Just 23 minutes from Portsmouth, 27 minutes from Manchester and VERY kid-friendly, Coppal House Farm is a working farm in the small, quaint and scenic town of Lee, NH, and in addition to offering their naturally-made cold-pressed Sunflower Oil from their own crops as well as other locally-made … [Read more...]
Scenic Drives, Daytrips
Daytrip to Lakes Region! Lovely Drive, Highly Scenic Lake Cruise, Shopping & Lakeside Lunch!
With more info here than we were able to include in our print visitor's guide NH Visitor, this daytrip offers visitors in the Merrimack Valley or Seacoast a whopping taste of our Lakes Region, but in a time-condensed format. The "less-than-you-thought" driving times to/from your dock point are … [Read more...]
Daytrip: The Vermont Country Store and Maybe More
About a 1½ hours' highly scenic drive from Nashua, Manchester and Concord, and only 40 minutes from Keene gets you to one of the most absorbing shopping treasures in New England, and quite near that is also living history museum The Fort at #4. The Vermont Country Store itself has a charming … [Read more...]
Daylily Daytrip #1 – Davis Brook Farm (Hancock)
This family farming enterprise was one of two daylily flower farms that was recommended by our website developer who thought it would make a really nice daytrip for visitors and other locals alike. The other one she suggested is just across the Vermont border. A trip to Davis Brook … [Read more...]
Daylily Daytrip #2 (50 min. from Keene, 2 hrs. from Merrimack Valley)
As mentioned in Daylilly Daytrip #1, our website developer Jennifer recommended two excellent daylily flower farms, this one being the larger and the farthest, but she swears no one who likes florals would be disappointed. The drive is certainly scenic because Vermont itself is. Among the things … [Read more...]
Daytrip: Salmon Falls Stoneware (Dover)
This is a fun and time-worthy 1-hour drive daytrip from the Merrimack Valley and only 20 minutes from Portsmouth. Their "craftery" and mega factory store are under the same rustic roof, so you can both see the creative action and shop. They always have factory seconds which are priced at discounts … [Read more...]
Daytrip: The Kittery Trading Post in the Seacoast
For Merrimack Valley visitors, this is another place to add to your list if you are considering making a daytrip to the Seacoast. In addition to bumming around historic Portsmouth, just over the state line is the town of Kittery, ME which is a factory outlet shopping Mecca, and at the southern end … [Read more...]