The quintessential college town of Amherst is always finding its way onto those “best small town” lists—and with good reason. The immaculate town center overflows with colonial architecture around a town common that melds with the campus of its namesake Amherst College, where poet Robert Frost once taught. The town also has a vibrant commercial center that circles around its other institution of higher learning—the gargantuan University of Massachusetts–Amherst.