Where to Go

Each of the six New England states—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont—has its own beauties and attractions. More...

Maps

I've made more than a hundred Google Maps to go with NewEnglandTravelPlanner.com. Click here to find them, plus paper maps, topographic maps, nautical charts, and a hotel map with locations and prices. More...

Tours & Itineraries

Plan your trip the easy way: consider one of my do-it-yourself itineraries, a guided tour, or a private tour designed just for you. More...

Guided & Private Tours

Active Travels, based in the Boston area, can plan any trip you'd like in New England—or indeed, the world. More...

Boston 4-Day Itinerary

Only four days? You can still get a good taste of New England: Boston, Cambridge, Salem, Concord, Plymouth, Providence, Newport, colonial & revolutionary history, beaches & lobsters! More...

7- to 10-Day Southern New England Tour

Boston, Sturbridge Village and the Pioneer Valley, art and music in the Berkshire Hills, the wineries of Northwestern Connecticut, the Connecticut Shoreline (Yale in New Haven, art in Old Lyme, the Mystic Seaport Museum, US Coast Guard Academy), beautiful Stonington, the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, Cape Cod National Seashore and perhaps a cruise to Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard, Plymouth Rock and Plimoth Patuxet Museums, and return to Boston. More...

4-, 6- to 10-Day Northern New England Tour

Outdoor adventure! The Maine seacoast to Acadia National Park, New Hampshire's White Mountains (including Mount Washington), Vermont's Green Mountains, with art and culture along the way. More...

When to Go

Month-by-month New England climate, weather, holidays & festivals, plus touring seasons—spring mud season, summer tourist season, autumn foliage season, Indian summer, winter, January thaw—for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. More...

Money & Prices

Surveys name Boston as the third most expensive city in the continental USA for tourists (after San Francisco and New York City), with the most expensive hotels of all—more expensive than Paris, France; and the price you see at first is rarely the price you'll end up paying. Here's all about taxes (up to 11.7%!), tipping (out of control), estimated daily budgets, and money-saving tips. More...

Advice for Non-US Visitors

Not a US citizen or permanent resident? Aerican culture, traditions and quirks, what to bring (and what NOT to bring), border-crossing, embassies and consulates, emergencies, official holidays, payments and currency exchange: here are helpful tips to smooth your way into and through America.

Packing for Your Trip

Dress codes for Newport RI dining? Minimal packing for a Maine windjammer cruise? Here are tips for getting it all right. More...

Transportation

Getting to and around New England: flights and airports, trains, buses, rental cars, ships and ferryboats; the best ways to travel between Boston and New York City; and how to cope with the monstrous Thanksgiving travel mess. More...

Where to Stay

New England offers a bewildering variety of lodgings: traditional New England country inns, B&Bs, roadside motels, city hotels, resort hotels, and camping. Here's where they are, what they cost, and how to save money by planning carefully. More...

Travel Safety & Health

Learn about the few but significant dangers of travel in New England, from pickpockets to disease-spreading black-legged ticks. They won't be dangerous if you know how to avoid them. More...

New England Cuisine

Lobsters, yes of course, and clams too. What else? More seafood, artisanal cheeses, apple cider both hard and soft, traditional fruit wines and brandies, maple syrup of all grades. Here are tips on how to eat a lobster, how to eat clams, more dining, drinking, and spending your travel budget wisely. More...

New England History

Many think of American history beginning in 1620 with the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth, Massachusetts, but there's more to the region's history than Plymouth Rock. New England is where the American Revolution began, not to mention American literature, many industries, education and science. More...

New England Art & Architecture

New England has over a hundred fine art museums spread throughout the six New England states; and the region's long history has made the region one of America's great architectural treasures. More...

New England Literature

Noah Webster wrote the first and most famous work, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Following in the 1800s, American literature came into its own with the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and other New England authors. The list of notable authors stretches through the years to today: Emily Dickenson, Robert Frost, all the way to Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gregory Maguire and many more. More...

Natural New England

Small in relation to the rest of America, I like to think of New England as compact, encompassing thousands of miles of beautiful coastline, the highest mountain peak east of the Mississippi, sweeping forests and mighty rivers, all waiting for you to explore. More...

New England Religions

The Pilgrims made the perilous trip to the New World in order to worship as they chose. Congregationalism was born here, and followed by Transcendentalism, Unitarianism, Christian Science and more. More...

Historic Preservation

New England is old by American standards. Here are the people and organizations who work hard to preserve our past.