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New England Tourism Links

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Maine
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Rhode Island
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Connecticut

General Tourism Information

Area Attractions

Bridgeport (155 miles from Boston)

  • The Barnum Museum
    Dedicated to the celebration of the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum and those who were influenced by his presence in their lives. A Lilliputian circus of nearly 4,000 pieces; a mummy from the tombs of ancient Egypt; a one-ton wonder, Baby Bridgeport; a Victorian palace.

Bristol (120 miles from Boston)

  • American Clock & Watch Museum
    Permanent exhibit on the history of Connecticut clockmaking and the Industrial Revolution. Largest collection of American production clocks on display. Housed in an 1801 mansion with period garden.
  • Lake Compounce Theme Park
    New England's Family Theme Park is home of Boulder Dash, voted the number one wood coaster in the world. 50 thrilling rides and attractions for all ages including Connecticut's only water park.

Groton (105 miles from Boston)

Hamden (135 miles from Boston)

  • Eli Whitney Museum
    "Inventing Change" outlines the Whitney legacy of the site. Water Learning Lab, an outdoor learning environment, open May-Oct., weather permitting. The 1816 barn offers country dances, folk music and summer theater.

Hartford (100 miles from Boston)

  • Antiquarian & Landmarks Society
    Connecticut's statewide museum-based preservation organization, promotes interest in Connecticut's heritage. This is achieved by preserving historic structures, sites, collections and landscapes and by presenting, interpreting and programming the social and material dimensions of our properties and the places where they are located.
  • Connecticut Historical Society
    Museum, library, and education center for Connecticut history.
  • Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens
    First municipal rose garden in the country; greenhouses, nature walks, perennials and rock gardens. Peak bloom: late June.
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
    1871 Victorian cottage, home of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Grounds include gardens.
  • Mark Twain House
    Elaborate Victorian (1874) mansion with rare interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1881) was the author's home for 17 years (1874-1891). 19 splendidly furnished rooms including many of Twain's possessions.
  • Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art
    The nation's oldest public art museum (1842). World-renowned collections include Hudson River School landscapes, Old Master paintings, modernist masterpieces, French and American Impressionist paintings, Meissen porcelain, American furniture, decorative arts, cutting-edge contemporary art.

Mystic (100 miles from Boston)

  • Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration
    Enter Dr. Robert Ballard's high-tech world of amazing deep-sea discovery in Challenge of the Deep. See a live video feed from America's Marine Sanctuaries in Immersion Institute and retrace the search for John F. Kennedy's WWII boat in a special new exhibit PT 109.
  • Mystic Seaport
    Founded in 1929, the museum houses the largest collection of boats and maritime photography in the world. Renowned for its village area of 19th-century buildings and ships. Daily demonstrations of maritime trades, a preservation shipyard, exhibit galleries, planetarium, research facilities, and educational programs.

New Haven (136 miles from Boston)

  • Amistad, the Freedom Schooner
    Visits ports nationally and internationally as an ambassador for friendship and good will. Home port is Long Wharf Pier.
  • Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
    Extensive permanent exhibits on the Native and natural history of southern New England include a cool descent into a glacial crevasse from 18,000 years ago. Walk through a 1550 Pequot Village populated by 51 life-cast figures. Experience interactive computer programs throughout the exhibits. View 14 films providing additional information and interpretation of the exhibits throughout the building. Two research libraries, one for children.
  • Yale University Art Gallery
    Founded in 1832, with more than 85,000 objects dating from ancient Egypt to the present. Paintings by Van Gogh, Manet, Monet and Picasso, one of the finest collections of American paintings and decorative arts; changing exhibits, sculpture garden.
  • Yale Center for British Art
    Founded in 1977 and designed by Louis Kahn. Contains a comprehensive collection of British paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture. The collection surveys the development of English art, life and thought from the Elizabethan period to the present.

Willimantic (95 miles from Boston)

  • The Mill Museum: Windham Textile & History Museum
    Dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history and heritage of the American textile industry, the museum is specifically interested in the history of the people who worked and built mill communities in the Windham region during the industrial revolution. The focus is on the cotton thread manufacture on the rivers of Eastern Connecticut in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Offers children programming.

