gallery dedicated to Seattle-born Vernon and La Conner. Jimi Hendrix. Seattle. • Washington State • Science Fiction Museum and Apple Blossom Festival Hall of Fame: Houses one-of-a- (late April-early May), kind collection of artifacts and Wenatchee. L

memorabilia, hands-on and inter- • Vancouver's Annual L A H S

pretive exhibits. Seattle. 4th of July Fireworks R A M

• Museum of Glass: International Center Celebration (July), Fort N H O for Contemporary Art: Chihuly Bridge Vancouver. J Olympic National Park is renowned for Pacific Ocean beaches, of Glass links Washington State History • SeaFair (early July rainforest valleys, glaciers and a stunning variety of native Museum; features outdoor and indoor through early August), plants and animals. exhibits, hot shop amphitheatre. Tacoma. Seattle. • The Grand Coulee Dam: Raises Columbia • Evergreen State Fair DID YOU KNOW? River to form Lake Roosevelt; free tour (August), Monroe. State Motto: Al-ki or Alki, a Chinook with 141-metre ride down the dam. • Western Washington and 4-H State Fair Indian word meaning “bye and bye” or (September), Puyallup.

M “hope for the future” S I R • Central Washington State Fair U

O State Flower: Coast Rhododendron T E

T (September), Yakima. A

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W • Mt. Rainier National Park: Spectacular views of wildlife and fast scenery at Paradise on the south side, [ facts and Sunshine on the east. • San Juan Islands: Offer whale watching, Region: NORTHWEST mountain hiking and historic resorts and America’s Byways: Chinook Scenic bed and breakfasts. Puget Sound. Byway, Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway, • Fort Vancouver National Historic International Selkirk Loop, Mountains to Sound Greenway, Stevens Pass Reserve: Guided tours, living history Greenway, Strait of Juan de demonstrations and walks through recon- Fuca Highway. structed 1800s fort. Ask about the ghosts! Direct Flights: Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, • Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Horizon Air, United Airlines The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, is an Monument: Witness the earth recreating Cruise Lines: Celebrity Cruises, Clipper architectural showpiece. Along with planned itself after the massive 1980 eruption. Mt. exhibits it features the Hot Shop Amphi- Cruise Lines, CruiseWest, Fantasy St. Helens. theatre and the Chihuly Bridge of Glass. Cruises, Glacier Bay Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, HIDDEN GEMS Princess Cruise Line • Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad: Vintage Sales Tools: Washington State what’s steam train rides through the scenic [ new Visitors Guide foothills of Mt. Rainier with themed Info: Washington State • Olympic Sculpture Park: Enjoy a excursions and picnics at Mineral Travel Information variety of sculpture incredible views of Lake. Elbe and Morton. 1-800-544-1800 the Olympic Mountains and Puget • Blaine: Beautiful water- www.experience Sound. Seattle. front, public pier, Blaine washington.com • Future of Flight Museum: Features Marine Park, summer Seattle hands-on exhibits, videos, graphics ferry to Semiahmoo Spit. # and interactive stations. Boeing Tour • Ilwaco Heritage OLYMPIA • Spokane Center, Everett. Museum: A big city Vancouver • Canvas Cabins: A new addition at museum in a small • Lakedale Resort at Three Lakes, offers town, chronicles the upscale, unique camping experience. history and culture of San Juan Island. the Columbia Pacific Region. Ilwaco.

