We set out on Stage Coach Trail, then onto Harrington Trail, hiking for a few miles here and there, but not climbing to the 2006 foot summit. The younger kids weren't up to it. Another time. There is a pond at the summit called Summit Pond that was used as ice supply before electric refrigeration. Seasonally the parkway, Summit Road, can be driven to the top where an 80 foot steel summit fire lookout tower provides the public with views of Boston, Mount Monadnock, and the Berkshires.
Two ginormous 1.5 megawatt windmills power the mountain ski area, along with almost half the town of Princeton
Views of over 100 miles can be had on a clear day
We found the
Harrington Trail geocache
At Echo Lake we picnicked and threw a line in
Barbecuing on the Esbit folding grill from L.L.Bean at an old fireplace on Echo Lake
Dug up earthworms and blew them up so they float off the bottom. Testing a pocket fishing pole that I made out of a plastic pipe cut to 7", wrapped in fishing line, and terminated with a
live bait rig.
Heave it and leave it
Built over a hundred years ago, there used to be a hotel at the summit of Mount Wachusett called the Summit House until it burnt down in 1970. Summit House picture circa early 20th century.
Trail Map
