Mount Anthony Bennington view
— — the soft hill the town wakes up to.
Not only on a wall.
“Mount Anthony sits at the southwest corner of Vermont, the long ridge that closes the western side of Bennington's valley. The Bennington Battle Monument points straight at it from the old village. The slope holds the Mount Anthony Country Club on its lower benches and rises through hardwood forest to a wooded summit just under 2,350 feet. The view goes the other way: from town, the hill is the shape every Bennington morning starts with. Reformed, settled, faintly purple in October light, slow to give up its leaves. from the studio
Mount Anthony Bennington view, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Mount Anthony rises just southwest of Bennington, the principal hill of the Taconic Range as it crosses into Vermont from New York and Massachusetts. The summit reaches about 2,345 feet, modest by Green Mountain standards but the dominant landform of the lower valley. It is named for Anthony van Schaick, an early Dutch settler. The peak shapes the western edge of the Walloomsac River basin and frames the town of Bennington, where the 306-foot Bennington Battle Monument has stood since 1891, aligned across the village toward the long ridge.
In October, the slopes turn the soft mixed colour particular to southern Vermont — sugar maple gold, beech bronze, the deep red of red oak holding longer than the rest. The hill catches the late afternoon light first because the valley opens west, and the ridge often reads faintly purple in the last hour. By early November the higher third of the slope is bare; the lower benches around the country club keep their colour another week. Snow generally arrives by mid-December and stays through March.
Bennington is the principal town at the foot of the mountain, reached from Route 7 or the Molly Stark Byway. The 306-foot Bennington Battle Monument, the tallest structure in Vermont, offers a paid observation level with the best high view back toward the ridge. The Mount Anthony Country Club, founded in 1897, occupies the lower south flank and is open seasonally. There is no marked summit trail; the upper hill is private and wooded. The mountain is seen, not climbed — a presence in the town more than a destination.