Tekoa Mountain
Tekoa Mountain rises to 286 m in Massachusetts. Walnut Hill stands 505 m to the west, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Strathmore Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 2.0 miles off.
The story
Tekoa Mountain, 1,121 feet (342 m), is a dramatic, rocky high point overlooking the Westfield River Gorge at the eastern edge of the Berkshire plateau in the towns of Montgomery and Russell, Massachusetts, USA. Tekoa Mountain, very prominent from the "Jacob's Ladder" section of U.S. Route 20 in the town of Russell, is not a true mountain but a cleaver jutting from a dissected plateau; it was produced by glacial action and through continuous erosion by the Westfield River and Moose Meadow Brook before and after the last ice age. With nearby Shatterack Mountain, another cleaver, Tekoa Mountain forms a 700 ft (210 m) high knobby cliff face and gorge wall along the northeast side of the Westfield River as it plunges from the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts into the Connecticut River Valley. Much of the face of Tekoa Mountain is barren or populated by sparse tree cover exacerbated by frequent fires which support partially fire-dependent tree species such as pitch pine and scrub oak. The mountain is also the habitat of the New England cottontail, a species in decline in Massachusetts. Tekoa Mountain has been targeted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Connecticut River Valley conservation plan as a "high priority" ecosystem.
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Wikidata Q7695475, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 286 m
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 4.5 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 28.2 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 14 mi
- Dam Overlook Observation Platform · 20 mi
- Salmon Falls Potholes · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Strathmore Park: 0.8 mi
- Town Park: 1.6 mi
- Town Park: 1.7 mi
- Town Park: 1.9 mi
- Town Park: 1.9 mi
- Shatterack Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Mount Nero: 1.4 mi
- Ball Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Turtle Bend Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Grindstone Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Tekoa Park: 1.7 mi
- Tekoa Park: 2.0 mi
- Sampson Property: 2.5 mi
- Westfield River Access: 2.6 mi
- Blandford / Russell Wce (Loveland Lot): 2.9 mi
- Veterans' Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Catherine L. O'Brien Memorial: 4.5 mi
- jet: 5.3 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 5.3 mi
- A10: 5.3 mi
- Amelia Park Children's Museum: 6.1 mi
- Pioneer Valley Live Steamers: 7.7 mi
- Chester Railway Museum: 10.5 mi
- Chester Historical Museum (Old Jail): 10.5 mi
- Chester Historical Museum (Methodist Church): 10.5 mi
- Henry Wefing Memorial Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Evelyn B. Rose Garden: 4.5 mi
- Cathy's Garden & Gazebo: 4.5 mi
- Arboretum: 4.5 mi
- Dorothy Perkins Garden: 4.6 mi
- The Globe: 3.8 mi
- Angel of Independence: 4.6 mi
- Westfield is Fantastic: 5.3 mi
- Epiphany: 5.4 mi
- Heroes of Westfield: 6.0 mi
- Goldmine Brook Falls: 6.9 mi
- Waterfall: 7.6 mi
- Lost Acres Falls: 12.2 mi
- cascade: 13.3 mi
- cascade: 13.3 mi
- state boundary marker: 10.9 mi
- Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 11.0 mi
- World War II Tank: 12.1 mi
- Springfield Museums: 13.2 mi
- Seymour Planetarium: 13.2 mi
- Titans Piazza: 13.6 mi
- Corps Wall: 14.7 mi
- Murdock Wall: 14.8 mi
- Grotto: 14.8 mi
- Progressive Buttress: 14.8 mi
- Babbs Beach: 11.2 mi
- County Beach: 11.7 mi
- David Musante Beach: 13.1 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 13.8 mi
- Iroquis Waterfront: 15.2 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 8.5 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 8.5 mi
- Rd: 8.6 mi
- Big Spring: 18.4 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 20.2 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 12.4 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 14.5 mi
- Picnic Area: 21.4 mi
- Questing: 22.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of Tekoa Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Hill | W 274° | 505 m | 8.9 mi |
| Dug Hill | WNW 285° | 486 m | 6.3 mi |
| Green Hill | WNW 297° | 456 m | 7.1 mi |
| Liberty Hill | SW 220° | 448 m | 8.5 mi |
| Beech Hill | WSW 247° | 447 m | 8.1 mi |
| Sunset Hill | W 265° | 446 m | 5.2 mi |
| Sweetman Mountain | SSW 213° | 446 m | 6.3 mi |
| Spruce Hill | N 7° | 438 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:49 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 51 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westfield Barnes Muni AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 608507 — Tekoa Mountain, Hampden County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358270234
Day trips start here
- Blandford · 5 mi
- Chester · 10 mi
- Holyoke · 10 mi
- Northampton · 13 mi
- Otis · 14 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 14 mi
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