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Mount Holyoke Range State Park is a state-owned, public recreation area encompassing the eastern half of the Holyoke Range in the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts.The state park is adjacent to J. A. Skinner State Park, which occupies the western half of the Holyoke Range.
Mount Holyoke, a traprock mountain, elevation 935 feet (285 m), is the westernmost peak of the Holyoke Range and part of the 100-mile (160 km) Metacomet Ridge. The mountain is located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts , and is the namesake of nearby Mount Holyoke College .
Joseph Allen Skinner State Park is a state-owned, public recreation area located in the towns of Hadley and South Hadley in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. The state park surrounds Mount Holyoke, the westernmost peak of the Mount Holyoke Range. At the summit is the historic Prospect House, an old hotel first opened in ...
Topographic map of the Holyoke Range View from ledges on Mount Holyoke. Connecticut River visible below. The Holyoke Range, located within the towns of South Hadley, Hadley, Granby, Amherst, and Belchertown, rises steeply between 300 feet (91 m) and 1,100 feet (335 m) above the Connecticut River Valley below; it has an east–west orientation and is roughly 9.5 miles (15.3 km) long by 2.5 ...
The Holyoke Street Railway company created two attractions, Mountain Park toward the base of Mount Tom, and a large house on the summit of the mountain. In 2009 it began operating as a large outdoor venue for concerts, under owner Eric Suher's Iron Horse Entertainment Group; as of Summer 2018, it remains defunct with no events scheduled for the ...
Mount Holyoke auto road + Metacomet-Monadnock Trail The Seven Sisters, part of the Holyoke Range and located within the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts , United States, are a series of basalt ridgeline knobs between Mount Holyoke and Mount Hitchcock (there are more than seven distinct peaks).
Mount Holyoke, established in 1837, is recognized as the first full-fledged college for women in the country. The private liberal arts college is the oldest of the Seven Sisters, a prestigious ...
Holyoke Heritage State Park: Hampden ... Mount Holyoke Range State Park: Hampshire: 3,000 acres 1,200 ha: 1940: Mount Sugarloaf State Reservation: Franklin: 533 acres