Hancock Vacation Rental - Whitman Woods: Private Berkshire Vacation, 4 acres — Property 138408

Summary of the vacation rental house, 4 bedrooms, sleeps 8, 2 bathrooms

Hancock house rental - Whitman Woods & House - summer
Call Bob & Peg Ronnow
413 458-5022
(International 413 458-5022)
 
Email Owner
Property type:
house, 2000 sq. ft. 
Location type:
mountain, rural  
Highlights:
mountain, rural, washing machine, internet access, fishing  
Hancock house rental - Whitman Woods & House - summer

Whitman Woods & House - summer

Hancock house rental - Deck in summer

Deck in summer

Hancock house rental - Winter woods from dining room

Winter woods from dining room

Hancock house rental - Dining room

Dining room

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Description of the Hancock vacation house rental

Whitman Woods offers privacy with proximity to excellent skiing at Jiminy Peak and to many cultural attractions of the Berkshires including Williamstown Theater Festival and Tanglewood. For outdoor lovers, Whitman Woods is near Mount Greylock Reservation, Audubon's Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary and many other parks and natural areas. Or just stay home and enjoy the large deck that overlooks four acres of woodland privacy one-quarter mile from the nearest road and enjoy short walks on trails to neighboring Ioka Farm. A comfortable living room offers satellite television, an excellent stereo system, a DSL Internet connection, and a working fireplace for cozy winter evenings. The kitchen is fully equipped for quiet dinners or entertaining, and the dining room is elegantly furnished with a cherry dining table and oak sideboard and offers bay window views of the woodland and its seasonal changes. The spacious deck makes summer and autumn days and evenings a memorable experience.

Location

Nearest airport:   Albany, NY at 30 Miles
Nearest train:   Rensselaer, NY at 30 Miles
Nearest motorway:   Lee, MA at 15 Miles
Car: necessary

Whitman Woods is located less than 5 minutes from excellent winter skiing and summer recreation at Jiminy Peak Ski Resort; the house is about 15 minutes from Williamstown including the Williamstown Theater Festival, Clark Art Museum & Williams College; we are 15-20 minutes from Tanglewood Music Festival, Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare & Company, Hancock Shaker Village, Berkshire Theater Festival and about 30 minutes from MassMOCA and Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival; the area offers excellent hiking, fishing, hunting, cross country skiing, biking, boating & canoeing, horseback riding, birding and antiquing; there are many restaurants for both fine and family dining. PLEASE NOTE: The accompanying map, which is provided by the listing service, is inaccurate; both Jiminy Peak Ski Resort and our vacation rental at Whitman Woods are located in the Town of Hancock, northwest of Pittsfield, not southwest of Pittsfield as shown. .
Hancock map
marks the location of the property in Jiminy Peak

Availability Calendar

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Rental Rates for this vacation house rental in Hancock, Massachusetts

  • $1,000/wk; call or email for daily, weekend & seasonal rates
  • $1,000/wk; call or email for daily, weekend & seasonal rates

Accommodation and Amenities for this vacation house rental in Hancock, Massachusetts

Property Type:
  • house

Floor Area:
  • 2000 sq. ft.

Location Type:
  • mountain
  • rural

Theme:
  • away from it all
  • family

General:
  • Paper-Towels
  • Laundry-Soap
  • Restaurant-Dining-Guide
  • Soaps-Basic
  • Toilet-Paper
  • Firewood
  • Local-Maps
  • towels provided
  • central heating
  • telephone
  • linens provided
  • Alarm-Clock
  • Local-Activities-Guide

Kitchen:
  • oven
  • Coffee-Grinder
  • coffee maker
  • toaster
  • washing machine
  • iron & board
  • Blender
  • Stove-Top-Burners
  • cooking utensils
  • refrigerator
  • clothes dryer
  • Spices
  • dish washer
  • kitchenette
  • microwave
  • freezer

Living Room:
  • fireplace
  • comfy seating for 6 people

Dining:
  • dining area
  • seating for 8 people

Bathrooms:
  • 2 bathroom(s)
  • Bathroom 1 - Toilet, Combination Tub/Shower
    Bathroom 2 - Toilet, Combination Tub/Shower
  • 2 full bathrooms, one on each floor

Bedrooms:
  • 4 bedrooms, sleeps maximum of 8 people
  • Bedroom 3 - 1 Double
    Bedroom 4 - 1 Double
    Bedroom 1 - 1 Queen
    Bedroom 2 - 1 Queen
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 upstairs with queen size bed and 2 downstairs with double bed.

