1/2-day NH - VT - RI route recommendations based in Hartford?

Linc · Sep 23, 2012

First of all, I REALLY wish I was going to be out there in a few weeks for FredW's NH bridge tour...

But, vacation time is taken too far ahead, my week-long trip is happening and I don't trust the midwest enough to be driving back to Michigan mid-October. Sooo, does anyone have any recommendations for a 1/2 day trip starting from the Hartford area? I'd be up for scenic vistas, color tours, coastal roads, whatever. Picking up a good friend and taking her for a ride so hope to see some better scenery than just interstates, but I'm not against using interstates to get somewhere beautiful.

Here's a couple thoughts just looking at the area, but I could be setting myself up for a day of gridlock... :angry2:

Hartford - Newport - Providence loop

Hartford - Bennington - Brattleboro loop

Anyway, thanks for any advice you might have and hope the colors are pretty good next Saturday!

Thanks,

Abe in Michigan

Fred W · Sep 24, 2012

Option #2. Definitely. Go north and enjoy.

The first route would suck moist ass cheese. Just a lot of traffic and congestion in that direction.

Willie · Sep 25, 2012

Agree with Fred W take #2 Made 2 small changes for you to consider

The CHANGES

First one takes you up 44 and MA 57

Second change to consider is out of Orange MA, Come down 202, nice sweeping road.

Have a great ride

Willie

Linc · Sep 25, 2012

Willie said:
Agree with Fred W take #2 Made 2 small changes for you to consider

The CHANGES

First one takes you up 44 and MA 57

Second change to consider is out of Orange MA, Come down 202, nice sweeping road.

Have a great ride

Willie

Thanks Fred, and Willie!

Like the revised route, probably take you up on that for sure! Think I'll ask my lady if it's too far, but think we might catch a late breakfast at Amy's Bakery Arts Cafe in Brattleboro. Not a lot of good small town diners in that town that I could find, but grabbing something to go and eating down by the water might be fun.

Thanks again guys, you may have saved me from a VERY unhappy pillion after hours of tollways and big rigs. Or as Fred W. so poeticly phrased it... "ass cheese". :lol:

Abe in MI