New England April 5-9th Eclipse Trip Plans
Saturday, April 6th
30 mins to Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem Armory Visitor Center
2 New Liberty Street
Salem, MA 01970
Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (visitor center closed until May 25th)
Broadhearth
244 Central St, Saugus, MA 01906
Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm
Boston Harbor Islands National Park (visitor center closed until May 20th)
151 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02110
Adjacent to the Greenway Carousel and Long Wharf
Wednesday-Sunday 9:30-5pm
Visitor Centers can also be found on Georges, Spectacle, and Peddocks Island.
Located on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Center offers visitor information and serves as a waypoint before beginning your journey to the Boston Harbor Islands.
Walk to Boston National Historical Park
Faneuil Hall
there is no parking at or around Faneuil Hall. To park near the Faneuil Hall Visitor Center, the best address to use in your GPS is 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109.
Sunday: Open 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Monday – Tuesday: Closed.
Wednesday – Saturday: Open 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Boston African American National Historic Site
10 1/2 Joy St, Boston, MA 02114
The African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School are open to the public during site hours only and house the National Park Service visitor area.
Sunday: Open 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Monday: Closed.
Tuesday – Saturday: Open 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
https://www.maah.org/boston-location
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site – Spring Hours beginning on Friday, April 26, 2024:
99 Warren St, Brookline, MA 02445
Thursday – Sunday 9:30am to 4:30pm
Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site – Spring Hours beginning on May, 17, 2024:
105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday to Monday 9:30-5pm
Adams National Historical Park
Visitor Center
1250 Hancock Street
Quincy, MA 02169
Please drive to 44 Saville Ave in Quincy for free, validated parking.
Adams National Historical Park Visitor Center is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Mount Wollaston Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91271/famous-memorials
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10199769/harriet-e-wilson 42.2579980,-71.0005267
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5554/thomas-augustus-watson 42.234296, -70.946954 – co-inventor of the telephone
Top of The Bay Restaurant
898 Oakland Beach Ave, Warwick, RI 02889
| Saturday | 11:30 AM–9:30 PM |
| Sunday | 12–8 PM |
1 hour to New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
33 William St, New Bedford, MA 02740
Wednesday to Saturday 10-4pm
Maybe Martha’s Vineyard
Woods Hole Terminal GPS Address: 1 Cowdry Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543
https://www.steamshipauthority.com/schedules
| Under 17′ in length | April 1, 2024 – May 14, 2024 | $100.00 | $200.00 |
| Under 17′ in length (Mon-Thu) | May 15, 2024 – September 14, 2024 | $110.00 | $220.00 |
Abel Hill Cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/90874/famous-memorials
John Belushi 41.348750, -70.709681
Gay Head Light 15 Aquinnah Cir, Aquinnah, MA 02535
Sunday, April 7th
Or 1.25 hours to Cape Cod National Seashore Salt Pond Visitor Center 9-4:30
50 Nauset Rd, Eastham, MA 02642
8 mins to Nauset Lighthouse
120 Nauset Light Beach Rd, Eastham, MA 02642
30 mins to Highland Lighthouse
27 Highland Light Rd, North Truro, MA 02652
Both require a permit to drive too
Race Point Lighthouse
Long Point Light Station
Provincetown drone stuff
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum closed until May 18th
1 High Pole Hill Rd, Provincetown, MA 02657.
Pilgrims’ First Landing Park 42.03701700125991, -70.19547730086983
LONG POINT DIKE TO TWO LIGHTHOUSES HIKE
Distance: 6.4 miles
Time: 4.5 hours
Difficulty: Easy cardiovascular-wise, but difficult terrain when crossing the dike
For those interested in lighthouses and who don’t mind hiking to see them, a visit to the Wood End and Long Point lighthouses on the Long Point Peninsula near Provincetown is not to be missed. This is the best hike at Cape Cod National Seashore. Not only will you see the aforementioned lighthouses, you’ll also hike nearly the entire shoreline of the peninsula plus make a walk across the Long Point Dike, a 1.25-mile long dike completed in 1914 that cuts across Provincetown Harbor, connecting the mainland to the peninsula. The dike is known as the Breakwater, or simply the jetty by the locals. Technically, breakwater is the wrong term to use, for it is a barrier built in the water to protect the coast from being pounded by the waves. An actual breakwater is located in the middle of Provincetown Harbor. A dike, on the other hand, is a structure built to keep land from being flooded.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125.
