Lonely Planet USA
Lonely Planet’s USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch a Broadway show in New York, marvel at the Grand Canyon, and drive the Pacific Coast Highway; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the USA and begin your journey now!

 

Inside Lonely Planet’s USA Travel Guide: 

Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020’s COVID-19 outbreak

NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of the USA’s best experiences and where to have them

What's NEW feature taps into cultural trends and helps you find fresh ideas and cool new areas

Pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel

Accommodation feature gathers all the information you need to plan your accommodation

Improved planning tools for family travelers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids

Color maps and images throughout

Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, prices

Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics

Over 100 maps 

Covers New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Washington, DC, The South, Florida, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Texas, Rocky Mountains, California, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii

 

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s USA, our most comprehensive guide to the USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. 

Looking for just the highlights? Check out Pocket New York City, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.

 

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 

 

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times

 

 

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)

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Lonely Planet USA
Lonely Planet’s USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch a Broadway show in New York, marvel at the Grand Canyon, and drive the Pacific Coast Highway; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the USA and begin your journey now!

 

Inside Lonely Planet’s USA Travel Guide: 

Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020’s COVID-19 outbreak

NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of the USA’s best experiences and where to have them

What's NEW feature taps into cultural trends and helps you find fresh ideas and cool new areas

Pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel

Accommodation feature gathers all the information you need to plan your accommodation

Improved planning tools for family travelers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids

Color maps and images throughout

Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, prices

Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics

Over 100 maps 

Covers New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Washington, DC, The South, Florida, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Texas, Rocky Mountains, California, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii

 

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s USA, our most comprehensive guide to the USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. 

Looking for just the highlights? Check out Pocket New York City, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.

 

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 

 

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times

 

 

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)

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Overview

Lonely Planet’s USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Catch a Broadway show in New York, marvel at the Grand Canyon, and drive the Pacific Coast Highway; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the USA and begin your journey now!

 

Inside Lonely Planet’s USA Travel Guide: 

Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020’s COVID-19 outbreak

NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of the USA’s best experiences and where to have them

What's NEW feature taps into cultural trends and helps you find fresh ideas and cool new areas

Pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel

Accommodation feature gathers all the information you need to plan your accommodation

Improved planning tools for family travelers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids

Color maps and images throughout

Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, prices

Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics

Over 100 maps 

Covers New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Washington, DC, The South, Florida, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Texas, Rocky Mountains, California, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii

 

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s USA, our most comprehensive guide to the USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. 

Looking for just the highlights? Check out Pocket New York City, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.

 

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 

 

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times

 

 

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788684187
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Publication date: 09/27/2022
Series: Travel Guide Series
Edition description: 12th ed.
Pages: 1216
Sales rank: 480,538
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.90(d)

