Having Park Director Buzz Caverly show you around Baxter State Park is like having Emeril teach you how to cook. We’d been climbing Katahdin in the near darkness for more than an hour, at first lighting our way from Chimney Pond over the steep, boulder-strewn Saddle Trail by flashlight, then by the breaking dawn. On […]
Acadia National Park’s landscape is so mesmerizing it will take your breath away. When people think of Acadia, they think of it mostly as a refuge for nature; it’s been viewed as such since the first artists from Eastern Seaboard cities ventured here in the 1840s. But Acadia is no more a work of pure […]
We board the schooner American Eagle in the late-summer darkness, the last of the 26 passengers to arrive for the four-day Penobscot Bay cruise that will set sail in the morning. Captain John Foss welcomes us. His pride in this ship that his hands transformed from a worn-out fishing schooner to a jewel of the […]
The temperate shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where farmland rolls to the sea, are the perfect place to welcome spring.
In small towns throughout New England stand statues of a Civil War soldier, memorials to the nation’s deadliest conflict, which ended 150 years ago this April. We see them everywhere, yet they are nearly invisible. On hundreds of village greens across new england, in hundreds of city parks, before hundreds of libraries and town halls, […]
Outdoor adventurer Willem Lange hosts New Hampshire Public Television’s award-winning Windows to the Wild outdoor series. Viewers join Will as he hikes, paddles and explores New England, and meets people who share his love of the outdoors. All episodes of Windows to the Wild are available for viewing online, and DVDs of many of the […]
Yankee Magazine‘s editors and contributors have been snapping photos all over New England for our Instagram feed. Here we present a sampling of their most popular photos from February, March, and April of 2015.
The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Thoreau’s “The Maine Woods”—a literary milestone that would be marked by an adventure into “Thoreau’s Maine.”
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Heading to scenic Route 100 in Vermont this year? Along with classics like a day of skiing at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow or stopping for cider donuts at Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, we’ve got the perfect roundup of what to see, do, and eat while you cruise Route 100, plus where to stay […]
A tightly knit community of artists and artisans gives the pretty hill town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, a creative energy like few others.
Camping Life | Thoreau’s Maine: A Photo Story of an Epic Adventure The beauty of being guided by experienced Maine guides is that after a hard day’s paddling and carrying, there awaited a neat campsite, a warming fire, and delicious hot food that tasted better than any food could possibly taste indoors. Camp time was […]
