Your Guide to the Springfield / Pioneer Valley Metro

Western Massachusetts's largest metro runs along the Connecticut River from the Vermont line south to the Connecticut border — a 700,000-person Pioneer Valley region spanning three counties. Discover Springfield — birthplace of basketball and home to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Springfield Armory, and Dr. Seuss — along with the Five Colleges consortium of UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Hampshire College in the college towns of Amherst, Northampton, and South Hadley, plus the historic Deerfield Academy and the rural Franklin County countryside.