Mount Everett is the highest peak in the southern Taconic Mountains, rising about 2,000 feet above its eastern footings in Sheffield, Mass.

This escarpment rises from an elevation around 700 feet in Sheffield's Housatonic Valley at a mean angle of about 20 degrees (a 36% grade), although its higher reaches are markedly steeper.

Everett's more gentle, western slopes begin in a valley occupied by the township of Mount Washington, where elevations average about 1,700 feet.

[1] A seasonal auto road approaching from the west climbs past Guilder Pond and continues nearly to Everett's summit, but its upper reaches have been long closed to automobiles.

[7] Mount Everett is part of the much larger Taconic Allochthon, a rock structure that migrated from about 25 miles to the east and arriving at its present location via low-angle thrust faulting.

Zen modified the term "Everett Schist" (coined in 1893 by William Herbert Hobbs) "in order to include rocks of different metamorphic grades.

By the late 19th century, "there [had] long been a protest against adopting the name that Prof. Hitchcock gave to the summit," according to Clark W. Bryan's 1886 tourist guide titled Book of the Berkshires.

"[22] Yet in 1897, the United States Board on Geographic Names which determines federal usage, accepted "Mount Everett," citing published sources.