The Best Places to Stay and Do in Torrington

A 20,000-square-foot wellness center at a rambling New England inn two hours from New York, Mayflower Spa sits on 58 wooded acres at the Berkshires' foothills and has landed on Vogue's 100 Best Spas in the World list. The spa mixes Eastern and Western treatments, so alongside the standard facials and bodywork you'll find reiki, acupuncture, and Tarot readings, which is either refreshing or alarming depending on how you feel about your future.

Four-poster beds, 18th-century art on the walls, and grounds so carefully tended you half-expect a gardener in a flat cap to materialize from the hedgerows. This Auberge Resorts inn in the Litchfield Hills plays the English country house straight, without irony, and pulls it off. It holds a Michelin Key. Two hours from New York, it draws the kind of guests who pack actual luggage and linger over breakfast without checking a phone.

A former county courthouse turned boutique hotel in one of Connecticut's prettiest towns, with twenty rooms and the kind of restraint that signals Salt Hotels' touch across New England. The old courtroom is now a restaurant, all high ceilings and wood paneling, and the seasonal rooftop bar is called Verdict, which is either very clever or exactly what you'd expect, depending on your mood.