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Cape Ann Cove
Per week, as low as:
$1,216
Directly on Lane's Cove, you will enjoy unparalleled sunsets, hospitality and a rare view of maritime village atmosphere. All this, while staying in an apartment full of creature comforts. Ideal for 2 people and still comfortable with 4, this apartment is thoughtfully designed to make your stay perfect. Your hosts are treasures, the location amazing and the creature comforts excellent.
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This area is often spoken of as the "other" cape...an UNtouristy version of Cape Cod.
It is both a vacation destination and a deeply authentic community with traditions of the sea that go back centuries. A community of three towns (Rockport, Manchester and Essex) and a city (Gloucester) located about 30 miles northeast of Boston. the Cape attracts many visitors each year for its scenic beauty, beaches, history, art galleries, restaurants, whale watch cruises, antiques, and other attractions.
Close to two of New England's other major destinations, Boston and Salem, Cape Ann is also a great home base for sightseeing to colonial landmarks such as Lexington and Concord. Day's touring New England for the fall colors is also possible (although often the most dramatic foliage is a bit inland).
Many visitors who plan to spend time in Boston and Salem choose to stay on Cape Ann for its seaside charm, homey lodgings and excellent restaurants, and spend some of their time here and some on day trips.
- Gloucester is America's original seaport, still active and lively after more than 375 years, this remarkable small city offers its famous harbor and waterfront, restaurants, art, museums, whale watching cruises, historic walks and much more.
- You hear the phrase "quaint seacoast village" so often that it becomes a cliché, but this description fits Rockport well. An enjoyable place to spend a day, a weekend or vacation, Rockport welcomes tourists from around the world and day trippers from greater Boston for a variety of reasons.
- This scenic small town has retained much of the character and charm of its 19-century heritage, when it was the shipbuilding capital of America. Essex offers visitors cruises on its beautiful winding river, dozens of antique shops, famous seafood restaurants, quiet charm and beautiful scenery.
- Manchester is a beautiful New England town with a nice downtown area, picturesque harbor and a wonderful beach. The quietest of the Cape Ann communities welcomes visitors with a number of shops, restaurants, a local museum and scenic landscapes.
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- "Cape Ann is a kayaker's paradise, offering gorgeous, rocky coastline; challenging open water; marvelous bird life; and quaint, weather-hardened towns. Kayakers return again and again to Cape Ann, for the ocean's moods are infinite. There's a quality to the light and color of the water--an alluring harshness and wildness that is particular to Cape Ann. Think of a painting by Winslow Homer or Fitz Hugh Lane. Kayakers are drawn to Cape Ann's elemental seriousness, to the gravity of its beauty, its challenges, and the freshness of its wind. For the best trip, paddle Cape Ann in the off-season. Harbor seals, shorebirds, and solitude then add to the area's considerable charm." Lisa Gollin Evans, author of Sea Kayaking Coastal Massachusetts
- "Jutting out into the Atlantic, 25 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, is Cape Ann. For more than 150 years painters have visited the quaint and rustic towns that make up this unique area including Gloucester, Rockport, Annisquam, Magnolia, Essex, and Lanesville. Cape Ann has been host to many of the very best, most celebrated artists in America, from nineteenth-century greats Fitz Hugh Lane, Winslow Homer, and William Morris Hunt, to Impressionists Childe Hassam, John H. Twachtman, and Willard Metcalf, to Ashcan painters and Modernists, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Stuart Davis, and Marsden Hartley.
"The Cape Ann area has for years offered artists a superb range of subject matter such as majestic ships of old in Gloucester Harbor, crashing seascapes, sandy beaches, sculpted granite quarries, and woodlands that present a different scene with every changing season." Kristian Davies, author of Artists of Cape Ann
- "The ocean has been Gloucester's lifeblood since long before the first European settlement in 1623. The French explorer Samuel de Champlain called the harbor 'Le Beauport' when he came across it in 1606, some 600 years after the Vikings. The harbor's configuration and proximity to good fishing gave it the reputation it enjoys to this day. If you read or saw The Perfect Storm, you'll have a sense of what to expect here.
"Gloucester (which rhymes with 'roster') is a working city, not a cutesy tourist town. It's home to one of the last commercial fishing fleets in New England, an internationally celebrated artists' colony, a large Portuguese-American community, and just enough historic attractions."
- Read more at Frommer's.
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