Niagara Falls and New England

We are travelling from Niagara Falls eventually ending up in Boston can anyone tell us the best places to stop and see. We have thought about Burlington, Woodstock, Cape Cod any other ideas would be appreciated.

Niagara Falls and New England

There%26#39;s a lot of territory to cover between Niagara Falls and Boston. In the interests of time I would say it might be best to skip Burlington and keep your direction generally southeast. That said, you might want to visit the Lake Placid area, in the middle of the Adirondacks. From there you could head towards Saratoga for some Thoroughbred racing, maybe the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and then duck into Massachusetts through the Berkshires. The Catskills are also lovely, with rolling hills and little towns to explore.

If you wanted to see Vermont you could cross over at Fort Ticonderoga (a part of early US history) and visit Woodstock, Manchester and then cut diagonally through southern Vermont into New Hampshire and then to Boston. That%26#39;s a good week%26#39;s worth of sightseeing, if not more depending on your schedule. (A straight drive from Niagara to Boston is approx. 9 hours.)

What time of year are you thinking of visiting? If you are looking for the Fall for foliage then you need to be planning your routes and lodging as soon as possible. This is a super busy time of year in much of the Northeast and things get full early.

The Cape is wonderful in the Fall, but worth at least a few days to visit. The Cape Cod National Seashore is wonderful, even if you%26#39;re not a beach person. You can rent bikes in Provincetown and tool around the bike paths around Race Point and South Beach. Getting to most of the Cape is about a 2 hour drive, depending on the day and season. Summertime on the Cape is busy and lodging can be hard to get in the more popular towns - unless you%26#39;re willing to pay the market rate! Still, the Outer Cape is something to see!

Stay tuned here for other input - there%26#39;s plenty more to think about.

Good Luck!

Niagara Falls and New England

This is a repost from one I did earlier... it covers NY state, rather than VT, but I don%26#39;t know as much about traveling that way.... Sorry!

I%26#39;m originally from Western NY but live in Boston now. If you want to see the sights in Western/Upstate NY before heading over to Boston, the easiest way is really to drive. The train runs right through NY state, and you could stop off in the larger cities, but it won%26#39;t take you into more scenic places like the Finger Lakes and Cooperstown, etc. For that you would need to find some sort of bus. Public transportation is not good in Western NY, at least in between towns, etc. I%26#39;ve never taken the bus from Niagara Falls, but I have from Rochester - Boston... the bus follows the I-90 route, so again, you would need to get off at a larger town and either look around there or travel to a state park, etc.

Directly on the bus or train route, Buffalo has a large fairly large art musem - the Albright-Knox Gallery, and a large zoo. Rochester has the George Eastman House and some other interesting historic sights -- the Susan B. Anthony House, Mt. Hope Cemetery where Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony are buried, etc.

More off the track are Seneca Falls for the Women%26#39;s Rights Watkins Glen and/or Letchworth State Park, Cooperstown for the Baseball Hall of Fame (also a pretty area), and Saratoga Springs for more scenery, spas, and horse racing. That%26#39;s all in NYS. In MA, you could stop in the Berkshires before heading into Boston. The train does stop in Pittsfield, MA.