"The Great Falls is a beautiful, awe-inspiring sight that entrances visitors near and far."

The noise that the town relishes is the thunder of the Great Falls, especially in the spring when the rushing waters of the Housatonic River, the second largest in the state, swollen with spring rains and melting ice and snow, spill over it. Huge plumes of mist float in the air as the water tumbles sixty feet over rocks and ledge.