Mount Greylock State Reservation
encompasses more than 12,500 acres of mountain, forest, valleys
and streams spread across six different towns in northwestern
Berkshire County region (Adams, Cheshire, Lanesborough, New
Ashford, North Adams and Williamstown). The summit, designated
to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, features
a unique collection of CCC-era buildings, as well as the 93-foot
tall granite Veterans War Memorial Tower, dedicated in 1933
to honor Massachusetts’ men
and women who gave their lives in time of war. A portion of
the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, a 2,174 mile footpath
running from Maine to Georgia, crosses over the summit. The
once popular and challenging Thunderbolt Ski Trail, site of
the Massachusetts Downhill Championships 1935-48, and the U.S.
Eastern Amateur Ski Association Championships in 1938 and 1940,
is now a well-used hiking trail.
Now entering its second century of land stewardship, the Commonwealth
through the Department of Conservation and Recreation is committed
to preserving the vision of John Bascom, who in 1906 dedicated
the mountain, "…Greylock, our daily pleasure,
our constant symbol, our ever renewed inspiration, for all
who have fellowship with Nature." |
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Native Americans hunted and traveled
throughout the Greylock area. more …
Concerned citizens bought the land around the summit in the late
1800s. more…
More land was purchased and trails built in the 1930s. more…
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