New England Travel Guide

		New England Travel Planner
		Spring is in New England, and that means wildflowers and thoughts of Memorial Day, when the summer travel and leisure season begins in earnest.

Here's how to travel by car, bus, train, plane & ship to:

—Boston, the cosmopolitan "capital" of New England

—Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket

—Berkshire Hills blazing foliage color

—Newport RI with its sumptuous mansions

—Connecticut shoreline & Mystic Seaport

—Vermont, hiking, camping, pretty towns

—Mount Washington, in New Hampshire's White Mountains

—Downeast Maine, with its pristine towns and windjammer yachts

Click on a state:

New England Map

There's lots more to New England, of course. Look at my New England Highlights, and browse the Site Index, from Acadia National Park to Plymouth Rock, from Walden Pond in Concord MA to Waterfire in Providence, from Circus Smirkus in Vermont to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.

New England Outdoors covers all the best things to do: beaches, biking, birdwatching, camping, canoeing, fishing, hiking, kayaking, skiing, snowshoeing, whalewatching and windjamming.

Hi! I'm Tom Brosnahan: travel writer, guidebook author and photographer. I wrote the first editions of Frommer's New England and Lonely Planet New England. More...

NewEnglandTravelPlanner.com covers all my favorite New England places and pleasures.

New England is what it is because of its people, from Massasoit to Paul Revere, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to John F Kennedy, from P T Barnum to Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickenson. You'll find reminders of them everywhere.