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New England for Free

Green Mountain Trails,
Free Fun Fridays, MA
1 4
VT
www.highlandstreet
foundation.org/freefunfridays.html MAP K3 • Green Mountain Club, 4711
Admission to eight different Waterbury-Stowe Rd • 802 244 7037
museums or cultural attractions • Open 9am–5pm daily (mid-Oct–
throughout Massachusetts is free mid-May: Mon–Fri)
each Friday from late June through • www.greenmountainclub.org
August. See the website for insti­ Green Mountain Club’s visitor center
tutions that take part. provides information, current trail
conditions, and maps for hiking
National Park
2 mountain trails all over Vermont.
Service
Project Puffin Visitor
Freedom Trail 5
Walking Tours, MA Center, ME
MAP W3 • National Park MAP Q3 • 311 Main St,
Service Downtown Visitor Rockland • 207 596
Center, Faneuil Hall, 1 5566 • Open May:
Faneuil Hall Sq, Boston • 617 10am–5pm Wed–Sun;
242 5642 • Call for hours Jun–Oct: 10am–5pm
• www.nps.gov/bost daily • www.project
Park Rangers offer two puffin.audubon.org
free walking tours of At the Project Puffin Visitor
Boston’s Freedom Trail – Center tourists can learn about
from Faneuil Hall to Old the ongoing seabird restoration
South Meeting House programs on Maine’s offshore
and from Faneuil Hall islands and experience live
to Old North Church. video and audio feeds of
puffin rookeries – one of
Yale University
3 Town crier actor on the great bird conserva­
Art Museums,
New Haven, CT Freedom Trail tour tion success stories.
Cliffwalk, RI
The Yale University Art Gallery and 6
the Yale Center for British Art have MAP F5 • Memorial Drive to
spectacular collec tions in land mark Ochre Point, Newport • 401 845 5300
Louis B. Kahn buildings from early • www.cliffwalk.com
and late in his career (see p42). This 3.5­mile (5.5­km) walk above the
natural rocky shore skirts
the backyards of some of
Newport’s most dramatic
Gilded Age mansions.
Parts of the south ern half
are on a rough trail.
Hampton Beach
7
Concerts and
Fireworks, NH
MAP N6 • 115 Ocean
Blvd, Hampton Beach
• www.hamptonbeach.
org • Jun–Aug
Every night throughout
the summer free con­
Indo-Pacific galleries, Yale Art Gallery certs of various music

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