Rockport

I am in love with Rockport. If I were ever to live up north I would pick this town. The movie The Love Letter was filmed here.

Great artistic colony – many small shops filled with artisans’ work. Definitely worth the drive!

It’s my hometown and I still love going back there. My brother (who lives in Chicago now) has been talking about moving back for years. It’s a great town whose population doubles in the summer! Certainly lots to do and see for a visitor. (I didn’t feel this way as a teenager living there, tho…)

Best-kept little town on the coast! GORGEOUS and friendly.

A lovely little beach town, though it may be corrupted by now. The candy selection at the general store blew my naive urban mind as a child. On the negative side, some guy hit on me on the beach there, when I was 11 and accompanied by my mom.

I was just there today with some friends. We wandered around the downtown shopping area and walked to the point to watch the boats in the harbor and sit in the sun – idyllic. And the public restrooms are easily accessible and fairly clean.

Rockport is a neat small town on Cape Ann. Besides the cheap lobster, my favorite part is Halibut Point State Park, which includes a quarry and a rocky coastal shelf. You can often find interesting sea life (snails, hermi crabs, and starfish) in the tidal pools.