The Hanover Inn – A Perfect Home Base for New England Travel
On the beautiful campus of Dartmouth College stands The Hanover Inn. Built on a site that has been occupied for more than 230 years, The Hanover Inn is centrally located for ready access to the best educational and recreational activities that New England travel has to offer.
The Hanover Inn offers an unforgettable view of Dartmouth’s famous Baker Library Bell Tower. This Ivy League college’s landmark, modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia, rises 124 feet above the campus. The Hopkins Center for the Arts, a dynamic performing arts center, and the Hood Museum of Art, with an extensive collection dating back to the early years of Dartmouth College, are adjacent to The Hanover Inn.
The Appalachian Trail, winding 2,167 miles from Maine to Georgia, makes its way through downtown Hanover, New Hampshire, steps from our Inn. The Hanover Country Club on Dartmouth’s campus offers a championship golfing experience. Other outdoor activities, such as downhill skiing in winter and kayaking and whitewater rafting in summer are readily available.
A few minutes travel from The Hanover Inn is the Lebanon Opera House, an 800-seat performing arts facility and the largest proscenium theater in the Upper Valley. Nearby is the Northern Stage Theater, an award-winning nonprofit company that draws both professional actors and local performers for its productions. Across the Connecticut River in Norwich, Vermont visitors can enjoy the Montshire Museum of Science, a hands-on museum with more than 125 exhibits. For those guests with a bent for baking, the King Arthur Flour Company Store and Baking School are not to be missed. King Arthur, founded in Boston in 1790, is America’s oldest flour company.
Slightly farther afield, the Billings Farm & Museum offers first-hand experiences of a working dairy farm, centered on the restored 1890 Farm House in Woodstock, Vermont. The farm is situated on the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park. Traveling south and across state lines will lead to the beautiful Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish New Hampshire. Visitors can see the home, studios, gardens, and many works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America’s preeminent sculptors.
At The Hanover Inn we eagerly await to assist you in finding your route to truly unforgettable New England travel adventures.
