kathidahl

We are planning to drive down from Maine to the Boston area to take a tour. we will be coming down I-95. We do not want to drive into Boston. Can someone tell me the best outlying transit station to drive to so we can use public transit to USS Constitution? I have been trying to use the MBTA trip planner, but I am getting confused.

hobbykat1955

Maybe if you put Mass in title those who live there can give you the info

gypsyquilter

one option is to drive to Lowell MA and park your car at the commuter train station, take the commuter train, it drops you at north station, and from there you can catch the T to anywhere it runs. You can also drop your car in Cambridge at the Alewife station, and take the T directly in to town, this might be more direct to 95.

to get to the constitution, you need to get to the Charlestown Navy yard, you can get there by the T using subway, but you can also use the water shuttles, (also part of the T system).

Totally jealous, I'm a new englander and haven't been home in a while, is there room in your suitcase for me??

kathidahl

>gypsyquilter
Thank you so much..I will explore both those suggestions. We are going to take a trolley tour so that will get us to the Constitution as well as all the usual "tourist" spots. I am having leg and back issues so the trolley is a necessity. This is our first vacation in simply years so I am really pumped!

Barb44

When we visited Boston a few years ago we stayed in a suburb south of the city. It was just a block away from the train station. But the trolley picked us up at our motel in the morning and brought us back in late afternoon. We rode the trolley from site to site. There is still a lot of walking though. I remember that public restrooms were hard to find. We ended up walking into a fire station and asking to use the restroom. They were very nice.

MissSandra

this is what my dear friend in boston said,
They can drive to Wonderland station in Revere and take the MBTA Blue Line to Ggovernment Center, then the Green Line to North Station. Unfortunately, that's about a mile from the Constitution. There'll be a bus, but I don't know which.

kathidahl

You guys are so great..my DH cannot believe that I can get answers to such a question from the QB..I told him never doubt quilters!!

kathidahl

Well, we are back home from our trip, laundry done and sewing machine retrieved from the shop where it spent my vacation getting a repair (can you believe it let my finish the vital work before stopping on me!) So I am reporting in on our day in Boston...all your suggestions worked well. We took the Blue line from Wonderland station with no trouble at all. The tour was great and when we were worn out, we took the water taxi from the Constitution to the Aquarium and grabbed the Blue line back to our car...all in all a wonderful day! That was just one day..also Flume Gorge in New Hampshire, Vermont Teddy Bear Factory, Portsmouth, ocean sail out of Perkins Cove, ME to say nothing of sleeping with our windows open to the sound of the surf and waking up to the fabulous sunrise over the shore out those windows! First real vacation we have taken in YEARS and it was fabo!!