Day trips, city by city. The honest version.

The Statue of Liberty on its island in New York Harbor

The Americas run on the car and the booked slot where Europe runs on the train. Distances are bigger, the parks work on reservations, and the best day trips go to the early risers. Every city below has its own site with the details that decide the day — and the reservation rules that changed since your last guidebook.

Serious Day Tour Man saysEvery city and day trip below goes to a page that tells it straight: real prices, real timetables, the traps named. Paris is where we practice what we publish — twenty-plus years of small groups. Start at paris.day.tours or LinkParis.com directly.About Serious Day Tour Man

The Northeast

The recreated 17th-century village at Plimoth Patuxet

New YorkThe Hudson Valley, the Statue crown BostonPlymouth, Salem, Minute Man PhiladelphiaLongwood, Independence Hall Washington, DCMount Vernon, Gettysburg

The South and Florida

NashvilleMammoth Cave, Franklin New OrleansThe WWII Museum, Barataria MiamiThe Everglades, Key Largo OrlandoKennedy Space Center, Blue Spring AustinEnchanted Rock, Hamilton Pool

The Midwest and the Mountain West

ChicagoFrank Lloyd Wright, Indiana Dunes DenverRocky Mountain, Mt Blue Sky Las VegasRed Rock, Hoover Dam PhoenixSedona, the Apache Trail

The Pacific Coast and Hawaii

The Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands

SeattleRainier, Bainbridge Island San FranciscoPoint Reyes, Muir Woods, Napa Los AngelesCatalina, Joshua Tree San DiegoAnza-Borrego, the Safari Park HonoluluPearl Harbor, Diamond Head MauiHaleakalā, the Road to Hana

Canada

TorontoNiagara, the Islands MontrealThe Eastern Townships, Mont-Tremblant VancouverVictoria, Butchart, Whistler

Mexico and the Caribbean

Mexico CityTeotihuacán, Frida Kahlo’s house CancúnChichén Itzá, Sian Ka’an

South America

Machu Picchu and its terraces below Huayna Picchu

CartagenaThe Rosario Islands, San Felipe LimaParacas, Museo Larco CuscoThe Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu SantiagoValparaíso, the Neruda houses Buenos AiresTigre, an estancia day Rio de JaneiroCorcovado, Sugarloaf

The day-trip pages

Each of these is a full page in the same format: what it costs, how the tickets actually work, the one mistake that ruins the day, and when to skip it entirely.

The Hudson Valley from New York
Point Reyes from San Francisco
Catalina Island from Los Angeles
The Eastern Townships from Montreal
Teotihuacán from Mexico City
Sedona from Phoenix
The Sacred Valley from Cusco

More cities

Dallas Atlanta Savannah Memphis San Antonio Milwaukee Key West Jackson Hole Lake Tahoe Palm Springs Hawaii Kauai Cozumel Cabo San Lucas Bahamas Aruba Veracruz La Paz Bogotá

What is day.tours?

day.tours is a network of city guides for people planning day trips. Every city above has its own site: which trips fill a day well, what the tickets really cost, and when the famous thing can be skipped. Nobody pays for placement here and nothing is sponsored. Paris is the exception in one direction only — those tours are ours, run since 2002 as LinkParis.