Entertainment:
  • Music-Library
  • Video-Library
  • VCR
  • stereo system
  • audio tape player
  • satellite or cable
  • Games-Adults
  • Games-Kids
  • tv
  • Books
  • cd
  • Toys-Kids
  • DVD
  • radio

Internet Access:
  • internet access
  • broadband access
  • wireless broadband

Outside:
  • outdoor grill
  • Outdoor-Grill-Gas
  • barbecue
  • child's swing
  • sand box
  • Deck-Wood
  • 10 garden chairs

Suitability:
  • children welcome
  • pets not allowed
  • long term renters welcome
  • wheelchair inaccessible
  • unsuitable for elderly or infirm
  • non smoking only

Local Activities:
  • walking
  • mountaineering
  • golf
  • roller blading
  • cycling
  • skiing
  • mountain biking
  • hunting
  • fishing
  • swimming
  • horseback riding
  • antiquing

Attractions:
  • Forests
  • Hospital
  • Playground
  • Autumn-Foliage
  • Museums
  • Pond
  • Cinemas
  • Groceries
  • Library
  • Botanical-Garden
  • Churches
  • Eco-Tourism
  • Arboretum

Leisure Activities:
  • Freshwater-Fishing
  • Rafting
  • Spelunking
  • Ice-Skating
  • Live-Theater
  • Mountain-Climbing
  • Paddle-Boating
  • Hiking
  • Hunting-Big-Game
  • Sight-Seeing
  • Bird-Watching
  • Hunting-Small-Game
  • Sledding
  • Outlet-Shopping

Nearby Attraction / Facility:
  • Restaurants
  • Scenic-Drives

Nearby Activities:
  • Golf-Privileges-Optional
  • Ski-Privileges-Optional

Notes: Excellent stereo system with AM/FM, tape deck and CD player in the living room, as well as a portable AM/FM, tape deck, CD player in the downstairs den/playroom. Also satellite TV upstairs and downstairs with approx. 250 channels including HBO and children's channels. Library of music CDs, tape & DVD movies, many books. High speed DSL internet access. 4-wheel or all-wheel drive required December 1 - April 30.


Further details for this vacation house rental in Hancock, Massachusetts

Jiminy Peak - less than 5 minutes driving time: The Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort offers several amenities for your enjoyment, including:* The largest ski and snowboard resort in Southern New England with the only high-speed six passenger chairlift in the region;* Three terrain parks and a half pipe for skiers and snowboarders;* Forty-three trails, day and night skiing, equipment rentals, lessons, and children's programs;* Summer Mountain activities for the whole family including the Alpine Slide, Euro-bungee, Climbing Wall, Zipline, mini golf, and Scenic Summit Ride;* Shopping and dining in the Village Center and Country Inn;* Outdoor heated swimming pool;* Indoor and outdoor whirlpools;* Exercise room and game room.

Williamstown - 15 minutes driving time: The Williamstown Theatre Festival is a summer-long celebration of theater that brings together a vast and impressive array of artists and offers audiences varied cultural experiences. Every summer, WTF presents approximately two hundred performances of classic and new plays on its Main and Nikos Stages, Free Theatre, Cabaret, and countless readings, workshops, and other special events. Surrounded by 140 acres of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking trails, the Clark Art Museum is home to exceptional examples of European and American painting and sculpture, master prints and drawings, English silver and porcelain, and early photographs. The museum is best known, however, for its extraordinary collection of French Impressionist paintings. Images Cinema, a non-profit community movie theater, presents a wide range of independent, foreign and classic films which impact filmmaking and culture.

Pittsfield & Lenox - 15-20 minutes driving time: Tanglewood offers the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, weekly chamber music concerts, Prelude concerts and Open Rehearsals, the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, and almost daily concerts by the gifted young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center. The Boston Pops Orchestra appears annually, and in recent years the Tanglewood Jazz Festival has been added to close the summer. Shakespeare & Company aspires to create a theatre of unprecedented excellence rooted in the classical ideals of inquiry, balance, and harmony; a company that performs as the Elizabethans did. The Colonial Theatre is one of America's finest turn-of-the-century theaters to survive intact. Programming includes nights of comedy, jazz, blues, folk and rock concerts, evenings of dance, Broadway shows, screening of foreign and classic films, lectures by authors and world-renown speakers, family entertainment, and country, classical, gospel, and classical performances.


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