Desmond Balmer on the best ways to see the States, from horseback to fly-drive.
Salt Lake City may be overrun by the Winter Olympics, but in nearby Montana Alf Alderson has the slopes to himself.
Richard Knight, who has written a book about the blues, recommends the top venues in the Windy City.
Roly Smith opens our US special with a top 10 selection of his favourite national parks from the flying buttresses of Arches to the Technicolor rocks of Zion.
Route 395 was once known as the Divorce Trail, an unsentimental journey from Hollywood to Reno via Death Valley. But the road reveals much more to Hank Wangford.
Pamela Thompson joins a coach tour around the badlands of New Jersey to visit the sites of the hit TV series The Sopranos - an offer she can't refuse.