Peeskawso Peak Monument Mountain

Trail description

A 3.9 km loop on Monument Mountain in the Trustees reservation, from the parking lot on Route 7 north of Great Barrington, up the Hickey Trail, over the open quartzite knife-edge of Peeskawso Peak (1,642 ft / 500 m), where the official trails top out, and down the Mohican Monument Trail, with views to Mount Greylock and the Catskills. Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. climbed it together in August 1850; take care on the summit ledges.

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