WHY GO: Where do Philadelphia couples go when they’ve had enough of the city and want to reconnect in peace? To towns along the Perkiomen Trail! For over a hundred years, Philly folks have trekked 30 miles West of the city to recreate near Valley Forge National Historical Park, in …
Best Romantic Hotels in Northeast USA: New England and Mid Atlantic States Have you been searching for the best hotel, inn, or B&B, to take your beloved this year? If you are anywhere in the Northeast USA from Virginia to Maine, you’re in luck. The Getaway Mavens have identified 17 …
Apple Tree Inn, Lenox MA Kudos to the guys who surveyed the Massachusetts Berkshires entertainment scene and thought, “You know what this place needs? A cool ole hotel with a year round intimate performance space for folk-rock, blues, and jazz musicians, and other indie artists.” And so, the Apple Tree …
WHY GO: Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant, was set in the Berkshires MA. Norman Rockwell lived and composed his iconic Saturday Evening Post covers here. Inexplicably, Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick at his home in Pittsfield, far from any sea. And Edith Wharton designed her ideal home in these rolling hills. …
WHY GO: Once the terminus of the Erie Canal, Buffalo NY had more millionaires than any other city at the turn of last century. Two US Presidents, Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland, spent time here. And one, William McKinley, was assassinated here. Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks and roadways, industry flourished. …
WHY GO: There’s so much going on in greater Rochester NY, it’s tough to keep up with it all. Suffice it to say that the city best known for the Erie Canal, George Eastman – of Eastman-Kodak fame – Susan B Anthony, and several top Universities, is going through some …
WHY GO: Why getaway to the Finger Lakes? For the increasingly serious wines so fine and drinkable, the best Wine-Spectator-acclaimed restaurants in New York City are taking note. Why Seneca Lake? For reasons outlined below. Seneca Lake is one of the largest of the eleven Finger Lakes, and at 625 …
WHY GO: There are over 100 waterfalls within ten square miles of Ithaca NY. Most cascade through fractures in the earth: a landscape that endows the town with the perfect tagline, “Ithaca is Gorges.” Throw in the longest of the 11 Finger Lakes – Cayuga – and you’ve got yourself …
Named for the indigenous people of the region, Cayuga Lake is the stuff of legends. Nearly 40 miles long, the longest of Upstate New York’s eleven Finger Lakes, and 435 feet deep at its deepest, this glacially-formed lake inspires some of the most outlandish myths. Starting in the late 1800s …
WHY GO: Williamstown MA is home to Williams College and the Williamstown Theater Festival, but in July 2014, the Art World was all atwitter about the reopening of the town’s Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute – now known as “The Clark” – after a $145 million expansion and renovation. …