Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area

Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Town of South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Mount Holyoke Range Conservation Area is situated nearby to the hamlet Moody Corner, as well as near the neighborhood Woodbridge Street Historic District.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Holyoke and Mount Hitchcock.

Mount Holyoke

Peak

Photo: Thomas Cole, Public domain.

Mount Holyoke, a traprock mountain, elevation 935 feet, is the westernmost peak of the Holyoke Range and part of the 100-mile Metacomet Ridge. The mountain is located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts, and is the namesake of nearby Mount Holyoke College.

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.

Connecticut River Greenway State Park

Nature reserve

Photo: HP R817, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Connecticut River Greenway State Park is a protected environment with public recreation features that consists of separate state land holdings, including open spaces, parks, scenic vistas, and archaeological and historic sites, along the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Hadley and Northampton.

South Hadley

Photo: Denimadept, CC BY-SA 3.0 us.

South Hadley is a city in the Pioneer Valley area of Massachusetts. It is home to Mount Holyoke College.

Northampton

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Northampton is a city in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. It has a picturesque and vibrant downtown, consisting of numerous art galleries, restaurants and quirky shops sprinkled among coffee shops and performing arts venues.

Hadley

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

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 Conservation Area

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Town of South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.291° or 42° 17′ 28″ north

Longitude

-72.5721° or 72° 34′ 20″ west

Inception

November 7th, 1997

Operator

Town of South Hadley Conservation Commission

Open location code

87J97CRH+95

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29907376

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

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