The Holdovers Trail

The real Massachusetts prep-school campuses and river-valley towns that stood in for The Holdovers' wintry 1970 Barton Academy

Film crews come to Groton for streets that can pretend to be anywhere. Here is what they used. Five stops over 249.1 miles, about nine hours of driving. The story for each stop plays as you arrive, so nothing has to be looked up and nobody has to be followed.

It works as well at eight in the morning as it does at dusk. Stop for coffee, pick it back up.