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9 Days • 11 Meals NEW ENGLAND RAILS & TRAILS 2025 - NEW
NEW ENGLAND RAILS & TRAILS 2025
9 Days • 11 Meals
- NEW
October 1 - 9, 2025
October 1 - 9, 2025
Activity Level
Activity Level 3: Moderately Active Pace - Active walking daily, some hiking, uneven terrain, hills, and steps. Less rest options available. Active sightseeing, early starts, evening activities, and significant travel times possible.
Activity Level
Activity Level 3: Moderately Active Pace - Active walking daily, some hiking, uneven terrain, hills, and steps. Less rest options available. Active sightseeing, early starts, evening activities, and significant travel times possible.
Tour Highlights & Inclusions
  • Round Trip Home Pick-up*
  • Round Trip Airfare
  • 11 Meals: 7-Breakfasts, 4-Dinners
  • 2 Trains: Mt. Washington Cog Railway & Granite State Scenic Railroad
  • Boston City Tour & Faneuil Hall
  • JFK Presidential Library & Museum
  • Kancamagus Highway
  • Unconventional Shelburne Museum
  • Tour & Taste: Cold Hollow Cider Mill, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Maple Sugar Farm
  • Portland & Morse Libby House
  • Portland Head Lighthouse
  • Casco Bay Cruise
  • Lobster Farewell Dinner
  • Professional Tour Manager
  • Hotel Transfers & Baggage at Hotels
Accommodations
  • Boston Area (2) - Westin Boston Seaport or Le Meridien Boston/Cambridge
  • Burlington, VT (2) - Doubletree or Best Western Windjammer
  • White Mountains area (2) - The Glen House
  • Portland (2) - Hyatt Place or Holiday Inn
Alternate hotels may be used

*Please see Terms & Conditions

 
Departures & Prices

Prices for this departure date:
$4399 per person double
$4349 per person triple
$5799 single

Prices above are from
LAX / SAN / SFO / IND / CVG
DFW / IAH / SAT / AUS / PHX
LAS / ABQ / DEN / SLC / SEA / PDX

Cash Early Booking Savings
SAVE $100 - First 1-20 Clients
SAVE $75 - 21-40 Clients
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Single Supplement Savings
The first TWO Singles to book, SAVE 50% off the Single Supplement

Additional Airports & Prices
$4,399 pp Double  LAX / SAN / SFO
$4,399 pp Double  IND / CVG
$4,399 pp Double  DFW / IAH / SAT / AUS
$4,399 pp Double  PHX / LAS / ABQ
$4,399 pp Double  DEN / SLC / SEA / PDX
+$50  SNA / SMF / OAK / SJC
+$200  ONT / PSP
Singles +$1,400 / Triple (in 2 Beds) -$50
Land Only  $3,725

Contact us for prices from other airports.

Daily Itinerary
Day 1 - Wednesday, 10/1/2025
Fly to Boston
Upon arrival in Boston, meet your Tour Manager and transfer to your hotel for a two night stay. Your eveing is at leisure in this historic city.
Day 2 - Thursday, 10/2/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner
Boston
This morning enjoy a Boston City Tour featuring Boston Commons, the Old State House, the Old North Church (where Paul Revere got the signal to start his famous ride), the Old South Meeting House, Beacon Hill and Old Ironsides. Visit the Faneuil Hall Marketplace for leisure time. Later visit the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Tonight enjoy a Welcome Dinner. 
Day 3 - Friday, 10/3/2025 - Breakfast
To Burlington, VT
After breakfast travel to the scenic town of Woodstock, often referred to as “America’s Prettiest Town” with its colonial architecture and New England charm.  Visit the Billings Farm & Museum, a modern working dairy farm and history museum of Vermont life in the 1890’s.  Then pass through quaint villages and mountain scenery before arriving in Burlington for a two night stay in the famous and historic town.
Day 4 - Saturday, 10/4/2025 - Breakfast
Vermont Sightseeing
Visit the Shelburne Museum, located in Vermont’s scenic Lake Champlain Valley & one of the nation’s finest, most diverse, and unconventional museums of art and Americana. Later visit Cold Hollow Cider Mill, one of the largest apple cider mills in New England. Also visit the home of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, founded in 1978 in a renovated gas station. Enjoy a brief factory tour and a scoop of one of the creative flavors. The rest of the day is at your own pace.
Day 5 - Sunday, 10/5/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner
Granite State Scenic Railroad
This morning visit a Maple Sugar Farm to sample some authentic Vermont Maple sweets and learn about the sugaring process. Later board the Granite State Scenic Railway in Lincoln. The picturesque 80-minute experience rides along the banks of Pemigewasset River and through the woods on a historic rail system that dates back to the late 1800’s. Continue to your hotel for a two night stay in the beautiful White Mountains and enjoy dinner with your fellow travelers.
Day 6 - Monday, 10/6/2025 - Breakfast
Mt. Washington Cog Railway
This morning board the historic Mount Washington Cog Railway. Enjoy breathtaking vistas during the three-hour rail experience aboard the world’s first (1869) mountain climbing Cog Railway to the top of the highest peak in the Northeast, Mount Washington. Then travel to the small town of North Conway for some free time.  Then, one of New England’s most popular scenic drives, the Kancamagus Highway. The drive offers spectacular views of rushing rivers, covered bridges and mountain scenery. Enjoy the evening at leisure.
Day 7 - Tuesday, 10/7/2025 - Breakfast
Portland
Board your motorcoach and enjoy the scenery as you travel from the mountains to the coast.  Arrive in Portland for a two night stay. It’s Maine’s largest city, sitting on a peninsula jutting out into beautiful island-filled Casco Bay. Visit the Victoria Mansion, also known as the Morse Libby House, the nation’s premier showpiece of Victorian architecture.
Day 8 - Wednesday, 10/8/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner
Portland
Today enjoy a scenic Casco Bay Cruise past lovely Victorian cottages on the shorelines.  Then enjoy some leisure time for shopping and lunch on your own in Old Port, Portland’s historic waterfront. Later visit the Portland Head Lighthouse & Museum in Cape Elizabeth, one of America’s oldest and most photographed lighthouses. Tonight enjoy a Lobster Farewell Dinner with your fellow travelers.
Day 9 - Thursday, 10/9/2025 - Breakfast
Fly Home
After breakfast, transfer to Boston and fly home with wonderful memories.

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