GREAT DRIVES WITH
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ENGLAND BY CAR
With six states, coast and mountains, cities and villages, there is no one theme that represents all that New England offers.
On this suggested driving tour, we explore maritime heritage and go shopping, we get to grips with the Great Outdoors
and visit gilded mansions. Along the way, we suggest places to stay for a couple of nights. For more accommodation,
check out the 300 members of the New England Inns & Resorts Association
www.newenglandinnsandresorts.com
and Best Western’s 65 members
www.travelnewengland.com. The 800-mile-long route starts and fi nishes in Boston;
allow two weeks for a comfortable trip.
BOSTON TO SUNDAY RIVER while Rockport has long been an where Oxford County is known HART’S LOCATION TO WARREN
185 miles
artist’s colony. Long ago, Essex for its gemstone deposits – visit
115 miles
➔ From Boston, drive north and and Ipswich were renowned for the historic Bumpus Mine; pan ➔ Drive northwest via Crawford
head for Marblehead. With its building wooden ships, while lively for minerals in an old-fashioned Notch to the Connecticut River that
cobbled streets, 17th and 18th- Newburyport has undergone a ‘sluice’. Walk through Bethel, with acts as the border with Vermont.
century houses, this is one of New renaissance. its village green and old homes. Saint Johnsbury (‘St J’ to the locals)
England’s best-kept secrets. Close ➔ Continue north on Route 1, Stay at Sunday River, a is the capital of the Northeast
by, Salem is always associated along the sandy shorelines of 21st-century resort with its Kingdom, where you can admire one
with the 1692 witch trials, clearly New Hampshire and Maine, with 21st-century Chondola that whisks of the biggest paintings you will ever
explained at the Salem Witch their bucket-and-spade holiday winter skiers, summer hikers and see in the Athenaeum. Thanks to a
Museum; but don’t miss out on the resorts. Shoppers stop at Kittery all-year diners to its 3,140-foot tradition of quarrying and carving
Colonial and maritime history, as for bargains at the 120 or so summit. 001 (207) 824 3000; granite memorials, sculptures,
well as the outstanding Peabody outlet stores; the curious visit
www.sundayriver.com plaques and tombs for much of the
Essex Museum. On rocky Cape the last surviving Shaker village, USA, Barre (pronounce that ‘Barry’)
Ann, Gloucester retains the near Sabbathday Lake. The road SUNDAY RIVER TO HART’S claims that it is the ‘Granite Center
grit of a working fi shing port, climbs into Maine’s mountains,
LOCATION
of the World’.
70 miles
Drive up and into the Green
➔ Look out for moose as you drive Mountains to Warren to
west into New Hampshire and the stay at one of the Inns of Lincoln
White Mountains. Then, rather Peak B&Bs, either the Sugartree
than drive, sit back and enjoy the Inn or the West Hill House.
views aboard the shuttle bus that 001 (802) 583 3211;
winds up the 149-year-old
www.innsofl
incolnpeakvt.com
Mount Washington Auto Road
to the 6,288-foot mountain
peak. It could be fi ne with
fantastic views or snowing –
even in high summer! Either
way, it’s an adventure. Shop
in the North Conway
outlets, ride the Conway
Scenic Railroad.
Then relax at the
Notchland Inn, a
Cotswold-style manor
in the mountains.
001 (603) 374 6131;
www.notchland.com
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