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The trip's marquee stay — two-plus weeks for the harbor icons, the museums, Broadway, the food, and all five boroughs. Take it at a city-dweller's pace, with real days off.
- 88Day 88 — Liberty, Ellis Island & Lower ManhattanFull day · 6h planned
- 89Day 89 — Ground Zero & the new downtownFull day · 4h 30m planned
- 90Day 90 — Midtown IconsFull day · 7h planned
- 91Day 91 — The Met & Central ParkFull day · 6h planned
- 92Day 92 — Free DayFree day
- 93Day 93 — Broadway & late laughsFull day · 5h 30m planned
- 94Day 94 — The Village & the High LineFull day · 6h 15m planned
- 95Day 95 — Brooklyn, Bridge to BoardwalkFull day · 8h 45m planned
- 96Day 96 — Upper West SideFull day · 5h planned
- 97Day 97 — Free DayFree day
- 98Day 98 — Empire State & Herald SquareFull day · 4h 30m planned
- 99Day 99 — Lower East Side & ChinatownFull day · 4h 45m planned
- 100Day 100 — Harlem & the CloistersFull day · 4h 30m planned
- 101Day 101 — Free DayFree day
- 102Day 102 — Out to the East EndDrive day · 3h drive
The island's East End — surf and a historic lighthouse at Montauk, moneyed villages in the Hamptons, and wine country on the North Fork.
Presidential estates, a legendary sculpture park, a mountaintop military academy, and the river that named a school of painting.
An arts-colony town synonymous with a generation, a spectacular waterfall, and the site of the 1969 festival nearby.
New York's capital — a grand 19th-century statehouse and a modernist plaza that looks like the future imagined in 1965.
New Jersey's capital on the Delaware, the Revolutionary crossing, and one of the country's most beautiful university towns.
The original boardwalk and casino town, then Victorian Cape May — the oldest seaside resort in America — at the state's southern tip.
The birthplace of the nation — where independence was declared and signed — plus a world-class art parkway, the country's best food market, and the cheesesteak wars.
- 126Day 126 — Independence & Old CityFull day · 5h planned
- 127Day 127 — The Parkway museumsFull day · 5h 45m planned
- 128Day 128 — Markets & the cheesesteak warsFull day · 4h 30m planned
- 129Day 129 — Penitentiary & scienceFull day · 4h 30m planned
- 130Day 130 — Free DayFree day
- 131Day 131 — North to ScrantonDrive day · 2h drive
The 'Electric City' of anthracite and railroads — a preserved steam yard and a real coal mine you can descend into (and, yes, the setting of a certain sitcom).
Pennsylvania Dutch farmland of buggies and covered bridges, an antique railroad, and the chocolate town next door.
Pennsylvania's capital on the Susquehanna — a capitol so grand Teddy Roosevelt called it the handsomest building he ever saw — and a superb Civil War museum.
The battlefield where the Civil War turned and Lincoln spoke — one of the most moving historical landscapes in America.
The du Pont dynasty's green corner of Delaware — grand estates, one of the world's great gardens, and Wyeth country along the Brandywine.
Delaware's colonial capital on The Green, then the state's genteel beach town — boardwalk, outlets, and Cape Henlopen.
Charm City on the Chesapeake — the harbor and the star fort where the national anthem was written, a top aquarium, cobblestoned Fell's Point, and steamed blue crabs.
Maryland's capital and America's sailing capital — the Naval Academy, the oldest statehouse still in legislative use, and a colonial harbor town.
Maryland's honky-tonk beach boardwalk, then the wild barrier island where feral horses roam the dunes.
A handsome historic town beside the bloodiest single day in American history.
George Washington's estate above the Potomac — the mansion, the tomb, and the working farm, just south of the capital.
The nation's capital — the monuments, the free Smithsonians, the Capitol, and Arlington — and the close of the East Coast leg. Plan on a full week-plus.
- 171Day 171 — The National Mall & MonumentsFull day · 4h planned
- 172Day 172 — Smithsonian IFull day · 5h 30m planned
- 173Day 173 — Smithsonian IIFull day · 6h planned
- 174Day 174 — Capitol HillFull day · 4h 15m planned
- 175Day 175 — The White House & Ford's TheatreFull day · 3h 30m planned
- 176Day 176 — Free DayFree day
- 177Day 177 — ArlingtonFull day · 3h planned
- 178Day 178 — Georgetown & the Tidal BasinFull day · 4h 30m planned
- 179Day 179 — South into VirginiaDrive day · 1h 30m drive