Windsor Locks (at Bradley International Airport) (105 miles from Boston)

  • New England Air Museum
    Largest aviation museum in the Northeastern U.S. 80 aircraft featured in 2 display buildings, exhibits, and films.

Parks and Recreations

Maine

General Tourism Information

Transportation

Museums and Historic Houses

  • The Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center
    Located in Rockland, the Farnsworth features collections of 18th and 19th century American art and sculptor Louise Nevelson works. The Wyeth Center shows rotating exhibits from their collections of N.C., Andrew and Jaime Wyeth works.
  • Historic Houses in Maine
    This site has information on historic house in Maine, including the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Victoria Mansion in Portland.
  • Lighthouses
    List of lighthouses in Maine organized by region.
  • Maine Art Museum Trail
    Information, with contact information and directions, on art museums in Maine.
  • Maine Maritime Museum
    The Maine Maritime Museum is located in Bath, Maine, and features galleries, an historic shipyard, educational programs, and narrated boat cruises.
  • Penobscot Marine Museum
    Located in Searsport, Maine, the Penobscot Marine Museum features several historic building housing a variety of marine-related exhibits and galleries.
  • Portland Museum of Art
    The Portland Museum of Art's collections reflect the history of Maine decorative and fine artists and include works of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Rockwell Kent, Marsden Hartley, and Andrew Wyeth.
  • Portland Headlight
    Information on visiting the most photographed lighthouse in the United States. Located in Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

National and State Parks in Maine

Massachusetts (Outside of Boston and Cambridge)

Statewide Attractions

  • Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism
  • State Parks
  • Since 1891, the Trustees of Reservations has been saving the Massachusetts landscape for people to enjoy. It cares for 23,380 acres on 94 reservations across the entire state that are open to the public and inspire conservation awareness through a variety of educational programs. An example of the variety of reservations include Crane Beach (Ipswich); William Cullen Bryant Homestead (Cummington); Appleton Farms (Ipswich); Long Hill Gardens (Beverly); and World's End, comprising of four coastal drumlins (Hingham).
  • The Massachusetts Audubon Society has 43 wildlife sanctuaries across Massachusetts for children and adults.
  • The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) manages 24 historic properties across 5 New England states that are open to the public. SPNEA is a museum of cultural history that collects and preserves buildings, landscapes, and objects dating from the seventeenth century to the present and uses them to keep history alive and to help people develop a deeper understanding and enjoyment of New England life and an appreciation for its preservation.
  • The Bay Circuit Trail and Greenway is a permanent recreation trail and greenway corridor extending through 21 towns in Eastern Massachusetts and linking the parks and open spaces surrounding metropolitan Boston.
  • The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) has its headquarters and store on Beacon Hill.

Nearby Towns

Brookline (approximately 4 miles away)

  • The Larz Anderson Auto Museum (Museum of Transportation) has been the center of automotive activity and history ever since Larz and Isabel Anderson took delivery of their 1899 Winton Runabout, one of the first motorcars to appear in Boston. The Veteran Motor Car Club of America held auto meets on the Great Lawn as early as the 1930's. Enjoy a picnic on the extensive park grounds.
  • Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is the home and office of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) who is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston in 1883 and established at ÒFairstedÓ the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design. Over the course of the next century, his sons and successors expanded and perpetuated Olmsted's design ideals, philosophy, and influence.

Milton (approximately 9 miles away)

  • Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and Science Center, located at the top of a scenic mountain range south of Boston, is a unique American institution. Founded in 1885 as a private scientific center for the study and measurement of the atmosphere, it was the site of many pioneering weather experiments and discoveries. The earliest kite soundings of the atmosphere in North America in the 1890s and the development of the radiosonde in the 1930s occurred at this historic site. Today, the Observatory remains committed to continuing its extensive, uninterrupted climate record with traditional methods and instruments. The recently established Science Center expands this mission by enhancing public understanding of atmospheric science. Children and junior educational programs available.

Newton (approximately 9 miles away)

  • Within the Jackson Homestead (1809), the Newton History Museum maintains permanent galleries designed to make learning about the history of the city and the country fun for the whole family: includes a children's gallery.

