The Berkshires · Southern Berkshires

Egremont

Catamount’s ski-and-zipline mountain, Old Mill restaurant, and a quiet rural town between Great Barrington and the New York border.

Egremont sits west of Great Barrington and runs to the New York border, anchored by Catamount Mountain Resort (skiing in winter, ziplines and an aerial adventure park in summer) on the western edge. The Old Mill restaurant is the town's destination dining: a 18th-century mill building converted into one of the region's longer-running serious-food destinations. Beyond those two anchors, Egremont is rural and quiet — winding country roads, the kind of stone walls and white-clapboard houses that show up in every New England postcard, and a small Main Street commercial cluster. Hiking access opens at Mount Everett State Reservation just south. For visiting adults 21+, Egremont's licensed-cannabis retail presence is thin, with Great Barrington's shops a 10-minute drive east. The town suits the visitor who wants a Berkshires weekend built around a ski day at Catamount or a long dinner at the Old Mill, with the rural pace as the main feature rather than a constraint.