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No minor attraction

Get the lowdown on the best minor league baseball destinations in New England.

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Find sunny beaches, wild rides, and local hot spots.
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New skinny dipping record and Mass. 'nakations'
Do you remember where you were when it happened? I am speaking, of course, of Saturday afternoon's successful attempt to set a Guinness world...
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North stars

North stars

Each particular region of Massachusetts has its own highlights and hidden attractions. Here are 10 North Shore sights to target during these summer months.
Places for paddling

Places for paddling

A canoe or kayak is a ticket to flat-water fun across northern New England.
10 places away from everyday

10 places away from everyday

Discover 10 kid-friendly destinations around New England that provide everything from enlightenment to exercise.
Accidentally, with purpose

Accidentally, with purpose

With all the classic elements, New Haven’s small-scale version of Little Italy holds its own.

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The Boston Sports Trail

The Boston Sports Trail

Get your sports fix along the Boston Sports Trail. Use our GPS tour to help make the most of it.
Three-day coastal wine tour

Three-day coastal wine tour

Looking to escape but don't have the time — or the energy — to plan a trip? Our GPS tour has you covered.
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Take a GPS-guided tour of Route 127 from the comfort of your car.

From The Boston Globe

10 North Shore sights to target this summer

Massachusetts is rich in coastal terrain, where rocky coves and corners give way to settled land, much of it conserved as farms or forest. Each region has its own highlights and hidden attractions. Here are 10 North Shore sights to target these summer months.

Like puddles after a rainfall, so many places for paddling

A canoe or kayak is a ticket to flat-water fun across northern New England’s ponds, lakes, and waterways. Surfaces range from smooth as glass to roiling white caps. Here are suggestions for various levels of paddlers.

10 places to take kids away from everyday

Ah, the summer family road trip, motoring forth for one mile, or two, before the primal chorus rises from the squirmers in the back seat: “Are we there yet?’’

From ‘ahbeetz’ to zeppole, New Haven’s Little Italy is a find

NEW HAVEN -- I had been coming here once or twice a year for more than four decades, usually to watch Yale’s football team play Harvard at the bottom of that steep concrete skillet called the Bowl or to see a hockey game inside the growling belly of the “Yale Whale,’’ the leviathan-shaped Ingalls Rink. I had heard about the ...

Grandeur of the rapids

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- On a cool morning in March, between a pair of thousand-foot cliffs flanking the Colorado River, my friend Donna Dignan and I sat listening in the bow of a tulip-red raft. In the Grand Canyon, rafters hear rapids long before they see them.

The deal about York

YORK, Maine - It’s hard to choose among York’s summer delights. I’m standing between six ancient wooden lanes of candlepin bowling and Short Sands Beach, where little kids are shoveling wet sand into neon green pails for castles that will soon wash away. Singles and couples are ambling along the water’s edge, and clusters of teens eye each other in ...