Adventure Mount Charleston in southern Nevada
Panhandle and onwards to the railheads in Kansas – including the legendary portion known as The Chisholm Trail. Typical is Big Bend, close to the Rio
Grande river, in the southwest of Texas. Guests can opt to sleep in five- star luxury or under the stars and explore the million-acre spread on horseback, by mountain bike, in a canoe or a Jeep. Another popular holiday trail
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Surf's up For those drawn to big waves, there are plentiful destinations, like Kalalua State Beach, in Hawaii, Monterey in California, and Shi Shi Beach in Washington State, where 'Surf’s Up' is a familiar cry. Since the first X Games – originally known as the Extreme Games – was
held in New England back in 1995, the USA has established itself as the world’s premier mecca for such adrenalin pumping activities – whether on land, on water or in the air – as ice yachting, mountain boarding, hang gliding, kite surfing, bungee jumping and hang gliding. The choice is limitless.
Billy the Kid From wildwater rafting down 90 miles of rapids on the Salmon River in Idaho to looping the loop at the controls of a stunt plane pulling 3.5 Gs flying high over Lake Monroe, in Central Florida, there’s plenty to set pulses racing, right across all 50 of America's states. At Mill Creek Canyon, in unspoilt
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West Virginia, zip-lines, running through the canopies of trees in the third most densely wooded state of the Union have become a major attraction. At close-by Burning Rock Outdoor Adventure Park there’s even a dual-racing zip-line for the competitively minded. If the spirit of the Old West is what
draws you, there’s a replica stagecoach that will carry you over bumpy dirt trails to sleepy little Lincoln, New Mexico – the spot where Billy The Kid staged his infamous jailbreak. That bloody event is today re-enacted for visitors with a convincingly staged gunfight. Up in the stunningly beautiful Black
Hills of South Dakota they hold the State Governor’s annual Buffalo Round-up each September. It’s a thrilling spectacle involving up to 1,500 head of bison and some 300 genuine cowboys, demonstrating their amazing riding skills. Those itching to try some cattle
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driving for themselves will find authentic Wild West style dude ranches dotted all over the western states, especially along the route of the old trails running north out of Texas, through the Oklahoma
"If the spirit of the Old West is what draws you, there’s a replica
stagecoach that will carry you over bumpy dirt trails to sleepy little Lincoln, New Mexico"
adventure is to track what remains of the course of the old Route 66 highway – ‘The Mother Road’ or 'High Street USA’, as it’s known – winding its way “From Chicago to LA / More than 2,000 miles all the way,” in the words of the song immortalised by Nat ’King’ Cole, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones and others – and preferably doing it astride a Harley Davidson or aboard an old Chevy. Talking of Harleys, each August, 35,000 plus of them purr into the tiny South Dakota town of Sturgis for
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