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           White Mountains,
           New Hampshire
       Summer hikers and winter
       skiers relish these rugged,
       forested mountains. Hike, drive,
       or ride the cog railway up Mount
 Fort Kent
 Fort Kent  Washington (see pp20–21).
    1
  1 Presque                       Litchfield Hills,
    Presque
 A p p a l a c h i a n               M o u n t a i n s
 A p p a l a c h i a n               M o u n t a i n s MAINE  Houlton 95 2  1  1  Calais Calais  Bistros and boutiques fill the white
   IsleIsle
                                  Connecticut
   95
   Houlton
                              clapboard buildings of hill-country
 Moosehead
 Moosehead
 Lake Lake
                              villages in this area where the rich
 Greenville
 Greenville
                              keep country retreats (see pp24–5).
   Lincoln
 201 201
    Lincoln
 MAINE
   2
       Machias
   Bangor
    Ellsworth
 Rangeley
 VERMONT
 VERMONT  Rangeley  Augusta 95  95  Bangor Ellsworth Machias
 Lake Lake  2  2  Augusta
 Champlain  White
 Champlain
 White
     Mount
 Mountains
 Montpelier
 Lewiston
 Burlington
 Burlington  Montpelier  Mountains  Lewiston  Mount
     Desert Island
    Desert Island
 7  7  89  89  Brunswick  0 km 50 50
 Brunswick
     0 km
 Green
 Green  93  93 Lakes Regionion
 Lakes Reg
 Mountains  0 miles  50 50
 Mountains
     0 miles
 Portland
 Hanover
 Hanover  Portland
 NEW  Kennebunk                         Green
 Kennebunk
 NEW
 HAMPSHIRE  95  95
 HAMPSHIRE
 7  7  Concordord 93  93                Mountains,
 Conc
 Portsmouth
 91  91  Portsmouth
 Manchester
 Manchester                         Vermont
 Brattleboro
 Williamstown
 Williamstown  Brattleboro          From pre-Revolutionary
 Boston
 Boston
 MASSACHUSETTS
 Pittsfield
 Pittsfield  MASSACHUSETTS  Provincetown  villages to ridgeline
 Provincetown
 Springfield
 Springfield  Worcester             hiking trails, the Green
 Worcester
 Plymouth
 90  90  Plymouth
 Berkshires
 Berkshires  91  91 Providence      Mountains form the
 Providence
 RHODE
 RHODE
 Litchfield  Hartfordord  ISLAND  Cape Cape  spine of Vermont. In fall,
 Litchfield
 Hartf
 ISLAND
 Falmouth
 Hills Hills  Falmouth Cod Cod
 CONNECTICUT
 CONNECTICUT                        its forests blaze with
 Newport
 Mysticstic Newport                 color; in winter, some
 My
 New Havenven
 New Ha
                                    of the nation’s top slopes
                                    lure skiers (see pp26–7).
         Portland and Casco
         Bay, Maine
     Portland remains a seafaring
     center on a picturesque bay, but
     the Old Port also hosts galleries,
     inns, and boutiques (see pp28–9).
         Lakes Region,
         New Hampshire
     Lake Winnipesaukee, with its 240-
     mile (386-km) shoreline, rules the   Berkshires,
     region’s kingdom of mountain-  Massachusetts
     rimmed lakes (see pp30–31).  Theater, music, and dance flourish
                              in the gentle Berkshire Hills,
                              where lavish estates of a bygone
                              era’s millionaires lend a sophis-
                              ticated air to homespun country
                              villages (see pp32–3).
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