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Cheap Ski Lift Tickets: 15 Mountains You Can Access for Under $100

A ski trip ranks among the most expensive types of vacation you can take, with single-day lift tickets now costing around $300 at the big-name resorts in the Rocky Mountains. And…

Thanks to a Donor, You Can Ski for Free all Winter at This Historic New England Spot

Skiing has gotten disgustingly expensive, with single-day lift tickets soaring to $300 a pop on some mountains. This winter, though, a historic New Hampshire ski area is offering…

What to Do in Provincetown: A 1-Day Side Trip from Boston

Published Aug. 15, 2022 | Updated Sept. 16, 2024 Windswept sand dunes and a windswept Cher impersonator riding a stand-up scooter down Commercial Street—those are basically the twin…

Fall Foliage Map for 2024 Predicts Midwest Will Outdo New England

The Midwest will have the most vibrant fall foliage in the United States this year, according to a new forecast released by the weather watchers at AccuWeather. In a wedge of the…

The Fastest Way to Get from NYC to Boston? A Waterfront-to-Waterfront Seaplane

UPDATE, Aug. 8, 2024: Tailwind Air's seaplane service between New York City and Boston, described below, is no longer in operation.  Company officials told the Boston Globe that the…

Best Places to Go in the Fall: USA Travel Picks for September, October, and November

Updated June 27, 2024 There are those who find summer oppressive and winter dreary, but does anybody not like fall? Okay, maybe third graders bummed about being back in school. But for…

Martha's Vineyard 'Jaws' Tour: Hunt Down Filming Locations with This Driving Route

June 7, 2024 For a “summer town” that needs “summer dollars,” as the mayor of fictional Amity, USA, puts it in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, it may seem counterintuitive to forever yoke…

USA's Most Endangered Historic Places Now Include L.A.'s Little Tokyo and Concord, Mass., Revolutionary Sites

The site of the American Revolution's "shot heard round the world," the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston, a lighthouse in the middle of the Hudson River, a long-standing Japanese…

Why Cape Cod Summer Rentals Could Be Cheaper This Year

During the Covid-19 pandemic, while you were optimistically purchasing (and not using) resistance bands for your (unused) home gym (i.e., closet), rich people were apparently buying…

Things to Do in Central Massachusetts and the Pioneer Valley, the State's Most Underrated Regions

Many travelers feel about Massachusetts the way I feel about Thanksgiving: It’s all about the sides. In the Bay State’s case, the scenic mountains and picturesque villages of the…

Irresistible Golden Dog Farm in Vermont Invites Visitors to Play with Gaggle of Golden Retrievers

The average cost of a single talk therapy session in the U.S. ranges from $100 to $200, according to a 2019 report. We're not mental health professionals or anything, but we've…

A Cruise on Maine’s Coast with American Cruise Lines: Our Review

Heidi Sarna is the cofounder of QuirkyCruise.com, a guide to small-ship cruising.     From popular Pacific Northwest routes along the Columbia and Snake rivers to sailings on the…

Fall Foliage in New England: What to Expect in 2023

It has been a rainy summer in New England, characterized by flash flooding in Vermont and the second-wettest July on record in Boston. What does that mean for the region's famous fall…

Acadia National Park: How to Plan the Perfect Vacation in This Iconic Park

Acadia National Park is New England’s most multifaceted—and downright splendid—natural attraction. It’s home to Cadillac Mountain, the tallest peak on the Atlantic coast; granite…

Go Inside the Emily Dickinson House, Vibrantly Restored in Amherst, Mass.

The tired old story about Emily Dickinson being a wraithlike recluse has gotten a much-needed revision in recent years, thanks to scholars, moviemakers, and, above all, the three…

If Men Can Go Topless on Beaches, Why Can’t Everybody? Nantucket’s Bid for “Top Freedom”

UPDATE, December 12, 2022: As described in the below article, first published on June 8, the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, approved a bylaw last spring allowing toplessness on all…

It's Official: Everyone Can Go Topless on Nantucket's Beaches

Anyone of any gender expression may now go topless on the beaches of Nantucket, Massachusetts. (We'd wait for summer if we were you—New England winters are no joke.) As Frommer's…

"Hocus Pocus 2" Filming Locations You Can Fly Your Broomstick (or Vacuum Cleaner) to See

Twenty-nine years after the last lighting of the Black Flame Candle, the new movie Hocus Pocus 2 resurrects the diabolical Sanderson sisters (played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica…

Cape Cod's Best Fall Festivals

Once Labor Day passes, most tourists and seasonal residents vacate the area. That's when life on Cape Cod slows to a crawl until winter is over, right?  Wrong. The fall season on the…

Maybe Beer Goggles Help? Boston's Museum Of Bad Art Reopens in a Craft Brewery

Bringing an artistic vision into reality can easily go sideways, as you’ve probably learned if you’ve ever taken a figure drawing class, attended a sip-and-paint party, or accidentally…

This Interactive Map Predicts When Fall Foliage Will Peak Across the U.S.

The high temperatures and lack of rain in many parts of the United States this year could result in shorter, less vibrant autumn displays than usual, according to some foliage…

What Will Fall Foliage Be Like in 2022? Predictions from an Expert

We've got encouraging news for leaf peepers—and it comes from a real expert.  Aimee Tucker, the digital editor of Yankee magazine and NewEngland.com, told me on this week's edition of…

Props and Costumes from TV’s “Dickinson” Join Collection at Emily Dickinson Museum

More than 400 props, costumes, and set pieces from the acclaimed Apple TV+ series Dickinson have joined the collection of the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. The…

New: A Literary Walking Tour of the Great Writers of Amherst, Massachusetts

Seeing as how Amherst, Massachusetts, produced Emily Dickinson, the Pioneer Valley college town's literary reputation is pretty solid already.  But the most perceptive and inventive…

7 Bewitching Filming Locations from "Hocus Pocus" That You Can Visit in Salem, Massachusetts

Though it was a critical and commercial disappointment upon release in July 1993, Disney's Hocus Pocus has grown over the years into an undeniable—and, in October,…