Rockport or Cape Ann
ROCKPORT
If you are not too tired you may continue on your way over the shore road making the complete trip around Cape Ann, a promontory which extends out into the Atlantic Ocean with its beautiful entrancing rocks, beaches and rolling sea. This route is a most interesting panorama. You will pass the largest lobster fishery in America. It is impossible for you to get lost as the road winds around and back into Gloucester, where you may retrace your ride along Route 127 to Beverly where you follow Route 1-A to Salem. At Salem swing right on to Essex Street, leaving Salem by way of Route 107 to Lynn. Leaving Lynn, pass over the famous marsh highway where the government has been carrying on extensive research for mosquito control. Continue to follow Route 107 through Revere to Route 1-A where turn right for Boston until you come to Route 1 which follow to the Charles River. Here, instead of turning right on Route 1, keep on across the bridge to the Boston side, turning right on Charles Street, soon passing the Massachusetts General Hospital on the left to Embankment Road where we turn right passing under the Longfellow Bridge to Beacon Street. At Beacon Street, turn right and again left at the second block which is Clarendon Street crossing Commonwealth Avenue, Newbury Street and Boylston Street; turn left on St. James Avenue, and you will arrive back at the Statler Hotel.
A DAY’S AUTO TRIP ON THE
SOUTH SHORE
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Starting at the Providence Street side of the Hotel Statler, swing your car around the island and go straight out St. James Avenue to Huntington Avenue where you bear left and follow Huntington Avenue to Jamaicaway. Pass under the underpass and turn right at fantail bearing right to get on to Routes 1 and 3.