John Cletheroe's
USA and Canada Holiday Hints
|
External Links - Personal Web Sites About US And Canadian Holiday Destinations etc
Many personal web sites, created as labours of love, are excellent sources of information and represent what is best about the Internet.
Please report any broken links using the "EMail me" link at the bottom of this page.
This highly recommended one-man company site (does that qualify it as being a personal site or not???) offers a large amount of statistical and practical information for each American state. Verified Dec-99.
A very interesting and in places amusing personal travelogue of a trip with a campervan from Denver to Alaska. Verified Dec-98.
Contains a great deal of useful information. Verified May-97.
Contains a great deal of useful information. Verified Apr-97.
Includes photographs. Verified Apr-97.
Includes photographs. Verified Apr-97.
Includes photographs. Verified May-97.
Includes photographs. Verified May-97.
This site features an extensive collection of American folk tales, usefully indexed by a variety of categories. Verified Sep-02.
A magnificent site with information on the National Parks and other scenic and interesting areas of Arizona, southern California, southwestern Colorado and southern Utah. Verified Sep-98.
A very interesting travelogue. Verified Feb-98.
This site contains some useful and interesting information about the San Francisco Bay Area and California in general. Verified Feb-99.
Frank Buykx lives in Norfolk, England and recently retired. In the summer of 2001 he is walking across America from Washington DC to the Golden Gate Bridge. This web site features his diary, the route details, Frank's interviews on Radio Norfolk and some newspaper articles on his epic walk. Verified Sep-01.
This personal site offers some very useful advice, plus some humorous alarmist comments which shouldn't be taken too seriously. Verified Nov-98.
This personal site, created by Daniel P. Faigin, contains descriptions of the different types of highways in California. First URL verified Nov-99, second URL verified Jun-02.
Contains images of numerous Canadian highway marker shields. Verified Feb-98.
Donald Mark's personal web site features detailed information about each of the peaks in the Cascade Mountains, together with some excellent photographs. Verified Aug-02.
An excellent personal site with detailed information and good photographs. Verified Feb-00.
Charles Davis' personal site offers a large number of photographs of the park. Verified Oct-02.
An extensive collection of excellent photographs, well indexed, with both thumbnails and full size images. Highly recommended. Verified Aug-99.
An excellent personal site with a wealth of useful information. Verified May-00.
This site offers explanations of many "British English" words for people in the USA. Verified 31-Jul-99.
This personal site by Dave Crockett has detailed and interesting information on many of the lesser-known scenic and historical areas of eastern Nevada and western Utah. Verified Dec-03.
This site, created by an enthusiastic visitor to the USA, contains among other information a useful list of links for the USA, especially Virginia and North Carolina. Verified Nov-97.
A personal web site which includes an extremely valuable list of RV driving tips, links to recommended National and State Park web sites and personal web sites with RV travelogues, plus a great list of "road songs". Verified May-00.
A personal site with a collection of photographs of Colorado and New Mexico. Verified Dec-98.
A menu provides access to the various road sign sections of this site. Verified Feb-98.
This excellent personal site has detailed information on hiking in various areas near to Las Vegas, Nevada including Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest/Charleston Peak area, Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Valley of Fire State Park. Verified Jan-99.
Information on the subject for each US state and Canadian province, and a number of other countries. Verified Jun-03.
This very interesting personal site offers information on roads and highways in the USA, including a "Field Guide To Interchanges". There are also Java programs (some of which are downloadable) for creating your own realistic US highway signs (SignMaker), simulating a drive along highways which were planned but never constructed (TD71) and designing your own highway layouts (MATR). Verified Apr-02.
The large photographs inevitably make for slow access. Verified Apr-97.
This site features a large number of shareware/freeware TrueType fonts, including Blue Highway which closely resembles the font used on US road signs and highway marker shields. Verified Dec-99.
This excellent site includes examples of licence plates (car number plates) from numerous countries. Verified Feb-02.
This magnificent site contains a vast number of high quality images of American road signs and highway marker shields. Verified Aug-06.
A collection of related personal sites. Verified Feb-00. This may not be the best URL.
Verified Feb-00.
Descriptions and photographs of old-time American motels. Verified Feb-97.
This personal site has useful descriptions of the Mount Evans Byway in Colorado. Unfortunately when I visited none of the photographs were displayed. Verified Aug-99.
An excellent collection of photographs of New Mexico, southern Colorado and the Guadalupe Mountains National Park area of Texas. The site concentrates largely but by no means exclusively on the Anasazi ruins in the area. Small "thumbprint" copies of each photo form links to the full size copies. Verified Nov-97.
Personal site. An extensive collection of information, mainly links, created by an enthusiastic visitor to the USA and Canada. Verified Sep-97.
Details of numerous tourist railways, railway museums, and other railway related attractions in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Verified Nov-97.
A great collection of photographs. Verified Dec-96.
This magnificent personal site contains a wealth of interesting information about the historic Overland Trail and related subjects. Verified Feb-99.
Details on whether radar detectors and scanners are permitted or prohibited in various states. Verified Sep-98.
Includes examples of highway marker shields used in Ontario, together with some interesting comments about many of the province's main highways. Verified Sep-98.
Alternative URL's: http://www.detlef-zier.de and http://berlin.germany.com/dzier. This personal site includes both thumbnail and full-size versions of numerous photographs, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (California), Joshua Tree National Park (California), Lake Havasu City (Arizona), Palm Springs (California), Phoenix (Arizona), the Salton Sea (California) and Yuma (Arizona). Verified Jul-00.
This excellent non-commercial personal site has a great deal of very useful information plus plenty of good photographs. Verified Nov-98.
An extensive collection of photographs of a trip to Colorado. Verified Aug-02.
Information about Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Michigan) and Natural Bridges State Park (Kentucky), with a promise of more to come. Verified Dec-05.
A text-only university dissertation describing the history and design of the bridge. I found it extremely interesting. Verified Aug-98.
A personal fan site. Many pages failed when I explored this site in July 1996. Verified Apr-97.
Personal site. An excellent collection of high quality photographs of US National Parks and other scenic areas, including Grand Teton National Park. Verified Mar-97.
Ross is a fellow "Brit" who has taken several trips to the area of northern Arizona and southern Utah, visiting the many National Parks in the region. His two sites contains a good mix of descriptions of the scenic wonders and practical hints, plus maps and some two hundred high quality photographs. Verified May-99.
An extensive and extremely useful collection of links to information on tunnels of all kinds, worldwide. Verified May-00.
Images of all the American state highway marker shields, plus examples of Interstate, US Highway, County Road and Forest Road marker shields. Verified Feb-98.
Images of all the American state highway marker shields. Verified Feb-98.
The fascinating diary of a year-long trip by a family who just "walked away from it all, sold their home and hit the road". Highly recommended. Verified Oct-97.
A large site with much useful information. Verified Jul-97.
External Links
Home | States/Provinces | Subjects
As with all the other pages on this personal web site, all the information on this page is solely the opinion of the author, who has no connection whatsoever with any of the companies and organisations mentioned other than as an actual or potential customer.
About this personal web site JohnCletheroe
EMail me
Most recently modified 31-Aug-06