Suggestions for North Eastern States Please
We are currently in Philadelphia and will be heading to New York next. After that we are heading north pretty much following I-95 until we get to Maine. Our goal there is Acadia National Park. I ...
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Mystic seaport should be an absolute essential for you. It is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Bath, ME has a maritime museum that looked well worth seeing (from the outside—I didn't have time to go through it when I was there, unfortunately.)
In Boston, besides Old Ironsides, I might suggest the aquarium (if that sort of thing is of interest) and the Science Museum, if only to see the enormous van de graf generator spew out lightning. I second 4runnerguy's comment on driving. Driving under Boston is not quite so bad, at least when avoiding rush hour, but propane is banned from the tunnels and the fines are very steep and you do have to emerge and drive and park in the city to do anything useful.
If you like traditional amusement parks, both Lake Compounce (Bristol, CT) and Canobie Lake Park (Salem, NH) are fun, medium-sized traditional parks.
In Vermont, there's the Lake Champlain Maritime museum and the Shelburne Museum. The latter is large and extremely eclectic, with (among other things) hat boxes, a miniature circus, the last steam boat operating on Lake Champlain, a lighthouse, a carousel, a covered bridge, and many other things.
The Mt. Washington Cog Railway might be a fun day's trip.
Bath, ME has a maritime museum that looked well worth seeing (from the outside—I didn't have time to go through it when I was there, unfortunately.)
In Boston, besides Old Ironsides, I might suggest the aquarium (if that sort of thing is of interest) and the Science Museum, if only to see the enormous van de graf generator spew out lightning. I second 4runnerguy's comment on driving. Driving under Boston is not quite so bad, at least when avoiding rush hour, but propane is banned from the tunnels and the fines are very steep and you do have to emerge and drive and park in the city to do anything useful.
If you like traditional amusement parks, both Lake Compounce (Bristol, CT) and Canobie Lake Park (Salem, NH) are fun, medium-sized traditional parks.
In Vermont, there's the Lake Champlain Maritime museum and the Shelburne Museum. The latter is large and extremely eclectic, with (among other things) hat boxes, a miniature circus, the last steam boat operating on Lake Champlain, a lighthouse, a carousel, a covered bridge, and many other things.
The Mt. Washington Cog Railway might be a fun day's trip.
