Sugar Maple Trailside Inn, a bed and breakfast near Smith College, is located in the noted community of Northampton, MA, or more specifically, Florence, a village within Northampton. As for directions, we are located right off of Route 9, approximately 2 miles west of Smith College and downtown Northampton. In fact, we are the closest of Northampton's bed & breakfasts to Smith College--the largest women's college in the U.S.The inn also boasts one of the region's largest collections of antique railroad maps, documents, and just plain books on the history of the railroads in the northeast. Peruse our library and ...