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Mount Race

{{Short description|Mountain in Massachusetts, U.S.}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Race

| photo = Mount Everett, MA, and Mount Race, MA, viewed from Bear Mountain, CT.jpg

| photo_caption = View of Mount Everett and Mount Race from Bear Mountain

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| elevation_ft = 2365

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| prominence_ft = 453

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| location = Southwest Berkshire County, Massachusetts

| range = Taconic Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|42|04|57|N|73|25|56|W |type:mountain_region:US |display=inline,title}}

| topo =

| type = Thrust fault; metamorphic rock

| age = Ordovician

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| easiest_route = Race Brook Falls Trail and Appalachian Trail

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Mount Race, {{convert|2365|ft|m}}, is a mountain in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It shares many characteristics with the slightly higher Mount Everett about a mile to the north. Part of the Taconic Mountains, Race is known for its waterfalls, an eastern escarpment of nearly 2,000 feet, and expansive views. The Appalachian Trail crosses its summit, which has an open forest of dwarf pitch pine and scrub oak.

Details

Both Race Brook Falls and Bear Rock Falls spill from the steep eastern slopes of Mount Race, the summit of which is part of a divide between the Hudson and Housatonic rivers. The peak bears the surname of William Race, a local resident killed in 1755 by agents of Livingston Manor in a colonial border dispute concerning ownership and farm tenancy.see mention of Mt. Race history in "Long-term Monitoring, Mt. Washington State Forest, 2009. (This state report appears to rely for its history note solely on "The Berkshire Hills" 1939 by the Federal Writers' Project. page 182:"In 1755, William Race, a Mount Washington pioneer, was shot to death by members of the Livingston party in a section of town near the present Mt. Race, probably named for the murdered man."){{Cite web| title=Long term ecological monitoring program - Mount Washington forest reserve | url=https://www.mass.gov/doc/long-term-ecological-monitoring-program-mount-washington-forest-reserve/download | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604214626/https://www.mass.gov/doc/long-term-ecological-monitoring-program-mount-washington-forest-reserve/download | archive-date=2023-06-04}}{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/berkshirehills00fede/page/182/mode/2up?q=Race | title=The Berkshire Hills | date=1939 }}

Western slopes are in the town of Mount Washington, and the east slopes are in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Much of the mountain is part of Mount Washington State Forest; other parcels are privately held.

File:A view from Mount Race.jpg

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External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070629101904/http://www.bnrc.net/mrsid/bin/show.pl?client=southtaconic&image=SouthTaconic.sid&levels=7&originx=0&originy=0&fullheight=4799&fullwidth=2907&lastlevel=3&level=4&size=2 South Taconic Range trail map].
  • [http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/mwas.htm Mount Washington State Forest]. Massachusetts DCR.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929073404/http://170.63.97.68/dcr/parks/western/meve.htm Mount Everett State Reservation]. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
  • [http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/trails/mt-washington800.gif Mount Washington State Forest map]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081120052152/http://www.bnrc.net/index.htm Berkshire Natural Resource Council]
  • {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010302042235/http://www.amcberkshire.org/ Berkshire Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club]}}
  • [http://www.mass.gov/dcr/stewardship/greenway/pdfs/connections.pdf Commonwealth Connections proposal PDF download]. Retrieved March 2, 2008.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081219183434/http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/c.jkLXJ8MQKtH/b.1423119/k.BEA0/Home.htm Appalachian Trail Conservancy].

{{Mountains of Massachusetts}}

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Category:Taconic Mountains

Category:Mountains of Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Category:Mountains on the Appalachian Trail

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