Wright Museum in the New Hampshire Lakes RegionItineraries and ideas for your NH Lakes Region vacation

If you don’t know where to start in planning a trip to the New Hampshire Lakes Region, the Lakes Region Tourism Association can help! From tax-free shopping to family fun and the outdoors, the Lakes Region has ideas to pack in to your time here. Looking for something different? Contact the LRTA to gather ideas for your own travel itinerary.

Winnipesaukee Cruise & Castle Tour
Spend a day in the Lakes Region with this tour.  Start your day off taking a step back in time at the Canterbury Shaker Village.  Follow that with tax-free shopping at over 50 outlet stores.  The afternoon will take your group nearer to nature at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center & Cruises.  The day will finish with a scenic dinner train ride.
 

Canterbury Shaker Village, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center Cruise & Lakeside Dinner Train
Start you day with a tour of the historic Canterbury Shaker Village.  Followed by outlet shopping at 50 name brand stores.  The afternoon takes your group nearer to nature at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center.  Then the day is capped off with a lakeside dinner train ride.
 

Wolfeboro - America's Oldest Summer Resort
This tour takes you through the Oldest Summer Resort in America including the Wright Museum of WW II History, a luncheon cruise on the Winnipesaukee Belle and the NH Boat Museum.  The day ends taking in the breath taking views of the Lakes Region from Castle in the Clouds. 
  Gunstock Scenic Lift Ride or Zip Line, US Mail Boat Cruise & Mill Falls Marketplace
Adventure seekers will enjoy this tour which includes a big mountain adventure on the longest zip line in the United State and a cruise on the M/V Sophie C US Mail Boat Cruise.  Something for everyone in the family.

 

2nd and 3rd Days of Your Trip Suggestions:

 

White Mountains- Option 1
This tour of the White Mountains starts off in the Lakes Region at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center.  Then your group will travel into the White Mountains with a stop at the Woodstock Inn, Station and Brewery followed by an aerial tram ride over White Mountains National Forest.  The day is finished with a ride on the Mt. Washington Cog Railway.
 

White Mountains- Option 2
This tour of the White Mountains take you to many of the mountains in the White Mountains region.  Starting off with Alpine Adventures in Lincoln.  Followed by a gondola ride at Loon Mountain and lunch on the Mt. Washington Cog Railway.  Complete the tour at either Attaish Mountain Resort of Wildcat Mountain.
 

Southern New Hampshire
This tour of southern New Hampshire starts off with tax-free shopping at over 50 outlet stores at Tanger Outlet.  Head south from there for a tour of a National Historic Landmark followed by a stop at the New Hampshire Histrocial Society in Concord.  Your day of historic tour sites will finish with the McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center.
  Heading West - Lake Sunapee
Tour five acres of English style gardens at Tarbin Gardens followed by a visit to Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner.  Then enjoy a tour of Lake Sunapee aboard the MV Mt. Sunapee II and MV Kearsarge.  Follow that by a visit to The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens and the Northern Rail Trail.
  New Hampshire's Seacoast
On the 2nd or 3rd day of your tour, head east towards the Seacoast.  Start with a tour of the Wright Museum of WW II History.  Follow this with a tour of one of our country's oldest waterfront neighborhoods, Strawberry  Banke.  After lunch, your group can visit Prescott Park and then a ride aboard the M/V Thomas Laighton for an Isle of Shoals and Portsmouth Harbor cruise.

 

Evening Entertainment Options:

 

Evening Entertainment Option
There are plenty of entertainment options in the Lakes Region both for and after dinner.  View this itinerary for some of the option.s

 

    
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