Conde Nast Names Newport One of the Best East Coast Beach Towns
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Conde Nast Traveler named its 10 best beach towns on the East Coast and to no one's surprise, Newport joined the likes of Siesta Key, Florida, and Oak Bluffs on Martha Vineyard.
The travel pub hypes the diversity of the East Coast offerings and the content makes everyone yearn for a summer of sun and fun.
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Like Oak Bluffs, Newport is a beach town known for its houses, though a very different sort. Ten enormous, historic mansions—once the summer homes of the Vanderbilts, Nevada silver heiresses, and other Westerners of unimaginable wealth—remain standing along the famous cliff walk.
Today however, they are museums. The most famous two are The Breakers and Rosecliff. The Newport mansions famously earned the ire of writer Joan Didion, who wrote in her essay The Seacoast of Despair, “To stand in the dining room of ‘The Breakers’ is to imagine fleeing it, pleading migraine.”
Today, in lieu of the Great Gatsby-esque lawn parties of yore where swans roamed the grounds, Newport attracts visitors of all stripes for events such as the Newport Folk Festival.
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