American Landmarks
The places where the United States was made. 18 places, mapped and ready to build a trip around.
Plan a trip on Trailwind →Liberty Bell
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaBestVariesClimate28–88°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportPHLThe cracked bell that tolled for American independence.
Independence Hall
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaBestVariesClimate28–88°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportPHLWhere the Declaration and Constitution were both signed.
Statue of Liberty
New YorkBestVariesClimate28–86°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportJFKLady Liberty on her harbor island, welcoming the tired and poor.
Ellis Island
New YorkBestVariesClimate28–86°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportJFKThe gateway where 12 million immigrants first set foot in America.
Gettysburg
Gettysburg, PennsylvaniaBestVariesClimate28–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportMDTThe rolling battlefield that turned the Civil War, and where Lincoln spoke.
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon, VirginiaBestVariesClimate32–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportDCAGeorge Washington's riverside plantation home above the Potomac.
Monticello
Charlottesville, VirginiaBestVariesClimate30–91°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportCHOThomas Jefferson's neoclassical mountaintop masterpiece.
The Alamo
San Antonio, TexasBestVariesClimate45–97°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportSATThe 1836 mission-fort where a small garrison held off Santa Anna's army for 13 days, now a preserved shrine and museum in the middle of downtown.
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu, HawaiiBestNov–FebClimate70–86°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportHNLThe USS Arizona Memorial over the ships lost on December 7, 1941.
Gateway Arch
St. Louis, MissouriBestVariesClimate27–88°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportSTLThe soaring stainless-steel gateway to the American West.
Mount Rushmore
Keystone, South DakotaBestJun–SepClimate14–79°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportRAPFour presidents carved 60 feet tall into the Black Hills.
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, VirginiaBestVariesClimate36–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportRICCostumed history plus nearby Busch Gardens, easy for all ages.
Freedom Trail
Boston, MassachusettsBestVariesClimate23–84°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportBOSA red-brick line through 16 Revolutionary sites across Boston.
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D.C.BestVariesClimate30–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportDCAA 19-foot marble Abraham Lincoln sits enthroned inside this Doric temple at the western end of the National Mall, flanked by his Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural carved into the walls.
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Crow Agency, MontanaBestJun–SepClimate14–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportBILThe Montana ridgeline of Custer's Last Stand.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, AlabamaBestVariesClimate41–93°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportMGMThe Selma bridge that became a landmark of the civil rights movement.
Kennedy Space Center
Merritt Island, FloridaBestNov–AprClimate55–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportMCOSee real rockets and, if timed right, a live launch.
Historic Jamestown
Jamestown, VirginiaEst. 1607BestVariesClimate36–90°FCurrencyUSDLanguageEnglishAirportPHFThe first permanent English settlement in America, founded 1607.