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what is undoubtedly the world’s biggest motorcycle rally. In the old days, railways really opened up the West. Many of the lines became freight only or fell into disuse but now there are the stirrings of a revival. Amtrak, America's national passenger carrier, attracts close on 30-million passengers a year and provides an increasingly comprehensive alternative to self- drive, the time-honoured interstate buses or regional air services. High quality sleeping and dining cars are now widely available and passengers on the Coast Starlight, out in California, can enjoy wine tastings as the train meanders through the state's glorious countryside. Plans are also advanced for 220
mph high-speed Amtrak services. The adventure of old-fashioned
steam travel can be captured on revitalised private lines dotted in pockets across the country, One of the finest is Oregon’s Mount Hood
lakes and rivers provide enticing fly and coarse fishing opportunities while golf can become something of an adventure if you are hunting for lost balls in a Florida pond that hosts a resident alligator. Given its richly diverse flora and fauna, America is a birdwatcher and nature lover’s paradise while, when the colder months arrive, countless winter sports resorts swing into action. Such Rocky Mountain centres as Aspen, Breckenridge Steamboat Springs, Beaver Creek, Telluride, Sun Valley and Jackson Hole are justly world renowned. But there are plenty of alternatives
Railroad, which winds through dramatic mountain scenery below the towering, snow-capped 11,249 ft peak that gifts its name.
Flora and fauna Big game fishing off the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts is among the world’s finest while right across the nation myriad carefully husbanded
"Given its richly diverse fl ora and fauna, the US is a bird and nature lover’s paradise"
across the country’s mountain areas and even as far south as Flagstaff, Arizona – just north of the Mexican border – there’s the opportunity to take in some serious skiing. Or maybe, in the Great Lakes Region, at the other end of the country, it is the excitement of dogsledding across the frozen lakes of Minnesota that will most appeal to visitors.
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