Delaware Travel Guide
The boardwalk at Rehoboth Beach. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Delaware, the first state to ratify the Constitution (1787), is small and practical: no sales tax, 45 km of Atlantic beaches, and the Victorian resort town of Rehoboth Beach with its mile-long boardwalk.
The northern third holds the du Pont legacy: Winterthur's gardens, the Hagley Museum's gunpowder mills, and Nemours' mansion. Dover's speedway hosts NASCAR weekends.
Destinations in Delaware
- WinterthurThe du Pont estate's 1,000 acres of gardens and the museum.
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk, the dolles salt-water taffy, the Poodle Beach scene.- Cape HenlopenThe state park's dunes, WWII towers and the bay beaches.
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Regional food
- Thrashers fries (boardwalk fries with vinegar, the Rehoboth ritual)
- Scrapple (the Delmarva breakfast meat)
- Blue crab (from the bay and the inland bays)
Getting there
Philadelphia (PHL) is the practical gateway, 45 minutes north. DART buses link Wilmington to the beaches in summer; otherwise drive.