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If you are traveling up the Route 7 “Antique Highway” or hiking on the Connecticut portion of the Appalachian Trail, one of the most beautiful places to escape from your escape is the village of Kent, the site of Kent Falls. Kent Falls is not massive (like the slightly larger Yosemite in California) but, like our state in general, is smaller and charmier, a series of cascades on a mountain stream, Falls Brook.  It does have a climax where the waters plummet some seventy feet, and then enter the Housatonic River two hundred feet downstream.  But beyond merely falling, the water has carved interesting shapes and potholes into the limestone through which it flows.

If the rustic scenery gives you a sense of déjà vu, it may be because you may have seen it in the numerous TV and magazine advertisements that have been shot there.  But actual experience is distinctly un- commercial to be sure, in fact its beauties as artistic inspiration were first discovered by the American Impressionists and it is a stop on the American Impressionist Art Trail. If you want water that is level and still, you can stay right in Kent and take in the vibrant panoramic setting of Lake Waramaug.  If it’s déjà vu all over again, especially in the fall, the entrancing reflected foliage has been the beloved object of many a photographer, professional or otherwise. But don’t stop there. The 2,300-acre Macedonia Brook State Park is another geological creation whose trails, passing both springs and streams, will take you up to the peak of Cobble Mountain with exceptional westward outlooks of the Catskill and Taconic Mountains. If it should happen to rain, you can still feast your eyes in one of Kent’s seven art galleries, or feast your palate at the Belgigue Salon de Thé, the Bulls Bridge Inn, Fife'n Drum Restaurant, or the Restaurant Moosilauke.

Kent is easy to get to and hard to get away from.