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A friend who recently moved to New England from Texas asked me for a few good long-weekend getaway spots (to get away from their kids for romance, with good food and good hiking, regardless of season). It's important to couples to get away from it all - daily life routine, internet, rug rats, dogs, - to refresh the relationship.

I don't really like to stay in an inn without a fireplace in the room, but off the top of my head, I offered these (with a range of luxuriousness), although I am sure readers have their own lists of favorites:

Mohonk Mountain House

The Mayflower Inn

The Mount Washington Hotel

Chatham Bars Inn

The Hermitage Inn

The Boulders

The Trapp Family Lodge

Block Island and Newport have cool places too. The 1661 Inn, for example.

Got any favorite spots to share with our readers? Put 'em in the comments.

Photo is Mohonk. The crazy old place is still going strong, and now even serves alcohol.

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Longfellow's Wayside Inn is good for a night. Nothing better than a few drinks by the fireplace in the original tavern.

Anyplace in the Franconia Notch area.

#1 NJSoldier on 2011-03-23 13:55 (Reply)

http://thebalsams.com/ The Balsams Resort in NH, is very nice. Have stayed at the Mt. Washington Hotel and it was really nice.

http://www.nemacolin.com/ The Nemacolin Resort in PA is fantastic.

#2 Jerry on 2011-03-23 14:42 (Reply)

I'll vouch for the Chatham Bars Inn (it has been many years so it could be a dump now ;>) and Mt. Washington Hotel (which was very charming - if pricey and a bit dated when I stayed but has been substantially renovated now).

#3 Knucklehead (Link) on 2011-03-23 14:47 (Reply)

Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm
Hiking, fishing, golf
Food was excellent when the bride and I visited.
Halfway between Woodstock VT and Hanover NH, both great places to visit.

http://www.quecheeinn.com/activities/outdoor.shtml

#4 Browndog on 2011-03-23 14:58 (Reply)

For Good Hiking: Depends on how rustic they want, but there are some great locations near the Appalachian Trail in NH or in the Adirondacks in NY.
Lots of restaurants in and around Lake Placid, NY.

#5 EarlW on 2011-03-23 15:17 (Reply)

Mystic and Stonington, CT are favorites of mine.

#6 Whitehall on 2011-03-23 18:17 (Reply)

Closer to NYC: Skytop Lodge!
The Poconos. Yes, The Poconos.
http://skytop-px.trvlclick.com/

#7 MPJR on 2011-03-23 19:23 (Reply)

Hard to beat the White Barn Inn - http://www.whitebarninn.com/

#8 Everyman (Link) on 2011-03-23 19:41 (Reply)

When I was a child I wondered why my parents spent nearly all our vacations at our home in rural NE. I now realize that by many standards, the criteria for a getaway were right at home. Forest, waterways, quiet. Critters. We knew spring was here when we could hear the spring peepers from the swamp.

It was fairly rural. The nearest neighbor was a quarter mile away, and walking into the woods from the house, the nearest road was a half mile to a mile away, depending on the direction you took.

No need to drive hours for a getaway. It was all there.

#9 Gringo on 2011-03-23 22:06 (Reply)

My Bride and I went to Mohonk a few years ago for a significant birthday of hers. A lovely setting, very convenient to NYC, but mediocre food and painfully expensive for absolutely everything.

I'd much rather drive a few hours farther north and stay in Lake Placid.

#10 Mr. Bingley on 2011-03-24 07:36 (Reply)

B.C.(before children) my husband and I loved the Ralph Waldo Emerson Inn on Cape Ann in Rockport. They had a lovely old fashioned dining room and a heated pool over looking the ocean. I think they are still there.

#11 Sharon on 2011-03-24 19:53 (Reply)

The Green House Bed and Breakfast in Chillicothe, Ohio. Nice town - great B&B, very quiet, excellent hosts, stunning 1894 Queen Anne Victorian. I speak from very recent experience!

#12 The Old Salt on 2011-03-24 22:08 (Reply)

Mohonk is nice enough, and convenient to New York and New Jersey. But I agree that it is expensive and the good is mediocre. A lot of history, though -- the big pre-war arms control treaties (involving battleships and such, the WMD of their era) were hammered out there, as I recall. I might add to the list the old Mountain View House, which is now a "resort and spa." I went there about 40 years ago with my grandparents, and thought then it was very nice. http://www.mountainviewgrand.com/

But agree with Mr. Bingley about the Adirondacks -- they are more wild than New England, not as slick, but so very peaceful.

#13 TigerHawk (Link) on 2011-03-26 10:17 (Reply)

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