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Monument Mountain (Berkshire County, Massachusetts)

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geology. Beside the high point, 1,739 feet (530 m), the mountain has several distinct features, most notably the open, knife-edge
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and a parking fee of $ 5 for non-members. An unnamed waterfall is located to the northeast of Peeskawso Peak along the Hickey Trail.
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1,642 feet (500 m) located on the southeast side of the mountain within the 503-acre (204 ha)
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This article is about the mountain. For the open space reservation located on the mountain, see
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north of Great Barrington center. There is no fee for members of
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Views from Peeskawso Peak include the Housatonic River Valley,
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part of Peeskawso Peak, is a free-standing pillar of stone.
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Ridgeline in Great Barrington and Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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Monument Mountain (reservation)

Elevation
Coordinates
42°15′29″N 73°21′00″W / 42.25813°N 73.34988°W / 42.25813; -73.34988
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Parent range
The Berkshires
Mountain type
quartzite
quartzite
Great Barrington
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Berkshires
Monument Mountain reservation
The Trustees of Reservations
Housatonic
Massachusetts Route 7
The Trustees
The Berkshires
Taconic Mountains
Catskill Mountains
New York
Housatonic River
Long Island Sound
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Western Mass. Summit And Trail Are Renamed With Native American Input"
Lucinda Musgrave

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