12 best trips lonely planets

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Trip 12: Northern Redwood Coast.

Ditch the cell phone and hug a tree, dude. California’s towering giants grow along much of the coast, from Big Sur north to the Oregon border. It’s possible to cruise past the trees – or even drive right through them at old-fashioned tourist traps – but nothing compares to the awe you’ll feel while walking underneath these ancient ones.

Trip 21: Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks.

In what conservationist John Muir called a temple, everything looks bigger, whether you’re getting splashed by thunderous waterfalls, staring up at granite domes or walking in giant sequoia groves. For sublime views, perch at Glacier Point under a full moon or along high-elevation Tioga Rd.

Trip 32: Palm Springs & Joshua Tree Oases

Whimsical-looking Joshua trees defi ne this park, where the Colorado and Mojave Deserts converge. This is one of California’s top places to go rock climbing, but even kids can scramble around the larger-than-life boulders. Hikers seek out fan-palm oases fed by springs and streams.

Hit the Road!

California’s road trips will take you from the breezy, wildlife-rich Pacific Coast, to the towering redwoods of Big Sur and the north, to off -the-beaten-track deserts and Gold Rush towns, to big-name national parks such as Yosemite and Death Valley, and through the vine-strewn valleys of celebrated wine countries, starting with Sonoma and Napa. From backcountry lanes to beachside highways, we’ve got something for you. And if you’ve only got time for one trip, make it one of our nine Classic Trips, which take you to the very best of California.

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The Pacific Northwest's Best Trips

What’s the Pacific Northwest got that other regions don’t? Plenty. Start with hundreds of miles of coastline and throw in a stunning natural landscape: thousands of years of geological events have dramatically shaped this region, leaving behind snow-capped mountain ranges, rocky islands, hundreds of waterfalls, natural hot springs and one particularly lovely gorge.

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Southwest USA's Best Trips

The 32 road trips in this book take you through the best this fabulous land has to offer, from trackless deserts to the majestic Grand Canyon. We’ll guide you through the sandstone charms of Utah to the artistic sparkle of New Mexico, and from the wildflowers of Texas Hill Country to the ancient cliff towns of Colorado and Nevada’s vast open spaces.

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Welcome to Southwest USA

The Southwest is America’s untamed playground, luring adventurous travelers with thrilling red-rock landscapes, the legends of shoot-’em-up cowboys and the kicky delights of green-chile stew.

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Welcome to Texas

Bigger than a whole heap of countries, Texas is vast, diverse and welcoming: from big-city lights to small-town simplicity, white-sand beaches to high-country hikes.

Slowing down, taking the rural, farm-to-market back roads; steppin’ out in polished boots and starched blue jeans for a Saturday-night dance under the stars; doin’ nothing more on a Sunday afternoon than floating down a lazy river. Life in the country lopes along.

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Welcome to Australia

Australia is a wild and beautiful place, a land whose color palette of red outback sands and Technicolor reefs frames sophisticated cities and soulful Indigenous stories.

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Welcome to Western USA

Landscapes and legends draw adventurers to the West, where a good day includes locavore dining, vineyard wine-sipping, Native American history and outdoor adventure.

Western cities have distinct personalities. In California there’s the ‘hey-bro’ friendliness of San Diego, the Hollywood flash of Los Angeles and silicon-meets-bohemian in San Francisco. Further north in Seattle, cutting edge joins homegrown, often over a cup of joe. And so many more!

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Florida & the South's Best Trips

Life is rich – make that indulgent – in the Southern states. Food, music, culture, history: all of it is robust, spiced to the hilt and alive. The 28 road trips in this book will introduce you to that way-out crab shack, the sweltering juke joint and the lonely trail. We’ll show you upscale kitchens and that romantic jazz club of your dreams, and we’ll tell you the best (not necessarily the quickest) way to get there.

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Germany, Austria & Switzerland's Best Trips

The 33 trips in this book take you for a spin from Germany’s edgy capital to its bracing northern coast and fabled Rhine and Moselle Valley vineyards, from Bavaria to the Black Forest, to the sparkling shores of Lake Constance and beyond into Austria and Switzerland. Motor the castle-strewn banks of Europe’s greatest rivers and within a whisker of its mightiest glacial peaks.

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Welcome to New England

Mount spectacular summits and feel ocean breezes. Tantalize your taste buds with succulent seafood and sweet maple syrup. Relish history and high culture.

The history of New England is the history of America. It’s the Pilgrims who came ashore at Plymouth Rock and the minutemen who fought for American independence. It’s hundreds of years of poets and philosophers, progressive thinkers who dared to dream and dared to do.

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