| Can anyone suggest a good place for a week’s vacation within a half day-day’s drive of New York city?

Can anyone suggest a good place for a week’s vacation within a half day-day’s drive of New York city?

Firefly asked:


My partner (from Germany) at work approached me and asked me for some local input in planning his two week vacation to New York city. He wants to spend the first week in they city, and then drive somewhere within a 1/2 day’s drive to spend the second week in a rented house or possibly a bed and breakfast either on the coast near a beach or in/near a national park with beautiful wooded scenery. He has a 10 year old and a 14 year old and would like to go somewhere with ‘beautiful trees, a state park, or something along the ocean with water sports’. I think he was thinking of something along the tri-state area coastal front, but he also seems receptive to state parks in-state/up-state New York or New Jersey, especially if there’s stuff for his kids to do (hiking, outdoors/water sports, etc.) Beautiful scenery and keeping his kids happy seem to be the priorities. Please send any links of places that you think fit the bill.

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5 Responses to “Can anyone suggest a good place for a week’s vacation within a half day-day’s drive of New York city?”

  1. lb on June 24th, 2009 2:00 pm

    Allentown PA area Dorney park
    Reading PA shopping oulets
    affortable

  2. mr danger on June 27th, 2009 10:19 am

    Newport RI or much further up the coast the Acadia NP ME area which is just spectacular
    btw even in summer the North Atlantic off the coast of Maine is cold
    To shorten the trip both USAir and Delta offer jet service into Bangor -BGR-from LGA
    Update Amy S is right
    Vermont is an exellent choice if you want fresh water
    The lower end of Lake Champlain can be interesting
    Try this

  3. Amy S on June 29th, 2009 6:35 pm

    I would head up to Vermont. Beautiful mountains and lakes and the opposite of NYC. That is what I do when I go back to New York to visit family. I escape for a few days to Vermont. Newport, RI, Cape-Cod if you want the beach.

  4. wall_coatings on July 2nd, 2009 1:44 pm

    jersey shore seaside heights

  5. twincreektaz on July 5th, 2009 8:52 am

    I’d like to mount a campaign to encourage people not to go anywhere. Travel has become so expensive and unpleasant that it’s hard to understand why people don’t stay home.
    Why are we crowding our highways and airports to get someplace else? Newspapers and magazines are filled with ads trying to get us to travel. They want us to go somewhere - anywhere but home!!!!