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The term summer colony is often used, particularly in the United States and Canada, to describe well-known resorts and upper-class enclaves, typically located near the ocean or mountains of New England or the Great Lakes. Many of these historic communities are considered quiet bastions of old money, though some, such as the The Hamptons, are also well-known for their celebrity-driven social scenes. Additionally, their economies tend to be driven largely by this tourist trade, particularly those communities that are remote or on islands.
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Well-known summer colonies in North America
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United States
Connecticut
- Blue Lake (an area in North Stonington)
- Fenwick (an area in Old Saybrook)
Delaware
Maine
- Bar Harbor (and Northeast Harbor)[1]
- Islesboro (includes Dark Harbor)
- Kennebunkport
- North Haven
- Vinalhaven
- Winter Harbor, Grindstone Neck
- York Harbor
Maryland
Massachusetts
- Cape Cod
- Great Barrington
- Lenox
- Marblehead
- Marion
- Martha's Vineyard[2]
- Nantucket[3]
- Padanaram, South Dartmouth
Michigan
- Charlevoix
- Harbor Springs
- Mackinac Island
- Petoskey
- Saugatuck
- Traverse City
- Beaver Island
- South Haven
- Grand Haven
- New Buffalo/Union Pier/Grand Beach
Minnesota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Listed from north to south:
- Long Branch
- Elberon
- Deal
- Allenhurst
- Spring Lake
- Sea Girt
- Manasquan
- Point Pleasant Beach
- Bay Head
- Mantoloking
- Lavallette
- Long Beach Island, including:
- Margate City
- Longport
- Avalon
- Stone Harbor
- Cape May
New York
- Fire Island
- Fishers Island
- The Hamptons, including:
- Lake George
Ohio
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Canada
See also: cottage country and summer village
- Charlevoix, Quebec
- Campobello Island / St. Andrews, New Brunswick
- Cap-Pelé / Shediac, New Brunswick
- Chester / Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
- Baddeck / Bras d'Or Lake, Nova Scotia
- Eastern Townships, Quebec
- Muskoka, Ontario
- Kenora, Ontario
References
- ^ "In the Imperial language of the time, Bar Harbor was a summer colony, and its local residents were natives" Hornsby, Stephen J. (October 1993). "The Gilded Age and the Making of Bar Harbor". Geographical Review 83 (4): 466. doi:.
- ^ "Martha’s Vineyard, that summer colony for the super rich and those who come to gawk at them" Rodriguez, Richard (1982). Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. Bantam Books. p. 195. ISBN 0553272934.
- ^ "the transformation of Nantucket from decaying backwater, long since past its heyday as a whaling center, into a thriving tourist area." Brown, Dona (1997). Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century. Smithsonian. ISBN 1560987995.
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