New England Airports Boston’s Logan Airport Providence, Rhode Island Burlington, Vermont Manchester, New Hampshire Hartford, Connecticut

Weather Patterns Winters – Cold and Snowy Spring – Dreary (May is a good option) Summer – Temps 70s – 80s Can be Hot and Humid Fall – Beautiful, Fall Foliage October best time to visit Travel peaks in Summer and Fall

Getting Around Cars – good highway systems Boston – Subway System best way to travel within city Motorcoach tours Amtrak trains (New York to Boston) Ferry Service for offshore visits

Important Places - Boston Freedom Trail – 5 mile trail (passes historical sites) Boston Common – Oldest Park in the Nation The Old State House – Massachusetts’s government Boston Tea Party Ship – replica of the famous ship

Important Places - Boston Museums Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Science New England Aquarium JFK Library and Museum

Important Places – Boston USS Constitution Nicknamed – Old Ironside Used in War of 1812 Cambridge Home to Harvard

Important Places – Boston Day Trips Salem Plymouth The Berkshires Cape Cod

Southern Coast Mohegan Sun Casino Mystic, Connecticut – Whaling Providence, Rhode Island Newport, Rhode Island New Bedford, Massachusetts Martha’s Vineyard/Nantucket

Vermont & New Hampshire Mt. Washington Portsmouth Montpelier Burlington St. Johnsbury

Important Places – Maine Bar Harbor Acadia National park Boothbay Harbor Kennebunkport Kittery Brunwick

Important Places – Maine 3 x larger than neighbor states Known for its Rocky Coastline Most is uninhabited – dense forests and brush

Ski Resorts Killington and Stowe, Vermont Sugarloaf, Maine Waterville, New Hampshire Mt. Snow Vermont Mt. Cranmore, New Hampshire

Tidbits Rhode Island is 37 miles wide and 48 miles long with 400 miles of shoreline Lake Chargogagmanchaugaugaugaugaugcharbunagungamaugg is the longest place name in the world and is a lake in Massacushetts

Tidbits 99% of wild blueberries in the US are grown in Maine Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts The waters off New England use to have so many lobsters the colonists would feed them to their chickens.

Tidbits The Trapp Family, of Sound of Music fame, owns a ski lodge in Stowe, Vermont There are more islands in the Maine archipelago than in either the Caribbean or Polynesia