Upper Housatonic Valley Heritage Walks

Free, guided walks throughout Berkshire County, Massachusetts and Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Saturdays & Sundays on…Sept. 6 & 7, 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27 & 28, and Oct. 4 & 5

The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area announces the 23rd annual autumn Housatonic Heritage Walks in September.  A variety of 80 free, guided interpretive tours will be offered throughout The Berkshires, MA, and Litchfield County, CT (northwestern CT).

The public is invited to participate in these family-oriented, interpretive walks, offered in partnership with our region’s historic, cultural, and outdoor recreation organizations and the National Park Service. The Heritage Walks are the ideal opportunity to experience and learn about our region’s rich and varied local history.

Historians, naturalists, and environmentalists will lead participants on explorations through historic estate gardens and town districts, behind-the-scenes cultural site tours, nature walks, trail hikes, and tours of many of the industrial-site ruins that were once thriving local industries.  There will be Native-American and African American history walks and an African-American history bike tour.

Detailed Heritage Walks brochures are available at libraries, post offices, and newspaper racks in major grocery stores in the region.  The Walks schedule is also available at:  https://housatonicheritage.org/events/heritage-walks/

To request a brochure by mail, email  [email protected]

The HOUSATONIC HERITAGE WALKS are a partnership between the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, the numerous heritage organizations in the Upper Housatonic River Valley, the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, and the National Park Service.