National Parks make scenic vacation destinations. Have a unique vacation experience and visit Glacier National Park. Glacier's famous 50-mile "Going-to-the-Sun" road winds through the park and is closed most of the year for snow. It opens sometime between mid-May and mid-June. If you want to miss the huge Fourth of July crowds, then June is an ideal time to visit the park. Hotel rates are usually still low that early in the season, as well. June is also when the park is at its greenest. The meadows are beautiful but the mountains are still brushed with snow. You start to see bear, bighorn sheep, and other critters roaming after their winter dormancy.
The United States offers amazing beaches from the east coast to the west. For example, visit Lake Tahoe or Saint Pete Beach. In Lake Tahoe, raft on the Truckee river, schedule a helicopter tour of the area, golf, enjoy the scenery, hang glide, paraglide and swim. Enjoy a cruise around the island. Hotels can be pricey but there are a few hotels that offer room rates below $100. Or, on the east side of the U.S., visit the white, pristine beaches of Saint Pete for a slightly less-crowded visit. Enjoy cool bars, museums and cafes. Even if you don't stay there, walk through the Don CeSar hotel and celebrate the John Levique Pirate Days in June. Hotel prices here run roughly $80 to over $200 a night as of 2011.
The United States boasts many festivals in June that are exciting vacation destinations. The Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee offers artists on five stages performing classic rock, country, urban, jazz, reggae, and bluegrass along the Tennessee River. The annual Elvis Festival is at Lake George, N.Y. in June. Take part in the collectibles sales, tribute to Rock n' Roll history, tribute artist competition and classic car parade. The seafood festival in Belmar, N.J. is at Silver Lake Park. There will be more than 40 seafood vendors, live entertainment and more.
There are many idiosyncratic travel destination in the United States as well. For example, the Trail Dust Town in Tuscan, Arizona is a reproduction of the old west, with boardwalks, red-brick streets and an old-fashioned town square. Or check out the stonehenges of America, which mimic the original in places like Alliance, Nebraska, and Fortine, Montana, where people have built their own replicas of the monument.
