Location: Northwestern Massachusetts from Williamstown to Greenfield, through the Mohawk Trail State Forest
Length: 25 miles
Time To Allow: 2 days

Description/Highlights/Points of Interest

Route 2 from Orange to Williamstown is known as the Mohawk Trail, one of America's first designated automobile tour routes. Along the way you will come upon no less than 14 state parks and forests. How's that for leaf-peeping potential?

Upcountry views include the Whitcomb Summit. There, you will negotiate a needle-eye turn, but not before taking advantage of the scenic overlook that offers a near-to-heaven view of hills, valleys, fields and farms, and the winding road to yet another summit, that of Mount Greylock.

Other sites along Route 2 include French King Bridge, Millers Falls, the Bissell Covered Bridge, Charlemont; and the enchanting Bridge of Flowers and Shelburne Falls.

The following organization offers a trip along the Mohawk Trail:

Mohawk Trail
Traveling America
As an Indian Trail that evolved into a key wagon road and stagecoach route, carrying new settlers into the frontier, the Mohawk Trail has a long and rich history. Closely paralleling the railroad, which came later, at a cost of $368,000 in 1914, the Mohawk Trail became the first scenic roadway in New England. When finally constructed, the Trail opened a particularly beautiful section of the Massachusetts’ Berkshires that been previously inaccessible to automobiles due to steep grades and the natural barrier of the Hoosac Mountain Range, running north and south. Traveling America has developed a special 3-day, 2-night package that lets you enjoy the 63 miles (101.4 km) of unsurpassed natural beauty, a mountain pass through the Hoosac Mountains, 50,000 acres of state parks and forests, quaint historic towns, arts, culture and monuments, within a very leisurely and quiet exploration of rural New England.