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new W (September to October), Elkins. •American Mountain Theater: Opened last year, the theatre is located in the PLACES historic Elkins Rail Yard and presents • Charleston: Boasts vibrant, historic family-oriented, musical programs downtown, state capitol complex, Clay featuring contemporary and classic Center for the Arts and Sciences. country, bluegrass, Cajun, western, swing, • Huntington: Museum of Art; Ritter pop and gospel. Elkins. West Virginia, “America’s Best Whitewater”, offers Park rose garden; antiques district; • West Virginia Independence Hall: Will rafting adventures over several rivers coursing Camden Park; Heritage Farm Museum soon house a rare exhibit of 13 West through the scenic Appalachian Mountains. Guided and Village. trips are suited for both novices and experts. Virginia Civic War regimental flags. • Shepherdstown: Founded in 1762; Expanding upon the existing statehood Civil War history, eclectic restaurants and exhibits at the 150-year-old facility the DID YOU KNOW? shopping; overlooking the Potomac River. Motto: Mountaineers Are Always Free flag displays will also include historic • Oglebay Resort: Golf; glass museum; zoo; State Flower: Big laurel or photos and documents about individual lodge; cottages; largest holiday light show in Rhododendron Maximus soldiers and regiments as well as U.S. Wheeling. State Bird: Northern Cardinal interactive displays. Wheeling. • Parkersburg: Historic Ohio River city, Oil and Gas Museum, Blennerhassett Island ATTRACTIONS Historic State Park. fast • Stonewall Resort: Luxury accommodations, • Davis & Thomas: Former logging towns [ facts lakeside cottages, golf, water sports and now tourism hotspots in the heart of outdoor recreation. Near Weston. Canaan Valley. Region: MID-ATLANTIC • Tamarack Arts Center: Collection of the • Prickett’s Fort State Park: Costumed inter- America’s Byways: Coal Heritage Trail, state’s best handmade crafts, art and preters tell the story of 18th-century frontier Highland Scenic Highway, Historic cuisine. Beckley. life. Fairmont. National Road, Midland Trail, Staunton- • Canaan Valley/Blackwater Falls: Two state Parkersburg Turnpike, Washington parks, eclectic towns and ski resorts; state’s HIDDEN GEMS Heritage Trail. largest waterfall, national wilderness area. •Water Gap Retreat: Exciting outdoor recre- Connecting Flights Via: Pittsburgh, • Midland Trail National Scenic Byway: ation and the Augusta Heritage Center; a Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Whitewater rafting, Civil War remnants, summer camp for adults with custom- Washington, Charlotte, Chicago, African-American history, charming towns. designed canvas shelters, unique workshops Philadelphia, Detroit, Houston and • Greenbrier Resort: Historic property has and programs that focus on ecology, Atlanta updated rooms, new restaurants, golf creativity and mountain culture. Just Sales Tools: West Virginia Travel Guide classics, culinary and children’s programs. outside Elkins. Info: West Virginia Division of Tourism, Golf • Lewisburg: Charming, historic and Guide, e-mail Newsletter EVENTS walkable; B&Bs and historic inns, contem- 1-800-CALL-WVA •Vandalia Gathering (May), Charleston. porary and eclectic with Internet cafes and www.callwva.com • Fire on the Mountain Chili Cook-off art displays, music and theatre; close to (July), Snowshoe Mountain. Greenbrier River and rail trail for hiking, horseback riding, canoeing and fishing; M S I

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W groups; includes a working farm •Huntington where guests # can help; New• dedicated to York CHARLESTON quiet relaxation Interactive displays, along with a wealth of and personal historic photos and documents chronicle the growth. stories of individual soldiers and entire regi- Pocahontas ments at the West Virginia Independence Hall. County.

www.canadiantraveller.net America Yours to Discover/Canadian Traveller July 2007/08 137 ATTRACTIONS • Wisconsin State Fair • Ten Chimneys: Estate of Broadway leg- (August), West Allis. ends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. • Cranberry Festival Tours focus on their lives and friends. (September), Genesee Depot. Warrens. • Milwaukee Art Museum: Features • Indian Summer Quadracci Pavilion and Burke Brise Festival (September), Soleil, a massive sunscreen that creates a Milwaukee. moving sculpture. • Big Top Chautauqua: Known as the PLACES “Carnegie Hall of Tent Shows”; presents • Bayfield and Madeline Islands: concerts by renowned touring musicians, Taliesin, in southwestern Wisconsin, was Frank Lloyd Wright’s along with featured “House Shows”. Near Gateway to the home, workshop and architectural laboratory for more than 48 Bayfield. Apostle Islands years and is regarded as the richest record of his vision. • House On The Rock: Architectural mar- National Lakeshore vel perched on an 18-metre chimney of and home to Big Bay media presentation, and 40 hectares of rock. Out of the ordinary collections and State Park and the Madeline Island restored prairie. Baraboo. unusual attractions. Spring Green. Historical Museum. • Circus World Museum: Enjoy circus • Water Parks: Wisconsin Dells has the music concerts, clown shows and animal EVENTS highest concentration of waterparks any- rides. Also houses the one million-piece • American Birkebeiner (February), where, including Noah’s Ark and Howard Brothers Miniature Circus, 200 Hayward and Cable. Kalahari Resort. antique circus wagons, 19th-century • Milwaukee: Recognized for outstanding equipment such as steam calliopes, posters M S I

R performing arts groups, professional sports, U and woodcarvings. Baraboo. O T

F nationally acclaimed zoo and museums. O T P E D • Door County: The peninsula boasts 400 DID YOU KNOW? N I S

N kilometres of shoreline, five state parks,

O State Motto: Forward C S I

W orchards and artist colonies.

