Walks in United States
19 walks in United States — New York, San Francisco, Moab, Estes Park, Bryce Canyon NP, Death Valley NP, Las Vegas, Yosemite NP, Zion NP. Each one comes with a map, stories, and questions you answer from what is around you.
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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 · 150 min
- NYC: Midtown from the station to the parkA station with the night sky upside down, lions outside the library, the brightest crossroads on the planet and a golden titan above an ice rink.3.5 km · 180 min
- 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 · 150 min
- 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.4.5 km · 180 min
- 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 · 180 min
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 · 100 min
- 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 · 150 min
- 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 · 90 min
- 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 · 60 min
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 km · 300 min
- 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 · 330 min
- 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.3 km · 150 min
Estes Park
- RMNP: The lakes below HallettA 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 · 330 min
- 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.2 km · 90 min