Lonely Planet New England Fall Foliage Road Trips

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781760340483
• eBook ISBN: 9781760341510

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, you can cruise Lake Champlain on a schooner, pack a picnic in the Berkshires, or take a Vermont farm tour, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips: Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip Covers Connecticut, Berkshires, Boston, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, White Mountains, Portland, Interior Maine, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's New England Fall Foliage Road Trips is perfect for exploring New England fall foliage in the classic American way - by road trip! Planning a New England Fall Foliage trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's New England guide, our most comprehensive guide to New England, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems, or check out Best of USA, a photo-rich guide to the destination's most popular attractions. Looking for a guide focused on a specific New England city? Check out Lonely Planet's Boston guide for a comprehensive look at all the city has to offer. There's More in Store for You: For more road-tripping ideas, check out Lonely Planet's USA Best Trips guides to New England, Southwest USA, Pacific Northwest, Florida & the South, New York & the Mid-Atlantic, and USA or Road Trips guides to Route 66, San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country, Pacific Coast Highways or Civil War Trail Road Trips. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks

Destinations

Connecticut

With lakes, orchards, vineyards and hikes, one of the smallest states in the Union packs a big punch.

Massachusetts

From city streets to cow-dotted pastures, Massachusetts offers an incredible diversity of landscapes.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is one big scenic attraction. You don’t have to drive through miles of suburbia to get to the good stuff because most of it is the good stuff.

Vermont

The Green Mountain State offers outdoor adventure, vibrant arts, photogenic villages and locavore fare.

Maine

Scenic byways hug rivers, lakes, forests and mountains.

Connecticut River Valley, Massachusetts
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Connecticut

The Constitution State has long been luring artists, celebrities and moneyed Manhattanites, who appreciate the rural landscape sprinkled with small vineyards and genteel Colonial towns.

Sandwiched between sexy New York City and quainter quarters in northern New England, Connecticut often gets short shrift from travelers. But the Litchfield Hills, with lakes, vineyards and hiking trails capture Connecticut as it’s been for centuries, while the pristine scenery of the Connecticut River Valley began luring artists in the 1900s and it’s easy to see what inspired them.

History

The name ‘Connecticut’ comes from the Mohegan name for the great river that bisects the state. A number of Native American tribes (including the Mohegan, as well as the Pequot and others) were here when the first European explorers, primarily Dutch, appeared in the early 17th century. The first English settlement was at Old Saybrook in 1635, followed a year later by the Connecticut Colony, built by Massachusetts Puritans under Thomas Hooker. A third colony was founded in 1638 in New Haven. After the Pequot War (1637), the Native Americans were no longer a check to colonial expansion in New England, and Connecticut’s English population grew. In 1686 Connecticut was brought into the Dominion of New England.

The American Revolution swept through Connecticut, with major battles leaving scars at Stonington (1775), Danbury (1777), New Haven (1779) and Groton (1781). Connecticut became the fifth state in 1788. It embarked on a period of prosperity, propelled by whaling, shipbuilding, farming and manufacturing (from firearms to bicycles to household tools), which lasted well into the 19th century.

The 20th century brought world wars and the Great Depression but, thanks in no small part to Connecticut’s munitions industries, the state was able to fight back. Everything from planes to submarines was made in the state, and when the defense industry began to decline in the 1990s, the growth of o...

Table of contents

• Cover
• How to Use This eBook
• Contents
• Welcome to New England Fall Foliage
• New England Map
• New England Fall Foliage Highlights
• City Guide
• Need to Know
• Road Trips
• Destinations
• Driving in New England
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers
• Index
• Back Cover