Getting Around - Mid Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, OH, ON, PA, VA, WV)

Getting Around Long Island, the Hamptons, Montauk, Fire Island Rail Long Island Railroad (LIRR) is a comfortable, fast, and easy way to get around Long Island. Getting Around Manhattan and New York City Manhattan is the smallest of the five boroughs. As so many attractions on the island are relatively close to one another, walking is often the best way to get from one place to another. Getting Around Woodstock, Cooperstown, New Paltz, Catskills and Hudson Valley The Catskills and the Hudson Valley region is perfect for a vacation of hiking, biking, and touring the historic and architectural attractions. If you're coming from New York City the region is also a great place to visit for a day trip, perhaps on a free weekend or holiday, even up to the Catskills. Getting Around Lake Placid, Lake George, Saratoga Springs, Adirondacks and Northern New York Getting Around Toronto, Niagara Falls, Finger Lakes in Western New York and South Central Ontario Western New York While buses and trains do provide services between many larger cities and smaller towns, visitors would be advised to tour the region by car. Getting Around Atlantic City, Wildwood, Cape May, New Jersey Shore Generally speaking, public transportation is affordable and convenient within and between Jersey Shore towns, and driving in and around the Jersey Shore is convenient and enjoyable. Getting Around Philadelphia, Lancaster, the Poconos, Eastern Pennsylvania Philadelphia is ranked among the top walking cities in the U.S. and visitors should take advantage of this easy-to-walk-around city. Getting Around Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland Washington DC is home to the Metro, one of the cleanest and most modern-looking public transportation systems in the United States. Getting Around Richmond, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, North Carolina's Outer Banks What makes the eastern North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland region so wonderful - inlets, tidal waters, jagged shorelines, and isolated barrier islands - also makes regional transportation a weighty subject. You will find yourself driving over bridges into tunnels, or ferrying, trolleying, and bussing to the sites. Getting Around Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania Drivers beware: Pittsburgh contains more than 700 bridges and many of the streets are narrow, winding, or one-way - you (and your traveling companions) will be happier and more relaxed if you simply plan on getting lost once or twice.