Quincy (approximately 9 miles away)

  • Sites in Quincy include the Adams National Historic Site, Adam Birthplaces, Quincy Homestead, and the Josiah Quincy House.

Waltham (approximately 10 miles away)

  • The Charles River Museum of Industry highlights and displays the story of the American Industrial Revolution. The current collection focuses on the following: machine tools; watches and watch-making equipment; steam engines and early automobile manufacturing; and textile mill equipment. Recently, the museum has begun to expand its collection to include the present and future of technology, as well as the preservation of old technology.
  • Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
  • The Gore Estate features 45 acres of lawns, fields and gardens and an 1806 mansion.
  • Stonehurst, Robert Treat Paine Estate, was designed by master architect Henry Hobson Richardson in collaboration with Frederick Law Olmsted. Visitors may stroll the grounds or hike the woodland trails that wind through 109 acres of conservation land at Stonehurst. Stonehurst collections include original Victorian furnishings, paintings, decorative arts and the Paine family archives.

Watertown (approximately 8 miles away)

  • Focusing on the art and achievement of the Armenian people, the Armenian Library & Museum holdings comprise a diverse collection of textiles, rugs, ceramics, religious art, coins, metalware, stamps, Uration architecture models, costumes, geological and botanical specimens, utensils and other artifacts. The textile collection is one of the most extensive in the Diaspora, and includes needlace, regional embroideries, folk costumes, printed textiles, tapestries and religious vestments.

Wellesley (approximately 14 miles away)

  • The Wellesley College Greenhouses covers 22 acres and contains a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and plants. The 15 greenhouses includes with more than 1,000 varieties of tropical, desert, and subtropical plants.
  • One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center of Wellesley College is characterized by collections that span global history from Ancient times to yesterday. With masterpieces from almost every continent, with collections installed in one of this country's most significant examples of museum architecture, and with a rotating series of temporary exhibitions that challenge our understanding of history and the role of the arts in society, the museum provides an exciting environment to see, hear, experience and learn about the visual arts.

Weston (approximately 14 miles away)

Northeast (Essex County)

General Information

Amesbury (approximately 41 miles away)

  • A national historic landmark on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lowell's Boat Shop is the birthplace of the Atlantic dory as well as America's oldest continuously operating wooden boatbuilding business. Today the preserved shop is staffed by boatbuilders who thrive on teaching their craft to others

Andover (approximately 25 miles away)

  • The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, distinguished collection encompasses 12,000 works of painting, sculpture and photography, including works by John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, James A. McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Frenk Stella and Andrew Wyeth.

Essex (approximately 33 miles away)

  • Essex Shipbuilding Museum features exhibits, programs, and a working shipyard. Visitors enjoy a tour of the three locations in the Museum campus, and watch the work of local craftspeople in our yard. Educational programs.

Gloucester (approximately 36 miles away)

  • The Cape Ann Historical Museum has the largest collection of paintings by 19th century luminist master Fitz Hugh Lane; work by other painters and sculptors associated with Cape Ann (Winslow Homer, Milton Avery, John Sloan, Maurice Prendergast, Paul Manship, etc.). Fisheries/maritime furniture; furnished federal period house.

Newbury (approximately 38 miles away)

  • The grounds of the Newbury Perennial Gardens feature 24 theme gardens which focus on color, foliage and arrangement of a tremendous collection of perennials and shrubs.  The innovative designs vary from the formal to the rustic and sometimes whimsical, providing enjoyment and inspiration for garden lovers.

Newburyport (approximately 39 miles away)

  • Custom House Maritime Museum -- Housed in a historic granite customs house on Newburyport's waterfront, the museum exhibits artifacts from the prosperous trade era. View maritime art, models of Newburyport-built vessels, manuscripts, and maps.

North Andover (approximately 29 miles)

  • The Museum of Printing is dedicated to preserving the history of the graphic arts, printing equipment and printing craftsmanship.

Saugus (approximately 12 miles away)

  • The Saugus Iron Works commemorates America's first successful integrated iron works (c. 1646). Reconstructed furnace, forge and mill all rebuilt on original foundations. Furnished 17th-century house, museum, blacksmith.

