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The wife and I will be dropping down into Vermont from QC and heading back east through the US.

We don't want to get too far south but want to spend a few days heading home.

Any suggestions on what to see, websites for local fairs, good shopping destinations (besides North Conway and Bangor), etc?
 
If you like the beach/boardwalk scene you can check out Hampton Beach in NH. It is along Route 1 which is a nice drive and will put you into/through the coast of Maine as well. LL Bean is located in Freeport Maine and is good shopping. Kittery Maine is also a large outlet area. If you drop down into Mass (my stomping grounds) you could stop by a few nice farms in Newbury, Newburyport & Ipswich. From Kittery to MA area I mentioned you are talking an hour or so ride on Route 495. Newbury area you could go to Plum Island for the beach scene, visit Tender Crop Farm and down the road Marini Farm and Russell Orchards. All have many great treats such as local raised meat, veggies, hard cider and wine.

You could travel back across MA if you take Route 495 to the Mass Pike. If you take a side trip into the Northampton/Amherst/Hadley area. Hadley is a large farming area for veggies. Amherst and Noho are more "abundant" towns but have many many great brew pubs and restaurants. I live in this area and could tell you a million things to do based on what you really like. You could then hit up the Berkshires on your way out of MA and travel back up through NY and see Niagra Falls if you have not done so before. I made this circle via motorcycle a few times in the past. E-mail is open.
 
The Shelburne Museum has interesting exhibits of yesteryear. Well worth the price of admission -plan on staying all day. If you go south through Addison County farm country (Field days-Fair is in early August) take the Ferry at Shoreham ( you will go by the dairy farm we once owned many years ago) and go into New York state to Fort Ticonderoga- very interesting info about the American Revolution and colonial days. Then go back to Vermont, find your way to Rutland and go over the mountain to Woodstock to the Billings Farm Museum. They still maintain the beautiful herd of Jerseys there once owned by Laurance Rockefellar and his wife Mary who was from a very old Vermont family. Enjoy- Rand
 
North Conway is a tourist trap in my recollection, the traffic there
used to be terrible when I was growing up in Maine and we
would head over that way to the White Mountains but if you like
that sort of thing it might be nice. If you get east that far the
Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Owl's Head ME is well
worth a visit, they are primarily focused on pre-1930 stuff but
they also have some later exhibits. They have planes, cars,
trucks, high wheel bicycles and lots of other stuff. Looks like
they have an antique truck and tractor show this weekend.
Zach
Owls Head
 
Cape Elizabeth lighthouse at South Portland is a must, if you like clams and haddock, Susan's Fish N Chips on Forest Ave in Portland is the place if you don't mind eating multi-award winning , reasonably priced seafood in the north half of a garage at a fraction of what the tourist type places charge, the Maritime Museum at Bath is an all day visit, water tours of Casco Bay, LL Bean is open 24/7 in Freeport, the clam festival is coming up pretty soon in North Yarmouth, the list goes on . . . .
 
(quoted from post at 08:35:08 07/15/14) Mt Washington. Either by car or the cog rail. Cog rail is steam
powered by coal.
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Awesome ride and sights. Take a jacket with you .
Last I heard the rabid green weenies were trying to shut down the coal locomotives due to causing global warming and acid rain. A conversion to LP was being considered.
For the hardy types there is a walking trail system from Georgia or somewhere up to New Brunswick or Quebec or something.
 
(quoted from post at 04:47:07 07/15/14) The wife and I will be dropping down into Vermont from QC and heading back east through the US.

We don't want to get too far south but want to spend a few days heading home.

Any suggestions on what to see, websites for local fairs, good shopping destinations (besides North Conway and Bangor), etc?[


Shelbourn museum, a short distance South of Burlington,Vt.Worth the sidetrip./quote]
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The rabid green weenies won B&D. They recently added a biodiesel engine to the fleet. However it was built and engineered by the guys at the Cog Railway so to me that makes it at least a little better.
 
(quoted from post at 15:00:48 07/15/14)
(quoted from post at 08:35:08 07/15/14) Mt Washington. Either by car or the cog rail. Cog rail is steam
powered by coal.
Click to expand...

Awesome ride and sights. Take a jacket with you .
Last I heard the rabid green weenies were trying to shut down the coal locomotives due to causing global warming and acid rain. A conversion to LP was being considered.
For the hardy types there is a walking trail system from Georgia or somewhere up to New Brunswick or Quebec or something.
Click to expand...

Conversion from coal (in addition to, really) had nothing to do with "greenies", they'd been working on an oil fired locomotive for years. They do all their own work there, quite a shop and crew!
 
Maybe "they" ARE the rabid green weenies of whom you speak. "We have seen the enemy and it is us" as Pogo said.
Zach
 
(quoted from post at 11:26:21 07/15/14)
(quoted from post at 15:00:48 07/15/14)
(quoted from post at 08:35:08 07/15/14) Mt Washington. Either by car or the cog rail. Cog rail is steam
powered by coal.
Click to expand...

Awesome ride and sights. Take a jacket with you .
Last I heard the rabid green weenies were trying to shut down the coal locomotives due to causing global warming and acid rain. A conversion to LP was being considered.
For the hardy types there is a walking trail system from Georgia or somewhere up to New Brunswick or Quebec or something.
Click to expand...

