Vermont

Vermont Treasure Towns

Sometimes the most rewarding travel comes in unexpected places. Learn more about these four Vermont gems: Montgomery, Vergennes, Norwich, and Newfane.

Connecticut

Connecticut Drive: Litchfield County

By Carol Cambo Get map of this trip. Yankee‘s driving tour of Litchfield County in the northwest corner of Connecticut follows a 56-mile tour in a counter-clockwise direction, beginning in the town of Litchfield and a visit to nearby Goshen to meet the animals of Action Wildlife.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]

Maine

Washington, Maine: Medomak Family Camp

As dawn broke over the lake this morning, your daughter caught her first perch. A few hours later, your son paddled to Loon Island with a new friend while you read several chapters (in one sitting!) of a novel you’d been meaning to start for years. At dusk, after a gourmet lobster bake, you and […]

Maine

What the Locals Know

Searching through her grandfather’s attic, local graphic designer Seania McCarthy discovered a clipping about a deserted village in the heart of Cape Ann called Dogtown Common (or Commons). A prosperous farming and mill community in the 1600s and 1700s, it was finally abandoned, literally, to the dogs in the mid-19th century. Now she, partner Dee […]

Massachusetts

Cape Ann, Massachusetts: The Other Cape

It happens often as you drive around Cape Ann, the rocky headland jutting into the Atlantic 30 miles north of Boston. You round a corner or crest a hill and wham! — suddenly you’ve driven into a painting. It’s something about the way the light refracts off the ocean on all sides, making ship masts […]