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East Mountain rises steeply between 350 and 650 feet (110 and 200 m) above the Connecticut River and Westfield River valleys below; it is roughly 9 miles (14 km) long and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide at its widest point, although the steepness of the terrain makes the actual square mileage much larger.
Massachusetts, with forests covering 3,060,000 acres (12,400 km 2) (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) [1] of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Pine Cobble Mountain, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is a sub-summit of East Mountain in the Clarksburg State Forest. [1] This outcropping is best known as a popular hiking destination, where an outlook encompasses panoramic views of Williamstown, the Mount Greylock Range, and North Adams .
Sandisfield State Forest: Berkshire: 4,190 acres 1,700 ha: York Lake: Sandy Point State Reservation: Essex: 134 acres 54 ha: Savoy Mountain State Forest: Berkshire: 10,457 acres 4,232 ha: 1918: Scusset Beach State Reservation: Barnstable: 459 acres 186 ha: 1957: On Cape Cod Bay at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal, a popular swimming and ...
Mount Greylock is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet (1,064 m) in elevation. As such, no mountains in Massachusetts are recognized by the Appalachian Mountain Club in its list of Four-thousand footers — a list of New England peaks over 4,000 feet with a minimum 200 feet of topographic prominence .
Mohawk Trail State Forest / Savoy Mountain State Forest: 32.4 390–450 Varied Upper Gulf Brook: Mohawk Trail State Forest / Savoy Mountain State Forest: 8.1 380–415 NE Bear Swamp: Monroe State Forest
The Freetown State Forest has suffered fires on several occasions. In September 1980, a fire burned approximately 230 acres (93 ha) of woodland adjacent to and in the state forest over the course of a week. [8] Fires in 1988 and 1991 burned an estimated 100 acres (40 ha) each, while a fire in March 1976 destroyed an estimated 500 acres (200 ha ...
In Eastern Massachusetts, Boston is located at the innermost point of Massachusetts Bay, at the mouth of the Charles River.The Charles River is longest river located entirely within Massachusetts, (although the Westfield River can be considered longer if one combines its upper and lower branches); however, the Connecticut River is the Commonwealth's—and New England's—longest, and most ...