An older route once traversed the entire ridge from south to north, but the northern sections fell into disuse in the 1970s and are totally obscured.

The Brodie Mountain ridge is located in the towns of Hancock, Lanesborough, New Ashford, and Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The mountain is forested in northern hardwood species; its geology is Ordovician phyllite.

The Berkshire Wind Power Project, the largest operating wind farm in Massachusetts, began operation on the southern portion of the Brodie Mountain ridge in 2011.

The facility consists of ten turbines capable of producing a total of fifteen megawatts of electricity, and is owned by the Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation, a non-profit, public power corporation.