North & South Egremont MA
A tiny town with more antiques than people.
The Old Mill, a popular restaurant
of longstanding in South Egremont MA.
Egremont MA (map) actually consists of two settlements:
North Egremont is a tiny place on MA Route 71, due west of Great Barrington. It has a country store, an inn with a restaurant, and a few houses.
South Egremont, 4 miles southwest of Great Barrington on MA 23 and 41, is a much bigger place, with several inns and restaurants, shops, and churches, and quite a number of antique shops.
All in all, the town has only about 1225 residents, meaning it is still very rural, though the number of people you see here is amplified in summer by inn guests, antique-seekers and, in winter, by skiers going to or from the nearby Catamount Ski Resort. In summer, the traffic to Catamount is for the zip lines in its Aerial Adventure Park.
South Egremont and nearby Great Barrington MA are an antique-lovers' mecca in the Berkshires.
Dutch farmers from the colony of New York founded Egremont in 1722, and English settlers arrived a few years later. In 1761 the town was incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay colony, and people began saving antiques to sell to tourist 250 years later....
Transportation
Car is the only practicable way to reach Egremont (map).
The nearest convenient intercity bus stop is at Lenox MA. (Buses go to Great Barrington, but more stop at Lenox.)
The nearest Amtrak train station is at Pittsfield MA.
The nearest international airport 52 miles/84 km) is Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks CT, north of Hartford, but if you don't plan to go to Egremont by car you may find it more convenient to use Boston's Logan International Airport as there are more direct buses and trains from Boston to the Berkshire Hills.
Distances from South Egremont to:
Boston MA: 141 miles (227 km) E
Great Barrington MA: 4 miles (6.5 km) NE
Lee MA: 15 miles (24 km) N
Lenox MA: 17 miles (27 km) N
Salisbury CT: 13 miles (21 km) S
Williamstown MA: 49 miles (79 km) N
Northwestern Connecticut and its lovely town of Salisbury and Lake Waramaug are not far to the south across the state line.
More Information...
The Town of Egremont has information about official town functions on its website:
Town of Egremont
P O Box 368
171 Egremont Plain Road
South Egremont MA 01258
tegremont@yahoo.com
Tel: 413-528-0182
Fax: 413-528-5465
Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce
Visitor Center
362 Main Street
(P O Box 810)
Great Barrington MA 01230