Travel journalist Francesca Page discusses the latest travel trends on ‘Your World.’ New England packs a lot of U.S.
A. in a little corner of America. Its six states combined would rank only 18th among the 50 states.
Visitors driving north up Interstate 95 can leave New York – not New England – and drive clear across Connecticut and Rhode Island, north through Massachusetts , zip through coastal New Hampshire and arrive in southern Maine in just five hours. That's five states, 10% of all of them, in a single afternoon, missing only the sixth New England state — beautiful, rural Vermont. KANSAS CITY HOME TO AMERICA'S BEST BARBECUE, CHEFS CLAIM ‘OUR VARIETY MAKES US UNIQUE’ There's plenty to see along the way .
Among the options are plenty of coastlines, the sites that gave birth to the United States and spectacular autumn foliage. Here is one must-see site in these six New England states. Connecticut – Mystic Seaport Mystic Connecticut USA.
The small railroad station at Mystic is shown with a decorated hay cart. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) America’s largest maritime museum brings the nation’s sailing heritage to life today with its historic New England oceanfront village, exhibits, period arts and crafts, and vessels such as the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last remaining wooden whale ship.
The area is still essential to the nation’s maritime heritage today. The U.S.
Navy submarine fleet is headquartered a few miles west .