


Family Musicals at Prescott Park, New Hampshire –Jon Goreyĭetails: 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts, 61, ģ5. It doesn’t matter if the Red Sox lose, or if the aquarium cafe runs out of chicken tenders getting there isn’t just half the fun - it’s most of it. The year-round MBTA ferries out of Hingham and Hull are even more whimsical on a summer day, and when you take your kid into the city by boat, splashing over the waves with wind in your hair, the day is already a win. Boston Harbor beats the expressway for day trips, too. It’s not cheap, but neither is therapy, and a 6-mile backup at the Sagamore Bridge is enough to make anyone lose their mind. We boarded in downtown Boston, enjoyed the blissful sea breeze and on-board bar, and then, as if by magic, stepped out onto Commercial Street some 95 minutes later entirely unplugged from the real world. I would never torture myself by driving all the way out to Provincetown on a summer weekend, but twice my family has taken the fast ferry there.

Instead of watching overheated car exhaust warp the stagnant highway air from your car prison, or stewing in the swampy dank of a summer subway platform, you can often get where you’re going in a far more glamorous way: by boat. Around Boston, getting there is rarely “half the fun,” but that changes in summertime.
