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32 ❯❯ Top 10 New England Highlights

Berkshires,
Massachusetts

Colonial-era villages of the southern Berkshires attest to the rich
soils of the Housatonic Valley, while former brick mill towns of the
north hint at 19th-century industrialization. Today, though, the
region’s identity revolves around the summer arts scene: music,
dance, theater. The natural world, too, is always alluring. Mountain
laurel explodes into bloom in June, and deer browse in abandoned
apple orchards. Mountaintop trails lead to sweeping views, or you
can hike into deep woods where a waterfall plunges into a still pool.

Mount
3
Greylock
American authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne
and Henry David
Thoreau climbed
Greylock and sang
its praises. You can
reach the summit, too,
either via several scenic
hiking trails or by car.
Williamstown
1 8
Williams College (above) lends a young
spirit to this historic village at the edge of Mount 1 Williamstown North
Adams
3
Greylock. The Clark holds several unmissable 8
treasures (see p41). Adams
7 New Ashford
Norman
2 Pittsfield 9
Berkshire
Rockwell
Museum 9
The museum (left) 0 Lenox 8 5
focuses on the popular 2 Becket
illustrator whose works Stockbridge
celebrate small-town Great
American life in the mid- Barrington 90
20th century. Changing 7
exhibitions explore the 6 4 7
illustration work of his
edgier contemporaries. Map of the Berkshires
NEED TO KNOW Mount Greylock State Stockbridge. The roundtrip
MAP B2–3 Reservation Visitor hike to the summit takes
Center: 30 Rockwell Rd, about 90 minutes.
Berkshires Visitors Bureau: Lanesborough; 413 499
66 Allen St, Pittsfield; 413 4262; open daily year-round • Head to the deli behind
499 1600; open Mon–Fri Rubiner’s Cheesemongers
Norman Rockwell Museum: • If you’re looking for an (264 Main St, Great
9 Rte 183, Stockbridge; easy climb, try modest Barrington; 413 528 0488)
413 298 4100; open daily Monument Mountain on for gourmet sandwiches,
year-round; adm Rte 7 a few miles south of many with exotic cheeses.

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