Located in Berkshire County, Saddle Ball Mountain is the 2nd highest peak in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[4] John Bascom’s 1907 monograph suggests its location along the ridge: “Mount Griffin still another two miles to the south and 220 feet lower than Greylock, which is 3,505 [sic]”.

During the Pleistocene, 18,000 years ago, Mount Greylock and adjacent peaks were covered by ice sheets up to 1-kilometer in thickness.

[6][7] Along the ridgeline of Greylock above 3000 feet between Mount Fitch on the north and the Saddle Ball series on the south is the only place in Massachusetts where a taiga-boreal or subalpine forest flourishes.

The two most northerly Saddle Balls require a short but strenuous easterly bushwhack from the AT to reach the non-descript, forested high points.