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Where to Go in New England |
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Each of the six New England states—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont—has its own beauties and attractions. |
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Here are New England's highlights, photos, tours and suggested itineraries. Here's a month-by-month New England Almanac. New England is not all cities and civilization, despite Boston, Hartford, Providence, and talk of an "eastern megalopolis." The Appalachian Trail begins here, and is glorious during fall foliage season. The sandy shores and beaches of Cape Cod are over 100 miles (161 km) long. Vermont alone has over two dozen challenging ski areas. (Here are photos.) New Hampshire has the White Mountains and (surprise!) a seacoast! And there's nothing like sailing the dramatic coast of Maine in a sleek windjammer. (Here are photos.) In fact, the tone of New England community life is set by New England towns and villages—Concord MA, Lenox MA, Litchfield CT, Stowe VT, Bar Harbor ME, Newport RI—each with its village green surrounded by church, school, library, and town hall, each village separated from its neighbor by rolling pastures, lush woodland, and glacial lakes like Walden Pond. Although New England is not just history, New Englanders love their land because of its history: Plymouth Rock, Bunker Hill, Concord's Old North Bridge. At Connecticut's Mystic Seaport you can see a New England maritime town of the 1800s in full operation. At Old Sturbridge Village and Plimoth Plantation the crafts of the colonial and early American periods are performed as they were centuries ago. Here are my favorite New England highlights, and here's where to get free travel guides.
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