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30A and the Florida Panhandle, USA

30A and the Florida Panhandle, USA

8 Panhandle Hotels Along Scenic 30A

A building code governing porch depth, roof pitch and fence design, on eighty acres of scrub inherited from a grandfather. It became the Truman Show set.

Asheville and the Blue Ridge, USA

Asheville and the Blue Ridge, USA

8 Asheville Hotels Below the Blue Ridge

Olmsted looked at exhausted farmland and told a Vanderbilt to plant a forest. The school it produced staffed the US Forest Service.

Aspen and Vail, Colorado, USA

Aspen and Vail, Colorado, USA

8 Colorado Hotels That Are Genuinely Ski-In, Not Shuttle-In

Walking three hundred metres in ski boots carrying skis is a specific misery, and a lot of hotels describe it as ski-in access.

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

12 Atlanta Hotels Within Walking Distance of the BeltLine

It started as a graduate thesis in 1999. A city built entirely around the car now has a linear park that restaurants turn to face.

Austin, Texas, USA

Austin, Texas, USA

11 Austin Hotels Between Rainey Street and the Lake

There is no single music district here. There are three, they do different things, and the lake trail underneath is what locals actually use.

Bar Harbor, Acadia and the Maine Coast, USA

Bar Harbor, Acadia and the Maine Coast, USA

9 Maine Coast Hotels at the Edge of Acadia

Sixteen feet wide, graded for horses, seventeen stone bridges and no two alike. One man objected to the motor car and did something about it.

Big Sky and Bozeman, Montana, USA

Big Sky and Bozeman, Montana, USA

7 Montana Hotels in the Gallatin Valley

A fifteen-person tram to 3,403 metres and a skier density low enough that anyone used to Colorado will find it disorienting.

Big Sur and Carmel, California, USA

Big Sur and Carmel, California, USA

7 Big Sur and Carmel Hotels on the Right Side of Highway One

When a section of the coast road goes there is no detour, only a long inland route. Which side of the slide zone you book matters.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

10 Boston Hotels On or Beside the Red Line in the Pavement

A colonial street plan that was never gridded, a centre three kilometres across, and a trail designed to be followed on foot.

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Boulder, Colorado, USA

4 Boulder Hotels Under a 55-Foot Height Limit

The first American city to tax itself to buy its own surroundings, and then to legislate that nothing block the view. Two votes made the town.

Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, USA

Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, USA

10 Cape and Islands Hotels on the Ferry Side

The island went broke when whaling ended, the population fell by two thirds, and nobody rebuilt anything for a century. That is why it looks like that.

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

9 Charleston Hotels South of Broad, Among the Houses

Pastel single houses turned sideways to the lot, two-storey piazzas facing the breeze, walled gardens and no commerce at all.

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

12 Chicago Hotels Between the River and the Lake

Twenty-nine miles of public shoreline with nothing built between the city and the water. That was decided in the nineteenth century and it holds.

Denver, Colorado, USA

Denver, Colorado, USA

10 Denver Hotels at Exactly One Mile Up

The Capitol step has been re-surveyed twice as measurement improved. Nobody markets the city as the altitude stop, which is strange.

Hawaii Island (Big Island), USA

Hawaii Island (Big Island), USA

9 Big Island Resorts on the Kohala Lava Coast

Eleven climate zones on one island, three metres of rain on one side and desert on the other. The resorts are all on the dry strip.

Honolulu and Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

Honolulu and Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

8 Waikiki Hotels Actually on the Sand, Not Across Kalakaua Avenue

One set has a lawn, a pool deck and then sand. The other has a crossing signal. Both call themselves Waikiki beachfront.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

6 Jackson Hole Hotels at the Mountain Rather Than the Square

In winter the tram decides it. In summer the calculation reverses and the restaurants and the park access are twenty minutes the other way.

Kauai, Hawaii, USA

Kauai, Hawaii, USA

5 Kauai Resorts on the Dry Side of the Wettest Island

Eleven thousand millimetres of rain fall on the mountain and a tenth of that on the south shore. The trade winds do it and they do not vary.

Kiawah, Hilton Head and the Lowcountry, USA

Kiawah, Hilton Head and the Lowcountry, USA

9 Lowcountry Hotels on the Championship Links

His wife pointed out that the dunes hid the ocean. He raised the whole course two and a half metres and moved an extraordinary amount of sand.

Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, USA

Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, USA

8 Lake Tahoe Hotels Sorted by Whether You Get the Lake or the Lifts

For a lake this famous there are three hotels with a private beach, on a shore that takes four hours to drive around. Protection did that.

Lanai, Hawaii, USA

Lanai, Hawaii, USA

The Only Two Hotels on Lanai, and Why There Won't Be a Third

One town, no traffic lights, thirty miles of paved road and two hotels. There is no crowd here because there is nowhere for one to stay.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

11 Las Vegas Hotels Where the Walk to the Next Casino Is Actually Short

Pedestrian bridges, set-back frontages and casino floors designed to keep you inside. The map lies about Las Vegas distances.

