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| name = Mount Fitch
| photo = Mount Fitch (Massachusetts) summit sign.jpg
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| photo_caption = Sign at the summit of Mount Fitch, photographed in July, 2012
| elevation_ft = 31103104
| elevation_ref = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=607419 |name=Mount Fitch |access-date=2024-06-01}}</ref>
| location = [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts]]▼
| prominence_ft = 103
| range = Greylock Range▼
| prominence_ref = <ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger |pid=7062 |name=Mount Fitch, Massachusetts |access-date=2024-06-01}}</ref>
| coordinates = {{Coord|42|39|20.7|N|73|09|36.5|W|region:US-MA_type:mountain_source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}▼
▲| range = Greylock[[Taconic Range]]
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| parent_peak = [[Mount Greylock]]
| location = {{Nowrap|[[Berkshire County, Massachusetts|Berkshire County]], [[Massachusetts]], [[U.S.]]}}
| map = USA Massachusetts
| map_caption = Location in Massachusetts
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| coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis"/>
| topo = [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Williamstown, Massachusetts
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'''Mount Fitch''' is the third-highest peak<ref name="peaks">[[List of mountains in Massachusetts|third-highest]] peak</ref> in the Commonwealth of [[Massachusetts]] at {{convert|31103,104|ft|m}}. It is located on the ridge between [[Mount Greylock]] at {{convert|3,491 feet (1,064 489|ft|m)}} to its Southsouth and [[Mount Williams (Massachusetts)|Mount Williams]] at {{convert|2,956 feet (901 951|ft|m)}} to its Northnorth. The peak sits in the Northwestnorthwest corner of the [[Adams, Massachusetts|Town of Adams]] in [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts|Berkshire County]] (orignallyoriginally known as the Town of East Hoosac.<ref name="perry">A.L. Perry, "Origins in Williamstown", Heritage Books, 1894 on page 4</ref>) in [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts|Berkshire County]]. The forested summit is approximately {{convert|123|yd|m}} due Westwest 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. Currently there is no side-spur trail or signage directing a hiker to the summit of Mt. Fitch from the Appalachian Trail; however, there is a wooden placard at the summit itself (pictured at right). The top is infrequently visited by hikers due to its anonymity, the bushwhack necessary to reach the top and the viewless summit.
[[File:Mt. Fitch Summit.jpg|left|thumb|An occasional hiker reaches the top amongst the pucker brush.]]
 
The peak is named for [[Ebenezer Fitch]],<ref name="majesty">Deborah E. Burns and Lauren R. Stevens, ''Most Excellent Majesty: A History of Mount Greylock'', Berkshire County Land Trust and Conservation Fund, 1988.</ref>, who served as president of [[Williams College]] in nearby [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]] from 1793-1815. The name and geographic significance of the peak were disparaged by R.R.R. Brooks in his 1953 history of [[Williamstown, by RRR BrooksMassachusetts|Williamstown]], "[I]t is doubtful whether more than one resident in ten knows Mt. Williams from Mt. Fitch".<ref name="brooks">Robert Romano Ravi Brooks, "Williamstown: the First Two Hundred Years", Williamstown, MA: McClelland Press, page 27</ref>.
 
In 1947, local residents Dr. Joseph Wilk and Bartlett Hendricks terminated clear cutting the summit of Mount Fitch, which remains overgrown to this date.<ref name="majesty" />
 
== Geography, Geology & Ecology ==
==References==▼
see [[Mount Greylock]]
 
[[File:Mount Fitch profile.JPG|thumb|right|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.)|351x351px]]
 
▲== References ==
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== External links ==
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*http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=7062 Peakbagger Website.
*http https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQJfkGdcki8&feature=plcp YoutubeBrief videosummary of placement oflocating placardand atplacing the summitsign.
 
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