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Welcome To Sottile Park
Sottile Park -- A Pittsfield Public Pedestrian Park For Everyone To Enjoy
Anthony W. Sottile - Longtime City Auditor / Civic Leader / Family Man Remembered
1982 Initial Plans For Pedestrian Parks On North @ Eagle & Columbus Offering Location & Convenience
1985 Ribbon-cutting Dedication of Sottile Park
2014 Update The Parks On North @ Eagle & Columbus The Heart Of Upstreet
The Sottile Park Volunteers - "It Takes A Village Of People To Make A Community"
Historic Corners of North @ Eagle & Columbus / Theodore Roosevelt & Train Depot
Historic New American Hotel -- North @ Eagle & Columbus
Historic Park's Past Included Bulletin Board & Bridge Lunch
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The Berkshires
Rated in Top 10 Best Destinations
by
 
National Geographic Destination Survey 
 About the Survey -- 133 Places Rated
A List by Scores 
 
 
" This survey—our sixth "places rated" list—isn’t a popularity contest. It is an assessment of authenticity and stewardship, evaluating the qualities that make a destination unique and measuring its "integrity of place." Thus the remote islands of the Grenadines can rate notably higher than popular St. Maarten. 
 
Because evaluating an entire destination involves such unquantifiables as aesthetics and cultural integrity, we decided the best measure would be informed human judgment. We therefore assembled a panel of 437 well-traveled experts in a variety of fields—historic preservation, site management, geography, sustainable tourism, ecology, indigenous cultures, travel writing and photography, and archaeology. 
 
We asked the panelists to evaluate only the places with which they were familiar, using our customary six criteria, weighted according to importance: environmental and ecological quality; social and cultural integrity; condition of historic buildings and archaeological sites; aesthetic appeal; quality of tourism management; and outlook for the future. 
 
Experts began by posting points of view on each place—anonymously, to ensure objectivity. After reading each others’ remarks—a variation of a research tool called the Delphi technique—panelists then filed their final scores. 
 
The resulting Stewardship Index rating represents the average of informed judgments about each place in all its manifestations—as a whole. Like the scores posted by Olympic judges, our experts’ ratings reflect both measurable factors and intangibles (style, aesthetics, culture). And like Olympic athletes, each of the destinations rated here has an opportunity to improve." 
 
Destination Scorecard
133 Rated Places -- The List by Score
 
Note:   There are multiple entries
for some scores, thus the number 
rating from 84 down to 31

PLACES DOING WELL

73 Cappadocia, Turkey

73 Pantanal, Brazil

72 Central Copenhagen, Denmark

72 Northern Coast, California

72 Coastal Area, Maine, U.S.

72 Tuscany, Italy

72 Salzburg Historic Center, Austria

71 Ring of Kerry, Ireland

71 Eleuthera, Bahamas

71 Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia

71 Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile

71 Yellowstone/Grand Teton Region, Wyoming-Montana-Idaho, U.S.

71 Amsterdam Historic Center, Netherlands

71 Laurentian Highlands, Quebec, Canada

71 Upolu, Samoa

71 Serengeti Plain, Tanzania

71 Delphi, Greece

71 Santa Barbara to Monterey, California, U.S.

70 Taos and the Enchanted Circle Tour, New Mexico, U.S.

70 Kruger National Park, South Africa

69 Seychelles

69 Lake District, Italy

68 Williamsburg/Yorktown/Jamestown, Virginia, U.S.

68 Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

68 Copán, Honduras

67 Waterton-Glacier "Crown of the Continent" Region, Alberta-Montana-British Columbia

67 New Caledonia

66 Colorado Rockies, Colorado, U.S.

66 Bluegrass Country, Kentucky, U.S.

66 Grand Canyon/Tusayan, Arizona, U.S.

66 Qin Emperor Mausoleum, Xi'an, China

66 Dalmatia's Coastal Isles, Croatia

66 Patagonian Andes Region, Argentina

66 British Virgin Islands

65 Arches/Canyonlands/Moab, Utah, U.S.

65 Yosemite Area, California, U.S.

64 Inside Passage, Alaska-British Columbia

64 Rajasthan, India

64 Hue, Vietnam

64 Vanuatu

NORTHEAST MOUNTAIN RANGES
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PLACES IN THE BALANCE

63 Traverse City & Lakeshore, Michigan, U.S.

63 Sonora Desert Region, Arizona, U.S.

62 The Grenadines, Caribbean

62 Costa Rica

62 Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, U.S.

