Mount Fitch (Massachusetts)

Mount Fitch is the third-highest peak[3] in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at 3,104 feet (946 m).

The forested summit is approximately 123 yards (112 m) due west of a local high-point on the Appalachian Trail.

Mount Fitch does not meet the Appalachian Mountain Club's prominence criterion of 200 vertical feet of separation from adjacent peaks as outlined in New England's Four-thousand footers list.

The peak is named for Ebenezer Fitch,[5] who served as president of Williams College in nearby Williamstown, Massachusetts from 1793-1815.

[6] In 1947, local residents Dr. Joseph Wilk and Bartlett Hendricks terminated clear cutting the summit of Mount Fitch, which remains overgrown to this date.

An occasional hiker reaches the top amongst the pucker brush.
The northern section of the Greylock Range seen from Petersburg Pass includes (from left to right): Mt. Williams (2,951 ft.), Mt. Fitch (3,110 ft.), Mt. Prospect (2,677 ft. - below the horizon in this view), and Mt. Greylock (3,491 ft.)