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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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