Los Angeles, California, USA

Los Angeles, California, USA

11 Los Angeles Hotels in the Few Pockets Where You Don't Need the Car

The standard LA trip is 90 minutes a day behind a windscreen. There is another version and it depends entirely on where you sleep.

Louisville and Kentucky Bourbon Country, USA

Louisville and Kentucky Bourbon Country, USA

8 Kentucky Hotels Along the Bourbon Trail

Nine storeys of barrels in an unheated warehouse, with the top floor twenty degrees hotter. Same batch, different floor, different whiskey.

Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA

Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA

5 Mackinac Island Hotels on an Island Without Cars

The board banned automobiles in 1898 because they frightened the horses. More than 125 years later freight still moves by dray.

Maui, Hawaii, USA

Maui, Hawaii, USA

11 Maui Resorts on the Dry Leeward Coast

Two volcanoes joined by a valley, and the weather on either side is not comparable. Every resort on the island is on the same side for a reason.

Miami Beach, Florida, USA

Miami Beach, Florida, USA

14 Miami Beach Hotels on the Ocean Side of Collins Avenue

Across the road you cross four lanes with towels and go once a day. On the sand side you go four times, and the lounger is already set up.

Napa and Sonoma, California, USA

Napa and Sonoma, California, USA

10 Napa and Sonoma Hotels on the Valley Floor Rather Than the Ridge

The floor has the tasting rooms and the traffic. The hillsides have the views, the cooler air and a drive down for every meal.

Naples, Sanibel and the Florida Gulf Coast, USA

Naples, Sanibel and the Florida Gulf Coast, USA

10 Gulf Coast Hotels Facing the Sunset

Almost every barrier island runs parallel to the shore. This one sits crossways and works as a scoop, which is why the beach looks like that.

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

9 Nashville Hotels Far Enough Off Broadway to Sleep

The bands start at ten in the morning, run in shifts until two, and it carries several blocks. Broadway is worth a night, not a week of them.

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

7 French Quarter Hotels Built Around a Courtyard, Where Bourbon Street Can't Reach You

The Spanish rebuilt New Orleans facing inward after the fires of 1788. Two centuries later that architecture solves the noise problem.

New York, New York, USA

New York, New York, USA

11 Manhattan Hotels Within One Block of a Central Park Entrance

The gate at 59th and Fifth means carriages and queues. The gate at 90th means the reservoir and no one. Both are Central Park.

Newport and Coastal Rhode Island, USA

Newport and Coastal Rhode Island, USA

7 Newport Hotels Behind the Gilded Age Cottages

Seventy rooms across 125,000 square feet, occupied for perhaps ten weeks a year, and a public footpath a few metres from the back lawn.

Orlando, Florida, USA

Orlando, Florida, USA

13 Orlando Hotels Sorted by Which Gate You Want

An off-site hotel two minutes down the road cannot purchase the first hour of the morning at any price. That is the whole booking question here.

Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Palm Beach, Florida, USA

7 Palm Beach Hotels on the Island Itself

Nine thousand residents, building rules unchanged since the 1920s, and a mainland five minutes away with the restaurants and half the rates.

Palm Springs, California, USA

Palm Springs, California, USA

12 Palm Springs Hotels in Mid-Century Buildings

Flat roofs, deep overhangs, breeze-block screens and glass onto private courtyards. It suited the desert exactly and most of it survived.

Park City and Deer Valley, Utah, USA

Park City and Deer Valley, Utah, USA

11 Park City Hotels and the Ten Days That Change the Price

For ten days in January this stops being a ski town. Almost nobody checks the festival dates before they book, and the difference is enormous.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

9 Philadelphia Hotels Around Penn's Five Squares

A surveyor laid out straight streets and generous lots in 1682, and the largest free-standing masonry building in the world sits on the centre square.

Portland, Oregon, USA

Portland, Oregon, USA

10 Portland Hotels Within a Walk of the Cart Pods and the Pearl

Two-hundred-foot blocks mean twice as many corners and twice as many shopfronts. It is why a city this size feels dense.

San Antonio and the Hill Country, Texas, USA

San Antonio and the Hill Country, Texas, USA

9 San Antonio Hotels Above the River Walk

The plan was to pave the bend over entirely as a storm sewer. An architect argued for keeping the water and was ignored for a decade.

San Diego, California, USA

San Diego, California, USA

9 San Diego Hotels Split Between the Bay, Balboa and the Coast

Book downtown for the price and you will drive to La Jolla daily. Book La Jolla and dinner downtown is a forty-minute round trip.

San Francisco, California, USA

San Francisco, California, USA

11 San Francisco Hotels on the Right Side of a Block That Changes Fast

An unusually low rate for a central San Francisco address is information, not luck. Check the cross-streets before you book.

