Check out the latest ETG top 8 destinations of North America for 2015. For ultimate freedom we recommend travel by car, motorcycle or camper van, to truly explore the best of America and its stunning landscape, scenic highways and beautiful towns and cities. Lonely Planet provide accurate and easy to use guides that will assist you in planning your trip and save you money with recommendations on where to stay, where to eat, what to see and how to have the best time with the least amount of hassle.
1. Florida - USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
Blessed with almost year-round sunshine, Florida is a hothouse orchid – a bold, sexy, semitropical peninsula edged with bone-white beaches, caressed by teal waters and clad in lurid neon sunsets.
2. New England - Eastern USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
New England may look small, but don’t let that fool you. The cities offer a vibrant mix of historical sites, chef-driven restaurants and Ivy League campuses while you’ll find age-old fishing villages and sandy beaches on the coast.
3. Texas - USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
Cue the theme music, and make it something epic: Texas is as big and sweeping a state as can be imagined. If it were a country, it would be the 40th largest. And as big as it is geographically, it is equally large in people’s imaginations.
4. The South - Eastern USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
More than any other part of the country, the South has an identity all its own - a musical way of speaking, a complicated political history and a pride in a shared culture that cuts across state lines.
5. Hawaii - USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
Hawaii is diving coral-reef cities in the morning, listening to slack key guitar at sunset and biting into juicy lilikoʻi (passion fruit). These islands show nature’s diversity at its most divine, from fiery volcanoes to rainforest waterfalls and crystal-clear aquamarine bays.
6. California - Western USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
With bohemian spirit and high-tech savvy, not to mention a die-hard passion for the good life – whether cracking open a bottle of old-vine Zinfandel, climbing a 14,000ft peak or surfing the Pacific – California soars beyond any expectations sold on Hollywood’s silver screens.
7. Great Lakes - USA (PDF) Lonely Planet
Don’t be fooled by all the corn. Behind it lurk surfing beaches and Tibetan temples, car-free islands and the green-draped night-lights of the aurora borealis. The Great Lakes themselves are huge, like inland seas, offering beaches, dunes, resort towns and lighthouse-dotted scenery.
8. USA - Pacific Northwest (Chapter)
Ever since the days of the Oregon Trail, the Northwest has had a hypnotic lure for risk takers and dreamers. Evergreen trees frame snow-dusted volcanoes, and innovative cities Seattle and Portland are sprinkled with food carts, streetcars, microbreweries and urban sculpture.
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