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Bear Mountain (Connecticut)

Mountain in Salisbury, Connecticut

Summary

Mountain in Salisbury, Connecticut

Field	Value
name	Bear Mountain
photo	Approaching Summit Again.JPG
photo_caption	Bear Mountain
elevation_ft	2323
elevation_ref
prominence_ft	447
prominence_ref
parent_peak	Mount Frissell
location	Litchfield County, Connecticut, U.S.
range	Taconic Mountains
coordinates
topo	USGS Ashley Falls
type	Thrust fault; metamorphic rock
age	Ordovician
easiest_route	Appalachian Trail

Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut. At 2316 ft (note, per references 1 and 3, there is disagreement about the precise elevation), 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 2380 ft, 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.

File:Highest Point here.JPG|Mount Frissell, on which is located Connecticut's highest elevation, as seen from Bear Mountain File:Mount Everett, MA, and Mount Race, MA, viewed from Bear Mountain, CT.jpg|View of Mount Everett and Mount Race from Bear Mountain File:Stone Monument, Bear Mountain, CT - 2024.jpg|Stone monument at the summit

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References

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Marteka, Peter. (January 30, 2020). "Scaling Salisbury’s Bear Mountain, one of the highest peaks in Connecticut". Hartford Courant.

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