2025 New England Travel Awards: See the Seacoast winners

Boston Magazine not too long ago launched the 2025 New England Travel Awards, giving a definitive information of the most effective journey sights throughout the area – and the Seacoast gained a number of awards.

The second annual awards had been chosen by a panel of 5 journey consultants after being nominated by readers, with classes together with journey sights like greatest Christmas city, greatest lobster roll and greatest romantic getaway.

Out of the 30 awards handed out, seven sights on the Seacoast had been named winners. Here’s what to know.

Hampton Beach Seafood Festival

Taking place each September, the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival gives a weekend filled with seafood from native eating places, in addition to craft cubicles, dwell leisure, a fireworks present, a cornhole event, a lobster roll consuming contest and extra.

According to Boston Magazine, the “gloriously excessive” pageant attracts over 150,000 visitors every year.

“This isn’t a place for delicate nibbling – it’s no-holds-barred indulgence,” writes the journal.”We’re talking oyster juice streaming down your chin, lobster rolls (available hot and cold, naturally), and perfectly fried crab cakes. Meanwhile, live bands play, local chefs demonstrate techniques, and everyone walks around in that particular state of seafood euphoria that only comes from eating an irresponsible amount of shellfish.”

Award: Best meals pageant

Prescott Park Arts Festival

The Seacoast shouldn’t be solely house to the most effective meals pageant in New England, but in addition the most effective arts pageant: Prescott Park Arts Festival. Located in a 10-acre waterfront park overlooking the Piscataqua River, this pageant celebrates theater, music, artwork, dance and most of all, neighborhood, says Boston Magazine.

Since beginning as a one-time summer season musical theater manufacturing in 1974, Prescott Park Arts Festival has reworked into a strong summer-long celebration, full with a live performance collection, a movie collection and loads of taking part meals distributors.

Award: Best arts pageant

Hidden Pond

Located in Kennebunkport, Hidden Pond is a non-public resort that mixes pure serenity and rustic luxurious for a novel, tranquil keep admist 60 acres of birch groves and balsam fir. However, that is not all – if you wish to journey together with your pet, Hidden Pond is the resort for you, says Boston Magazine.

“Hidden Pond delivers pet-friendly hospitality that doesn’t compromise on luxury – making it the clear winner for discerning travelers who refuse to leave their four-legged family members behind,” reads the publication.

Along with the gorgeous grounds filled with strolling paths for canine to discover, the resort has facilities comparable to L.L. Bean canine beds, meals and water bowls, treats and take-home collars. Boston Magazine particularly praises the lodge’s skill to supply your pet with the “full resort experience,” together with “a dog-friendly room-service menu and ‘Yappy Hour’ socializing.”

Reservations for you and your pet might be made online.

Award: Best pet-friendly lodge

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White Barn Inn Restaurant

Nearby in Kennebunk is White Barn Inn, Boston Magazine’s selection for the most effective lodge restaurant. The AAA Five Diamond, Forbes Five Star restaurant gives up to date New England delicacies rooted in native and seasonal components from the farmers, fishermen and foragers of coastal Maine in a surprising rustic barn setting.

Boston Magazine recommends the four-course tasting menu at $175 per individual, praising “dishes like the truffle and bluefin tuna crudo or the unbelievably rich Rooibos-marinated duck breast.”

White Barn Inn Restaurant is open each day from 5:30-9 p.m. at 37 Beach Ave., and reservations might be made online through OpenTable.

Award: Best lodge restaurant

The Viewpoint

The Travel Awards’ selection for the most effective lodge is The Viewpoint, a luxurious seaside lodge with unobstructed views of Nubble Lighthouse, providing what Boston Magazine calls “the kind of postcard-perfect New England fantasy that usually only exists on Pinterest boards.”

Guests can select to remain in a set within the hilltop house or a contemporary shoreside room with “floor-to-ceiling windows [that] turn the Nubble into your personal screensaver.” Amenities on the Viewpoint embrace an open-air restaurant, a spa, a health studio and a shuttle to the close by Long Sands Beach.

All reservations at Maine’s high lodge might be booked online.

Award: Best Maine lodge

Ogunquit, Maine

From Newport to Cape Cod, New England has no scarcity of picturesque seaside cities, however in accordance with Boston Magazine’s New England Travel Awards, it’s the Seacoast that has the most effective one: Ogunquit.

The publication praises many sights moreover the precise seaside, together with its walkability, its stunning motels and its eating scene, in addition to “the Ogunquit Playhouse, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the sweet shops lining Main Street, the quaint Perkins Cove, and the breathtakingly beautiful Marginal Way footpath, which gives Newport’s Cliff Walk a serious run for its money.”

Award: Best seaside city

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York, Maine

Ogunquit could also be Boston Magazine’s selection for the highest seaside city, however the most effective place to personal a seaside home is over in York.

Home to Nubble Lighthouse, Mount Agamenticus, Cape Neddick and York Village, the coastal city has “something for almost everyone” – “two-bed waterfront condos, modest Capes and split-levels, and stunning multimillion-dollar estates,” says the publication.

The journal additionally praises the city’s affordability, saying it beats out proudly owning a Cape home in each price and visitors.

Award: Best place to personal a seaside home