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Welcome to the Appalachian Trail Visitor Guidelines The Appalachian National Scenic Trail runs 2,175 • Carry out everything that you carry in to keep lunch miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount spots and overnight areas clear of litter. Katahdin in Maine. It is exclusively for hiking and • Park your car only in designated areas indi cated on traverses through the wild, scenic, wooded, pastoral the map or in the MA-CT Appalachian Trail guide- and culturally significant lands of the Appalachian book. If you are not sure, check with local residents, Mountains. police, or DCR West Regional Office in Pittsfield Appalachian Trail (for state forest areas) before you leave your car. In Massachusetts, ninety miles of this trail run in massachusetts along the ridges and traverse the valleys of the • Stay on the trail. The footpath is marked with white Berkshires through a patchwork of protected rectangular blazes. Side trails are marked with blue blazes. Please stay away from resi dences adjacent to state and federal lands. This brochure contains the trail. information and guidelines to help you plan your Bascom Lodge atop Mt. Greylock offers information, hike on the Appalachian Trail. Enjoy your hike and food and lodging for visitors. • Camp only in designated areas. AMC and DCR the beauty of the Berkshires! encourage the use of a lightweight camp ing stove for cooking. Open fires are only allowed at the designated Conceived in 1921 by Massachusetts native If you notice any problems on the trail, you can campsites and shelters, using fallen wood only. Benton MacKaye, the trail was designed to provide contact: a place for city dwellers to reconnect with nature • To avoid contamination of the water supply, wash Department of Conservation and Recreation yourself and your dishes at least 200 feet from the in the forests and ridgetops of the Appalachian West Regional Office, 740 South St./Box 1433, water source. Treat all water before consumption. Mountains. In 1968, the footpath was officially Pittsfield, MA 01202, 413-499-7003 designated a National Scenic Trail, and in 1969 • Move at least 50 feet from the trail and 200 feet from water to bury human waste for proper the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and If you would like to become involved in the decomposition; or use privy where available. Recreation (DCR) enacted legislation to protect the stewardship of this National Scenic Trail in • Travel in small groups; no more than 10 people Appalachian Trail. In 1978, DCR, in cooperation Massachusetts, contact: for camping. with the National Park Service (NPS), initiated a AMC Berkshire Chapter, AT Committee, land acquisition program to provide a protected Box 2281, Pittsfield, MA 01202, or visit • State and Federal law prohibits vehicles and horses on the trail. This includes mountain bicycles. Foot corridor of land for the trail. www.amcberkshire.org/at, or the DCR travel only. The Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts provides Regional Office a broad array of hiking opportunities for both the • Pets should be kept under control at all times. long-distance hiker and the day hiker. A cabin, How you can help • Maximum stay of two consecutive nights at any shelters, tent platforms and campsites with 1. Become a trail maintainer—volunteer to adopt a overnight site. outhouses are found along the trail for overnight small section of the trail and help keep it free of and extended trips. brush, blowdowns and water erosion. More Information Caring for the Trail 2. Become a corridor monitor—volunteer to adopt Visit mass.gov/dcr or amcberkshire.org. Detailed a small section of trail corridor lands and hike maps and guides for the Appalachian Trail are A unique and cooperative management effort its boundaries looking for and reporting signs published by the Appalachian Trail Conference. exists between the Massachusetts Department of of incompatible uses and encroachments. Copies of the ATC Guide to the Appalachian Trail Conservation and Recreation, National Park Service, in Massachus etts and Con necticut are available in 3. Be considerate of the trail lands as you hike. Leave Appalachian Trail Conference, and the Appalachian bookstores, or online at appalachiantrail.org. Mountain Club. Trail maintenance is carried out by AT the flowers, plants and trees for the enjoyment of Committee volunteers of the AMC-Berkshire Chapter the people who will follow you. Take only photo- graphs—leave only footprints. and DCR’s Ridgerunners. Corridor monitoring of both state and federal corridor trail lands is accomplished by Cover photo: A hiker rests at the AMC-Berkshire Chapter volunteers. summit of Mount Greylock. Revised 2018 (Gene Peach/DCR) 53217_AppalachianTrail.qxp_appalachianTrail.qxd 2/21/173:35PMPage2 VERMONT 88.7 End mileage at Vermont Border For information on: 87.4 East Mountain: Clarksburg State Forest 87.4 Pine Cobble Trail: P Outdoor recreation in MA Williamstown Pine Cobble: (.5m) Write to: 86.4 Sherman Brook: DCR Regional Headquarters Pete’s Spring Box 1433, Pittsfield, MA 01202 or visit mass.gov/dcr 84.6 Greylock Community Club, U.S. 2: P North Adams 83.7 Pattison Rd. P The latest AT guidebook for MA 81.8 Mt. Prospect: Write to: 81.6 Wilbur Clearing: S (3m) Appalachian Trail Conference 80.6 Mt. Williams: (.3m) Box 807, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425 or visit appalachiantrail.org Volunteering on the AT in MA Write to: Adams 78.2 Mt. Greylock: P AT Committee 77.6 Hopper Trail to Sperry Box 2281, Pittsfield, MA 01202 New Ashford Campground: (1.5m) P or visit amcberkshire.org/at 76.0 Saddle Ball Mountain: 75.0 Mark Noepel: S Mt. Greylock State Reservation Legend Cheshire 69.8 Ashuwillticook Rail Trail: P

Appalachian Trail 68.6 Cheshire Cobbles: State Park/Forest Lanesborough Gore Camping Area Pittsfield Pond 66.6 Gore Pond State Forest Shelter Pontoosuc Lake 65.7 Crystal Mountain: Cabin

Lodge/ Fee 61.9 Gulf Road: P NEW YORK Onata Parking Area Lake Dalton

Side Trail Pittsfield Reservoir

59.0 Kay Wood: S View

56.3 Warner Hill: Major Highway Richmond Other Road Pond 55.6 Blotz Road: P Pond/Lake

State Boundary Ashley Lake 52.4 Pittsfield Road: P Town with Washington Convenient Lenox Post Office October Mountain Stockbridge State Forest Bowl 50.2 October Mountain: S (Lake Mahkeenac)

Finnerty 46.0 Finnerty Pond: Pond

Lee 43.0 U.S. 20: P Upper Goose Pond

41.4 Upper Goose Pond: (.5m) Goose Stockbridge Pond

Tyringham 33.0 Tyringham Cobble: Beartown 31.5 Shaker: State Forest Fountain Pond State Park 27.4 Mt. Wilcox, N: S

25.6 Mt. Wilcox, S: S Bennedict 24.4 Bennedict Pond: P Pond Great Barrington Lake 22.3 Rte. 23: P Garfield Otis East Mountain State Forest 21.5 Lake Buel Road: P Lake Otis South Egremont Buel State Forest 20.4 Tom Leonard: S 17.8 East Mtn. Cliffs: Three 16.9 Holmes Road: P Jug End Mile Sandisfield State Reservation Pond State Forest 14.0 Rte. 7 and Wildlife 12.2 S. Egremont Road: P Management Area 9.5 Jug End Road: P Sheffield 8.4 Jug End: Mt. Everett 6.1 Glenn Brook: S State Forest 6.0 The Hemlocks: S Mt. Washington State Forest Thousand 4.9 Mt. Everett: Acre 4.2 Race Bk Falls Trail: (.4m) Lake 3.1 Mt. Race: 1.4 Laurel Ridge: Cookson 0.0 Sages Ravine: State Forest Start mileage at Connecticut Border CONNECTICUT Appalachian Trail in massachusetts