The Shenandoah Valley in Virginia is a broad, fertile valley about 150 miles long and 25 miles wide, lying between the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the Allegheny Mountains on the west.
Walnut Point State Park covers 671 acres in Douglas County, east-central Illinois near Oakland, featuring a scenic 59-acre Walnut Point Lake formed by an earthen dam on a stream, surrounded by hardwood forests of oak, hickory, maple, walnut, locust, and sassafras.
Talking Stick Resort, opened in 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a luxury casino and entertainment destination owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Wachusett Mountain State Reservation spans 3,000 acres around the 2,006-foot summit of Mount Wachusett in central Massachusetts, offering year-round outdoor recreation in diverse landscapes of forests, meadows, ponds, and streams.
Whitefish Dunes State Park spans 867 acres on the eastern shore of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula near Sturgeon Bay, preserving the largest sand dunes on Lake Michigan's western shore, including Old Baldy, the state's tallest at 93 feet, alongside fragile ecosystems, prehistoric Native American village sites on the National Register of Historic Places, and adjacent Cave Point County Park accessed by shoreline trails.
Village Creek State Park encompasses nearly 7,000 acres across Cross and St. Francis counties in Arkansas along Crowley's Ridge, featuring forested hills, clear streams, and two lakes—Lake Austell and Lake Dunn.
Glacier County, Montana, located along the northern border with Canada, covers over 3,000 square miles combining high plains and rugged mountain terrain, including parts of Glacier National Park.
Great Falls, Montana, was founded in 1884 by entrepreneur Paris Gibson and railroad magnate James J. Hill, inspired by the power potential of the nearby series of waterfalls on the Missouri River.
The Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas, is a fascinating museum that showcases artifacts from ancient fossils, Egyptian mummies, and dinosaur skeletons to significant objects from World Wars and American history.
Sequoia National Park in California, established in 1890, protects over 400,000 acres of mountainous forest terrain in the southern Sierra Nevada and is famous for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume.
Rocklands Farm Winery is a family-owned winery and working farm located in the scenic Agricultural Reserve of Montgomery County, Maryland, about 30 to 40 minutes from Washington, D.C.
Copper Culture State Park is a small 42-acre site just west of Oconto in northeastern Wisconsin, renowned for preserving North America's oldest known infant cemetery from the Old Copper Complex culture dating back 4,000 to 6,000 years, where Native peoples crafted tools from local copper deposits.
Sappington Cemetery State Historic Site, located five miles southwest of Arrow Rock in Saline County, Missouri, preserves a two-acre family cemetery established in 1831 by prominent physician Dr. John Sappington, who is buried there along with two Missouri governors—his sons-in-law Claiborne Fox Jackson (15th governor) and Meredith Miles Marmaduke (8th governor)—and 111 marked graves enclosed by a stone wall and iron fence added in 1859.
Robert Frost Farm Historic Site in Derry, New Hampshire, is a preserved two-story clapboard farmhouse built in 1884 that served as home to poet Robert Frost and his family from 1900 to 1911.
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, known as The Kate, is a performing arts venue in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, housed in a beautifully restored 1911 Colonial Revival building that was once the town hall and theater.
The Newport Aquarium in Kentucky is a popular and highly-rated attraction that opened in 1999 and is located in Newport, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
The S.S. Badger is a historic passenger and vehicle ferry operating on Lake Michigan since 1953, running between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
