Falls Village Inn will pack you a picnic basket for a lunch or dinner in a setting of your choosing – a park, by a lake, a scenic overlook. Falls Village and the surrounding area is ripe with possibilities for a beautiful night or evening enjoying good food and nature.

Falls Village Inn will rent you and your party bicycles for a day or the length of your stay for leisurely riding through town, or longer trips for recreation and exercise. Contact the front desk or call the Inn for more information.

For a faster speed activity, visit Lime Rock Race Track, which hosts a famous driving school and a program of summer auto racing, with occasional celebrity sightings to add to the excitement. www.limerock.com

Summer vacationers can take advantage of weekend concerts at Music Mountain, every weekend from June through September. www.musicmountain.org

Ski Butternut. Enjoy some winter fun in neighboring Great Barrington Mass. with over 22 trails and 110 skiable acres. Open November through April. www.butternutbasin.com

See a summer production or visit the art gallery at the Sharon Playhouse, located at the tri-state corner of Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. www.triarts.net

Winter enthusiasts visiting the Inn have Mohawk State Park & Ski Area practically in their back yard. Mohawk is the original snowmaking ski area, to supplement New England winters, pacifying both downhill and cross-country skiers and snowboarders. Warmer weather visitors can enjoy the park for hiking and sightseeing. www.mohawkmountain.com

View wildlife and bird watch while taking a short hike or a longer backpacking trip along the U.S. Appalachian Trail, the footpath equivalent to a drive on Route 66. Map available at front desk.

The famed Housatonic River, so notable in Falls Village history, provides scenic recreation activities, including excellent trout and small-bass fishing on drift boats, tubing and canoeing. White water rafting in early spring.

For a higher altitude hike (with climbing steps for walkers) or a picnic at the base of one of the country’s most beautiful waterfalls, visit Kent Falls State Park. Fishing is permitted, and the area is well photographed during autumn foliage season. www.dep.state.ct.us

From spring to late fall, the Northwest Corner is home to a plethora of country fairs, jamborees and town celebrations, both large (like the three-day Goshen Fair, one of the state’s largest agricultural fairs on Labor Day weekend) and small, like the tiny Harwinton Fair in October. Arts and crafts festivals, the Taste of Torrington, and the host of pick-your-own farms (strawberries, raspberries, pumpkins, blueberries and apples) always have something in season.

Year-round, Northwest Connecticut is known as a haven for antiquing, which never goes out of style. Towns surrounding Falls Village all have their own best antique shops and locations for unique finds and bargains. Check out Litchfield/Bantam centers, downtown Torrington (near the recently restored vintage Art Deco Warner Theatre) to the stops along the way in Kent, Goshen, Canaan, Salisbury, Winchester, Norfolk and Colebrook for quaint to large indoor and outdoor antique furnishings.

For a more pastoral activity, White Memorial Foundation/Whites Woods offers light hiking through woods and near waterways, a wildlife museum and a bird sanctuary for wounded creatures. Some of the trails are on the path of the Litchfield Hills Road Race. Parking is free, next to the museum and paths. www.whitememorialcc.org

Experience the beautiful mountain vista from the high elevation at Macedonia State Park. The historical parcel is an Indian reservation with ancient burial grounds that has served as an archaeological dig. In winter, the park has exceptional cross-country ski paths, and year-round hikers can fish in-season.

The Sloane-Stanley Museum showcases early American artifacts, tools and implements of famed author and artist Eric Sloane. The museum is considered one of the finest small museums in the U.S. for its extensive collection.

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