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Quick trip to Boston

Cottontail

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I'm going to be in Boston the week before Thanksgiving. On the day I leave. Monday the 24th, I have about 6 hours free...assuming I'm up and out by 7 am. I have to be at Logan around 1:00 for a 3:00 pm flight. I'll have spent 3 days in Boston by that point and will have taken a day trip to Newport RI and Mystic CT and the casino at Foxwoods. I've been to Springfield for the NBA Hall of Fame, so that doesn't interest me a second time. I've been to the tip of the Cape so that isn't anything I need to do a second time either.

On that last day, is there any short road trips that I should consider? I was thinking Kennebunkport ME, but not sure what there is to see there. I considered Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, but don't want to deal with the ferry. I considered Providence.

What would y'all do with 8 hours? I'd love to get into NH, ME, or VT if time permits and there is something worth seeing. I'm ok driving a couple hours to and from an still having a couple hours in a destination to look around.

I am free as early as 5:00 the night before as I look back at my schedule, so I could even drive somewhere and spend the night before so I'm up and ready to see stuff right after breakfast.
 
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No beer stuff. Car would be fine, scenery would be fine, just getting into a place I've never been would be fine. I'm not really picky. I just want to get out and look around and spend some time in an unfamiliar area. History would be fine, but lower on my list. I'll have had my fill with old dusty places after 3 days in Boston!

Any particularly scenic drives that I could do - 5 hour loop or something? I know the fall colors will be gone by that point, and it will probably be to cold to do much hiking in to the mountains.
 
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Larz Anderson museum in Brookline, MA- Car stuff

Portsmouth, NH- kind of a neat area, similar areas that are a little closer would be Rockport, MA, Gloucester, MA, etc. Salem, MA if you're into history stuff.

White mountains/Franconia notch are neat, but there's not as much to do this time of year because of the weather.

Concord/Lincoln, MA- can do the tour for some of the battlegrounds for the start of the revolutionary war.

Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA.

I'd avoid MV or Nantucket- this is the offseason so nothing much will be going on, especially on Nantucket.
 
if you want to do nature stuff head north to NH VT ME but to get to anything that is worth looking at its going to be 4+ hours of driving round trip from boston so if you can sneak out like you said the day before do that way you can spend more time soaking in the nature than just rushing around. also that time of year is not pretty all the leafs are gone and there is no good snow fall yet so its just a gray brown landscpae

everything the a-hole above me mention is good other things as well

history stuff:
-boott lowell mills - textile mill that was at the heart of the industrial rev they still run the machining
-freedom trail - lots of revolutionary war sites plus check out cool spots in boston, start at boston common, go a few graveyards, then to the boston masicare, though fanueel hall, then north end, then charles town, uss constituion/uss cassin young, then bunker hill

nature stuff:
-kangamangus highway
-aquarium

art:
-MFA
-ICA
-somerville museum of bad art

science:
science museum
harvard medical museum

others:
-observatory a the prudential center/also top of the hub is a restureante one floor higher than the observatory
-mapparium it is a 30 ft stain glass global that you stand in the middle of which is part of the christian science meseum
 
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