Salem (approximately 16 miles away)

  • The Peabody Essex Museum explores centuries of extraordinary art, architecture and culture from New England and the world. The Museum showcases more than 30 galleries, historic houses, and period gardens.
  • Tour the House of Seven Gables made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel. Includes author's birthplace, and seaside gardens.
  • The Salem Maritime National Historic Site includes 9.2 acres along scenic waterfront with historic 18th and 19th century structures from Salem's peak years as an international seaport. Includes Custom House (1819), Derby Wharf (c.1760), Derby House (1762), Public Stores (1819), Scale House (1826).

Wenham (approximately 25 miles away)

  • The Wenham Museum of social history invites visitors of all ages to explore how Americans have lived, worked, dressed, and played from the 17th century to today.

North Central (Merrimack Valley)

General

Acton (approximately 25 miles away)

  • The Children's Discovery Museum, housed in a 100-year-old Victorian house with 10 exhibit areas especially for preschoolers, toddlers and children, invites learning through play. The architecturally acclaimed Science Discovery Museum is filled with innovative science-theme spaces inviting exploration and experimentation for children age 6 and older.

Concord (approximately 20 miles away)

  • At the Concord Museum, Concord's remarkable past is brought to life through artifacts from an outstanding collection, self-touring galleries, period rooms, audios and hands-on activities. Highlights include the Exploring Concord film and engaging Why Concord? history galleries; a nationally-significant collection of Concord-made clocks, silver and furniture; Revolutionary War artifacts including the famous Revere lantern; American literary treasures in the Thoreau Gallery and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Study.
  • The Orchard House is the home of Louisa May Alcott, famous author of Little Women, and her father Amos Bronson Alcott, a Transcendentalist philosopher, writer and educator. The other Alcott family members were Abigail May Alcott (Marmee), artist May Alcott, actress Anna Alcott, and musician Elizabeth Alcott.
  • The Old Manse is the home where Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about nature and where Nathaniel Hawthorne lived on the banks of the Concord River.
  • Verrill Farm is the oldest agriculturally sustained land in the United States. Our on-site kitchen and deli prepares award winning pies, entrees and soups. Agricultural tours and hayrides are available.
  • Minute Man National Historical Park preserves the scene of the fighting between Colonists and the troops on April 19, 1775, the day which launched the American Revolution. Next to the North Bridge, site of "the shot heard round the world", is Daniel Chester French's Minute Man Statue. Historic sites are connected by the Battle Road Trail. This 5.5 mile pathway for walking, bicycle or wheelchair follows remnants of the historic road and visits historic houses, farming fields, wetlands, and fields.

Lexington (approximately 14 miles away)

  • The Museum of Our National Heritage is a unique experience for people of every age and interest and a true discovery for anyone fascinated by American history and culture. Our changing exhibitions -- from thematic shows such as The Shakers of Canterbury, New Hampshire and Women of the Wild West to collections of toys, costumes, furniture, photographs, and paintings -- thrill visitors from throughout the country and around the world.
  • View the famous Diorama of the clash on Battle Green at the Lexington Visitors Center.

Lincoln (approximately 17 miles away)

  • The DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park is the largest museum of modern and contemporary American art in the region, and is the region's foremost presenter of modern and contemporary American sculpture and offers the only permanent public sculpture park in New England. Close to 80 modern and contemporary works grace the 35-acre site. The Museum's new Sculpture Terrace serves as the region's first open air gallery for exhibitions by nationally recognized sculptors.

Lowell (approximately 31 miles away)

