Good days trips without having to rent a car

danielle123 · May 2009

Does anyone have suggestions for good days trips via public transit where you don't need a rental car once you arrive? I'd like to go someplace with antique stores, good restaurants, history, etc.

Places I've gone to and liked in the past:

-Cold Spring (the center of town and the Hudson River boardwalk is a 3 minute walk from Metro-North)
-Fire Island
-Hyde Park (we took a guided shuttle tour to the Vanderbilt and Roosevelt Estates).

Are these good suggestions and/or fun places:

Nyack
City Island
North Fork wineries (maybe take a wine tour bus?)
New Haven (the Yale area)
Mystic
Wineries north of the city
Kykuit (the Rockefeller estate)
Saratoga (Old Town Bar has a yearly booze trip during the horse races in August)

Suggestions?

anastasia beaverhausen · May 2009

I love Saratoga, I miss you The Parting Glass! Yale is New Haven's only saving grace, the town is a dump.

mamatsidale · May 2009

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: I love Saratoga, I miss you The Parting Glass! Yale is New Haven's only saving grace, the town is a dump.

yale and pizza. that's it.

anastasia beaverhausen · May 2009

Flexichick wrote: [quote=Anastasia Beaverhausen]I love Saratoga, I miss you The Parting Glass! Yale is New Haven's only saving grace, the town is a dump.

yale and pizza. that's it.

Yep, if you go, you must have Frank Pepe's.

danielle123 · May 2009

If I go to Yale, I will definitely go to Frank Pepe's - thanks!

tybur6 · May 2009

Saratoga is grrreat!

snowboarding · May 2009

I grew up in Mystic, CT and it is a great place to visit. Its a little less than a 3hr train ride on Amtrak and the station drops you off right in town so no need for a car. There are great restaurants, bars, shopping, museums, aquarium, galleries, sailing tours. Definitely worth checking out.

anastasia beaverhausen · May 2009

snowboarding wrote: I grew up in Mystic, CT and it is a great place to visit. Its a little less than a 3hr train ride on Amtrak and the station drops you off right in town so no need for a car. There are great restaurants, bars, shopping, museums, aquarium, galleries, sailing tours. Definitely worth checking out.

Mystic is really nice. There are tons of cute, quaint New England-y shops, etc. I forgot all about Mystic!

whatchuwant · May 2009

Mystic has a yearly art show- they close all the streets in the town and there's lots going on. Went last summer- was really nice. Of course, we went to Mystic Pizza and uh....not impressed.

anastasia beaverhausen · May 2009

Not sure how you'd get there, but Bennington, VT (and Burlington) is nice and very artsy.

popstar0 · May 2009

mystic is great if you like aquariums and rain. nyack is nice. check out hook mountain state park while you are there, at the end of town and also, there is a very famous haunted house there, really haunted, at the end of laveta lane. check a map to see how to get there. had a historic ruling in that house where a judge let the tenant out of their lease due to the house being haunted.

popstar0 · May 2009

the house is the purple one on the right at the end of the street. has lots of floods lights and motion detectors. cant miss it.

danielle123 · May 2009

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. Time to start filling up my Summer weekends with some of these trips!

(As for the haunted house, mentioned above, did anyone see - guilty pleasure - Ghost Hunters the other night where they taunted the ghost in the attic and he replied in a menacing voice, "Leave me alone.") ;-)

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