Condé Nast Traveler Names Litchfield Among Best Places to Go in 2025

Condé Nast Traveler named Litchfield and Litchfield County to its new list of The Best Places to Go in the US in 2025 – shortly after Forbes put the spotlight on White Memorial ia a story entitled “A Hidden Natural Wonder Awaits Connecticut Visitors.”

Litchfield joins top destinations such as Alaska, Boise, Idaho, Denver, New Orleans, and Puerto Rico in being recommended in the Condé Nast story.

The section of the story detailing some of Litchfield’s charms and lifestyle amenities says:

In Litchfield town the old courthouse on the Green (that’s brimming with shops and cafés) has been refashioned into contemporary-art-filled boutique hotel The Abner. Earlier this summer the rustic-modern Lost Fox Inn opened in a 1740s tavern from the folks behind Mt. Temper’s Foxfire Mountain House, and come March, Hudson Valley favorite Troutbeck will unveil sibling property Belden House & Mews in a Colonial Revival estate reimagined by local-owned Champalimaud Design. 

And while you could make a weekend of wandering through Litchfield town—pop into Milton Market, a chic home goods and gifts store (think vintage transferware and block-printed linens)—you’ll do well to venture out. In nearby Bantam, tucked into a factory warehouse packed with artist studios, is Dumais Made, a ceramics and lighting studio founded by Charles Dumais (spot his lamps at the Abner hotel) with his husband Kevin—Charles also doubles as local guide extraordinaire. Grab an ice cream from nearby Arethusa Creamery or coffee and salted chocolate chip cookie from Krafted Brew Lab. 

Meanwhile, Forbes writer Gary Stoller gives the spotlight to White Memorial in a new story, saying near the beginning, “Unknown, though, to most travelers is Litchfield’s 4,000-acre natural wonder, White Memorial Foundation.”

Read the Forbes story, and if you somehow don’t know about White Memorial, head to the website and to the section with trail maps.