Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut.

At 2,316 feet (706 m) (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 2,380 feet (725 m), was actually on the nearby Connecticut-Massachusetts border, on the southern slope of Massachusetts’ Mount Frissell.

[3] There is a stone monument on the Bear Mountain summit.

The Appalachian Trail crosses the mountain in a generally north-south direction.