: State Flower: Wood violet S O T O

H State Bird: Robin P HIDDEN GEMS • Green Country Bicycling and Earth On Wisconsin’s northern tip, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is a chain of 21 islands Rider Cycling Boutique and Hotel: The fast that boasts six lighthouses, deepwater Badger State Trail connects Madison to [ facts fishing, sailing and kayaking. the Illinois state line and connects several state trails, local and state parks and Region: GREAT LAKES wildlife areas, and the Ice Age National America’s Byways: Great River Road what’s Scenic Trail. Stay at the Earth Rider Direct Flights: Air Canada, United Airlines, [ new Cycling Boutique and Hotel a five-room Northwest Airlines, Delta, US Airways, • Harley-Davidson Museum: Will boutique hotel with Tour de France theme Continental, American Airlines showcase the legendary motorcycles, in downtown historic Brodhead. Sales Tools: Wisconsin Travel Guide, passionate riders and unforgettable sto- • Sundance Cinema Center: Lodging Directory, e-mail alerts ries that have made the name famous Robert Redford’s first Info: Wisconsin Department around the world and include motorcy- state-of-the-art, multi- of Tourism cles from Harley-Davidson’s collection screen theatre fea- 1-800-432-8747 including the famous Serial Number tures independent www.travelwisconsin.com One motorcycle from 1903. Opening and foreign lan- 2008. Milwaukee. guage films. • Erin Hills Golf Course: Opened in Madison. August 2006, the Erin Hills Golf • International Eau Claire Course is regarded by experts as one of Crane • Green Bay the best natural sites for a golf course in Foundation: La Crosse • • Horicon the nation, with rolling fairways sculpt- The only place Baraboo• • ed thousands of years ago by glaciers. It in the world to MADISON# • Milwaukee is currently under consideration as a house all 15 Chicago • future US Open site. Hartford. species of cranes. Guided tours, multi-

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ATTRACTIONS C K C Forest: Giant wheel of flat stones sacred to I • Buffalo Bill Historical Center: Documents R the pure West with a comprehensive display Native Americans. of western Americana. Cody. • Jackson Hole: Some of North America’s • National Museum of Wildlife Art: Premier best skiing and boarding. Near Grand Teton collection of historic and contemporary National Park. wildlife sculptures and paintings. Jackson. • Grand Teton National Park: Renown •Wyoming Territorial Park: Recreated for winter recreation and natural beauty year round. frontier town with characters, saloon show, Eight yellow touring buses from the 1930s craft and trade demonstrations. Laramie. • Yellowstone National Park: Old Faithful have been updated and refurbished to carry • The Wyoming Dinosaur Center: and 10,000-plus geothermals including passengers on short tours through Dinosaur museum, dig site tour or dig for a geysers, hot springs, mudpots and fumaroles. Yellowstone National Park. day. Thermopolis. HIDDEN GEMS •Vedauwoo: A mountain biking, climbing EVENTS • Meeteetse: 83 kilometres from Thermopolis and hiking treasure midway between • International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled and a scenic overnight on the way to Cody. Cheyenne and Laramie. The monumental Dog Race (January/February), Jackson Hole. The Greybull River meanders through town boulder garden is laced with single- and • Grand Teton Music Festival (June through (population 347) and the main street boasts double-track routes that weave around the August), Teton Village. wooden sidewalks and a hundred-year-old towering walls and rocky outcrops. Climbers • Cheyenne Frontier Days (July), Cheyenne. mercantile with an old-time soda fountain. set up belays and challenge the various • Wyoming State Fair (August), Douglas. pitches and nooks. M S I R

• Fort Bridger Rendezvous (September), U O T D

Fort Bridger. N DID YOU KNOW? A L E

• Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival V State Motto: Equal Rights A R T

(September), Jackson Hole. G State Flower: Indian paintbrush N I M

O State Bird: Meadowlark Y PLACES W • Fort Laramie National Historic Site: Pony Express station and military post during Plains Indian Wars. [ fastfacts

