Iconic places to visit in the USA
Not cities, not national parks, but the images everyone has in mind: Monument Valley’s buttes, Niagara’s mist, the bridges of the Keys and Big Sur, Caribbean beaches flying the Stars and Stripes.
Virgin Islands
The Caribbean with US dollars, no passport for Americans, and driving on the left.
VI
Niagara
Six million cubic feet of water a minute, and a boat ride into the mist.
NY
The Keys
A chain of coral islands tied together by 42 bridges, ending in Key West.
FL
Big Sur
Ninety miles where the Santa Lucia Mountains plunge into the Pacific.
CA
Monument Valley
The buttes of every Western ever filmed, on Navajo land.
AZ
Antelope
Light pouring into a slot of sandstone carved like silk.
AZ
Horseshoe Bend
The Colorado River bends around a stone horseshoe, 1,000 feet below your feet.
AZ
Sedona
Red rock cathedrals, vortex hikes and a town that glows at sunset.
AZ
Maui
Sunrise above the clouds, the Road to Hana and humpbacks offshore.
HI
Napa
Thirty miles of vineyards, cabernet and long lunches in the sun.
CA