Explore America: Great American Journeys

Reader's Digest Explore America

by Reader's Digest Association

Provides over thirty "journeys" through breathtaking American vistas, including the Blue Ridge Parkway, Florida's Overseas Highway, The Oregon Trail, Alaska's Inside Passage, and the Colorado River.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published February 7, 2000

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Sheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Reader's Digest Explore America series has a 2-page, slightly topographical, map of the US states in the front, with the locations discussed marked in red - just red dots for the ones briefly covered in the back, red dot and name for the ones who get a full chapter. Each of the ten chapters dedicated to one city ends with a list of other local sites and attractions; the final section devotes only one page to each site. As with all the Reader's Digest travel books I've seen, plenty of big, beautiful pictures with captions.

Full chapters on:

The Hudson River, New York
The Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia, North Carolina
The Overseas Highway, Florida
Mark Twain’s River, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana
The Oregon Trail, Oregon
Rafting the Colorado River, Arizona
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Colorado
The Coast Starlight, California, Oregon, Washington
The Royal Route, Hawaii
The Inside Passage, Alaska

One Page Each
The Wild West Arizona
Gold Rush Country California
High Sierra California
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal District of Columbia, Maryland
Santa Fe Trail, Kansas
Cumberland Gap Trail, Kentucky
Battle Road, Massachusetts
Lake Superior Drive, Minnesota
Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi
Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Cog Railway, New Hampshire
Combres & Toltec, New Mexico
Scenic Railroad, New Mexico
High Road, New Mexico
Erie Canal, New York
Lewis & Clark Trail, North Dakota
Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
El Camino del Rio, Texas
Wildflower Tour, Texas
Lake Champlain Valley, Vermont
Civil War Tour, Virginia
San Juan Islands, Washington

[Cws]

RefYA5

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really enjoyed learning about all the different trips you could take across the United States.