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Pictured above: Nubble Lighthouse at Cape Neddick, York, Maine

We are New England's prime web site for New England travel essays, generated by our staff and visitors. Visiting New England.com's mission is to feed you information from real people like us who have come to live in, or visit, New England. Through original articles and photos, as well as social media resources, and a hotel reservations center with more than 3,000 area hotels, we offer you virtually everything you need to plan your New England vacation. 

Ultimately, we present to you New England vacation information straight-from-the-heart, based on our travel experiences. We feel that is the most powerful way to let prospective travelers and New Englanders looking for new New England travel ideas to learn about this beautiful six state region. Here, you can tour Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, en route to planning your New England vacation.

So relax, take in the breathtaking imagery of our New England vacation and travel essays, and ultimately picture yourself in the wonderful environs of New England. It's really the next best thing to being there, and will perhaps inspire you to visit a truly spectacular region. Enjoy visiting New England!

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New England travel feature stories for May 2013

Spring travel in New England

NEW ENGLAND USA (photo of Bridge of Flowers, Shelburne Falls, Mass., by Eric H.) -- Many New Englanders consider spring the best season to vacation in New England. When that warmer weather arrives, the flowers blossom...  Full Story

New England's top destinations

Your guide to discovering New England

Article and photo (Wolfeboro, N.H.) by Eric H.

NEW ENGLAND USA -- You could live in New England for an entire lifetime and not get to see everything. With that in mind, imagine how daunting it can be for a tourist with one week's vacation to experience New England.

The good news is that you could stay in one village, town or city for a few days and capture the essence of what New England is all about. There's simply no need to feel obligated to race from place to place. Full Story

The magic of Portland, Maine

Find out why this seaside gem has quickly become one of New England's hottest destinations

Article and photo by Eric H.

(PORTLAND, MAINE, NEW ENGLAND USA) -- Many years ago while touring Portland, Maine, a friend commented, "This is a nice city, but they have a long way to go, a real long way to go."

Having made tremendous headway towards revitalization in the 1980s and 1990s, Portland, for a few blocks, looked like a world-class city -- what people considered a small San Francisco. Situated on a peninsula jutting out into beautiful Casco Bay, Portland sits between rugged coastline to the east, north and south and scenic countryside and vacation-friendly Sebago Lake to the west.

With hills leading to the harbor and Casco Bay, fine old homes, tree-lined brownstone streets, 19th century red brick buildings, parks and a growing arts, entertainment, lodging and dining scene, Portland seemed, at times, like a premier urban New England vacation destination. The trouble was, however, that the overall area was wildly inconsistent where it was not unusual to find a charming area juxtaposed with abandoned factory buildings and street people sitting on the sidewalks with their heads hung low. Additionally, run down parts of Congress St -- a main drag in town -- served as kind of a reality check that Portland was not all that the growing number of picture perfect postcard areas suggested.

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