High Pocket Farm, offering bed and breakfast lodging in picturesque Colrain, in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is nestled on a knoll on the end of a secluded dirt road.

The New England farmhouse is 160 years old with a new four-stall timber frame barn, a separate game room, and a hot tub on 545 acres. If your idea of the perfect vacation includes your equine friend, High Pocket is the place for you!

Three guest accommodations, appointed with comfortable furnishings and private bathrooms, are available to inn guests. For guests' horses, each barn stall includes shavings and use of the electric fenced pasture. If you didn't bring your equine friend, horses are available for rent to lodging guests.

For down time, welcoming living and dining areas are always available for chatting or watching a movie, and the convenient kitchen lets guests prepare their own lunch and dinner if they'd like. The rec room has a ping pong table, puzzle, and games, and a large mud room stores all your tack and sporting gear. Evenings beg you to relax in the hot tub with majestic views around you and millions of stars above.

There are also plenty of things to do when you want to take it a bit easier. The stores, golf courses, and ski areas of Wilmington, Vermont, and Mount Snow are not far away from High Pocket. In nearby Shelburne Falls and historic Deerfield, you can visit quaint shops, go antiquing, and browse the local farm stands in season. Mass MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams, Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, and the Five College towns of Northampton and Amherst are just a short, scenic drive away. Many fine restaurants with a variety of dining options are within 20 miles of the farm, as are live theater and movies. High Pocket Bed and Breakfast and Barn has it all -- country leisure just a stone's throw away from urban sophistication.

Each morning, a sumptuous country breakfast is served fresh at 8:00 a.m. Enjoy such breakfast favorites as blueberry pancakes, omelets, and fresh-from-the-oven baked goods. This hearty breakfast will prepare you for y some horseback riding as well as adventures in and around the Colrain area.

With or without your horse, the area has plenty to interest you. Private trails can be ridden, hiked, biked, and skied. You'll pass beaver ponds and enter lush forests and open meadows, perhaps catching a glimpse of the local wildlife. Aside from the daily two-hour guided trail ride, overnight, inn to inn, and picnic rides can also be arranged. Four-season activities include fishing, swimming, hiking, biking, golf, canoeing, rafting, and alpine and cross-country skiing.