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Santa Barbara, California, USA

8 Santa Barbara Hotels on California's Only South-Facing Coast

Mountains behind you to the north, sea in front to the south, and the sun crossing the water all day. It changes the weather and the swimming.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

8 Santa Fe Hotels Within a Walk of the Plaza and Canyon Road

The oldest state capital in America, at 2,130 metres, where a building code has kept the whole historic district in adobe since 1957.

Savannah, Georgia, USA

Savannah, Georgia, USA

11 Savannah Hotels Facing One of the Twenty-Two Squares

You cannot walk two blocks in the historic district without arriving at a park. That is the 1733 plan and it is why the city works.

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

10 Scottsdale Resorts Built for the Shade Rather Than the View

Deep overhangs, courtyards that trap cool air and pools that are chilled rather than heated. In July that last detail decides the trip.

Sea Island, Amelia and the Georgia Coast, USA

Sea Island, Amelia and the Georgia Coast, USA

8 Golden Isles Hotels on the Georgia Barrier Islands

No bridge, a fixed ferry and twenty-eight kilometres of island. Once the day boat leaves there are more wild horses on it than people.

Seattle, Washington, USA

Seattle, Washington, USA

9 Seattle Hotels Above Pike Place, Where the Water Is the View

The market is the best thing downtown and the delivery bays run at four a.m. Stay above it and you get one without the other.

Sedona, Arizona, USA

Sedona, Arizona, USA

6 Sedona Hotels With the Red Rocks From the Room

Ask by formation name. Cathedral Rock or Bell Rock means something; red rock view covers everything and guarantees nothing.

Stowe and Vermont, USA

Stowe and Vermont, USA

8 Vermont Hotels for the Two Weeks of Foliage

The red is manufactured rather than revealed, and it needs warm days and cold nights. A wet autumn produces a dull year.

Sun Valley, Idaho, USA

Sun Valley, Idaho, USA

5 Sun Valley Hotels at the First Chairlift

A railway chairman wanted to fill his passenger trains, so he sent an Austrian count to find a valley and told his engineers to replace the rope tow.

Telluride, Colorado, USA

Telluride, Colorado, USA

6 Telluride Hotels at Either End of the Free Gondola

A box canyon with one road in that dead-ends in the town, and a gondola instead of a second road. It runs to midnight and costs nothing.

The Berkshires, Massachusetts, USA

The Berkshires, Massachusetts, USA

8 Berkshire Hotels Near Tanglewood

Ten thousand people on a hillside with blankets, candles and full dinners, listening to Mahler as the light goes. It has run since 1937.

The Florida Keys, USA

The Florida Keys, USA

11 Florida Keys Hotels Sorted by Mile Marker

Green signs count down from 106 to zero across 42 bridges. Locals give addresses by the number and so should you.

The Hamptons and Montauk, New York, USA

The Hamptons and Montauk, New York, USA

8 Hamptons Hotels on the Ocean Side, Not the Bay Side

Surf and sunrise on one side, flat water and sunset on the other, a mile apart and priced as if they were different countries.

The Hudson Valley and Catskills, USA

The Hudson Valley and Catskills, USA

9 Hudson Valley Hotels You Can Reach by Train

A painter took a steamboat up this river in 1825 and sold three canvases in a shop window. American art starts there.

The San Juan Islands, Washington, USA

The San Juan Islands, Washington, USA

4 San Juan Islands Hotels on the Ferry-Only Islands

Four hundred American soldiers and five British warships, twelve years of joint occupation, and dinner between the garrisons. The pig was the only casualty.

Tucson and Southern Arizona, USA

Tucson and Southern Arizona, USA

7 Tucson Hotels Where Destination Wellness Started

A saguaro takes seventy years to grow its first arm. Driving up the mountain behind the city crosses Mexico to Canada in under an hour.

Washington, DC, USA

Washington, DC, USA

9 Washington Hotels Close Enough to Walk the Mall Twice

Two hours in a museum, back to the hotel, out again at five when the memorials are lit. That rhythm needs a ten-minute walk, not a Metro ride.

Yellowstone and Grand Teton, USA

Yellowstone and Grand Teton, USA

The 3 Yellowstone and Teton Hotels That Clear Four Stars

The largest log structure in the world has a seven-storey lobby, a five-hundred-tonne fireplace, and rooms with the bathroom down the hall.

Yosemite, California, USA

Yosemite, California, USA

5 Yosemite Hotels Inside the Valley and at the Gates

One hotel inside the valley clears the bar. Everything else at this standard is an hour of switchbacks outside the gate.

Zion, Moab and the Utah Canyons, USA

Zion, Moab and the Utah Canyons, USA

5 Utah Hotels Between Zion, Moab and the Canyons

Zion to Moab is five hours of driving and people consistently underestimate it. You cannot do southern Utah from one hotel.

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