Region: MOUNTAIN WEST [ what’snew America’s Byways: Beartooth Highway Connecting Flights Via: Atlanta, Chicago, • The Grand Teton Discovery and Visitor Denver, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City The Wyoming Dinosaur Center boasts the Center: Slated to open August 11, 2007; Sales Tools: Summer Wyoming Travelers biggest and most accurate dino display in designed to welcome and orient visitors Journal, Winter Wyoming Travelers the world. Clients can tour the exhibits and foster personal connections with the Journal and the dig site, or pick up a trowel and national park. Moose. dig for a day. Info: Wyoming Division of Tourism • Yellowstone National Park: Fresh new 1-800-225-5996 fleet of eight 1930s-era yellow touring cars www.wyomingtourism.org carry 13 passengers in comfort on short • Bighorn Canyon National Recreation duration tours. The unique autos have Area: Encompasses 88 kilometres of rollback tops and are custom designed to Bighorn Lake, created by the Yellowtail meet all of today’s emission controls and Dam, including 48,480-plus hectares strad- other standards. Book tours at www.trave- dling the Wyoming- lyellowstone.com. Montana border. • The Wyoming Dinosaur Center: Has BelowYellowtail super-sized with the biggest and most Dam, Afterbay Lake Casper• accurately represented dino display in the is known for trout fishing and wildlife word. Supersaurus Jimbo spans 32 metres, Laramie CHEYENNE viewing while the • looming above the other exhibits. The • # remains were found near Douglas over a Bighorn River below Denver decade ago and the bones recovered so far the Afterbay Dam is are displayed at stations around Jimbo’s base. a world-class trout fishing area.

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How To Sell – America History Today, Commissions Tomorrow Selling The Past Can Boost Your Future Earnings

By Steve Crowhurst

merica as you know it today didn’t All ‘Board! history lovers, readers of Wild West authors, just “arrive” and assume the stance. If I could take you back to England around book clubs, movie buffs, photographers; you A It took a while to get here and it’s that 1959, you’d find a young me and my neighbour have a huge and varied list to target. “while” that draws our focus as we work on John Rosenberg each watching Cisco Kid on Now, believe it or not, you are related to the how you can sell American history to make our respective tvs. As soon as the program stagecoach. It was the transportation you would present day commissions. That’s right historical finished we’d run outside our homes to meet have sold in them thar days had you been a commissions. So get your history books out, and then skip off down the street making ‘clerk’or an ‘agent’. Click to www.wells fire up your creativity and let’s go back in time. clippity clop sounds for our horses hooves as fargo.com/about/history/stagecoach/ and you Where would you start? There were so we rode on over to Mitcham Common where, can read all about it. Here’s a quick insight: many beginnings. One for every possible in our American Wild West world, buffalo From 1852 to 1918, Wells Fargo rushed interest and niche market, it seems. Now, the roamed and the stagecoach churned up the customers’important business by any means – historical focus can sell both the historical dust. Actually it wasn’t a stagecoach…it was steamship, railroad, and, where the railroads event and the present day outcome. I’m talking the large lady who lived in the corner house. ended, by stagecoach. At first Wells Fargo about the history that just draws you in But we didn’t care. To us she was a stagecoach contracted with independent stageline owners. because of the romantic nostalgia. You cannot and we were set to chase after her! Yeehaaaa! Then in the great enterprise of building escape pursuing it and that’s where you’ll You see, I still live the moment. reliable transcontinental transportation, Wells make your money. Selling the stories that Those memories of the American West are Fargo came to own and operate the largest made America is the ingrained in a child’s memory and still sit just stagecoach empire in the world. Since then, idea. One below the surface. Those children are Wells Fargo has been forever linked with the of my favourites now listed in your baby-boomer six-horse Concord Coach charging across the is the stage- client base and there vast plains and high mountains of the West. coach. are boomers the Oh yes! That’s the romance that you sell! world over who At the end of the day the introduction of the train all but railroaded the stagecoach, but the M would love, just S I R

U stagecoach didn’t give up. It carried on into O love, to actually fulfill T A T

O the dream and ‘ride the areas where the train did not run. K A D

H west’in some way, You can find a stagecoach tour in almost T U O S shape or form. every state and especially along the old stage- Wells Fargo, the coach routes. Now many of these “tours” are Pony Express, shoot simple and short one-hour rides. Click to this outs, wagon trains – web site to see what is available in one state: you name it some ole www.stagecoach.bz/index.php. boomer wants it. Canadian “I Found It!” families, Okay, why don’t we go all the way back to page one and the day America was claimed, or found, as it sort of floated around out there in the ocean.

In Native America you have a huge opportunity to create something new and exciting and educational for your “thinking” clientele. Why not go direct and deal with the individual Nations themselves?

