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Fit-Anything8352 t1_j0s8msr wrote

Reply to comment by 11BMasshole in Where does Western Mass begin to you? by Elegant-Anteater783

I don't think Berkshire county is the sole extent of the Berkshires. For one, the geographic peak of the Berkshire mountains is Crumb Hill in Monroe (Franklin county), but even if you ignore that the places people colloquially call "the Berkshire hilltowns" basically start somewhere around Huntington, which is very much not part of Berkshire county.

If you look at a terrain map there's a very clear line that goes down a little bit west of the west edge of the Connecticut river valley where the Berkshire hills obviously start building up, and by the time you get to route 112 it's pretty mountainous.

I think places like Rowe, Hawley, Plainfield, Cummington, Worthington, Middlefield, Chester, Blanford, and Tolland are pretty "Berkshires" and none of them are in Berkshire county proper.

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11BMasshole t1_j0s9e0t wrote

I’ve been in this area for 50 years. Absolutely no one considers Huntington the Berkshires. They consider it the Hilltowns. Most people associate the Berkshires with Lee, Lenox , Stockbridge, Great Barrington, Williamsburg, Pittsfield, North Adams.
Hence it’s own distinct area called the Berkshires.

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Fit-Anything8352 t1_j0s9mz6 wrote

Even then there's still a little problem with "the Berkshire mountains" not being entirely contained in Berkshire county lol without the peak of Crumb Hill. We can disagree over where to draw the east border but that's a bigger oversight. You'd think it would be named after something it actually contains, right?

Hell you can even go on the Wikipedia page for "The Berkshires" and see how half of the things it contains aren't in Berkshire county.

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RedditSkippy t1_j0sd034 wrote

Mt. Greylock is the highest peak in the Berkshires AND the rest of Massachusetts.

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Fit-Anything8352 t1_j0sfqez wrote

Mount greylock is not part of the "Berkshire mountains"(Massachusetts part of the Green Mountains). It is part of the Taconics that run along the border of New York and Massachusetts/Connecticut. They are geologically separate mountain ranges.

Crumb Hill

Taconic Mountains

Greylock is the highest point in Massachusetts though, I never said it wasn't. It isn't by any definition except maybe the cultural one "the peak of the Berkshires," despite being frequently misattributed as such.

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Zazadawg t1_j0te6tt wrote

technically Mt greylock is part of the taconic mountains

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RoyalSloth t1_j0shli3 wrote

I mean yes the geographic Berkshire hills go beyond Berkshire county. But anyone from the Berkshires knows “the Berkshires” by itself means you’re talking about the county. If you mean the hills you’d need to specify that

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giob1966 t1_j0t6twm wrote

Those of us who are from there use "the Berkshires" to refer to Berkshire County itself, rather than the mountains to the east.

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