POLL: What's Your Favorite Staycation Destination?
Where do you go for a day's retreat from the South End?
Vacations are great, but they take a lot of planning. Staycations require less cash, fewer vacation days and shorter rides in the car (or longer rides on the T). For this week's Best of Patch Readers' Choice topic, we want to know: What's your favorite staycation location?
The following list is a sample of some great things you can do with your loved one, family or even for a quiet day by yourself. We're venturing out of the South End for this week, since the key to most vacations, even staycations, is a change of scenery.
This is a wide open topic, so we need your help. If you don't see your favorite spot in the list below, tell us in the comments and we'll add it right away.
- Freedom Trail (including the USS Constitution, King's Chapel and more)
- African Meeting House
- Harborwalk
- Prudential Tower Observation Deck
- Mount Hood Gold Course (Melrose)
- Middlesex Fells Reservation (Melrose, Medford, Stoneham, Winchester, Malden)
- Boston Harbor Islands
- Cape Ann
- Charles River Esplanade
- Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth)
- Cape Cod and the Islands
- White Mountains (including Franconia Notch, Mt. Washington and the Sacco River)
- Wrentham Outlets
- Visiting family and friends
In This article
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U.S. Navy USS Constitution
114 Rutherford Ave, Charlestown, MA -
King's Chapel
58 Tremont St, Boston, MA -
Museum Of African American History
46 Joy St, Boston, MA -
Mount Hood Golf Course
100 Slayton Rd, Melrose, MA -
Long Pond
Mystic Valley Pkwy & S Border Rd, Winchester, MA -
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Plimoth Plantation
137 Warren Ave, Plymouth, MA -
Charles River Esplanade
21 David G Mugar Way, Boston, MA
Rayleen Gaudet Nunez
7:54 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
You might want a catch all that says: Visit friends or relatives. That's what I do!
Roberto Scalese
10:28 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Thanks Rayleen, I added it as an option. It's a great point; most of my staycations as a kid involved piling into a couple of cars with my cousins and heading up to New Hampshire.