Conversion from coal (in addition to, really) had nothing to do with "greenies", they'd been working on an oil fired locomotive for years. They do all their own work there, quite a shop and crew!
Click to expand...

Engineer I was talking at the Cog railway was not happy about the coal fuelling being threatened.
 
(quoted from post at 17:04:21 07/15/14)
(quoted from post at 11:26:21 07/15/14)
(quoted from post at 15:00:48 07/15/14)
(quoted from post at 08:35:08 07/15/14) Mt Washington. Either by car or the cog rail. Cog rail is steam
powered by coal.
Click to expand...

Awesome ride and sights. Take a jacket with you .
Last I heard the rabid green weenies were trying to shut down the coal locomotives due to causing global warming and acid rain. A conversion to LP was being considered.
For the hardy types there is a walking trail system from Georgia or somewhere up to New Brunswick or Quebec or something.
Click to expand...

Conversion from coal (in addition to, really) had nothing to do with "greenies", they'd been working on an oil fired locomotive for years. They do all their own work there, quite a shop and crew!
Click to expand...

Engineer I was talking at the Cog railway was not happy about the coal fuelling being threatened.
Click to expand...

Coal burning/ coal ash was even a problem back when I did ski patrol there for the Cog Railway in the winter. Got so heavy on the snow that it would ruin your skis. They were working on an oil fired locomotive back then for their own reasons...
 
I didn't mean that in any bad way, just repeating what was said. I think it is really neat that they engineer and build their own equipment myself. It is not something just anyone can do.
 
(quoted from post at 18:46:01 07/15/14) I didn't mean that in any bad way, just repeating what was said. I think it is really neat that they engineer and build their own equipment myself. It is not something just anyone can do.
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Yes, they have an amazing shop there, and the body of knowledge regarding steam power is probably as good if not better than just about anywhere else.
 
Okay don't look for the "OLd Man in the Mountain" , he's not there. When you go on the Cog Railway ,once you are underway shout real loud" hey how many people were killed on this thing". [ It's better if you sit in the back when you yell this out. { answer is 12].
 

You say you don't want to go too far south so that eliminates most of the suggestions. I agree with Shelburne museum. Then go over the mountains through smugglers notch to Morrisville. Stop at the Trapp Family lodge (Sound of Music) go over to St. Johnsbury VT then over to Lancaster NH. The Lancaster Fair is Labor Day weekend the tractor pull is Monday. There is also good tractor pulling at Skowhegan ME fair, right on US route 2 August 7-16. I agree with the Cog Railway. My buddy Charlie who runs the place and designed the new diesels told me that the main reason for going to diesel was that the logistics of getting coal was a nightmare. This trip is mostly Interstate 89 and VT 100 and US 2 Good roads with lots of scenery, and not far south and not much traffic.
 
Well there is the cathedral of the pines in Rindge NH it has services all day. The parents of a WWII soldier converted the old farm to a shrine for their son after he was killed during the war. There are other things to look at while there also. The view from the outside cathedral is something to see. There is the flume. As was said the old man is gone now. Mt. Washington if it is clear is quite a site. If you got to Boston there is Quincy Market down town.
The Bennington Battle field in Bennington VT. In Brattleboro Vt is the Holstein Registry association. The shot heard round the world is at Lexington and concord MA. Plymouth rock. Plymouth MA also the ship the Constitution used to be docked in Boston unless they moved it. There is the first primary vote is at Dixville Notch NH. The hood dairy farm was in Derry NH don't know if there is anything left to see there. I guess that is about all I can think of off hand.
 
Lake Champlain and on the NY side Ft Ticonderoga. Be sure to go to Burlington, VT to Ben and Jerry's plus some Cabot cheese, almost as good as WI cheese.
 
(quoted from post at 14:53:26 07/15/14) Cape Elizabeth lighthouse at South Portland is a must, if you like clams and haddock, Susan's Fish N Chips on Forest Ave in Portland is the place if you don't mind eating multi-award winning , reasonably priced seafood in the north half of a garage at a fraction of what the tourist type places charge, the Maritime Museum at Bath is an all day visit, water tours of Casco Bay, LL Bean is open 24/7 in Freeport, the clam festival is coming up pretty soon in North Yarmouth, the list goes on . . . .
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All that! We've done most of it. If you can get a tour of the Bath Iron Works (order tickets in advance through the Maritime Museum) and see them building the newest warships for the Navy it's well worth the time. Even the wife who usually could care less for that kind of thing was very impressed. Fort Knox is very cool too, Acadia Nat. Park is worth a day. There's a place down on the water near Freeport (don't recall the name but any local can tell you how to get there) that has seafood to die for. Lots of outlet stores in Freeport and we spend hours in Bean and hit their outlet there in Freeport too. Bar Harbor is very touristy but worth a visit too, some good restaurants and unique shops there. We've been to Maine twice in the last five years and love every minute of it. Probably going back to VT and ME next year. Use to spend a lot of time down in Mass. at the big antique shows, we'd come over at least twice a year for that.
 
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions! Looks like we will have a well planned trip for next weekend.
 
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