Hogback Mountain 100 Mile View Marlboro
— — the long look south, three states wide.
Not only on a wall.
“A pullout high on Route 9, on the ridge of Hogback Mountain in Marlboro. The overlook gives a hundred-mile view south across Massachusetts toward Mount Greylock, with the southern Green Mountains carrying the eastern horizon. The hill ran as a ski area from 1946 until 1986 and is now a 600-acre conservation parcel. The Southern Vermont Natural History Museum sits at the pullout, and the air at 2,400 feet stays cool well into June. — from the studio
Hogback Mountain 100 Mile View Marlboro, on ceramic.
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Hogback Mountain rises to about 2,400 feet in Marlboro, Windham County, in southern Vermont, on the ridge that Route 9 crosses between Wilmington and Brattleboro. The pullout known as the Hundred Mile View sits near the summit and looks south across Massachusetts toward Mount Greylock. The hill ran as the Hogback Mountain Ski Area from 1946 until 1986. Since 2010 a 600-acre tract on the mountain has been protected as the Hogback Mountain Conservation Area, managed by a local non-profit board.
At 2,400 feet the air on the ridge stays cool well into June, and the temperature at the overlook can run ten to fifteen degrees below the Connecticut River valley to the east. The pullout faces south and west, so afternoon thermals carry haze off the Berkshires and into the view. On clear days in late autumn, after the leaves are down, the long sightline to Mount Greylock in Massachusetts opens up and the curve of the southern horizon becomes visible.
The pullout is a free roadside stop on Route 9, open year-round, with parking and a guard wall along the cliff edge. The Southern Vermont Natural History Museum, founded in 1996, sits at the overlook and is open seasonally; its small collection covers regional wildlife and raptors. The conservation area's trail network climbs from the pullout up to the old ski-area summit and continues along the ridge. The road shoulder ices in winter, so the safe overlook visit runs roughly April through November.