Winthrop is a good two hours away from Ashwood Academy so the students would only visit on Friday nights and weekends. Though it is a small town there are some places of interest for students to enjoy themselves.

Flicker Theaters

Description: The local movie theater. It's cheap but always has the newest movies that are out. Sunday mornings they play independent films, and afternoons they play foreign films. Not too big of a theater but has four screens.

Llama Java

Description: A coffee shop which is rather new and added due to the influx of humans that moved into Winthrop the past twenty years. It offers a tasty variety of coffees, cappuchinos, lattes and other coffee concoctions. They also have fresh bread as well as small little chocolate snacks and even Italian sodas. It is popular among students to visit on weekends and has a very relaxed atmosphere about it. Most people just call it "The Llama."

Quik-E Mart

Description:On the outskirts of toward near Winthrop, it's a small little convenience store that most people frequent on the pass through when heading toward Ashwood Academy or such. It's basically like your typical Sheetz meets 7-11 with made-to-order food, plenty of snacks that are sold, and slurpees with other little things.

Secret Treasures

Description: The shop for all your spell and charm making needs. The front of the store comes off as a "New Age" type for the curious and it is owned and operated by the Harman family. If you know the right questions and then give the right answers you can receive assistance in getting excellent materials for spells, charms, and a variety of crystals. There is a lot of "fake" items just to amuse the simple minded.

Winthrop Hospital

Description: Not that you would make a visit there a lot, the hospital is just like any other hospital, and the morgue has its own wing. The doctors here specialize in all species (save the humans who are kept in the dark).

Nero's Pizza

Description: A quaint little pizza shop that is also popular among students of Ashwood Academy for a Friday night hang out. It serves classic Italian pizza with a healthy variety of toppings, as well as pastas or subs for those not interested in the pie. They've got some desserts but they are known to be rather bland in taste, despite their tasty appearance.

Grinder's

Description: In New England, you call a sub a 'grinder' and that's what this place specializes in. Obviously. They also serve burgers, fries, salads, and such, but it's the subs they are known for. Especially their steak and cheese subs! Reasonably priced with various sizes for the subs, they are own by a family who's last name happens to be Grinder and have several other places opened up in Maine, also owned by family members.

Adelaide's

Description: A restaurant that caters specifically to Night Worlders, but is fronted as a very expensive restaurant to humans who get their own menu. The NW menu experiments with adding blood for Lamia's to dishes of all kinds. Various types of Blood for Made Vampires in the form of a wine list (human of various types and many animals). Shapeshifters have a wide variety of uncooked meats, flesh, and so on. For Witches they even have a menu full of special herbs and dishes for anyone who wants a little magic added at extra cost. The restuarant has its secrets, as it has quite a few "human organ/blood" dishes on its menu and no one really questions where they get their supplies.

Schneweiß

Description: Two floors of dancing and fun, this is the local club that even some mainlanders will come to party. Tucked away in a quiet part of town it offers dancing and drinks all around. Sunday night through Thursday night it serves as a bar and night club to the supernatural, absolutely no humans allowed. Friday and Saturday nights though it is open to kids sixteen and older, humans are allowed but the second floor of the club is left strictly for the supernatural. Those nights though there is no alchohol served.

Wasteland

Description: A dance club where humans can only enter with a Night Worlder. There is nothing in the club that shows that the Night World exists, but it's a club known for vampires to bring guests to drink from and so on. Located in a seemingly run down building, Wasteland is actually not a public place so much as a 'secret' place that only ever opens up on the weekends.

Bark at the Moon

Description: A shady bar which holds a treasure trove of information and gossip...if you pay the right price. Strictly for night species and not a place a respectable person wants to be seen in. It's important to watch what you say in a place like the Moon because it will mostly likely kick your butt later.

Turnabout

Description: A Modern Arcade with big screen televisions hooked up to various gaming consoles, pool, table hockey, so on and so forth. You pay a cover to get in and can do whatever you want for as long as you want. There is a buffet and a bar for those old enough to drink and for anyone whose hungry.

Gamer's Anonymous

Description: A general gaming store. You'll find everything from video games (vintage and the ones that are just coming out) and other forms of gaming including board games, role playing books, and party games. Not a place people frequent as often, but it's really the only place to buy games and such without having to drive to the mainland.

Altman's

Description: The Ma & Pa grocery store that pretty much everyone shops at. They've got reasonable prices, a good selection of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as brand name items and freshly baked goods. Teachers and students visit on weekends if they don't wish to eat every meal the school provides and then cook it in their dorm. It's a good place to stock up on toiletries as well.

Import Divine

Description: A dress shop that imports items from all around the world and from some of the biggest names in the fashion industry. From the eccentric to the traditional, from Gucchi to Versache to Chanel, they have it, and if they don't, they get it for you. Most mainlanders come to this shop since there is nothing really on the mainland that has the variety. It does get very pricey.

Dress to Impress

Description: Far more affordable, modest, and traiditional clothing including some modern clothing as well. The equivalent of a small Target or Wal-mart in the retail clothing market. Not the best quality and nothing brand name, but it's decently priced and fitting more for people who do not have access to daddy's bank account or credit cards.

Oh My Goth!

Description: A clothing shop that caters more to the rockers and punk groups more than the trendy preppy kid. Like hot topic but more authentic and less trendy. It has a lot of magazines from all over the world as well as rock albums, but mostly vinyls or the latest stuff.

The Boardwalk

Description: Generally the place where most of the rich kids shop for their summery type clothing. Bathing suits are for sale, but mostly overpriced khakis, shirts, etc. If it's hip and in style, they have it and in the best quality, unfortunately the best quality includes a hefty price tag.

Posh Design

Description: A story where its less casual but more business like. For the future presidents or lawyers of the world, the clothing here is more geared for students, however it is not a jeans and T-shirt place. Blouses, skirts, slacks and a shoe collection to die for, it's also expensive and more modern in its appearance. The story is decorated with futuristic looking furniture. Most of the clothing comes from Armani, Gucchi, Versache, and other high quality names. No prom dresses are available here. Tuxedos however, are.