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Stops, in order
The steel city reborn — three rivers, a fabled hilltop view up an incline, a city of bridges, and the world's biggest Warhol collection.
Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece cantilevered over a waterfall, in a mountain region of whitewater and forest.
West Virginia's capital on the Kanawha River, crowned by a gold-domed statehouse taller than the U.S. Capitol.
America's newest national park — a deep, forested gorge spanned by one of the great bridges, with some of the best whitewater in the East.
A dramatic quartzite fin rising over a mountain valley — the East's great climbing crag — in a forest of the state's highest peaks and wild high plains.
A perfectly preserved historic town where two rivers and three states meet — the site of John Brown's raid and a spark of the Civil War.
America's first spa town, where George Washington himself once soaked in the warm mineral springs.
One of the world's great waterfalls, and a resurgent lake city of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and the original Buffalo wing.
The Kodak city on the Erie Canal — the world's oldest photography museum and one of the great museums of play.
Eleven long glacial lakes lined with wineries and cut by spectacular waterfall gorges.
A glassmaking town with one of the most dazzling museums anywhere — a whole world of glass, with the furnaces lit.
The old Salt City on the Erie Canal, and the gateway to the Adirondacks.
A storybook village on Otsego Lake and the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame — the final stop before the long loop closes back in New England.