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Article: Bring your boots to this quirky Sheffield lodge
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2006
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EXPLORE NEW ENGLAND / CHECKING IN
SHEFFIELD - Its nickname says it all: Hikers' Heaven.
Just minutes by foot out the back door of the Race Brook Lodge,
there is a dirt path that leads over a bridge, along a stream, up a
hill, through a forest - and eventually to the Appalachian Trail and
Mount Race, with its knockout views of the Housatonic River Valley
and the Hudson River.
And not once from bed to breakfast table to mountaintop will you
have needed a car.
The Berkshires have always felt a bit too precious for my taste -
the Talbots store in downtown Lenox, the Mercedeses with New York
plates gliding along the country lanes of Lee, the fussy mansion-
inns dolled up with velvet and lace. ...