So, here’s the whole purpose for this site. I’ll be adding reviews and descriptions of all the great places that you can make a day trip out of. I’m starting with the Boston area and Southern New England but hope to branch out over time.

So, enjoy the links below and get out there:

Connecticut:

• Bigelow Hollow State Park & Nipmuck State Forest; Union, CT
  
• Bluff Point State Park; Groton, CT

Massachusetts:

Eastern Massachusetts:

Greater Boston:

• Blue Hills Reservation; Canton, Milton and Quincy, MA
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts Museum and State Archives; Dorchester (Boston), MA
• Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate; Canton, MA
• Millennium Park; West Roxbury, MA
• Otis House Museum; Beacon Hill (Boston), MA

Cape Cod:

• Cape Cod Canal Recreation Area – Scusset Beach State Reservation; Sandwich, MA
• Cape Cod National Seashore – Marconi Station & Beach; Wellfleet, MA
• Cape Cod National Seashore – Nauset Light & Beach; Eastham, MA
• Old Silver Beach; Falmouth, MA

South Shore:

• World’s End Reservation (Trustees of Reservations); Hingham, MA

South of Boston:

• Borderland State Park, Sharon & Easton, Massachusetts
• Bade Canoe Launch; Norwood, MA
• Charles River Peninsula; Needham, MA
• Corporal Robert Francis Hardy Conversation Area; Mansfield, MA
• DW Field Park & Golf Course; Brockton, MA
• Endean Path; Walpole, MA
• F. Gilbert Hills State Forest; Foxborough, MA
• Francis William Bird Park; Walpole, MA
• Memorial Park; Mansfield, MA
• Moose Hill Audubon Reservation and Trustees of Reservations; Sharon, MA
• Noon Hill Trustees of Reservations; Medfield, MA
• Signal Hill Trustees of Reservations, Norwood/Westwood, MA
• Westville Conservation Area; Taunton, MA
• Wilson Mountain State Reservation; Dedham, MA
• Wrentham State Forest; Wrentham, MA

North Shore:

• Crane Beach; Ipswich, MA
• Dogtown Commons; Gloucester, MA
• Nahant Beach/Lynn State Reservation: Nahant & Lynn, MA
• Parker River National Wildlife Refuge; Newburyport, MA
• Halibut Point State Park; Rockport, MA
• Ravenswood Park & Cape Ann Discovery Center; Gloucester, MA
• Rockport Downtown; Rockport, MA
• Stage Fort Park; Gloucester, MA

North of Boston

• The Butterfly Place; Westford, MA

Greater Lowell Area

• Lowell National Historic Park Visitor Center
• Suffolk (Wannalancit) Mills
• National Streetcar Museum

Metro West:

• Pegan Hill (Trustees of Reservations); Natick & Dover, MA
• Prospect Hill Park; Waltham, MA
• Round Hill and Weir Hill; Sudbury, MA

Central Massachusetts:

• Mt. Tom State Reservation; Holyoke, MA
  
• Wachusett Mountain Ski Mountain & State Reservation; Princeton, MA

Western Massachusetts:

• Bish Bash Falls State Park; Mt. Washington, MA
• Mt. Greylock State Reservation; Lanesborough, MA
• Mt. Washington State Forest, Mt. Washington, MA

New Hampshire:

Lakes Region:

• Sunapee State Park & Ski Resort; Newbury, NH

White Mountains/Northern New Hampshire:

• Franconia Notch State Park – Cannon Mountain; Franconia, NH
• Waterville Valley Resort Area – Campton and surrounding area

Vermont:

Mad River Valley (and surrounding areas):

• Bristol Falls – Bristol, VT
• Sugarbush Resort – Lincoln Peak Area; Warren, VT
• Warren Falls – Warren, VT

Maine:

• Houston Brook Falls; Bingham, ME
• Moxie Falls; West Forks, ME
• Penobscot Narrows Observatory and Fort Knox State Park; Prospect, ME
• Pleasant Mountain; Bridgeton, ME

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Happy travels and get out there!