The National Register of Historic Places Itineraries and Self-Guided Tours - Self-guided tours to historic places around the USA

The National Register of Historic Places Itineraries and Self-Guided Tours - Self-guided tours to historic places around the USA

By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong

William Hazlitt said, "You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."  If you want to know more about the history and the people of the United States of America firsthand, the Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is a great place to start.

The National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation.

There are more than 80,000 properties listed in the National Register and almost every county in the United States has at least one place listed.

The Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series is a list of historic travel destinations that you can visit online or in person.

Each itinerary is a self-guided tour to historic places highlighting different communities, geographic regions and themes across the country.

According to the National Park Service, the Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series itineraries “expose you to a huge variety of places significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture.”

Click a link below to begin your journey of discovery.


Northeast 
•Aboard the Underground Railroad
•All Aboard for Cumberland, Maryland
•American Latino Heritage
•American Presidents
•Amistad: Seeking Freedom in Connecticut 
•Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage 
•Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms
•Baltimore, Maryland
•Central Vermont
•Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served
•Cultural Diversity: Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures
•Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Pennsylvania
•Kingston, New York
•Lewis and Clark Expedition
•Maritime History of Massachusetts
•Massachusetts Conservation
•Places Where Women Made History: Featuring Massachusetts and New York
•Shaker Historic Trail
•Veterans Affairs National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
•Washington, DC
•We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
•World Heritage Sites in the United States

Southeast 
•American Latino Heritage
•American Presidents
•Asheville, North Carolina
•Atlanta, Georgia
•Augusta, Georgia
•Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms
•Historic Charleston's Religious and Community Buildings
•We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
•Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served
•Cultural Diversity: Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures 
•Florida Shipwrecks
•Along the Georgia-Florida Coast (OR order printed brochure)
•James River Plantations, VA 
•Lewis and Clark Expedition
•Lexington, Kentucky
•Indian Mounds of Mississippi 
•Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Route 15 in the Virginia's Piedmont
•Raleigh, NC
•Richmond, VA
•Shelby, North Carolina
•Aboard the Underground Railroad
•Virginia Main Street Communities
•Veterans Affairs National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
•World Heritage Sites in the United States

South/Southwest 
•American Latino Heritage
•American Presidents 
•American Southwest (OR order printed brochure)
•Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage 
•Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms
•Bureau of Reclamation Historic Dams, Irrigation Projects, and Powerplants
•Cane River National Heritage Area (Louisiana)
•We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
•Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served
•Cultural Diversity: Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures
•El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail
•Southeastern Louisiana
•Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (OR order printed brochure)
•Route 66
•South and West Texas (OR order printed brochure)
•World Heritage Sites in the United States

Midwest 
•Amana Colonies, Iowa
•American Latino Heritage
•American Presidents
•Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage 
•Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms 
•Bureau of Reclamation Historic Dams, Irrigation Projects, and Powerplants
•Chicago, Illinois 
•We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement 
•Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served
•Cultural Diversity: Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures
•Detroit, Michigan 
•Hardin County, Iowa 
•Indianapolis, Indiana
•Lewis and Clark Expedition
•Madison, Indiana
•Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
•Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor 
•Pierre and Fort Pierre, South Dakota
•Pipestone, Minnesota
•Route 66
•Shaker Historic Trail
•Aboard the Underground Railroad 
•Veterans Affairs National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
•World Heritage Sites in the United States

West
•American Latino Heritage
•American Presidents
•Ashland, Oregon
•Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
•Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms 
•Bureau of Reclamation Historic Dams, Irrigation Projects, and Powerplants
•Early History of the California Coast (OR order printed brochure) 
•We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
•Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served
•Cultural Diversity: Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures
•Lewis and Clark Expedition
•Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson City, Reno, Virginia City
•Route 66
•Santa Clara County, California
•Seattle, Washington
•Veterans Affairs National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 
•World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area
•World Heritage Sites in the United States

For more information on the National Register of Historic Places, visit http://www.nps.gov/nr

By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong. Copyright  Sunny Harbor Publishing. Email: SunnyHarborPublishing@yahoo.com

Keywords: National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, NPS, Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series, historic travel destinations, itinerary, self-guided tour, Steven Skelley, Thomas Routzong, Sunny Harbor Publishing