  • The American Textile History Museum celebrates the glory of textiles and dress. Featuring the "Textiles in America" exhibit hall, where the magic of spinning and weaving comes to life, ranging from the interior of an 18th century log cabin to a working 1950's weaving operation. Explore the sights and sounds of America's premier manufacturing industry from colonial times to the present. Observe exquisite fabrics being produced from historic looms. Experience the elegance and beauty of finished textiles showcased in our changing thematic exhibit gallery.
  • The New England Quilt Museum presents five exhibitions annually of traditional and contemporary quilts.
  • The history of America's Industrial Revolution is commemorated in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum with its operating weave room of 88 power looms, "mill girl" boardinghouses, the Suffolk Mill Turbine Exhibit and guided tours tell the story of the transition from farm to factory, chronicle immigrant and labor history and trace industrial technology. The park includes textile mills, worker housing, 5.6 miles of canals, and 19th-century commercial buildings.
  • The Whistler House Museum of Art is the birthplace of artist, James McNeill Whistler; this museum showcases contemporary and historical fine arts, including 19th century and early 20th century paintings and prints.
  • Baseball's stars of tomorrow take the field today as the Lowell Spinners battle 13 New York Penn League foes at LeLacheur Park. Boston Red Sox Single A affiliate 4,700 seat stadium opened in June 1998.

North Billerica (approximately 24 miles away)

  • The Middlesex Canal Museum Visitor Center was created to preserve and illuminate the history of the Canal, the ultimate superhighway of its day, and its impact on the rural countryside from Lowell to Boston. Filled with maps, drawings and artifacts.

Westford (approximately 36 miles away)

  • At Butterfly Place, butterflies abound in a 3,000 square-foot walk-in butterfly environment. The flight area contains up to 500 butterflies and 50 different species. There are living lifecycle exhibits.

Winchester (approximately 10 miles away)

  • The Griffin Museum of Photography welcomes those interested in viewing contemporary and historic photography. The non-profit Center houses the legacy of Arthur Griffin, world-renowned photojournalist, as well as offering solo and group exhibitions featuring various photographic artists and subjects.

Southeast (Plymouth and Bristol Counties)

Brockton (approximately 24 miles away)

  • The Fuller Art Museum is the only museum in New England dedicated to unique contemporary craft works in glass, metal, wood, ceramic and fiber.

Fall River (approximately 51 miles away)

  • Battleship Cove is the world's largest collection of historic naval ships (5). Carousel #54 of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company housed in an elegant Victorian-style pavilion, this unique waterfront venue has been completely restored to the original splendor of its early days at the historic Lincoln Park.

Hull (approximately 24 miles away)

  • The Hull Lifesaving Museum at the restored 1889 Point Allerton U.S. Life Saving Station dramatically faces the mouth of Boston Harbor and Boston Light. Exhibits feature genuine rescue apparatus, America's most stories surfboat, the Nantasket, lighthouses, panoramic observation cupola and children's "Navigation Loft". Special exhibits "Taken By Storm: The Blizzard of '78" and Heroes in Our Midst: Joshua James and the Life Savers of Hull".

Middleborough (approximately 40 miles away)

New Bedford (approximately 59 miles away)

Norton (approximately 40 miles away)

Plymouth (approximately 40 miles away)

Cape Cod

Brewster (approximately 84 miles away)

  • The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History exhibits the flora and fauna of Cape Cod, including exhibits on whales, indigenous birds, and coastal change, and several aquaria holding different species of crustaceans, mollusks, fish, frogs, turtles and snakes. Several displays are interactive and geared to children.

Sandwich (approximately 58 miles away)

  • The Sandwich Glass Museum of the Sandwich Historical Society interprets the history of the town and its glass industry. Exhibits of glass and historical items tell the story of the town's greatest contribution to the American Industrial Revolution.
  • The Heritage Museum & Gardens celebrates the American spirit and fosters lifelong learning by preserving and sharing the history, industry, art and horticulture of America; grounds include a Labyrinth and Sculpture garden; home of the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame.

Woods Hole (approximately 80 miles away)

  • Visitors to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Exhibit Center will learn about the Institution's ocean science research and the vessels and tools developed by WHOI engineers and scientists for use in that research. An interactive exhibit features whale and dolphin research and explores the roles sound and hearing play in the lives of marine mammals. Other exhibits and videos feature the life forms and natural processes of the deep sea.

Nantucket

Central Massachusetts

  • The Mohawk Trail is the first scenic road in New England. It officially opened on October 22, 1914 and encompasses 63 miles.

