Talcott Mountain
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Talcott Mountain is a 950-foot high point in central Connecticut, lying along a 13-mile trap rock ridge 6 miles west of the city of Hartford. A prominent landscape feature, the ridge forms a continuou
Talcott Mountain cliffs from the Farmington River floodplain. Heublein Tower, top right.
Talcott Mountain ridgeline from The Pinnacle in Penwood State Park
Early Saxifrage sprouting in a trap rock ledge, Talcott Mountain
View of Hartford from Heublein Tower
Metacomet Ridge
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The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microcli
Talcott Mountain
…line of exposed western cliffs visible across the Farmington River valley from Farmington to Simsbury. Talcott Mountain is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. A…
Traprock cliffs on Chauncey Peak, Connecticut
"Philip. King of Mount Hope", a 1772 engraving of a caricature of Metacom aka King Philip by Paul Revere
The Farmington River cuts the Metacomet Ridge in Simsbury, Connecticut
View from Mount Tom, Massachusetts, highest traprock peak of the Metacomet Ridge