Chester is a town in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts.

Get in

By plane

• Bradley International is in the town of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, half way in-between Hartford and Springfield. It has flights coming in from around the world. It's about an hour away
• Westover Metropolitan Airport offers very light jet service to parts of New England, New York State, and Canada. It is about 40 minutes away.

Do

Chester-Blanford State Forest Rte. 20, (413) 354-6347 (summer), (413) 269-6002 (winter) . Hiking, camping. An easy uphill-grade 1 mile hike will bring you to the 60-foot cascading waterfall known as Sanderson Brook Falls. A more challenging hike on the H. Newman Marsh Memorial Trail brings you to an observation tower with views of the Westfield River valley.

Go next

Routes through Chester

Pittsfield ← Becket ←

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→ Westfield → Springfield