Sunset on the Mohawk Trail

The Mohawk Trail was one of the first scenic byways in the United States, along what was once a trade route connecting Native North Americans on the Atlantic with upstate New York. It winds east-west from Greenfield to North Adams, through the Berkshires, along the Hoosic River, getting increasingly narrow and winding (and impossible to photograph!) through Florida county, where evidence is still visible from the surging hurricane waters of Irene last summer.

We got to the top of the famous hairpin turn as the sun was setting, so we sat, and waited, and watched the light change. From this vantage point overlooking North Adams and Williamstown, you can see the Taconic range in New York to the west, and the Berkshire mountains extending into Vermont to the north.