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Bonanza Bus Lines between Williamstown, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, MA, or Canaan, CT and Port Authority Bus Terminal, NYC

Metro-North Railroad between Wassaic, Dover Plains, or Poughkeepsie, NY and Harlem (125th Street) or Grand Central Station, NYC

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The price of gas at many of the stations in your area (enter zip code) and those immediately surrounding it. 

Historic Homes, Museums & Gardens

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Montgomery Place 434-acre intact Hudson River Valley estate

Athens, NY

Howard Hall Farm a laboratory for restoration training

Austerlitz, NY

Old Austerlitz

Catskill, NY

Cedar Grove home of Hudson River School founder, painter Thomas Cole

Hudson, NY

The American Museum of Firefighting

Hyde Park, NY

Home of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Vanderbilt Mansion relic of the Gilded Age

Germantown, NY

Clermont an early Hudson River estate

Olana home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church

Kent, CT

Sloane Stanley Museum artist’s studio and tool collection

Kinderhook, NY

U. S. President Martin Van Buren house

Lenox, MA

The Mount Edith Wharton’s estate and gardens

Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio Cubist paintings in a Modernist house

Ventfort Hall the Gilded Age Museum

Old Chatham, NY

Shaker Museum and Library

Pittsfield, MA

Hancock Shaker Village

Arrowhead home of Herman Melville.

Rhinebeck, NY

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome aircraft and auto museum; air shows

Poughkeepsie, NY

Locust Grove home of Samuel F.B. Morse

Sheffield, MA

Ashley House c. 1735 house; oldest in Berkshire County

Staatsburgh, NY

Mills Mansion house remodeled in Beaux Arts style by McKim, Mead & White

Stockbridge, MA

Chesterwood Estate & Museum home of Lincoln memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French

Mission House 1739 house with Colonial Revival garden

Naumkeag McKim, Mead & White summer cottage and gardens

Williamstown, MA

The Folly at Field Farm Modenist house and sculpture garden

RI Archives: Rural Road Trips

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Lodgings: Breadloaf Mountain Lodge & Cottages in Cornwall Bridge

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A fly-fishing enthusiast since childhood, Marty Iannone designed Breadloaf Mountain Lodge & Cottages to be a modern fishermen’s Magic Kingdom just steps away from the Housatonic River in northwestern Connecticut. He never expected the rustic compound would also become an ideal spot for down-to-earth weddings, yoga seminars, corporate retreats, book clubs and family reunions.

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Excursions: Pittsfield, Ideal Solution for the Rainy Day Blues

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Pittsfield turns out to be the ideal destination for a family outing, especially on a rainy Saturday.  This week, weather or not, the Berkshire Museum lays it on for Earth Day. 

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