World Peace - Lashway Conservation Restriction

World Peace - Lashway Conservation Restriction is a nature reserve in Town of Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. World Peace - Lashway Conservation Restriction is situated nearby to the hamlet East Hadley, as well as near Hockanum.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Holyoke and Connecticut River Greenway State Park.

Mount Holyoke

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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.

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.

Mount Hitchcock

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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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hadley and Northampton.

Hadley

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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.

Northampton

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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.