Information on Travelling to the American Southwest

The American Southwest is unlike any other terrain on earth. Planning to visit in this area can be overwhelming. Use the following websites to refine your search and planning.

www.desertusa.com

Desert USA is a detailed and creative website about exploring the southwest. This website is awesome and will excite you about the area. It features a good search utility and a refreshingly different menu. Instead of searching by state or other usual terms, try the "things to do" page, where you'll find headings like "Off Road Exploring, Desert Caves and Caving, Horseback Riding, and Rock and Treasure Hunting" among others. Desert USA then gives you a listing of links organized by state of where to do them.

"Peoples & Cultures" brings you to a page brimming with goodies. Under the heading "Music Makers", you'll find an informative article by Jay W. Sharp that explores the role of music across time in the Southwest. For modern day Southwest music visit www.sansietch.webs.com.

Overall this site is great for beginners and advanced travelers. Less about specific places like national parks, and more about the people, the history, and things to see and do, it educates and often inspires more interest in this treasured region of our country.

www.americansouthwest.net

Another useful southwest website is American Southwest. A comprehensive guide to everything about the region, specifically concerning the national parks there, this site aims to familiarize visitors with the general interests of each place.

The website is categorized by state, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Within each state one can find most everything from national and state parks to monuments and other scenic places.

One drawback to this site is the end page for anything leads to fairly static information without many outward links.

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