{"id":15454,"date":"2023-05-03T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?page_id=15454"},"modified":"2023-05-03T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:42:26","slug":"parks-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/parks-berkshires\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks in the Berkshires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berkshires are a place of such pervasive natural beauty that to call it a park requires no stretch of the imagination &#8211; but it would get tangled up in the courts, so we acquiesce in parceling it out into dozens of <strong>local and state parks<\/strong>, each under the dominion of the majestic <strong>Mount Greylock<\/strong>, lord of a <em>1,200 acre state park under its 3,489 foot summit<\/em>. The <strong>Appalachian Trail<\/strong>, itself a national treasure of the first rank, runs across Greylock as it weaves its way from Georgia to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<h2>Parks and recreation in the Berkshires<\/h2>\n<p>(links open new windows)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/four-hours-on-the-housatonic-river\/\">Kayaking the Housatonic River<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-appalachian-trail\/\">Appalachian Trail &#8211; Berkshires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/ashuwillticook-rail-trail\/\">Ashuwillticook Rail Trail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/bash.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bash Bish Falls State Park<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/bear.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beartown State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/Nature_Connection\/Sanctuaries\/Canoe_Meadows\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sancturay<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/chbl.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chester-Blandford State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/clsp.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clarksburg State Park<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\/places-to-visit\/berkshires\/goose-pond.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goose Pond<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/stewardship\/acec\/acecs\/l-hinflt.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hinsdale Flats Watershed Resource Area<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/juge.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jug End Reservation<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\/places-to-visit\/berkshires\/monument-mountain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monument Mountain<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\/places-to-visit\/berkshires\/monument-mountain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mount Everett State Reservation<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/mwas.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mount Washington State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/mwas.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natural Bridge State Park<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\/places-to-visit\/berkshires\/notchview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notchview Reservation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/octm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October Mountain State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnrc.org\/trails-and-maps\/parsons-marsh\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Parson&#8217;s Marsh &#8211; Berkshire Natural Resources Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/pitt.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsfield State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/Nature_Connection\/Sanctuaries\/Pleasant_Valley\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dfwele\/dfw\/habitat\/maps\/ponds\/pdf\/dfwrichm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Pond (Mass. DFW pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/sand.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandisfield State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/svym.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Savoy Mountain State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/toll.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tolland State Forest<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\/places-to-visit\/berkshires\/tyringham-cobble.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyringham Cobble<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglandwaterfalls.com\/waterfall.php?name=Umpachene%20Falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Umpachene Falls<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/wahf.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wahconah Falls State Park<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/wghp.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western Gateway Heritage State Park<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dcr\/parks\/western\/wnds.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windsor State Forest<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berkshires are home to a lifetime of beautiful natural parks and recreation areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parks-and-recreation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}