House and Garden 
TOURING THROUGH THE DELAWARE WATER GAP 
and Champlain 
in upper New 
^'ork State, the 
Green Moun¬ 
tains in Ver¬ 
mont and the 
Allegheny range 
in central Penn¬ 
sylvania are all 
accessible h y 
g o o d r o a d s . 
"Phese sections 
are unsurpassed 
tor touring, par¬ 
ticularly the 
White M o Li n- 
tains and Green 
Mountains, be¬ 
cause ot their 
more northerly 
latitude and 
great altitude 
o , , 
which make the temperature delightfully cool and 
invigorating even in the hottest July and August 
weather. New Hampshire’s range of mountains pos¬ 
sesses the added attraction ot Alount Washington, the 
highest peak in New England, rising to an elevation 
of more than six thousand feet and surrounded by 
a score of other hold peaks with narrow passes 
between. "Phis region is the Switzerland ot America 
and is very popular with tourists by rail as well as 
by motor car. Entrance to the many high-class 
hotels is gained by deep notches in the mountains 
through which dashing rivers, railroads and wagon 
roads make their wxiy. From the top ot Mount 
Washington, reached by a curious cog railroad, 
vessels at sea have sometimes been seen on excep¬ 
tionally clear days when the summit has not its 
customary veil of clouds. Across the border in 
Maine are the Rangeley Lakes and other famous 
trout fishing waters. 
So delightful is the 
White Mountain trip that 
it has been included in the 
route of the national tour 
ot the American Auto¬ 
mobile Association three 
times in tour years, and 
the Automobile Club ot 
America made Mount 
Washington the objective 
point ot Its “Ideal” pleas¬ 
ure tour conducted in June 
this year. Since the mem¬ 
bership ot the Automobile 
Club of America rep re- ^ ,, , 
. * . lollgateona Tennsylvania roa 
of the 1908 annual 
Automobile 
sents the c o n c e n t r a t e d 
essence of automobile 
touring experi¬ 
ence and knowl¬ 
edge in the East, 
the itinerary 
mapped out tor 
its “ ideal tour ” 
contains many 
useful sugges¬ 
tions to the 
motorist plan¬ 
ning a little pri¬ 
vate trip of 
his own. The 
route which was 
selected was the 
natural outcome 
of the demand 
of the touring 
members for the 
best route which 
included the 
varied scenery 
ot the mountains, with panoramas of streams, lakes, 
forests, rolling farm land and the rugged coast ot 
Phistern New England. 
I he distance was in the neighborhood ot 850 miles, 
and ten days were allowed for the trip which could 
he made comfortably in that time. The tour began 
at New York and followed the north shore of Long 
Island Sound through the old cities of Greenwich, 
Stamford, and Bridgeport in Connecticut; thence it 
followed up the beautiful Naugatuck valley to Water- 
hury and through the foot-hills of the Berkshires in 
Massachusetts, taking in the most attractive towns 
of the region. Cutting diagonally across the lower 
end of Vermont through Manchester, the route took 
the tourists to Sunapee Lake for a night’s cool rest 
and thence for ninety miles through magnificent 
mountain scenery to Bretton Woods, in the heart of 
the White Mountains, where a rest ot one day 
was enjoyed. Phe next 
stage was a run ot eighty- 
two miles through the 
famous Crawford Notch 
and across the state border 
to Poland Springs, Me., at 
which popular resort an¬ 
other day’s halt was made. 
From the springs the route 
lay almost directly south 
to Portland, on the Atlan¬ 
tic coast, thence along the 
coast route past Old Or¬ 
chard Beach, across the 
Saco River and the Piscata- 
, ,, , qua River which marks the 
d near Tennsville, on the route ^ , iv/r • 
tour of the American State line between Maine 
Association and New Hampshire, to 
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