Whatever the season, you'll be here at the right time. Bartholomew's Cobble, or the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Explore the Appalachian Trail, walk Monument Mountain, the Ice Glen, Bash Bish Falls, or enjoy our numerous State Forests. Our quiet back roads are described in detail in several cycling guides. Butternut is famous for its family ski school programs and Catamount's vertical drop is one of the most challenging .
Trails are in abundance.
Canoe on the Housatonic, swim or fish the Green River. The new Norman Rockwell Museum and the Hancock Shaker Village. We have auction galleries with sales year 'round, and dozens of craft shops and potteries. For instance, Great Barrington, the market center for the region, was the location of the American colonists' first armed protest against the British Parliament, in 1774, the year before the battles of the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the American Revolution. We can proudly claim the greatest selection of excellent and diverse restaurants to be discovered anywhere in our beautiful Berkshires.