The Berkshires are a place of such pervasive natural beauty that to call it a park requires no stretch of the imagination – but it would get tangled up in the courts, so we acquiesce in parceling it out into dozens of local and state parks, each under the dominion of the majestic Mount Greylock, lord of a 1,200 acre state park under its 3,489 foot summit. The Appalachian Trail, itself a national treasure of the first rank, runs across Greylock as it weaves its way from Georgia to New Hampshire.
Parks and recreation in the Berkshires
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- Kayaking the Housatonic River
- Appalachian Trail – Berkshires
- Ashuwillticook Rail Trail
- Bash Bish Falls State Park,
- Beartown State Forest,
- Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sancturay,
- Chester-Blandford State Forest,
- Clarksburg State Park,
- Goose Pond
- Hinsdale Flats Watershed Resource Area
- Jug End Reservation;
- Monument Mountain,
- Mount Everett State Reservation,
- Mount Washington State Forest,
- Natural Bridge State Park,
- Notchview Reservation
- October Mountain State Forest,
- Parson’s Marsh – Berkshire Natural Resources Council
- Pittsfield State Forest,
- Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary,
- Richmond Pond (Mass. DFW pdf)
- Sandisfield State Forest,
- Savoy Mountain State Forest,
- Tolland State Forest,
- Tyringham Cobble,
- Umpachene Falls,
- Wahconah Falls State Park,
- Western Gateway Heritage State Park,
- Windsor State Forest.