Mount Holyoke Range
The Holyoke Range or Mount Holyoke Range is a traprock mountain range located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts. It is a subrange of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border.- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 968 feet
- Description: mountain range in United States of America
- Also known as: “Holyoke Range”, “Mount Holihoke”, and “Mount Holyoke”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Hitchcock and Bare Mountain.
Mount Hitchcock
Peak
Mount Hitchcock is a mountain located in South Hadley and Hadley, Massachusetts. It reaches 1,002 feet at its peak in South Hadley. The Metacomet-Monadnock Trail runs through it as it does for all the Holyoke Range.
Bare Mountain
Peak
Bare Mountain, 1,014 feet above sea level, is a prominent peak of the Holyoke Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, and part of the greater Metacomet Ridge that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
Post-Attack Command and Control System Facility, Hadley
Bunker
Post-Attack Command and Control System Facility, Hadley is a defunct Post-Attack Command and Control System facility that operated from June 2, 1958, until 1970.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodbridge Street Historic District and South Amherst.
Woodbridge Street Historic District
Neighborhood
The Woodbridge Street Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It extends from the junction of Woodbridge Street and Silver Street north roughly to Woodbridge Terrace. Woodbridge Street Historic District is situated 3 miles southwest of Mount Holyoke Range.
South Amherst
Suburb
South Amherst is a census-designated place in the town of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,994 at the 2010 census. South Amherst is situated 3 miles northeast of Mount Holyoke Range.
Hadley
Hadley is a small town in the Pioneer Valley, in Western Massachusetts. Despite its small population, it has a reasonable commercial strip that harbors a few malls, providing a more mainstream shopping experience than its larger neighbors, Amherst and Northampton.Mount Holyoke Range
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.30592° or 42° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
-72.54537° or 72° 32′ 43″ west
Elevation
968 feet (295 metres)
Open location code
87J98F43+9V
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Holyoke Range from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Venetian—“Mount Holyoke Range” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Holyoke Range”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سلسلة جبال هوليوك”
- French: “chaîne Holyoke”
- French: “Chaîne Holyoke”
- German: “Holyoke Range”
- Japanese: “ホルヨーク・レンジ”
- Ladin: “Holyoke Range”
- Venetian: “Holyoke Range”
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Explore places such as Aldrich Mills and East Hadley.
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