NORTH AMERICA
The Eastern US and Canada are a virtual playground for small ship cruises primarily in the warm weather warmer months. The charms of New England and its islands are on the top of the list, while fall foliage draws river and canal cruisers to the Hudson and Erie Canal, the St. Lawrence River, waterways in southern Ontario and on the Great lakes.
The East Coast’s Intracoastal Waterway connects New England with the American South with a great variety of places to call into. The Mississippi River system is vast in navigable and includes a half-dozen tributaries to explore Middle America close up by steamboat. Altogether different are the Pacific Northwest’s rivers, islands and sounds. Then no place in North America is more popular for small ship cruises than Alaska and the route north along Inside Passage connecting the Lower 48 with the 49th state.
HEIDI SARNA
