Wapack Range

Geobox|Range
name=Wapack Range
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image_size=200px
image_caption=View from Kidder Mountain
country=United States
state= New Hampshire
state1= Massachusetts
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length_imperial=18
length_round=0
length_orientation=north-south
highest=Pack Monadnock
highest_elevation_imperial=2290
highest_lat_d=
highest_long_d=
geology=metamorphic rock
geology1=Littleton Formation
period=Devonian


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map_caption=The Wapack Range, sometimes referred to as the Pack Monadnock Range, is a 20-mile range of mountains in south-central New Hampshire and adjacent Massachusetts. The range is considered very scenic and rugged with many bare summits and ledges ranging from 1,800 feet to 2,290 feet. The 22 mile Wapack Trail, one of the oldest interstate hiking trails in the United States, traverses it. The Wapack Range is also the northern terminus of the 90 mile Midstate Trail.

The range, composed of heavily metamorphosed schist and quartzite, is oriented north-south and is located in the towns of New Ipswich, Temple, Sharon, Peterborough, and Greenfield, New Hampshire; and in Massachusetts, the towns of Ashburnham and Ashby.

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Significant parcels on the Wapack Range have been conserved as state parks, state forests, or properties managed by non-profit land conservation organizations. Miller State Park, the oldest state park in New Hampshire, is located on Pack Monadnock. A defunct ski area on Temple Mountain was acquired by the state of New Hampshire in 2006 and is also slated for state park status. Conservation efforts on Mount Watatic have resulted in the protection of the mountain from recent attempts to blast a communications tower road to the summit and open the mountain to housing development. The non-profit Friends of the Wapack have been involved in conservation of the range since 1985.

References

* [http://www.wapack.org/ Friends of the Wapack]