Western Connecticut

Northwest of Hartford is tobacco country.

The Connecticut River Valley has very good conditions for growing a premium wrapper leaf for cigars, the famous Connecticut Valley shade-grown tobacco. The long barns next to the fields are for drying; and part of the year the crop will be covered with gauze enclosures to protect it from too much direct sun, hence the "shade-grown" name.

A pleasant morning or afternoon can be spent driving through part of the tobacco country on the way to Litchfield. Industrial development pass Litchfield by in the 1800s. It seemed a tragedy at the time, but it resulted in the preservation intact of one of the most beautiful towns in New England.

Litchfield county is all forest, rivers, and rolling hills, some of the prettiest country in this exceptionally pretty state.

Deeper into the northwest corner of the state you will come upon other charming towns, country inns, and resorts nestled in the Litchfield Hills (Connecticut's "Berkshires") and scattered on the shores of clear lakes.

This is vacation country.

In the charming old town of Salisbury, you're only 4 miles from the Massachusetts state line, 12 miles from the southern Berkshire town of South Egremont.

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