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Things To Do
Fall Foliage Tour
In autumn, all of New England explodes in color as the weather cools and the fall foliage makes its dramatic appearance. With easy access to major highways that lead to western Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine (as well as everywhere else in New England), Boston's North Shore is a wonderful home base for a leaf-peeping road trip.
7 Seas Whale Watch
7 Seas Whale Watch is located in the heart of historic downtown Gloucester, MA and in one of the busiest parts of Gloucester harbor. As soon as you board the Privateer you will be surrounded by the sights and sounds of Gloucester’s working waterfront. You may see fishing boats that have just returned from sea unloading fish, lobstermen baiting and setting their traps, and perhaps even some of our indigenous wildlife such as Harbor seals, Gray seals, Common eiders (a beautiful sea duck common in the harbor), Double-crested cormorants, and of course you will hear the ubiquitous “seagulls” (mostly Herring, Great black-backed, and Ring-billed gulls).
Salem Witch Museum
Salem is 15 miles away and a great day trip to see all the sights and excitement of October in Salem! There are likely to be many events happening during that weekend, you should definitely explore! The Salem Witch Museum brings you back to Salem 1692. Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch Trials, which consumed Salem, Massachusetts. In our exhibit, Witches –Evolving Perceptions, our guests come away recognizing that the accused “witches” of 1692 were no different than the Japanese-Americans encamped during World War II and blacklisted Communist of the 1950s. All are challenged to think of Witch-Hunts taking place today.
Hammond Castle
Gloucester is home, oddly enough, to a medieval-style castle. This fortress on the coast built with Cape Ann granite was completed in 1929 for prolific inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. Most famous for developing radio control, Hammond earned some 800 patents during his lifetime for inventions as diverse as torpedo systems and luxury shaving cream. On a self-guided tour of Hammond Castle, you'll see marvels like the Great Hall's organ with its 8,200 pipes and a 30,000-gallon swimming pool that can be switched from fresh to saltwater with the switch of a lever. Allegedly it is haunted af!
Cape Pond Ice Co Inc
Touring Cape Pond Ice is the coolest thing to do in Gloucester. Year-round, the ice house is kept at 28 degrees Fahrenheit. When Sebastian Junger's book, The Perfect Storm, was made into a movie in 2000, the ice business that has supplied Gloucester's fishing boats since 1848 shot to fame. The actor John Hawkes wore a Cape Pond Ice T-shirt in the film and they sell up to 150 tons of ice every day.
The House of the Seven Gables
The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel. Also called the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, Seven Gables is located right on the water of Salem Harbor at the intersection of Derby and Turner Streets. The large house was built in 1668 and is uniquely constructed with many pointed gables, multiple chimneys, and a dark, foreboding exterior.