Monument Mountain
Monument Mountain rises to 322 m in Massachusetts. Walling Mountain stands 675 m to the east-northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Berle Sky Farm Conservation Restriction, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 5.7 miles off.
The story
Monument Mountain is a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) long quartzite ridgeline located in Great Barrington and Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the Berkshires geology. Beside the high point, 1,739 feet (530 m), the mountain has several distinct features, most notably the open, knife-edge Peeskawso Peak, 1,642 feet (500 m) located on the southeast side of the mountain within the 503-acre (204 ha) Monument Mountain reservation managed by The Trustees of Reservations. The mountain receives over 20,000 visitors per year. Devil's Pulpit, part of Peeskawso Peak, is a free-standing pillar of stone. Flag Rock, located on the southwest side of the mountain, is an open ledge overlooking the village of Housatonic. The only official trails on the mountain ascend Peeskawso Peak from a parking lot on Massachusetts Route 7 north of Great Barrington center. There is no fee for members of The Trustees and a parking fee of $6 for non-members. An unnamed waterfall is located to the northeast of Peeskawso Peak along the Hickey Trail. Views from Peeskawso Peak include the Housatonic River Valley, The Berkshires, the Taconic Mountains, and the Catskill Mountains of New York. The west side of Monument Mountain drains into the Housatonic River thence into Long Island Sound. The east side of Monument Mountain drains into Konkapot Brook thence into the Housatonic River. In August 1850, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. climbed Monument Mountain together.
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Wikidata Q8528761, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 322 m
How to reach it
- 5.7 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 20.0 mi off the Mount Greylock Scenic Byway
- 22.9 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 29.2 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
Overlooks nearby
- Dam Overlook Observation Platform · 10 mi
- Adams Overlook · 27 mi
- Vista · 27 mi
- The Hopper · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Flag Rock: 1.3 mi
- Evergreen Hill: 1.6 mi
- Dunbar Hill: 1.7 mi
- Peeskawso Peak: 1.9 mi
- Tom Ball Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Housatonic Common: 1.5 mi
- Recreation Park: 2.1 mi
- Old Maids Park: 2.1 mi
- Berkshire Botanical Gardens: 2.2 mi
- Bidwell Park: 2.3 mi
- Rostrum: 2.3 mi
- Butler Seat: 2.3 mi
- St. John Paul II: 2.3 mi
- St. Faustina: 2.3 mi
- St. Francis: 2.4 mi
- Chesterwood Museum: 0.3 mi
- Chesterwood: 0.8 mi
- Norman Rockwell Museum: 1.3 mi
- Studio: 1.4 mi
- Naumkeag Museum: 2.2 mi
- The Second Station - Jesus Accepts His Cross: 2.3 mi
- The First Station - Jesus Is Condemned by Pilate: 2.3 mi
- The Third Station - Jesus Falls the First Time: 2.3 mi
- Divine Mercy: 2.3 mi
- St. Peregrine: 2.3 mi
- falls: 9.2 mi
- Bash Bish Falls: 13.1 mi
- Lower Falls: 13.2 mi
- Upper Falls: 13.2 mi
- Bear Rock Falls: 15.2 mi
- Orchard City Millage Sign: 5.1 mi
- Edith Wharton's Home: 5.4 mi
- concrete bases: 7.6 mi
- stone pillar: 7.6 mi
- balanced rock: 7.7 mi
- Devil’s Pulpit: 2.1 mi
- Kennedy Cliffs: 6.7 mi
- Clover Mountain: 15.1 mi
- Corps Wall: 20.2 mi
- Murdock Wall: 20.2 mi
- Berkshire Botanical Garden: 2.0 mi
- Naumkeag Garden: 2.0 mi
- Community Garden: 4.7 mi
- Walled Garden: 5.3 mi
- Flower Garden: 5.4 mi
- Adams Point Beach: 10.0 mi
- Iroquis Waterfront: 14.2 mi
- County Beach: 16.7 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 21.9 mi
- East Beach: 22.0 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 12.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Pond off Chair Factory Road: 11.1 mi
- Questing: 11.7 mi
- Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 23.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Monument Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walling Mountain | ENE 76° | 675 m | 10.3 mi |
| Yokun Seat | NNE 15° | 645 m | 9.1 mi |
| Mount Wilcox | SE 130° | 642 m | 5.8 mi |
| Perry Peak | N 352° | 631 m | 10.3 mi |
| Harvey Mountain | NW 306° | 627 m | 4.6 mi |
| Bald Top | ENE 66° | 624 m | 10.6 mi |
| October Mountain | NE 47° | 598 m | 9.6 mi |
| Pinnacle Point | WNW 299° | 595 m | 5.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:39 | 16:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 24 | 32 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenox Dale, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358269672
Day trips start here
- Stockbridge · 2 mi
- Great Barrington · 5 mi
- Lee · 6 mi
- Lenox · 7 mi
- Monterey · 10 mi
- October Mountain State Forest · 11 mi
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