Agawam (approximately 93 miles away)

Belchertown (approximately 83 miles away)

  • Quabbin Visitor Center -- Between 1927 and 1940, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts constructed the Quabbin Reservoir to supply metropolitan Boston with its water. It was Boston's fourth westward reach for a pure upland source of water that could be delivered by gravity and not require filtration. It also required four Massachusetts towns to be disincorporated. At the time, this 412 billion gallon reservoir was the largest man-made reservoir in the world which was devoted solely to water supply. The Center features exhibits, brochures, books, and videos about Quabbin management and history. Maps, books, trail guides and related materials are also available. Vital Records for the disincorporated towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott are available on microfiche for genealogical research. (see also www.state.ma.us/dcr; and www.mwra.state.ma.us/04water/html/hist1.htm)

Boylston (approximately 44 miles away)

  • The Worcester County Horticultural Society operates Tower Hill Botanic Garden as its headquarters on a 132 acre site, including an Orangerie.

Framingham (approximately 21 miles away)

  • Garden in the Woods is New England's premier wildflower showcase. This museum displays over 1600 plants including more than 200 rare and endangered species.
  • The Danforth Museum of Art specializes in 19th and 20th century American art, and a Junior Gallery is designed especially for families.

Harvard (approximately 39 miles away)

  • At Fruitlands Museum, there are four 19th century American art and history museums on over 200 scenic acres in Harvard. Shaker Museum, Picture Gallery, Indian Museum, and Alcott's Fruitlands Farmhouse overlook spectacular view.

North Grafton (approximately 40 miles away)

  • Willard House and Clock Museum is the home of Benjamin Willard who began making clocks in his small, rural Massachusetts workshop in 1776. His three younger brothers, Simon, Ephraim and Aaron, quickly learned the trade and began a three-generation clockmaking legacy in the workshop. Today, over 80 Willard clocks are exhibited in the birthplace and original workshop of the Willard clockmakers, along with family portraits, furnishings and other Willard family heirlooms.

Petersham (approximately 78 miles away)

  • The Fisher Museum of Harvard Forest displays twenty-three internationally acclaimed models (dioramas) portraying the history, conservation and management of central New England forests. Other exhibits at the museum represent the range of Harvard Forest's research in New England forest ecology and land use history.

Sterling (approximately 54 miles away)

Sturbridge (approximately 58 miles away)

  • Old Sturbridge Village's purpose is to provide modern Americans with a deepened understanding of their own times through a personal encounter with the New England past. The Village is a nonprofit educational institution. Its collections, exhibits, and programs present the story of everyday life in a small New England town during the years 1790 to 1840.

Sudbury (approximately 22 miles away)

  • In 1923, Longfellow's Wayside Inn was sold to automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, who would eventually have the most visual impact on the Wayside Inn site. He moved the one-room Redstone School to the grounds in 1925; built the Grist Mill in 1929 and the Martha-Mary Chapel in 1940; and acquired some 3,000 acres around the Inn. He developed a trade school for boys which operated from 1928 to 1947, and many believe he intended to build the "village site" he eventually created in Dearborn, Michigan, right here in Sudbury. While he stopped short of that goal, he did create the non-profit status that the Inn operates under today.

Worcester (approximately 45 miles away)

Berkshires (Western Massachusetts)

General

Amherst (approximately 93 miles away)

Dalton (approximately 140 miles away)

  • The Crane Museum of Papermaking is located in a portion of Crane's 1844 Old Stone Mill, and traces Crane's history from its colonial roots.

Deerfield (approximately 118 miles away)

  • Historic Deerfield is a museum of New England history and art within the carefully preserved 330 year old western Massachusetts village of Deerfield. Each year thousands of visitors come to Deerfield to see a collection of 18th and 19th century houses and the Flynt Center of Early New England Life filled with some of the great decorative arts treasures of early America. The buildings and the objects in them are set in The Old Deerfield National Historic Landmark - a thousand acres of rich farmland surrounding one of New England's most beautiful and unspoiled villages.

Holyoke (approximately 93 miles away)

Lenox (approximately 129 miles away)

  • The Mount, Edith Wharton's Estate & Gardens, was designed and built by Edith Wharton in 1902, and reflects the design principles articulated in The Decoration of Houses (1897), the influential book Wharton co-authored with architect Ogden Codman, Jr.

