Going to Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7)

What to do in Ethan Allen Highway (Route 7)

by Pieter van Noordennen

When you picture chromatic canopies of fall foliage, covered bridges over blue-ribbon trout streams, and harvest festivals among Colonial-era homes around town greens, you picture Route 7. This winding, bucolic stretch of two-lane highway, also known as the Ethan Allen Highway, runs some 125 miles through the Berkshire Mountains' most lavish fall color country, starting at the Veteran's Bridge in New Milford, Connecticut (any farther south runs the risk of suburban New York traffic), to Bennington, Vermont, where it shoots into the Green Mountains. Of course, you can continue the trip up through northern New England college towns like Middlebury and Burlington, stopping at quaint bed-and-breakfasts and snapping an 8GB memory card worth of New England fall foliage pictures in the process. But that's a story for another...

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