42.315107, -71.034611
7 days a week from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Regular admission will end at 3:30 p.m. to give visitors enough time
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, 83 Beals St, Brookline, MA 02446 (currently closed)
Mount Auburn Cemetery 580 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138 open 8am-8pm
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91241/famous-memorials?page=1#sr-20305
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20305/henry-larcom-abbot
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13/louis-agassiz
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110/edwin-thomas-booth
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1766/nathaniel-bowditch
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10076162/phillips-brooks
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7004576/charles-bulfinch
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8237803/henry-burkhardt
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190/william-ellery-channing
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8801888/frank-crowninshield
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5685/benjamin-robbins-curtis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132671063/james-lowry-donaldson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176683296/mildred-dresselhaus
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/312/mary-eddy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1877/harold-e-edgerton
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58437055/williamina-paton-fleming
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/363/felix-frankfurter
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6284077/margaret-fuller’
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1403/r-buckminster-fuller
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1762/asa-gray
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5693/horace-gray
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17895126/henry-kimball-hadley
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13793856/edwin-herbert-hall’
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102282295/benjamin-franklin-hallett
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51508289/frederic-henry-hedge
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6687918/lawrence-joseph-henderson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19984671/frank-harris-hitchcock
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/516/julia-howe#
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1402/edwin-herbert-land
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145486840/winslow-lewis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1759/william-thomas_green-morton
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6710890/reinhold-rudenberg
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6708461/george-lewis-ruffin
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1405/b-f-skinner
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10372821/helen-brooke-taussig
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7066703/thomas-h-wyman
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44560847/paul-charles-zamecnik
Cambridge Cemetery 89 Coolidge Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 7am to sunset
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/90841/famous-memorials
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102241854/william-h.-mumler – spirit photos 42.3688420,-71.1397790
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/540/william-james
Newton Cemetery
Newton
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51807329/margaret-eloise-knight – invented the paper bag 42.333142, -71.213783
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1874/francis-edgar-stanley 42.333054, -71.213345
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6864208/raymond-t-mcnally
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1873/louis-liggett
Milton Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/177824/famous-memorials
211 Centre Street
Milton, Massachusetts, USA
Coordinates: 42.25656, -71.06790
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131989908/william-henry-rand
Dinner options on way to Portland
The Common Man Windham https://www.thecman.com/common-man-windham/
88 Range Rd, Windham, NH 03087
| Saturday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
| Sunday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
| Monday | 4–9 PM |
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument passport stamp
3.5 hours from hotel to Patten Lumbermens Museum
61 Shin Pond Rd, Patten, ME 04765
The Patten Lumbermen’s Museum will open it’s Reception Center for visitors April 5th-April 8th 10:00-4:00.
41 mins to Shin Pond Village
1489 Shin Pond Road
Mt. Chase, ME
30 minutes to Oakfield ME
Oakfield Cemetery 46.098047963992734, -68.130629309062
| 46° 05′ 52.55″ N | <—> | 46.09793° | 3m 20.5s (total solar eclipse)
3m 22.7s (lunar limb corrected) |
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| 68° 07′ 50.23″ W | <—> | -68.13062° |
| Umbral depth : 86.16% (73.7km) Umbral depth : 11.8km (7.4mi) Path width : 171.0km (106.2mi) Obscuration : 100.00% |
C4 | Magnitude at maximum : 1.02139 Moon/Sun size ratio : 1.04965 Umbral vel. : 1.346km/s (3010 mph) |
| Event (ΔT=69.1s) | Date | Time (-4,0) | Alt | Azi | P | V | LC |
| Start of partial eclipse (C1) : | 2024/04/08 | 14:21:52.5 2:21pm | +45.1° | 219.5° | 235° | 05.0 | |
| Start of total eclipse (C2) : | 2024/04/08 | 15:31:47.5 3:31pm | +35.9° | 238.9° | 064° | 11.1 | -2.3s |
| Maximum eclipse (MAX) : | 2024/04/08 | 15:33:28.0 3:33pm | +35.7° | 239.3° | 326° | 02.4 | |
| End of total eclipse (C3) : | 2024/04/08 | 15:35:08.1 3:35pm | +35.4° | 239.7° | 229° | 05.6 | -0.1s |
| End of partial eclipse (C4) : | 2024/04/08 | 16:40:52.2 4:40pm | +24.9° | 254.2° | 058° | 11.5 |
3m 20.7s
Totality 3:31 ends at 3:35
In Lima, the partial eclipse begins at 1:54:53pm and will last until 4:26:03pm. The full eclipse begins at 3:09:49pm and will last until 3:13:41pm, with the duration of the totality being 3 minutes, 51 seconds.
Jackman, ME
Totality 3:29pm start and ends 3:32 lasts 3m 26.4s
01:30 PM EDT
Versant Power Astronomy Center and Jordan Planetarium Team will be observing the total solar eclipse of April 8th in Jackman, Maine from the Jackman Town Offices located at 369 Main Street – Jackman, ME 04945.
Devil’s Footprint 92 Scribner Rd, Manchester, ME 04351
World Traveler Signpost in Maine
44.244081, -70.784579
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/all-over-the-map-maine-place-names/#comments
Mount Calvary Cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6634290/richard-james-mcdonald 43.0040296,-71.4888222
maybe if time allows
if near Webster, MAS
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23444/samuel-slater – founder of the cotton mill industry
Thacher Island lighthouse
Island in Rockport, Massachusetts
Maybe 1.5 hours to examine the 18th-century dwelling that inspired “The Conjuring.” (goes through springfield if skipped before)
1677 Round Top Rd, Burrillville, RI 02830 The Old Farm House on Round Top
https://www.theconjuringhouse.com/day-tours
Harrisville Farmhouse
