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Anonymous09/04/25, 23:29No.2820357New England thread
I wanna take a road trip around New England this October. I'm driving up from the south, with my main destination being Salem MA, and stopping in some other cool attractions in MA and CT along the way. What are some good stops along the way? It'll be October, so I'm particularly looking for spooky, Halloween, or just general Fall themed attractions, but any interesting suggestions are welcome. I'll probably come back during Thanksgiving to see the rest of the region too.
Also general New England thread
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Anon09/05/25, 06:13No.2820449
Make sure and buy a rainbow flag shirt. Yankees are massive leftards
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Anon09/05/25, 09:03No.2820487
John Adams claimed the six states of New England were superior to the other seven original colonies by dint of the inhabitants being 'of purer English stock'. I wonder what he'd think of the place today?Anyway, enjoy your time there, OP, as its history is absolutely fascinating and there are some amazing sites to see (especially pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary-era ones)
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Anon09/07/25, 08:33No.2821296
a rich industrial heritage
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Anon09/07/25, 17:47No.2821449
Salem is kind of a tourist trap, but that area of the Mass coast is definitely worth exploring, especially if you want to see what America's founders originally intended the country to become. In midsummer it's more fun, because all the rich girls are showing skin in their summer clothes, but I guess you can still enjoy it in the autumn months (unless it's cold pouring rain).
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Anon09/07/25, 23:16No.2821534
As a vagabond, I found Maine to be the best New England state to explore. The coastal villages are so beautiful, you get that feeling in summertime especially that everyone is living their best lives. As you go inland, things get rougher and more backwoods, although there are still pockets of town life where businesses thrive with summer visitor traffic. Mainers try to be friendly and nice (because that's the moral thing to do), but many of them have strong introverted personalities, and they do not relish the idea of being buttonholed for a chat by a random stranger. Aroostook County is particularly unfriendly toward outsiders.
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Anon09/07/25, 23:17No.2821535
Drag queen performs in a public park in Mathias, Maine.
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Anon09/08/25, 13:09No.2821719
Seconding OP. Need some spooky recs for Maine and New Hampshire
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Anon09/08/25, 22:43No.2821860
Salem is a shitshow in october and that city/area already has a shitload of traffic problems. Go to spend money and get lost in crowds. If you want to watch the leaves change in MA its kind of a crapshoot and depends on when its starts getting cold. Predictably the color creeps down from the north so you might have a drive to find "peak" CT is questionably New England and is more New York City lite.If you want something spooky MA has lots of folklore. New england is small enough to drive around in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PitG77LdxHg
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Anon09/08/25, 22:50No.2821864
Wrong picture, that was in the White Mountains near the Cog Railway (where hikers famously moon the train passengers as they go by).
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Anon09/09/25, 21:07No.2822130
The sandy beaches are worth visiting if the weather is warm. Be careful of onerous street parking restrictions and ripoff prices for beach lots. Salisbury Beach during summer had sooo many hot teenies walking around. Lots of cuties in Rockport, Mass as well. New Hampshire's Hampton Beach was a more generic beach getaway, big crowds but not too many eye-catching faces. In Maine, Old Orchard Beach is the main sandy stretch, but I found York Beach attractive in summertime as well. Lots of people out in the streets even past 10 PM. The tradition of rich people spending their summers living in leisure on the New England coast still persists.
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Anon09/09/25, 21:18No.2822131
Maine versus Michigan...
Michigan has much, much better free forest camping options, but stealth camping in Maine was surprisingly easy to find, and I never got bothered by anyone even when parking in random vacant lots. Michigan's lakeside towns are more car-centric and had less street life in summer, while the heavy, snail-paced traffic along the Maine coast encouraged residents to walk and bicycle around town.Michigan women were nearly all pudgy, pasty and dressed like slobs; that was not the case in Maine, where slim tanned rich girls in cute outfits were a frequent sight. Michigan farmer's markets had excellent produce (asparagus, cherries, berries, etc) at better prices than Maine, but Maine's restaurants were more noteworthy. Michiganders are unpretentious heartland Americans and easier to talk to than Mainers, who tend to be private characters not too interested in interacting with strangers.
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Anon09/11/25, 11:42No.2822689
For me, it's Virginia
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Anon09/13/25, 17:16No.2823371
Avoid Rhode Island, it’s a shithole
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Anon09/15/25, 22:57No.2824024
Big difference between the thriving summer streets of the prosperous coastal villages and the dead downtowns of the stagnant interior. Millinocket, ME versus Rockport, MA
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Anon09/16/25, 00:24No.2824048
I'm going to Burlington Vermont September 30-31st. anyone got food recs?
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Anon09/16/25, 01:18No.2824059
Norwalk - see the shore, go shopping in SONO
New Haven - walk around Yale, visit coffee shops, best pizza in the nation on Wooster St., Grove Street Cemetery - one of the oldest cemeteries in the country
*if you go East across 95*
Madison - Hammonasset Beach
East Lyme - Rocky Neck State Park, 'The Book Barn' is nearby
Mystic - sleepy old seaport, pizza, old shops, antiques
*if you follow the river North up 91*
West Hartford - affluent area, many great restaurants, visit Trinity College, walk through Elizabeth park
*go East to farm country - beautiful twisty roads through the woods*
Storrs - visit UCONN - Storrs Cemetery, go to the Dairy Bar (best ice cream in the state), take a walk through Mansfield Hollow in the fall, lots of old stone walls here
North Hampton MA - great little town, always doing something festive for the season
Amherst MA - another affluent town (this whole area is great actually), Main St. area feels like fall, visit UMassThere are antique shops and pumpkin patches all over the state. You can do a google search.
The Big E us the annual New England fair, but ends Sep 28th. It's great.
I'm not around Boston that often, but obviously it's one of America's great cities, so stop there.Honestly, what I like to do is wake up early, and just take a drive out somewhere like pic rel - visit some coffee place I haven't seen before. It's the right season for it.
Ol' New England can be pretty chill. It's expensive, but the schools are good and it has lots of high paying jobs.
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Anon09/20/25, 18:39No.2825745
Should I cancel my New England leaf peeping trip this year? I heard it was gonna be a bad year. Just how disappointing is it gonna be?
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Anon09/27/25, 15:48No.2827797
Is late October still a crowded month for Franconia Notch and White Mountain National Forest in general?
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Anon09/28/25, 01:08No.2827927
Rate my super spooky Halloween themed New England road trip itinerary:>Day 0: arrive in Sleepy Hollow NY at night. See the pumpkin blaze.
>Day 1: head to Hartford CT, with maybe a stop at Holy Land USA on the way. Hang out in Hartford for the day, see some sites. Need to see the Witches Dungeon museum one town over.
>Day 2: either drive to Salem MA or wake up there after driving here last night, not sure. Spend the day in Salem, set up base there.
>Day 3: either a day trip to Portland ME for the Cryptozoological museum and other stuff, or somewhere in New Hampshire. Maybe Hammond Castle in Gloucester MA. Idk this day is up in the air.
>Day 4: leave Salem, stop in Boston and see something cool there. Head home from Boston.Thoughts? And if you have any October/halloween themed attractions you recommend that I missed and you'd recommend, I'd appreciate it
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Anon10/16/25, 03:01No.2832952
So I get the New England got hit hard by de-industrialization, but what industries are still out there besides retail, fishing, education, and tech (Boston)? Asking for a friend.
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Anon10/16/25, 03:21No.2832965
How does this compare to Jamestown museums in the South?
