East Coast Road Trip Driving from Florida to Canada

Our East Coast #Vanlife road trip driving from Florida to Canada and back offered the perfect mixture of incredible landscape scenery with beautiful coastline, beaches, salt marshes, grassland, forests, mountains and rugged alpine areas. We absolutely loved this trip and fell in love with the East Coast and all its different areas.
We had a total of 7 months, from May to November to travel which included a 3-month work contract in New York City already set for the Summer, so we placed our itinerary around that. We looked for a variety of activities along the way and since we are more interested in outdoor adventures and art versus historic events and touristy places, we chose our route, areas and cities accordingly.

Since van life is not as popular on the East Coast as it is on the West Coast, it was pretty easy to find overnight parking without any hassle. And there are many 24h fitness studios (that's Planet Fitness for us) where we were able to shower at. Of course, there are also plenty of campgrounds available for those who prefer to stay and shower at campsites or State Parks, as well.

On this road trip we were primarily boondocking (free dry camping) where we slept in our van while being parked in city parking lots, at a friend's driveway, on the side of a street, at trailheads, in forests and anywhere possible on public land. We also stayed at a couple of campgrounds and at several small farms, a winery and a brewery through the Harvest Hosts program which offers overnight stays for RVers and self-contained Vanlifers at over 600 participating farms, wineries, breweries, distilleries, museums for a $79 annual membership fee. For more info go to: http://harvesthosts.refr.cc/wandergreen

During our time in New York City we stayed at an Airbnb for 3 months that offered a lower fee due to renting it for a longer term. We also stayed at a couple of hotels, motels and Inns along the way when we needed a strong internet connection for work or when we needed a hot shower, or when the nights got freezing cold up in the mountains.

These were the highlights, towns and areas we visited on our trip in the order of our route:
-Orlando, FL
-Savannah, GA
-Charleston, SC
-Raleigh, NC
-Cedar Island, NC (from there we took the ferry to the outer banks)
-Ocracoke, NC (from there too another ferry to Cape Hatteras)
-Hatteras, NC
-Nags Head, NC
-Virginia Beach, VA
-First Landing State Park, VA
-Assateague Island, VA
-Rehoboth Beach, DE
-Lewes, DE (from there we took the ferry to Cape May)
-Cape May, NJ
-Belmar, NJ
-Asbury Park, NJ
-Sea Bright, NJ
-Highlands, NJ
-Sandy Hook, NJ
-New York, NY
-Jersey City, NJ
-Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn, NY
-Harriman State Park, NY (trail running and hiking)
-Newburgh, NY
-New Paltz, NY
-Poughkeepsie, NY
-Kingston, NY
-Beacon, NY
-Rinebeck, NY
-Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY: https://www.eomega.org/
-Newport, RI
-Cliff Walk in Newport, RI: http://www.cliffwalk.com/
-Cape Cod, MA
-North Falmouth, MA
-Chatham Marconi Maritime Center, Chatham, MA: https://www.chathammarconi.org/
-Provincetown, MA (where we went whale watching on a boat out of Provincetown)
-Boston, MA
-Lyon Woods, MA (for trail running)
-Salem, MA: Salem Witch Trials Memorial and Punto Urban Art Museum, Salem: http://puntourbanartmuseum.org/
-Newbury Port, MA
-Portsmouth, NH
-Portland, ME
-Buxton, ME
-Gorham, ME
-Brunswick, ME
-Sebascodegan Island, ME
-Camden, ME
-Bar Harbor, ME
-Acadia National Park, ME
-Bangor, ME
-White Mountain National Forest, NH
-Bartlett, NH
-Franconia, NH
-Hiking Franconia Ridge Loop, NH: https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7002742/franconia-ridge-loop
-Montpelier, VT
-Waterbury, VT
-Stowe, VT
-Burlington, VT
-Green Mountain National Forest, VT
-Adirondack Mountains, NY (hiking up to Hurricane Mountain)
-Keene, NY
-Saranac Lake, NY
-Ithaca, NY
-Robert H. Treman State Park, NY (hiking and viewing the waterfalls)
-Buffalo, NY
-Niagara Falls, NY
-Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
-Pittsburgh, PA, riding our bikes through Pittsburgh and along the waterfront on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail: https://friendsoftheriverfront.org/three-rivers-heritage-trail/
-Asheville, NC
-Hot Springs, NC, enjoying a private hot tub at the Hot Springs Resort and Spa:
https://www.nchotsprings.com/spa-services/
-Gainesville, FL

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