Walks in United States
22 walks in United States - New York, San Francisco, Moab, Yosemite NP, Estes Park, Bryce Canyon NP, Capitol Reef NP, Death Valley NP, Las Vegas, Zion NP. Each one comes with a map, stories, and questions you answer from what is around you.
Reading about this country
- π¦ The USA: HistoryFrom Columbus's mistake to Silicon Valley - five hundred years in twenty minutes of reading.
- π½ New York: HistoryFrom an island bought for sixty guilders to a city where eight hundred languages are spoken - four hundred years in twelve minutes of reading.
- π San Francisco: HistoryA village of five hundred people that became a city in a year, a bridge whose colour came from a misunderstanding, and a fog with its own social media account - ten minutes of reading.
- π§ Yosemite: What You Will FindA nine-hundred-metre granite wall, a waterfall that does not run in August, and bears that picked cars by make - five minutes of reading.
- π¦ Rocky Mountain: What You Will FindA road at an altitude where no tree grows, elk that bugle in town, and a hotel where a famous horror novel began - five minutes of reading.
- πͺ¨ Arches: What You Will FindOver two thousand stone arches, one on the licence plates of a whole state, and one that fell in August 2008 - five minutes of reading.
- 𧑠Bryce Canyon: What You Will FindIt is not a canyon, it is walls of stone figures, more of them here than anywhere on Earth - and a sky on which seven and a half thousand stars are visible. Five minutes of reading.
- π Capitol Reef: what you will find thereA stone wave a hundred and sixty kilometres long, an orchard where you are allowed to eat, and a road that ran along the floor of a canyon for eighty years - five minutes' reading.
- π΄ Dead Horse Point: What You Will FindA viewpoint six hundred metres above a bend in the Colorado, blue lakes that do not belong there, and the ending of a famous film - five minutes of reading.
- π‘οΈ Death Valley: What You Will FindThe lowest, driest and hottest place in North America, stones that move by themselves, and a lake people kayaked on in 2024 - five minutes of reading.
- ποΈ Island in the Sky: What You Will FindA mesa six hundred metres above its surroundings, an arch that lights up from below, and a crater argued over for a hundred years - five minutes of reading.
- π° Las Vegas: HistoryA meadow with a spring in the middle of the desert that became a city with more hotel rooms than anywhere in America - and a screen the size of a building. Ten minutes of reading.
- β°οΈ Zion: What You Will FindA canyon you may not drive into, a ridge with chains you reach through a lottery, and a trail that runs in the river itself - five minutes of reading.
New York
NYC: Central ParkAmerica's first great public park: every bit of it is artificial - every tree planted, every lake dug. And yet inside it you forget the city.4 km Β· 150 min5.0 (1)
NYC: Midtown from the station to the parkA station with a night sky that is not quite right, lions outside the library, the brightest crossroads on the planet and a golden titan above an ice rink.3.5 km Β· 180 min5.0 (1)
NYC: The tip of ManhattanA bull for luck, the stock exchange and a fearless girl, the steps of the first president, a memorial in the footprints of the towers and a bridge finished by a woman.3.5 km Β· 150 min5.0 (1)
NYC: The Village and the High LineA triumphal arch for bohemians, the building from Friends, a market inside a biscuit factory and a park on railway tracks ten metres above the street.4.2 km Β· 165 min5.0 (1)
NYC: To the Statue of LibertyThe most famous statue in the world up close - and the island through which millions of new Americans passed.3 km Β· 180 min5.0 (1)
San Francisco
SF: Golden Gate Close UpA temple built to be temporary, a beach facing the most photographed bridge in the world, and the fort the bridge had to leap over.3.5 km Β· 100 min5.0 (1)
SF: Switchbacks and StairsThe crookedest street in the world, the tower of an eccentric millionaire, garden stairs with wild parrots and the beatniks' quarter.3 km Β· 150 min5.0 (1)
SF: The Dragon and the SquareThe oldest Chinatown in America: a gate with lions, a church from the gold rush, the square where the city began and a bakery of fortunes.2 km Β· 90 min5.0 (1)
SF: Waterfront of RecordsHistoric tall ships, a chocolate empire, penny arcades, sea lions and a view of the world's most famous prison.2 km Β· 60 min5.0 (1)
Moab
Arches: Four expeditions to the archesOver 2,000 stone arches in one place - a world record. From a street of rock to the most famous arch on the planet.7.4 km Β· 300 min5.0 (1)
Canyonlands: Island in the SkyA mesa 600 metres above the meeting of the Colorado and the Green: an island in the sky with windows onto two storeys of canyons.6 km Β· 330 min5.0 (1)
Dead Horse Point - the loop above the riverA promontory 600 m above a bend of the Colorado, blue salt ponds on the horizon and a sad legend about mustangs.1.5 km Β· 90 min5.0 (1)
Yosemite NP
Yosemite Valley: Beneath the Tallest Waterfall in AmericaThe floor of a glacial valley on foot: a village of the first inhabitants, the tallest waterfall on the continent, a meadow with Half Dome above it and the bridge Ansel Adams photographed from.4 km Β· 90 min
Yosemite: A Day on the Park's RoofThe Sierra's largest subalpine meadow: a granite dome, a lake, a spring of natural soda water and the cabin where the idea of national parks was born.9 km Β· 480 min5.0 (1)
Yosemite: The Mist Trail to the FallsThe park's most famous trail: steps cut into granite, a rainbow in the spray and waterfalls that run even in August.7 km Β· 210 min5.0 (1)
Estes Park
RMNP: A string of glacial lakesA string of glacial lakes like pearls: from a mirror by the car park to a stone bowl under a wall, with a waterfall at the end.9 km Β· 330 min5.0 (1)
RMNP: Tundra on Fall River PassThe highest visitor centre in the US national park system and a walk across arctic tundra - a piece of the Arctic in the middle of Colorado.1.7 km Β· 135 min5.0 (1)
