The Places of Tourist Interest in the USA

The Places of Tourist Interest in the USA

Located in New England

• Boston, MA

  • An important port, where the Boston Tea Party found place

  • Buildings from revolutionary and colonial times

• Cambridge, MA

  • Seat of Harvard university and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Plymouth, MA

  • The place, where the first pilgrims settled

• New Heaven, CT

  • Seat of the Yale university

Located in Florida

• Miami

  • Former port, place of settlement

  • Today a resort and recreation centre

• Everglades National Park

  • Preserves the beauty of the Everglades swamps

  • Well known for its alligators

• NASA – Kennedy Space Centre

  • Located in Cape Canaveral

  • Space Shuttles used to launch from there, nowadays other rockets do

  • Entertainment park is a part of it

• Disney World and other theme and entertainment parks, Orlando

Elsewhere

• New Orleans, LA

  • Founded by the French, today is there a French Quarter

  • Major seaport, cradle of Jazz

• Houston TX

• Dallas, TX

  • Financial and commercial centre of the Southwest

  • Oil industry, cotton market

  • JFK was assassinated there

• Chicago, IL

  • Grain and livestock markets

  • In 1920s (prohibition) famous for its gangsters activities – Al Capone

  • Sears tower used to be the highest building in the World once

  • O’Hara airport = the busiest one in the US

• Mt. Rushmore, SD

  • A mountain with colossal portrait heads of 4 US presidents #MakeAmericaGreatAgain carved into the stone

• Las Vegas, NV

  • Famous for its rodeo festivals and gambling industry (legalized 1931)

• Los Angeles, CA

  • Famous for being a movie industry centre – Hollywood

• San Francisco, CA

  • Sited by the Spanish

  • Major city during the Californian Gold Rush

  • Known for the Golden Gate Bridge (SF Bay – Pacific)

• Yosemite national Park, CA

  • In Sierra Nevada

  • Includes the highest US Waterfalls

• The Grand Canyon, AZ

  • Carved by the Colorado river, stretches for 650 km, up to 1,7 km deep

  • Multi-coloured stone valley

• Yellowstone National Park

  • Wyoming, Idaho, Montana

  • Largest and oldest nature reserve

  • Famous geysers – Old Faithful, impressive falls and canyons of the Yellowstone river