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Planning to visit the Berkshires

The Berkshires recently were ranked as one of the world’s best destinations by National Geographic, in a comprehensive survey that evaluated popular tourist meccas and important locations around the world. Primary objective here is to offer the person planning a vacation in the Berkshires or to visit Berkshire county for business or other reasons, a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all those features that add up the Berkshires.

Berkshires lodging – hotels, inns, bed and breakfasts

BerkshireLinks.com users are people planning to visit the Berkshires; they are looking for lodging accommodations in these towns and cities:

• Williamstown, MA,
• North Adams, MA,
• Hancock, MA,
• Pittsfield, MA,
• Richmond, MA,
• Lenox, MA,
• Lee, MA,
• Stockbridge, MA,
• Great Barrington, MA;

Those interested in the Berkshires cultural calendar look at the variety of arts and entertainment events that are found on the schedules of performing arts organizations and venues, such as

• Tanglewood,
• Berkshire Theatre Festival,
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival,
• Williamstown Theatre Festival,
• The Colonial Theatre,
• Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center,
• Shakespeare and Co.,
• Barrington Stage Company,
• Pittsfield CityJazz Festival,
• Chester Theatre Company,
• Berkshire Fringe,
• Berkshire International Film Festival,

Berkshires outdoors recreation

People visit the Berkshires for its wealth of outdoors recreation as well, including such activities as skiing, hiking, camping, biycling, fishing, golf, canoeing, sailing at destinations such as

• Mount Greylock State Reservation,
• Ashuwillticook Rail Trail,
• Bartholomew’s Cobble,
• Berkshire Botanical Garden,
• Bash Bish Falls State Park,
• Beartwon State Forest,
• Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sancturay,
• Chester-Blandford State Forest,
• Clarksburg State Park,
• Monument Mountain,
• Mount Everett State Reservation,
• Mount Washington State Reservation,
• Natural Bridge State Park,
• October Mountain State Forest,
• Pittsfield State Forest,
• Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary,
• Sandisfield State Forest,
• Savoy Mountain State Forest,
• Tolland State Forest,
• Tyringham Cobble,
• Umpachene Falls,
• Wahconah Falls State Park,
• Western Gateway Heritage State Park,
• Windsor State Forest.

Berkshires museums and historical sites

In addition to the performing arts and outdoors recreation, people visiting the Berkshires are interested in the range of museums and historical sites, including,

• Clark Art Institute,
• Berkshire Museum,
• The Mount – Edith Wharton Restoration,
• Arrowhead – Herman Melville home,
• Col. John Ashley House,
• Berkshire Athenaeum,
• William Cullen Bryant Homestead,
• Chesterwood,
• Norman Rockwell Museum,
• MASS MoCA,
• Frelinghuysen Morris House,
• Hancock Shaker Village,
• Lenox Athenaeum,
• Mission House in Stockbridge,
• Naumkeag,
• Ventfort Hall,
• Williams College Museum of Art.

BerkshireLinks.com is a project of ReadWebCo.com, the web design and new media company located in Lenox, MA and owned by Dave Read. BerkshireLinks.com was created in 2001 as a Berkshire county almanac, to supplement ReadWebCo.com’s NewBerkshire.com, which primarily was devoted to reviews of theatre, dance, and musical performances in the Berkshires.

Since 2006, BerkshireLinks.com has been co-branded with CareerBuilder.com and International Hotel Solutions, enabling us to offer a wide variety of Berkshires employment services and lodging reservations for hotels, motels, B & Bs, and inns in the Berkshires.

Best of the Web…

The 4th Anniversary Issue of Berkshire Living, the local magazine subtitled “The Good Life in the Country,” features BerkshireLinks.com on its “Click Pick – Best of the Web” column, which is written by Alsion McGee.
We were delighted to be selected. The magazine is a stunning product, with a heft and a glamor that belies the current trend in print media. A single copy weighs as much as a weekful of the local daily newspaper! This issue of the magazine also includes a lifestyle article about Prime Steakhouse and Bar, the Lenox restaurant with a website designed by our web design company, ReadWebCo.com.