Bear Mountain Connecticut

Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut. At 2,316 feet, Bear Mountain is the highest mountain that lies wholly within Connecticut. However, it is not the state highpoint: in the 1940s, the United States Geological Survey determined that the highest elevation in the state, at 2,380 feet, was actually on the nearby Conn…
Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut. At 2,316 feet, Bear Mountain is the highest mountain that lies wholly within Connecticut. However, it is not the state highpoint: in the 1940s, the United States Geological Survey determined that the highest elevation in the state, at 2,380 feet, was actually on the nearby Connecticut-Massachusetts border, on the southern slope of Massachusetts’ Mount Frissell. There is a stone monument on the Bear Mountain summit. The Appalachian Trail crosses the mountain in a generally north-south direction.
  • Elevation: 2,323 ft (708 m)
  • Location: Litchfield County, Connecticut, U.S.
  • Prominence: 447 ft (136 m)
  • Parent peak: Mount Frissell
  • Parent range: Taconic Mountains
  • Topo map: USGS Ashley Falls
  • Rock age: Ordovician

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Data from: en.wikipedia.org