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Berkshire Vacation Home 4 bedrooms, 4 acres

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Property Description

The vacation house at Whitman Woods offers privacy with proximity to excellent skiing at Jiminy Peak and to many cultural attractions of the Berkshires, "America's Premier Cultural Resort", including Williamstown Theater Festival, the Clark Art Museu

Property Details

Whitman Woods is located less than 5 minutes from excellent winter skiing and summer recreation at Jiminy Peak Ski Resort; the house is about 15 minutes from Williamstown including the Williamstown Theater Festival, Clark Art Museum & Williams College; we are 15-20 minutes from Tanglewood Music Festival, Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare & Company, Hancock Shaker Village, Berkshire Theater Festival and about 30 minutes from MassMOCA and Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival; the area offers excellent hiking, fishing, hunting, cross country skiing, biking, boating & canoeing, horseback riding, birding and antiquing; there are many restaurants for both fine and family dining.The Williamstown Theatre Festival is a summer-long celebration of theater that brings together a vast and impressive array of artists and offers audiences varied cultural experiences. Every summer, WTF presents approximately two hundred performances of classic and new plays on its Main and Nikos Stages, Free Theatre, Cabaret, and countless readings, workshops, and other special events. Surrounded by 140 acres of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking trails, the Clark Art Museum is home to exceptional examples of European and American painting and sculpture, master prints and drawings, English silver and porcelain, and early photographs. The museum is best known, however, for its extraordinary collection of French Impressionist paintings. Images Cinema, a non-profit community movie theater, presents a wide range of independent, foreign and classic films which impact filmmaking and culture.The Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort offers several amenities for your enjoyment, including:* The largest ski and snowboard resort in Southern New England with the only high-speed six passenger chairlift in the region;* Three terrain parks and a half pipe for skiers and snowboarders;* Forty-three trails, day and night skiing, equipment rentals, lessons, and children's programs;* Summer Mountain activities for the whole family including the Alpine Slide, Euro-bungee, Climbing Wall, Zipline, mini golf, and Scenic Summit Ride;* Shopping and dining in the Village Center and Country Inn;* Outdoor heated swimming pool;* Indoor and outdoorwhirlpoolsTanglewood offers the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, weekly chamber music concerts, Prelude concerts and Open Rehearsals, the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, and almost daily concerts by the gifted young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center. The Boston Pops Orchestra appears annually, and in recent years the Tanglewood Jazz Festival has been added to close the summer. Shakespeare & Company aspires to create a theatre of unprecedented excellence rooted in the classical ideals of inquiry, balance, and harmony; a company that performs as the Elizabethans did. The Colonial Theatre is one of America's finest turn-of-the-century theaters to survive intact. Programming includes nights of comedy, jazz, blues, folk and rock concerts, evenings of dance, Broadway shows, screening of foreign and classic films, lectures by authors and world-renown speakers, family entertainment, andcountry, classical, gospel, and classical performances.

Rental Policies

Arrival Times

flexible

Amenities

• Phone
• Radio
• Hunting Near By
• Washer and Dryer
• TV Cable
• DVD Player
• Fishing Near By
• Stove
• TV Satellite
• Stereo
• Hi-Speed Internet
• Skiing Near By
• Fireplace
• Queen Bed

Rental Rates

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