DESTINATIONS YEAR-ROUND | THE US


ABOVE: New York’s High Line PICTURE: NYC & Company/Brittany Petronella


AUGUST: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST There’s a stock joke in Seattle that goes: “We have two seasons – winter and August.” It’s an exaggeration, but August is unquestionably the best month to explore the hip, foodie-friendly cities of Seattle and Portland. More importantly, it’s prime weather for kayaking around Washington state’s San Juan Islands, meandering along the laid-back Oregon coast or hiking in the volcano-heavy national parks to the east of the big cities.


SEPTEMBER: NEW YORK OR CHICAGO It’s still T-shirt weather most of the time in the big northern cities, but the summer humidity is fading. This makes strolling along New York’s High Line or through Chicago’s art- packed Millennium Park a pleasure. It’s also fab for architecture cruises around Manhattan or along the Chicago River – Viator sells several options for both of these. Sports fans can catch a game too – the American football and baseball seasons overlap in September


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– and cocktail hounds can get the best out of the cities’ superb collections of rooftop bars.


OCTOBER: NEW ENGLAND October is when inland areas of New England are at their most beautiful, as the autumn leaves fall, covering the region in a carpet of reds, yellows and oranges. The leaf-peeping is combined with Halloween, which sees homes and


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SPRING: G Adventures offers a nine-day Best of California tour, from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, from £1,929 per person based on a May 23 departure. gadventures.com


SUMMER: Trafalgar’s eight-day Scenic Seattle, Portland and Oregon Coast tour starts from £2,825 per person, starting August 13. trafalgar.com


AUTUMN: North America Travel Service offers a 14-day The Best of New England fly-drive from £2,989 per person, starting and ending in Boston. northamericatravelservice.co.uk


WINTER: USAirtours has a 13-day Talkin’ Texas fly-drive holiday from £2,199 per person, including return flights from London, accommodation, car rental and insurance. usairtours.co.uk


streets decorated with pumpkins, cobwebs and other supernatural paraphernalia. The Massachusetts city of Salem, home of the infamous witch trials and now lovingly embracing all things spooky, is the gloriously OTT epicentre of all this.


NOVEMBER: LAS VEGAS As long as you avoid the busy Thanksgiving weekend, November hotel prices are fairly cheap and


temperatures in the tolerable twenties. It might not be perfect pool weather, but it’s ideal for nosy ambling down the Strip between the casino resorts and biking in the surrounding canyons, as well as catching the Cirque du Soleil shows and gimmicky indoor attractions. The nearby national parks – such as Zion in Utah and the Grand Canyon in Arizona – aren’t as busy during shoulder season, either.


DECEMBER: TEXAS By December, the big cities have cooled down – you can visit the JFK sites in Dallas and the home of Nasa in Houston without sweltering. Meanwhile, party season makes the already superlative live music scene in Austin even more fun. But there are plenty of events to take in too. In fun-in-the-sun seaside city Galveston, December brings Dickens on the Strand, where thousands of locals parade in glamorously Victorian costume. The wineries of the Central Texas Hill Country also throw open their doors for special events alongside the usual tasting sessions.


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