1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die

This could be cut down to the top 100 or 250. 1000 is too much!

Good as a primer to consider new places to travel but most locations will be upper end monies ($$$-$$$$)

The positive reviews were very misleading. If you have ever used a travel book before, you will be disappointed by the lack of information supplied in this book. San Diego has 2 pages, San Francisco has 7 1/2 pages and Santa Fe has 3 1/2 pages(I guess Santa Fe did better than San Diego) and the Pueblo's of New Mexico have 1 page. I agree that the hotels reviewed were some of the most expensive and there were very few covered.

I got this book hoping for new inspirations on places to take my family. While some of the eastern and midwestern states were quite a bit more comprehensive with interesting locations, the two places which I was interested in California and Western Canada were a big disappointment. Most of the California locations were vaguely defined and would have been known to anyone who had never been there. The western Canada sites were fabulously expensive and only accessible to the privileged few who can spend between 300 and 1000 a night on exotic hotels and expensive restaurants. This tendency to list only the generic and the ridiculously expensive in some locations makes this book useless to me.

I purchased this book for my father, who is newly retired. While visiting him the other day, I glanced through the book to see check marks listed beside places that he has been. Not only that....my mom and dad have a trip planned to the Western U.S. and have used this book as a planning guide. My dad is so excited that he will be able to check off 4 more places after the trip!