North Adams (approximately 161 miles away)

Pittsfield (approximately 136 miles away)

Springfield (approximately 89 miles away)

  • The Basketball Hall of Fame celebrates the game of basketball that began in 1891. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's mission preserves and promotes the game at all levels and serves as basketball's ultimate library of history.
  • The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle includes four distinctive museums and a major urban resource library clustered around a tree-shaded green. You'll discover masterpieces of American, European and Asian paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, plus dinosaurs, wildlife exhibits, arms and armor, "please touch" exhibits for children, an aquarium, a planetarium, a genealogy research library, early aviation artifacts and much, much more at this unique museum complex.
  • The Springfield Armory National Historic Site is the original 1840's arsenal that houses the world's largest collection of American military firearms.

Stockbridge (approximately 129 miles away)

  • At the Norman Rockwell Museum, experience Rockwell's original paintings and discover changing exhibitions of other masters of illustration.
  • Chesterwood, home of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial.
  • Nestled in the scenic Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, the Berkshire Botanical Garden offers visitors a peaceful refuge of natural beauty, and stunning display gardens.

Williamstown (approximately 156 miles away)

  • Clark Art Institute exhibits French Impressionist, Old Master American paintings, and special exhibitions and more on 140-acre park.

New Hampshire

General Tourism

  • New Hampshire
    The official site of the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development
  • NH.com
    "Where New Hampshire clicks"

Transportation

  • Manchester, New Hampshire boasts a rapidly growing airport.

Area Attractions

Portsmouth and the Seacoast (56 miles from Boston)

Manchester/Nashua area (Manchester is about 55 miles north of Boston and Nashua is 45 miles)

  • Canterbury Shaker Village
    A national historic landmark, Canterbury Shaker Village has 25 original Shaker buildings, three reconstructed Shaker buildings and 694 acres of forests, fields, gardens and mill ponds. The village is 20 miles north of Concord.
  • Currier Gallery of Art
    Located in Manchester, the Currier Gallery features European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture, including works by Picasso, Monet, O'Keeffe, and Wyeth. Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House is owned by the museum and is open for tours.
  • South New Hampshire Travel & Tourism Guide

White Mountains/Mount Washington Valley (North Conway is about 137 miles north of Boston)

Upper Connecticut River Valley (2 Ω hours from Boston)     

National and State Parks

Rhode Island

General Tourism Information

Transportation

Area Attractions

Block Island (100 miles from Boston)

  • Block Island
    Virtually unspoiled by progress, this Victorian "treasure island" is located ten miles south of Rhode Island's southern coast. Accessible by ferry or air, the island features quaint architecture, spectacular vistas and delicious native seafood. Charming inns, beaches and biking offer something for everyone. The Mohegan Bluffs rise abruptly to a height of 200 feet above the sea and stretch for nearly three miles along the island's southern shore.

Bristol (65 miles from Boston)

  • Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum
    Former summer residence of Pennsylvania coal magnate, Augustus Van Wickle, this 45-room turn-of-the-century mansion and 33 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds and gardens overlook Narragansett Bay and historic Bristol harbor. As one of the first and most innovative arboretums on the continent, Blithewold features 50,000 flowering spring bulbs, a Japanese water garden, a 100-ft. tall Giant Sequoia (the largest east of the Rockies), a bamboo stand, and hundreds of unusual plantings

East Greenwich (65 miles from Boston)

  • New England Wireless and Steam Museum
    The New England Wireless and Steam Museum is an electrical and mechanical engineering museum emphasizing the beginnings of radio and steam power. The museum honors engineers who achieved greatness and served the public good by analyzing and solving tough engineering problems.

