By the mid-1900s, this industry departed, as well. The Town is now primarily a bedroom community to the city of Pittsfield, and is finding it difficult to maintain the infrastructure which was established in a much more affluent time. The Town encompasses approximately 21.7 square miles. It is home to two lakes, Lake Ashmere and Plunkett Lake, which provide recreational opportunities to residents and five summer camps for children, and to a section of Muddy Pond, the headwaters of the East Branch of the Housatonic River.

Hinsdale also is home, along with neighboring communities of Peru, Washington and Dalton, to the 14,500 acre Hinsdale Flats Watershed Resource Area, designated on January 31, 1992 as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern. The Appalachian Trail, a national scenic trail, passes through Hinsdale, and encompasses 440 acres. There are over 1500 acres of state-owned open space within the Town's borders, as well. Hinsdale offers an extensive recreation program for its youth, and a community center and activities for its senior citizens. It is a beautiful, rural community, in which its residents take great pride.

Hinsdale Massachusetts is located in Western Massachusetts, bordered by Windsor on the north, Peru on the east, Washington on the south, and Dalton on the west. Hinsdale is 10 miles east of Pittsfield and 126 miles west of Boston.

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