Maine

Portland, Maine | Hotels & Inns Guide

If you’re planning a trip to the Pine Tree State, learn about the many lodging options in its showcase city with our guide to Portland, Maine, hotels and inns.

New England

The 5 Best New England Waterfalls

New England is an ideal place to chase waterfalls (there are more than 100 in New Hampshire alone). Each time a river or stream takes a tumble as it races across this geologically diverse region, it drums its own calming white noise and makes a visual splash. At their most vigorous in the spring, when […]

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Ghost Moose of the Northern Forest | Our Land, Our Sea, Our Future

Where have northern New England’s moose gone? In the late 1990s, they numbered around 7,500 in New Hampshire; now that state’s population is estimated at 3,500. In Vermont, a high of 5,000 just over a decade ago has fallen by nearly two-thirds to the current estimate, 1,750.

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Green Milestones | Our Land, Our Sea, Our Future

1836 Boston native Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes the essay “Nature,” which—in laying out the fundamentals of the philosophical movement he cofounded, Transcendentalism—describes the benefits of nature on the human soul. 1854Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Inspired by his experience of building and living in a cabin in the woods outside Concord, […]

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Rising Seas | New England Climate Change

New England was built upon the coast. Its fate will depend upon how well we adapt to a future that can no longer be ignored. How rising seas are changing the New England coastline.

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