US holidays
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Great art under the big skies of Montana – in picturesThe Tippet Rise Art Center on an 11,500-acre working ranch near Yellowstone, Montana, has just opened to the public. It celebrates land and architecture, as well as music during its classical concert season
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10 of the best new affordable hotels in New York CityFrom bargain-price rooms in midtown Manhattan to swish boutique hotels in Brooklyn and Queens, our top 10 makes it possible to explore NYC to the max -
Top 10 southern barbecue joints in the USA road trip around the American south led Sam Evans and Shauna Guinn to open a BBQ restaurant in the UK in homage. Here are their favourite US smokers -
World View: spring farming in Oregon, USThe snowpack in Oregon may be good this year, but it will take several years to emerge from the drought that afflicts the western US. Here, a tractor uses a technique called harrowing, not ploughing, which prevents the soil surface from drying out
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Twister tales: stormchasing in Tornado Alley, OklahomaOut on the US Great Plains a storm is brewing and that’s great news for extreme weather fans on a tour that’s all about witnessing the power of nature up close
road trips
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Shia LaBeouf embarks on a digital road trip: #TAKEMEANYWHEREThe actor and performance artist is hitchhiking for a month and inviting the public to track him down and take him … anywhere
national parks
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Deep in the American West: meet Harry Koyama, a beet farmer with an artist's soulOne of the few Asian Americans in the Yellowstone Valley, artist Harry Koyama paints flamboyant canvases of wildlife, wild places, and people that make up Montana. Writer Carrie La Seur is awestruck
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How Carleton Watkins’ photographs shaped Yosemite Valley’s futureAbraham Lincoln’s 1864 law to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley may have helped create the National Park Service but it was Carleton Watkins’ striking images that inspired the president
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Top 10 US mid-Atlantic national and state parksThe eastern US states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland offer green spaces with stunning peaks and waterfalls, as well as wonderful wildlife
adventure holidays
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10 epic long-distance walks around the worldFrom the Highlands to the Himalayas, these hikes take in some of the world’s most spectacular landscapes. They’re not for the faint-hearted, but keen trekkers will love the challenges posed by each
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Border crossing: whitewater rafting in Hells Canyon, USA five-day rafting and camping trip in dazzling Oregon and Idaho, along the deepest canyon in North America, was the perfect adventure challenge for our devil-may-care writer
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The wild west of my dreams: California’s Sequoia national forestA little-visited peak above the San Joaquin valley feels like ‘my mountain’, says novelist TC Boyle
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Climber Tommy Caldwell: 'From an early age Yosemite became the centre of my universe'Free climbing the Dawn Wall of El Capitan was an intense and exhilarating experience – one of many in a career that has allowed Caldwell to see the world from on high
food and drink
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Oakland city guide: what to see plus the best bars, hotels and restaurantsThe city across the bay has shed its inferiority complex and offers plenty of reasons to visit. In fact you can skip San Francisco altogether, and fly to Oakland direct from the UK
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Holiday hotspots: where to go in 2015Looking for inspiration for this year’s holiday? We’ve selected 40
hot destinations for 2015, each with a fresh reason to visit, from new budget flights, hotels, arts events and festivals to a solar eclipse … -
Top 10 family-friendly New York summer activities
Discover New York City summer activities that are perfect for families … Angela Hederman and Michael Berman, authors of a new guide to New York with kids, pick their top 10 things to do
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Top 10 parks and outdoor activities in Nashville
Nashville's wealth of parks and outdoor amenities allow visitors plenty of room to roam, as well as the opportunity enjoy concerts, open-air theatre, arts events and picnic spots, says Kristin Luna
top 10s
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10 of the best haunted sites around the worldFrom a ‘hanging-doll’ island in Mexico to the English estate which inspired The Turn of the Screw, the author of A Natural History of Ghosts picks some of his favourite spooky sites
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10 of the best ways to enjoy Boston … on a budgetGreat parks, free art and brewery tours, brilliant cheap eats and gigs … Boston, America’s ‘walking city’, has loads for visitors to do without spending big bucks
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Short trips from New York City: readers’ tipsReaders share their favourite jaunts from the Big Apple, many to beautiful upstate New York, but also to New Jersey and beyond
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The best of New Orleans: readers’ travel tipsBlues venues, swamp trips, a jogging tour of the city and great places to stay … our readers share their tales of the Big Easy
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