Cute coastal town w/in 6 hour drive of DC/MoCo?

[Anonymous]

Lavallette, ocean beach, ortley, bay head, pt pleasant. All in nj. Vacancies at area hotels, much quieter since Sandy but everything is rebuilt. Beautiful beaches, old fashioned small beach towns.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are thinking of Mystic, CT - you can get around most of the tolls by going to Harrisburg, and then pick up the interstates east to the Trappan Zee Bridge, which will dump you into Connecticut.

Does that add a lot of time to the trip?

Tappin zee no

Harrisburg YES

[Anonymous]

Edenton nc. Morehead city nc. New bern nc

[Anonymous]

Have you already done Smith Island, OP?

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I haven't read the whole thread but I strongly recommend the Wilmington NC area.

Wrightsville Beach is a great family-friendly beach and Wilmington is a lovely historic old port city on the river, with cobbled streets and gorgeous old houses. Also has many good restaurants.

Some of the old houses have tours that are really fascinating and explain the area's rich (and troubled) history.

Just outside the city are several plantations that give tours. And before people jump all over me, the one I went to addressed the treatment and lives of slaves with great care and sensitivity. It had an old slave cemetery on the property, and it was very interesting.

[Anonymous]

Mystic is really small.

It's like a street and a half. There are some bed and breakfasts in the town. There is a hilton close by.

Mystic Pizza is actually pretty good!

There aren't a ton of NY/CT beach towns outside of LBI and the Hamptons. We did a drive down from Cape Cod and stopped at a lot of them. Many are suffering economically.

Cape May has a lot of hotels, it depends on availability.

Is Rhode Island too far? Newport is like 7 hrs

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the whole thread but I strongly recommend the Wilmington NC area.

Wrightsville Beach is a great family-friendly beach and Wilmington is a lovely historic old port city on the river, with cobbled streets and gorgeous old houses. Also has many good restaurants.

Some of the old houses have tours that are really fascinating and explain the area's rich (and troubled) history.

Just outside the city are several plantations that give tours. And before people jump all over me, the one I went to addressed the treatment and lives of slaves with great care and sensitivity. It had an old slave cemetery on the property, and it was very interesting.

+1

Wilmington is a lovely town. There's a film studio/sound stage there you can take a tour of, they have filmed a lot of movies there.
( you can also check out all the spots in town where they filmed Dawson's Creek)

Wrightsville beach is very cute, you can also check out Kure beach and Carolina beach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the whole thread but I strongly recommend the Wilmington NC area.

Wrightsville Beach is a great family-friendly beach and Wilmington is a lovely historic old port city on the river, with cobbled streets and gorgeous old houses. Also has many good restaurants.

Some of the old houses have tours that are really fascinating and explain the area's rich (and troubled) history.

Just outside the city are several plantations that give tours. And before people jump all over me, the one I went to addressed the treatment and lives of slaves with great care and sensitivity. It had an old slave cemetery on the property, and it was very interesting.

+1

Wilmington is a lovely town. There's a film studio/sound stage there you can take a tour of, they have filmed a lot of movies there.
( you can also check out all the spots in town where they filmed Dawson's Creek)

Wrightsville beach is very cute, you can also check out Kure beach and Carolina beach.

I used to live in Wilmington and miss it greatly. Great beach town. There is fun downtown with a battleship that you can tour. I recommend the serpentarium. I don't like snake but I find this place awesome. There is an aquarium near Carolina Beach. You can rent kayaks or go out on a boat.
http://www.capefearserpentarium.com/

[Anonymous]

Block Island -- perhaps Block Island Inn. Bit more than 6 hours though.

I'll second the NY Finger Lakes recommendation, especially Skaneateles Lake (could stay at Sherwood Inn in village (on the water) but to get real lake experience you should go to VRBO.com and rent a house on the water, but one that's near the village). Drive time is @6 hours going up route 81 - a pretty drive too w/o stress of 95.

Also more than 6 hours -- someplace like the beaches around Charleston, SC, like Seabrook and Kiawah. Drive is @8.5 hours but a pretty drive once you get past the trafficy part of 95 south of DC.