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5 Places You Should Road-Trip to Right Now

You may have noticed that everyone seems to be fleeing the city this weekend. Don’t be alarmed. It’s the last weekend of summer, and they’re probably just road-tripping off to some 19th-century mansion turned hotel or a brewery on a remote island. Oops. There you went, too.

DISTANCE: 107 MILES

Central Provisions in Portland

You Require: Land and sea indulgences in a historical setting.
You’ll Receive: A veritable seafood temple in Portland’s Old Port, housed in a former East India Company storehouse. There’s your history. On the menu: yellowfin tuna, lobster toast and suckling pig. Those would be your indulgences.

DISTANCE: 131 MILES

Monhegan Brewing Co. Monhegan Island

You Require: A ferry-accessible forest island with just 75 inhabitants and near total isolation from the mainland. A beer wouldn’t hurt, either.
You’ll Receive: This micro-size microbrewery in the woods with a taproom providing pints of frothy pale ale and growler refills. Yet another reason to travel with a growler.

DISTANCE: 140 MILES

Snapdragon Inn in Windsor

You Require: Bed. Breakfast. Some connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
You’ll Receive: One of nine rooms in an early-19th-century manor that was once home to Fitzgerald and Hemingway’s longtime editor. Now it’s an inn with a spa offering full-body Peruvian chocolate wraps. Dare we call it an upgrade...

DISTANCE: 141 MILES

Ramblewild in Lanesborough

You Require: Nature. Creative misuse of small watercraft.
You’ll Receive: A 900-acre forest that’s basically an obstacle course made out of trees. What that entails: swinging from a saddle, crossing a 200-foot suspension bridge and riding a zipline in a kayak hung 90 feet aboveground. Great forest.

DISTANCE: 309 MILES

The Ritz-Carlton in Montreal

You Require: French cooking and a foreign skyline.
You’ll Receive: Montreal’s century-old Ritz that reopened after a four-year hiatus, during which time they gutted and rebuilt every room, and added a Daniel Boulud restaurant and a rooftop infinity pool overlooking the city. Time well spent.