The second full day of our New England trip, we drove South from Boston through Cape Cod and Rhode Island. Truthfully, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from those areas, and especially Newport, RI, I had low expectations. Wow, was I blown away! Newport turned out to be our favorite coastal area of the whole trip and what a gorgeous place it is! We’ll definitely be going back just to spend more time there.
Cape Cod was about what I expected and truthfully, after seeing Newport, I’d much rather skip Cape Cod and head straight to Rhode Island if I did it again. In Cape Cod, we made stops in Hyannis and Chatham, as well as driving through a bunch of other little towns too.
We ended the day with a stop at the Castle Hill Lighthouse in Newport. It was another mandatory stop for Nick and it did not disappoint. The views were stunning.
We finally made our way back to Boston, by way of Providence for dinner. It blows me away, coming from the West Coast, how close everything is on the East Coast. The areas we went through on Cape Cod and Rhode Island were beautiful and included some of my favorite moments of the trip which I’ll touch on next week.
I’m also going to be sharing more of Nick’s photos next week after he has a chance to edit them, so stay tuned!
Hyannis, MA
Chatham, MA
Newport, RI
Rachel says
This is on my travel list! We’ll hopefully go in September. 🙂
Casey Martin says
Definitely get up there… so worth it! 🙂
A Country Girls World says
Rhode Island is the only New England State I have not been to. Looks like that needs to change! Newport looks like an adorable town!
Casey Martin says
You have to make it to RI… so beautiful!!!
Nick Nieto says
Newport was amazing – we will definitely have to go back there. I really like the last photo of the lighthouse you did. Good work!
Steph G says
Provincetown is my favorite part of Cape Cod – it’s way out at the end. Definitely a must see if you go back 🙂
Casey Martin says
Interesting! Good to know for future… it’s so deceptively far to drive out far on the Cape!