62 Maui, Hawaii, U.S.

62 Great Barrier Reef, Australia

62 Prague Old Town, Czech Republic

62 Annapurna Circuit, Nepal

61 Grenada

61 Island of Hawaii, U.S.

61 Hill Country, Texas, U.S.

61 Mount Rushmore/Badlands, South Dakota

60 Petra, Jordan

60 Stonehenge, England, United Kingdom

60 Kerala Backwaters, India

59 Bali, Indonesia

59 Port Antonio Area, Jamaica

59 Reef and Islands, Belize

59 Valparaíso, Chile

58 Borobudur, Indonesia

58 Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.

58 Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

58 Lake Titicaca, Bolivia-Peru

57 Azure Coast, Turkey

57 Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe/Zambia

57 Athens Acropolis, Greece

57 Santorini, Greece

57 St. Lucia

55 Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Peru

55 Tikal/Flores, Guatemala

55 French Riviera (Côte d'Azur), France

54 Niagara Falls Area, Ontario-New York

54 Rio de Janeiro Beach Districts, Brazil

54 Chiang Mai, Thailand

53 Masai Mara, Kenya

53 Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia

53 Sanibel/Captiva, Florida

 

APPALACHIAN TRAIL | GA to ME
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PLACES WITH TROUBLES

52 Lalibela and Rock-Hewn Churches, Ethiopia

52 Northern Coast, Honduras

52 Agra Area (Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri), India

51 Long Island Shore (Hamptons to Montauk), New York, U.S.

51 North Coast, Crete, Greece

51 Venice and Lagoon, Italy

50 Tahiti, French Polynesia

50 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

49 Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee, U.S.

49 Lijiang and Three Parallel Rivers, Yunnan, China

48 Everglades and Big Cypress, Florida, U.S.

48 Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

48 Luxor (Thebes, Valley of the Kings), Egypt

48 Beijing Historic Districts, China

47 Andorra

47 Sinhalese Coastal Regions, Sri Lanka

46 Angkor/Siem Reap, Cambodia

45 Pyramids, Giza, Egypt

45 South Beach, Florida, U.S.

45 Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet, China

44 Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

44 Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan

44 "Riviera Maya," Caribbean Coast, Quintana Roo, Mexico

43 Algarve, Portugal

42 Costa Brava, Spain

42 Chesapeake Bay, Maryland-Virginia, U.S.

 
 
WORST RATED PLACES
 
 
 
 
 
37 Cabo San Lucas Region, Mexico -- Defective Link
 
35 Grand Bahama, Bahamas -- Defective Link
 
 
 
 
 

BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MA
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CATEGORY

BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORY

 
 
 
 

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Real Estate Offices

Alton and Westall Agency

Ashmere Realty, Inc.

Barb Hassan Realty

Barnbrook Realty

Barrington Brook

Benchmark Real Estate

Berkshire Country Homes

Berkshire Property Agents

Berkshire Woods Realty LLC

Burnham Gold Real Estate

Cohen & White Associates

Corashire Realty, Inc.

Dennis G. Welch Real Estate, Ltd.

Elyse Harney Real Estate

Friday & Co. Real Estate

Harsch Associates

Helen Mullany Real Estate LLC

Isgood Real Estate in the Berkshires

Jan Perry Realty & Associates, LLC

The Kinderhook Group

L.J. Stark & Company Real Estate

Lance Vermeulen Real Estate

McLean Realtors

The Pines - Lenox Woods - Devon Meadow

Pond Pasture

Roberts & Associates Realty

Southern Berkshire Realty

Steepleview Realty

Stone House Properties

Talbot Real Estate

Tony Blair Real Estate, Inc.

Tucker Associates

Tucker Welch Properties

William Brockman Real Estate

William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty

Wheeler & Taylor Realty

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Berkshire County Massachusetts North-Central-South
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SOTTILE PARK
In the Heart of Downtown
In The True Heart of The Berkshires
 Pittsfield Massachusetts

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