Weekends on the road The ultimate travel guide to the USA & Canada To travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary over these vast spaces with so many riches from glittering cities to eccentric small towns & heart-stoppingly beautiful mountains & plains how to experience as much as possible in limited time? The New York Times has the answer & has been offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly "36 Hours" column for over a decade & since 2011 starting with the publication of 36 Hours USA & Canada TASCHEN has been collecting these stories into best-selling books organized continent by continent Now after compiling volumes on Europe Asia & the rest of the world editor Barbara Ireland has come home with a fully revised & updated second edition of 36 Hours USA & Canada Marquee metropolises like New York Montreal & Los Angeles; world-famous natural wonders at Niagara Falls & the Grand Canyon; the hidden charm of Rust Belt cities like Duluth & Detroit
- they&re all here & so are 29 new destinations not published in the first edition from Banff with its crystal blue glacier-fed lakes to El Paso where the border culture spans two states & two countries For a taste of adventure & a veritable journey throughout the continent explore 36 Hours in America Features 150 North American destinations from metropolitan hot spots to unexpected hideaways; practical recommendations for over 600 restaurants & 450 hotels; color-coded tabs & ribbons to bookmark your favorite cities in each region; nearly 1000 photos; all stories have been updated & adapted by Barbara Ireland a veteran Times travel editor; illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli of Milan Italy; easy-to-reference indexes; & detailed city-by-city maps that pinpoint every stop on your itinerary