Brick set into the sidewalks of downtown Boston marks the Freedom Trail, a line through the old city that's best walked end to end. The ride home is a commuter train with the kids asleep against the window. Dinner is on the picnic table at Normandy Farms in Foxboro, with the fire ring lit and the pines going dark overhead. Nobody spent the afternoon hunting for somewhere to leave a motorhome downtown.
No campground sits inside Boston, so the week runs from a base. The rig stays plugged in under the trees with the air on through the humid afternoons, and the train handles the city. When Boston has had its days, the next base is up the coast in Gloucester, where Cape Ann's harbor and beaches take over.
Normandy Farms in Foxboro and the train to South Station
City days leave from Mansfield station, about five miles from the resort, on trains to South Station (Normandy Farms area guide). Foxboro has a closer stop with a limited schedule, and Boston itself is about 35 miles away by road, a drive nobody needs to make in a 30-foot rig. For a day when the motorhome has to come along, the resort steers it to Riverside station instead, about 25 miles out.
The resort says its sites are built for the largest factory-built coaches (Normandy Farms FAQ), so a family-size Class C or a long travel trailer fits without anyone measuring. Groups can book pull-through sites side by side, which helps when two families arrive in two rigs. On summer Tuesday nights Norfolk County sprays for mosquitoes, which makes it the evening to eat inside with the windows shut.
Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place are about five miles away, close enough that a Patriots weekend and a Boston week can share one pad. Cape Cod's beaches are about 50 miles from the gate, and taking a rig onto the Cape is its own trip on the Massachusetts RV page. Boston Minuteman in Littleton is the northwest base for Harvard Square and Minute Man National Historical Park, covered on the Cambridge RV page.
Summer is the busy stretch, and a seven-night stay in peak season needs a month's notice, per Normandy Farms reservations as of October 2026. The resort can also turn down site bookings from guests under 25, so the reservation belongs in an older adult's name.
Cape Ann, Gloucester harbor and a day in Rockport
Gloucester is still a working harbor, with whale-watch boats heading out past the docks and the smell of the water all through town. Wingaersheek Beach brings the white sand, and Rockport, a short run up the cape, fills a day with antique shops and village streets.
Cape Ann Camp Site is in Gloucester, about 30 miles northeast of Boston. Families settle in here for a few nights, with a boat launch and docks across the road and water-view sites on full hookups.
Rig length decides which side of the campground you land on. Wooded sites take rigs up to 30 feet, and the Big Rig section, for 30 feet and over, has 30 or 50-amp power with water and electric or with sewer as well, per the Cape Ann Camp Site rates page as of October 2026. The season runs mid-May through Columbus Day (Cape Ann Camp Site reservations), so the North Shore leg belongs to late spring, summer and early fall.
Two people in a smaller rig can take any wooded site, and that version of the trip, from Winter Island on Salem Harbor to Patriots Day and Gillette gamedays, is on the Boston page for smaller rigs.
