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5 or 6 day Driving tour of Maine or Vermont in the fall ?

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Mrs Roundhouse wants to , for our anniversary,

do a five day driving tour of Vermont or Maine or something like that in in late Sept or early October,
Fly from Atlanta to Boston ? Or some other city?

Rent a car and drive around, see the lighthouses or drive through some picturesque places,

Anyone done this or have any recommendations?
 
I heard Springfield and Worcester MA are lovely that time of year.


Go north to NEK, Pittsburg, Rangeley, Stratton, Greenville, Bangor, then back down the coast.
 
roundhouse said:
Mrs Roundhouse wants to , for our anniversary,

do a five day driving tour of Vermont or Maine or something like that in in late Sept or early October,
Fly from Atlanta to Boston ? Or some other city?

Rent a car and drive around, see the lighthouses or drive through some picturesque places,

Anyone done this or have any recommendations?
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A couple guys have done this. I can tell you there's no lighthouses in vt that I'm aware of! Lol
 
Also if you map a route through vt expect your times to be around 15% longer. There aren't a lot of safe passing areas and we've got alot of old folks still on the road.
 
New hampsire is my favorite. Like a little West Virginia with a Boston accent.

Don't recommend going there, people are too nice.
 
bad zuki said:
New hampsire is my favorite. Like a little West Virginia with a Boston accent.

Don't recommend going there, people are too nice.
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I will say if you go up the coast on a weekend it's going to be busy
 
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Fly to Bangor. Rent car in Bangor and a hotel for the night. Do an out and back somewhere way the fuck north of Bangor on day 1. Next day go west in roughly the route 2 corridor, hit northern NH and go south through the white mountains before heading back east and proceeding up the Maine coast. I would personally take US-202/US4 east at the latitude of concord but you could go south to NH101 and go through Manchester.

The Maine coast south of Portland is all shitty tourist crap so you I think you're better off basically going straight to Portland and then proceeding up the coast from there as far as time allows before jogging back inland to return your rental.

Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor is a good way to waste a few hours if you can convince the wife to go.

Edit: And rent some sort of roadster type car. You're gonna spend a lot of time on the kind of roads those sorts of cars were made for.
 
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Grnjp92 said:
Also if you map a route through vt expect your times to be around 15% longer. There aren't a lot of safe passing areas and we've got alot of old folks still on the road.
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Expect that in Maine too. Even the younger Mainers love driving 5 to 10 MPH below the speed limit, even on clear sunny days.
 
Fly into Bangor and take route 2 all the way to Burlington VT. Or fly into Portland and take 302 all the way to Burlington VT. Between the Maine Coast, all the stops on those 2 roads, and Burlington you can easily spend that time. Fly out of Burlington. Hotels get expensive during foliage, FYI
 
Wife, kid and I just drove from Missouri to Maine a month and 1/2 ago.
Kansas city to Columbus, OH - 1st day
Columbus to Niagra Falls - 2nd day
Niagra Falls to Lake Placid - 3rd day
Lake Placid to Manchester NH - 4th day
Manchester to Wells, ME - 5th day
Stayed at Wells, ME - 6th day
Wells to Portland - 7th day.
Flew back on the 8th day.

After Lake Placid NY we should have stayed north thru VT and New Hampshire. We went south to the beaches of Maine. I was disappointed and it was hot as hell (showed up during a heat wave). I would stay north if at all possible.
 
92 Green YJ said:
Expect that in Maine too. Even the younger Mainers love driving 5 to 10 MPH below the speed limit, even on clear sunny days.
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Where is that? Drove from Boston to my folks place in Van Buren and I swear even memere in the 79 Deville smoking Virginia Slims passed me doing 20+ mph over.

I get a chuckle when I say I'm from Northern Maine and people go... "Bangor?"
Uh.. no, that's southern Maine.
 
Kwille said:
Wife, kid and I just drove from Missouri to Maine a month and 1/2 ago.
Kansas city to Columbus, OH - 1st day
Columbus to Niagra Falls - 2nd day
Niagra Falls to Lake Placid - 3rd day
Lake Placid to Manchester NH - 4th day
Manchester to Wells, ME - 5th day
Stayed at Wells, ME - 6th day
Wells to Portland - 7th day.
Flew back on the 8th day.

After Lake Placid NY we should have stayed north thru VT and New Hampshire. We went south to the beaches of Maine. I was disappointed and it was hot as hell (showed up during a heat wave). I would stay north if at all possible.
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You skipped all the good shit and stayed on the interstate :homer:

VT, NH, ME is all about getting off highway.
 
Grnjp92 said:
I will say if you go up the coast on a weekend it's going to be busy
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Not after labor day

bad zuki said:
New hampsire is my favorite. Like a little West Virginia with a Boston accent.

Don't recommend going there, people are too nice.
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You only met the good ones then :flipoff2:
arse_sidewards said:
I would personally take US-202/US4 east at the latitude of concord but you could go south to NH101 and go through Manchester.

The Maine coast south of Portland is all shitty tourist crap
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If you take 202, let me know I'll tell ya the places to avoid. And possibly buy ya a beer.

101 sucks, shit road with no scenery. If you come thru manchvegas, 101 east, but get off at exit 3, follow 43 into Northwood and pick up 202/4 there.

TiTRD said:
Fly into Bangor and take route 2 all the way to Burlington VT. Or fly into Portland and take 302 all the way to Burlington VT. Between the Maine Coast, all the stops on those 2 roads, and Burlington you can easily spend that time. Fly out of Burlington. Hotels get expensive during foliage, FYI
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Best route so far :smokin:
 
posford said:
Best route so far :smokin:
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Except the whole Burlington park. The entire city is a fake-ass tourist trap. Like Portland with fresh water. But at least Portland has shit that doesn't suck around it whereas Burlington has nothing.
 
roundhouse said:
Mrs Roundhouse wants to , for our anniversary,

do a five day driving tour of Vermont or Maine or something like that in in late Sept or early October,
Fly from Atlanta to Boston ? Or some other city?

Rent a car and drive around, see the lighthouses or drive through some picturesque places,

Anyone done this or have any recommendations?
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Boston Hotels in the leaf season are EXPENSIVE.... and the traffic for the changing of the color is also something to contend with if you are crowd averse. You may book now. Also it gets crowded for the witch season too, (salem and all) .
 
Choose your own route, but something like this
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Guy is trying to be a tourist and do tourist shit, why steer him away :confused:
 
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