Newport (70 miles from Boston)

  • Go Newport
  • International Tennis Hall of Fame
    For tennis lovers, the oldest grass courts in America, and the only ones open for public play, can be found at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, located in the historic Newport Casino. The Hall of Fame brings world-class tennis competition to Newport each year. In addition, the Tennis Hall of Fame Museum features displays, artifacts and exhibits covering over a century of tennis history.
  • Museum of Yachting
  • Naval War College Museum
    The Museum's themes are the history of naval warfare, particularly as studied at the College, and the naval heritage of Narragansett Bay.
  • Newport Mansions
    Eleven properties managed by the Preservation Society of Newport County, representing 250 years of social and architectural history in the city that was America's First Resort.
  • Redwood Library and Athenaeum
    The oldest lending library in America (1747), and the oldest library building in continuous use in the country. America's first true architect, Peter Harrison, designed and oversaw the construction of the library building. Completed in 1750, it was not only the first public classical building, but also the first community library building in the Colonies.
  • Touro Synagogue
    The oldest synagogue building in the U.S. (1763), the Rhode Island General Assembly met here (1781-1784), and during Washington visit to Newport in 1781, a town meeting was held here.

North Kingstown (75 miles from Boston)

  • Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum
    The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace is not only a showplace for reproductions of the works of one of America's foremost portrait painters, it is an authentically restored and furnished workingman's home and the site of the first snuff mill in America. The lovely wooded homestead on the banks of the Mattatuxet Brook also features a partially restored grist mill and a fascinating fish ladder. The grist mill houses the original fine-grained granite stones used to grind corn for the famous Rhode Island Johnny Cakes.

Pawtucket (45 miles from Boston)

  • Slater Mill Historic Site
    Old Slater Mill (1793), "Birthplace of the American Industry," was the first factory in America to successfully produce cotton yarn with water-powered machines. The mill now houses operating machinery used to illustrate the process of converting raw cotton to finished cloth. The historical treasure also includes the Sylvanus Brown House (1758) and the Wilkinson Mill (1810). A reconstructed 16,000 lb. water wheel is still in operation.

Providence (50 miles from Boston)

  • Providence • City Home Page
  • Providence and Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales University
    The Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales University is a museum devoted to the preservation of the history of the culinary and hospitality industries. Internationally renowned, this collection of over half-a-million items represents five millenniums of history, often referred to as "The Smithsonian Institution of the Food Service Industry."
  • Museum of Art (The RISD Museum), Rhode Island School of Design
    The RISD Museum traces the history of art from antiquity to the present through its collection of more than 85,000 works of art in all media from all cultures. The Museum is widely acknowledged as one of the country's best museums of its size, and brings its collection alive through special exhibitions, lectures, family-oriented activities, educational programs and other initiatives.
  • Rhode Island Historical Society
    The Society owns and operates the circa 1786 John Brown House, the Library, and the Aldrich House administrative building in Providence, and the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket. Educational programs, lectures, publications, and exhibits.
  • Roger Williams Park
    In 1878, noted Landscape Architect Horace W.S. Cleveland presented his master plan for a park to be constructed on 110 acres of land donated by the great, great, great granddaughter of Roger Williams. His original concept of naturally situated drives and walks utilized native plant materials to create spaces and vistas. As the Roger Williams Park grew to its current 436 acres, subsequent park planners introduced more exotic trees, shrubs and flowers in the form of gardens and floral beds.
  • Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History
  • Roger Williams Park Zoo
    In 1999, the zoo was named one of America's top ten zoos by Travel & Leisure Family Magazine.
  • WaterFire Providence, WaterPlace Park
    Nearly one hundred bonfires illuminate the waters of the Providence River during this magical outdoor event. Stroll along cobbled riverbank walkways leading to Waterplace Park as fires dance atop the water and fill the air with the rich scent of cedar while the music of many cultures and rhythms echoes from Venetian-style foot bridges.

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Vermont

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Area Attractions

Burlington and Lake Champlain (Burlington is 219 miles northwest from Boston.)

  • Lake Champlain Valley
    A guide to attractions in the Lake Champlain and Burlington area.
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
    Featuring an interpretative museum and a working shipyard, this Museum celebrates the maritime history of the Lake Champlain region.
  • Shelburne Museum
    The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne features collections of art and Americana, folk art, decorative arts, tools, toys, textiles spanning 4 centuries and housed in 39 galleries and exhibit halls. The museum also has twenty-five 19th century structures, including a steamboat, lighthouse, round barn and a covered bridge.

Southern Vermont (Bennington is about 3 hours northwest of Boston)

National Parks and State Parks

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