For HIP HOTELS - USA, Herbert Ympa has taken to the road, the only way to experience the vast and beautiful land. With a choice as immense as the country itself, and an arbiter as discerning as Ympa, HIP HOTELS - USA offers a uniquely stylish selection of Highly Individual Places to stay.

Some of these hotels invite you to immerse yourself in the States' Extraordinary wilderness; others introduce you to the urban scene with an edge. Restore your perspective in a spectacular private treehouse fifty feet up a giant cedar in the heart of Mount Rainier National Park; or come back to earth in your own lakeside cabin in Wisconsin, designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. Experience Old World gentility in an Italiante palazzo amid the clapboard houses of New England, or live out your Rat Pack fantasies as you lounge poolside with a martini surrounded by mid-century modern classics - furniture by Bertoia, Eames, Saarinen - in an authentic 1950s motel in Palm Springs.

Coast to coast, sea to shining sea, the new HIP HOTELS is the ultimate guide to finding your very own American Dream.