Table of Contents

Plan Your Trip

Welcome to the USA 6

USA Map 8

USA's Top Experiences 10

Need to Know 24

First Time USA 26

What's New 28

Accommodations 30

Month by Month 32

Itineraries 37

Road Trips & Scenic Drives 42

Outdoor Activities 49

Eat & Drink Like a Local 57

Family Travel 66

Regions at a Glance 69

On the Road

New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania 74

New York City 75

New York State 137

Long Island 137

Hudson Valley 143

Catskills 146

Finger Lakes 149

The Adirondacks 151

Thousand Islands 155

New Jersey 159

Hoboken 160

Princeton 160

Jersey Shore 162

Pennsylvania 167

Philadelphia 167

Pennsylvania Dutch Country 178

Pennsylvania Wilds 179

Pittsburgh 180

New England 184

Massachusetts 185

Boston 188

Cape Cod 208

The Islands 215

Pioneer Valley 217

The Berkshires 219

Rhode Island 222

Providence 223

Newport 225

East Bay 227

Connecticut 228

Hartford 228

Litchfield Hills 230

Connecticut Coast 231

Vermont 235

New Hampshire 246

Southern New Hampshire 246

Lakes Region 248

White Mountains 250

Hanover 254

Maine 254

Ogunquit 255

Portland 255

Midcoast Maine 259

Downeast Maine 261

Inland Maine 263

Washington, DC & The Capital Region 264

Washington, DC 265

Maryland 294

Baltimore 294

Annapolis 301

Eastern Shore 303

Ocean City 304

Western Maryland 305

Delaware 307

Delaware Coast 308

Wilmington & Brandywine Valley 310

Dover 310

Virginia 312

Northern Virginia 313

Historic Triangle 318

Norfolk 321

Virginia Beach 322

The Piedmont 323

Shenandoah Valley 329

Blue Ridge Highlands & Southwest Virginia 333

West Virginia 336

Eastern Panhandle 337

Monongahela National Forest 339

New River & Greenbrier Valley 341

The South 344

North Carolina 345

North Carolina Coast 345

The Triangle 354

Charlotte 358

North Carolina Mountains 360

Great Smoky Mountains National Park 366

South Carolina 367

Charleston 368

Lowcounlry 373

Myrtle Beach 375

Greenville & the Upcountry 377

Tennessee 378

Memphis 378

Nashville 385

Kentucky 398

Louisville 399

Bluegrass Country 403

Central Kentucky 405

Georgia 406

Atlanta 406

Alabama 426

Birmingham 426

Montgomery 428

Selma 429

Mobile 430

Mississippi 431

Oxford 431

Mississippi Delta 432

Jackson 434

Natchez 436

Gulf Coast 437

Arkansas 437

Little Rock 437

Hot Springs 439

Tri-Peaks Region 440

Ozark Mountains 442

Louisiana 444

New Orleans 445

St Francisville 459

Cajun Country 460

Cajun Wetlands 461

Florida 464

South Florida 465

Miami 465

Fort Lauderdale 482

Palm Beach 486

The Everglades 490

Florida Keys 494

Atlantic Coast 500

Space Coast 500

Daytona Beach 502

St Augustine 503

Jacksonville 505

Amelia Island 507

Southwest Florida 508

Tampa 509

St Petersburg 511

Sarasota 512

Sanibel & Captiva Islands 513

Naples 514

Central Florida 516

Orlando 516

Walt Disney World® Resort 518

Universal Orlando Resort 520

Florida Panhandle 523

Tallahassee 523

Pensacola 525

Great Lakes 528

Illinois 529

Chicago 529

Indiana 564

Indianapolis 564

Ohio 572

Cleveland 573

Erie Lakeshore & Islands 576

Ohio Amish Country 577

Columbus 578

Yellow Springs 579

Dayton 580

Cincinnati 580

Michigan 584

Detroit 584

Dearborn 591

Ann Arbor 592

Central Michigan 592

Gold Coast 595

Straits of Mackinac 599

Upper Peninsula 600

Wisconsin 603

Milwaukee 603

Minnesota 614

Minneapolis 614

St Paul 620

Northern Minnesota 622

Great Plains 641

Missouri 645

St Louis 645

St Charles 651

Hannibal 651

Springfield 652

The Ozarks 652

Kansas City 655

Independence 658

St Joseph 659

Iowa 659

Des Moines 660

Sioux City 661

Davenport 662

Iowa City 662

Amana Colonies 663

Cedar Valley 663

Mt Vernon 664

Dubuque 664

Iowa's Great Lakes 665

North Dakota 666

Fargo 666

Bismarck 668

On the Road

Theodore Roosevelt National Park 668

South Dakota 669

Sioux Falls 669

Chamberlain 670

Pierre 670

Wall 671

Badlands National Park 671

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 672

Black Hills 672

Nebraska 679

Omaha 679

Lincoln 681

Grand Island 682

North Platte 683

Valentine 683

Nebraska Panhandle 684

Kansas 685

Wichita 685

Lawrence 687

Topeka 687

Chase County 688

Oklahoma 689

Oklahoma City 689

Western Oklahoma 691

Tulsa 693

Guthrie 694

Anadarko 695

Muskogee 695

Tahlequah 696

Texas 697

Central Texas 700

Austin 700

San Antonio & The Hill Country 708

East Texas 716

Houston 716

Clear Lake & Around 722

Gulf Coast & South Texas 723

Galveston 724

Corpus Christi 726

Padre Island National Seashore 727

South Padre Island 728

Dallas-Fort Worth 729

Dallas 729

Fort Worth 736

West Texas 739

Big Bend National Park 739

Big Bend Ranch State Park 740

Central West Texas 741

El Paso 745

Guadalupe Mountains National Park 747

Rocky Mountains 748

Colorado 752

Denver 753

Boulder 762

Northern Mountains 766

Wyoming 785

Cheyenne 785

Laramie 787

Lander 788

Jackson 789

Cody 791

Yellowstone National Park 792

Grand Teton National Park 797

Montana 800

Bozeman & Gallatin Valley 801

Billings 803

Helena 803

Missoula 805

Whitefish 806

Glacier National Park 807

Idaho 810

Boise 810

Ketchum & Sun Valley 812

Stanley 814

Southwest 816

Nevada 820

Las Vegas 820

The Great Basin 834

Arizona 834

Phoenix 835

Grand Canyon National Park 851

Utah 869

Salt Lake City 870

Park City & Wasatch Mountains 875

Moab & Southeastern Utah 880

Zion & Southwestern Utah 885

New Mexico 889

Albuquerque 890

Along 1-40 894

Santa Fe 894

California 913

Los Angeles 916

Southern Californian Coast 941

Disneyland & Anaheim 941

Orange County Beaches 944

San Diego 945

Palm Springs & the Deserts 955

Palm Springs 956

Joshua Tree National Park 958

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park 960

Mojave National Preserve 961

Death Valley National Park 962

Central Coast 963

Santa Barbara 963

Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo 966

San Luis Obispo 967

Morro Bay to Hearst Castle 968

Big Sur 970

Carmel-by-the-Sea 971

Monterey 972

Santa Cruz 974

San Francisco & the Bay Area 976

San Francisco 976

Marin County 1001

Berkeley 1002

Northern California 1003

Wine Country 1003

North Coast 1008

Sacramento 1012

Gold Country 1014

California's Northern Mountains 1015

Sierra Nevada 1017

Pacific Northwest 1027

Washington 1031

Seattle 1031

Olympia 1044

Olympic Peninsula 1045

San Juan Islands 1050

North Cascades 1052

South Cascades 1056

Oregon 1058

Portland 1059

Willamette Valley 1069

Columbia River Gorge 1071

Oregon Cascades 1072

Alaska 1085

Anchorage 1087

Southeast Alaska 1091

Wrangell 1091

Sitka 1093

Juneau 1095

Haines 1097

Skagway 1098

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve 1099

Ketchikan 1101

Fairbanks 1102

Hawaii 1105

O'ahu 1107

Honolulu 1107

Waikiki 1110

Hawai'i, the Big Island 1113

Kailua-Kona 1114

Mauna Kea 1116

Hamakua Coast 1117

Hilo 1118

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park 1119

Maui 1120

Lahaina 1120

Kihei 1121

Kaua'i 1122

Lihu'e 1123

Wailua 1123

Hanalei Bay & the North Shore 1123

Po'ipu & South Shore 1124

Understand

History 1126

The Way of Life 1138

Native Americans 1143

Arts & Architecture 1146

The Music Scene 1155

The Land & Wildlife 1158

Survival Guide

Directory A-Z 1164

Transportation 1175

Driving in the USA 1182

Index 1190

Map Legend 1211

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