Lonely Planet Ultimate USA Travel List: 500 Amazing Experiences Ranked | Bucket List Activities Include Dollywood, Coney Island & Red Rocks Park | Expert Tips to Get There

by Lonely Planet

What's the #1 travel experience in America? For the first time, the experts at Lonely Planet have ranked the top 500 unmissable experiences and hidden gems across the USA - to create the ultimate hitlist. Lonely Planet's  Ultimate USA Travel List  is the regional follow-up to our bestselling  Ultimate Travel List  and the must-own bucket list for both travellers to the USA and residents who want to discover their country’s most iconic sights and activities. With inspirational photos , insightful commentary and details of how to visit each place , this is your essential guide to exploring the very best of the nation’s travel experiences, from the classic to the quirky. Whatever your interests, there’s a memorable experience awaiting   National Parks Family Fun Museums & Galleries Road Trips Eating & Drinking Entertainment Plus many more! Discover the rankings and over 450 additional recommendations inside the book!   About Lonely   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. 

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

Published September 14, 2021

About the author

OUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Crazy list (stupid attractions topping worthwhile places), worthless methodology (let's ask people who work for us to pick their own Top 20s), completely worthless compilation. The book is assembled in their ranking order from #1 to #500. Who cares? If you want to know what to see in Missouri, you have to go to the index in the back of the book to find a page number, which doesn't match the ranking number, so when you get to the page you have to look carefully to figure out which attraction is the one in Missouri. It would have been more helpful to group them by type (parks, museums, experiences) or by US region (Northeast, Southeast, etc.). The photos are that great and the write-ups are a couple of sentences with an overabundance of adjectives but scant information. Some places don't even tell you the name of the town it's in, but more like "it's 50 miles from Phoenix."

[Barb Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a lot of work to do

[Suraia Munia · Rating 1 out of 5]

They just listed all the national parks and fee other places.
I could have gotten the list faster with more details if I had just googled! Disappointed 😥 😞

[Syntaxx · Rating 1 out of 5]

pretty pictures but tbh kinda useless as a destination guide. would have been more helpful to group them by type (parks, museums, experiences) or by US region (Northeast, Southeast, etc.)