Amethyst Brook Conservation Area
Amethyst Brook Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Hampshire, Massachusetts. Amethyst Brook Conservation Area is situated nearby to the hamlet West Pelham, as well as near the neighborhood East Village Historic District.Places of Interest
Highlights include Emily Dickinson Museum and Mount Orient.
Emily Dickinson Museum
Museum
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is a historic house museum consisting of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens. The Dickinson Homestead was the birthplace and home from 1855 to 1886 of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, whose poems were discovered in her bedroom there after her death.
Mount Orient
Peak
Mount Orient, 955 feet, is a south-facing high point on an upland plateau overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Pelham, Massachusetts. Although the summit is wooded, a lower, south-facing ledge of exfoliating metamorphic rock provides views of the Holyoke Range and the east-central Pioneer Valley.
Amherst station
Railway station
Photo: HP R817, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Amherst is a former intercity rail station located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The station was built by the Amherst and Belchertown Railroad in 1853; it was served by the Central Vermont Railway until 1947.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amherst and South Amherst.
Amherst
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amherst is a town in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Amherst is home to about 35,000 residents as well as the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and Hampshire College.
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.
North Amherst
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Amherst is a census-designated place in the city of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,819 at the 2010 census, up from 6,019 at the 2000 census.
Amethyst Brook Conservation Area
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.378° or 42° 22′ 41″ northLongitude
-72.4826° or 72° 28′ 57″ westOpen location code
87J99GH8+5XOpenStreetMap ID
way 29856293OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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Localities in the Area
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