Peak Mountain - Metacomet Trail
A pleasant ridge trail overlooking colonial-era mine / prison Newgate Prison.
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - The Last Steps To The Summit The last few tens of feet to the summit are steep and rocky, a major change from the nearby sections of the trail. See also… 12/4/2001 |
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - View Of Newgate Prison The view to the right of the summit shows the colonial-era Newgate Prison. The prison, at the upper left of the image, is brick and sandstone, and used to be a copper mine, whose workings, as well as the prison, are open to tourists in the spring, summer and fall. To the right is the white painted Viets tavern, also a historical site, where the first warden of the prison later lived. The sign for the tavern is the flag-like white thing to the left of the white building. See also… 12/4/2001 |
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - Haze And Atmospheric Perspective A view from the summit of Peak Mountain looks down on the valley below. On this late winter day, the haze and atmospheric perspective are particularly strong, despite a clear sky and crisp temperatures in the fifties. In the distance, we can see where the Farmington River has strayed from the ridge. It will later join the ridge down next to the Tariffville Gorge section of the Metacomet trail. See also… 12/4/2001 |
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - Summit Survey Marker Some summits (and some places not summits) get surveyed, and when they do, they may get a marker. The Peak Mountain outlook gets TWO markers, one of which, shown here, is on the apparent summit, and is the more northerly of the two. See also… 12/4/2001 |
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - An Outlook Trail Just Beyond The Peak Mountain Summit Just past the rocky summit, the trail splits, with a small leg leading out to an exposed and precarious outlook among rocky spikes about a hundred or so feet above the slope below. The edge is marked with stunted cedars and some regular bushes that barely subsist on the poor soil. See also… 11/24/2001 |
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