Many ways for visitors to ‘see’ the Berkshires
By: Ruth Bass
DATE: October 28, 2025
RICHMOND — People From Chicago (PFC)—very special people—came to visit last week for the first time in several years, anxious to do same-old things again and ready for new places to go. So they spent five days and five nights being atypical tourists because they had local guidance.
One of the repeats was the lovely Parsons Marsh walk from Undermountain Road in Lenox to the Berkshire Natural Resources Council’s lookout over the marsh. Many of the trees had shed their leaves, but it was still colorful, and mid- to late afternoon is the best time in the fall. A stranger with binoculars lent them so I could see the colorful heads of the two cruising wood ducks—and then the couple at the lookout quickly elevated from unknown to acquaintance when the town of Richmond was mentioned.