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How To Sell – America E C Who found it? Some say Columbus. The Spanish I and wanted to colonize America. To do so, he F F O

found Mexico and worked up the coast. The M planned to open a passage to trade Spain's S I R U

Chinese it is believed may have been first and O New World fortunes with China, the finest T A I that claim is based on huge stone ballast being N market in the world. Indians had told Vaca of a A V L Y found off the coast of California and ancient S "Northern Sea" which DeSoto believed was N N E reports of Admiral Zheng. He supposedly P the Pacific Ocean, the sea Balboa discovered visited American shores in the mid 1400s. beyond Panama, DeSoto's boyhood home. Whoever it was that found America first, Magellan had sailed that sea to the Orient their footprints leave you a trail to new when DeSoto was 21 years old, but lost his life commissions. You can already envision a on that long voyage. DeSoto wanted to build a “Discover America” tour can’t you? For port on the Northern Sea at today's Chicago, couples, families, historians, small groups, then sail what he believed was a short distance across it to China. He planned to protect his coach tours. You can work with a supplier to "Northern Passage to China" from Mobile, create your own routes up and down the east Alabama, which Vaca had visited and DeSoto coast or the west coast. You might even want to planned to use as Spain's new commanding offer a discovery tour of “middle America” stronghold in America, home for his settlers and follow the track of certain events such as and beacon for New World settlement.” those hardy pioneers who wagon-wheeled A Discover America tour of the 13 original Once again, so much history. How do you across the continent to open up the west. colonies could be a two-week itinerary that takes in historic sites like the Liberty Bell in package that into a couple of weeks? Perhaps you’ll have to create a Tour #1 and a Tour #2! The Original 13 Colonies Tour Philadelphia. Work with the State departments of tourism to create a tour America had been found and a few people you can offer more than once. Native American History stayed, worked the land and slowly but surely In Native America – a term which refers to more 13 colonies rose up. Right here is your than 557 federally recognized nations or tribes – website to visit: www.civilwartraveler.com/. itinerary for a Discover America tour. Check it you have, once again, a huge opportunity to From there you can gather your own ideas on out – here’s the order of the 13 colonies and create something new and exciting and educa- how to package and sell these types of past the date founded: tional for your “thinking” clientele. Native nation-changing events. This next website is 1.Virginia 1607 history, art, music, culture, philosophy – what amazing in terms of it’s content: http://sunsite. 2. Massachusetts 1620 and which would be of interest to your utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html – without a 3. New Hampshire 1623 customers? As you check the Internet for infor- doubt you’ll be able to piece together a tour 4. Maryland 1634 mation about tours of Native America you will from all of this information, maps, photo- 5. Connecticut 1635 see travel and tour companies from around the graphs and copies of documents. 6. Rhode Island 1636 world sell to this interest – and here we are 7. Delaware 1638 Span-Am Tours sitting on top of it all! Why not go direct and 8. North Carolina 1653 How about stepping back to when the Spanish deal with the individual Nations themselves? 9. South Carolina 1663 explored America? Click to this webpage to get 10. New Jersey 1664 Using AYTD to Generate ideas on what you might include in a tour that 11. NewYork 1664 Historical Commissions covers off this era of American history – here it 12. Pennsylvania 1682 Step one: read it! No kidding. On each page is: www.floridahistory.com/. From the website: 13. Georgia 1732. you’ll find opportunity tied to past and recent This Site describes the 15 year Conquest of This is a two-week tour for sure. Work with history, events, places where “it” happened and Native America. Hernando de Soto, Spain's the State departments of tourism and create a foremost American explorer, spent years contact information as in who to call to ask tour you can offer more than once. searching for a seaway to China in order to about putting your tour programs together. trade Spain's New World gold. He followed Discover American History today and generate

Civil War & More trails that we use as highways. His records your historical commissions tomorrow. v American history is full of wars for, wars describe villages along those trails at places against, a battle for this and a battle for that. that are cities again today. His effect on this Steve Crowhurst, CTC, of SMP training Co., is This history is well-studied and of huge continent would be enduring. Cabeza de Vaca, a management trainer/consultant to retail interest, hence the films and the books that are who had spent nine years in America from travel agents, wholesalers, airlines, set in these times. As you well know, movies 1528 on, set the stage for DeSoto and departments of tourism and hospitality- and with a theme and destination backdrop boost Coronado to lead armies deep into America in leisure-based companies in Canada and the tourism to that specific destination by at least 1539: Coronado from Mexico City, DeSoto U.S. He specializes in new business 20 to 25 per cent. So, that means selling into from Cuba, Spain's New World "Ellis Island." generation. Steve loves to hear from readers so cities and places around the U.S. where certain Vaca was the first European to describe this please e-mail your comments and questions to battles were fought, decisions made, papers continent, but only near its southern shoreline. him at: [email protected] or see his signed could be very lucrative. Here’s one DeSoto, at age 39, was rich from Incan gold website at www.smptraining.com.

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