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A forested wonderland dotted with beautiful family farms and traditional town squares, New England was made for long drives! One of the nice things about zeroing in on New England for a road trip is that you can cover several states in the amount of time it might take you to traverse just one Southern or Midwestern state. New England will take you from rocky shorelines to sharp peaks jutting from dense forest in the blink of an eye! New England is also rare because it hosts some of the most innovative cities just miles from the quaintest towns belonging to great American novels. The other great thing about New England is that you’ll get a vastly different experience depending on what time of year you come. That means you can shape your New England road trip around lazy beach days set against cranberry bogs and lavish summer homes or powdery ski slopes paired with lodges serving up hot cocoa and boiling chowder. Here are my top picks for a New England road trip bucket list.
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Boston, Massachusetts
versity and Northeastern fill the sidewalks. I never visit Boston without making a quick detour into the Little Italy neighborhood covering Hanover Street. It’s here that you’ll find what is universally considered the best cannoli in the country at Mike’s Pastry.
The quintessential New England city, Boston is peppered with neighborhoods, museums and Bay Views that evoke that revolutionary spirit that put it on the map. Beantown is very much a pedestrian city. I like that you can take your time to window shop or admire the architecture without Concord, Massachusetts the feeling that people are on your I’m not sure there’s anything heels like when you’re exploring more “New England” than sitting New York or Chicago. on Walden Pond. The site where Henry David Thoreau wrote his A great opening for a Boston tour famous essay, Walden Pond is now is a stop at the Boston Public a state park with a lovely beach. Garden to see the famed bronze However, this is far from the only ducklings positioned by the thing that draws literary fans to Charles. To put your tour into Concord. This is also where you’ll high gear, follow the Red Bricks find the orchard house belonging of the Freedom Trail to hit up to Louisa May Alcott where “Litmust-see stops like Faneuil Hall, tle Women” was penned. Another the home of Paul Revere, Quincy highlight of Concord is Minute Market and the site of the Boston Man National Historical Park. Tea Party. I also like to get away Covering close to 1,000 acres, this from some of the more prom- park lines the route of the 1775 inent attractions to admire the battles of Lexington and Concord. manicured brownstones lining the cobblestone sidewalks in BosCape Cod, Massachusetts ton’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. A hook-shaped peninsula that has For shopping, I love Newbury been the site of summer dreams Street in Back Bay on a Saturday for decades, Cape Cod makes it morning when all of the students easy to check every New England from Boston College, Boston Uni-
