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The [http://americasroof.com/ma.shtml highest mountain] in Massachusetts, partly contained in Williamstown, although the [http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=42.6375&lon=-73.16667 summit] (3491' above sea level) is in Adams. The summit features a lighthouse and a radio tower as well as Bascom Lodge. The [[Appalachian Trail|AT]] traverses the mountain. Mt. Greylock is occluded from campus by [[Mt. Prospect]].

The summit is the goal, or part of the route, of several runs, including the [[Schnellstiegen]], [[THE Greylock Run]], an annual tempo workout by the [[Cross Country Running|cross country]] team, and the [http://www.runwmac.com/info-greylocktrail.html Mt. Greylock Trail Races] in the summer.

[http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Notes/taconic_orogeny.html Might have once been volcanic].

Greylock is famous as part of Melville's inspiration for "Moby Dick" having the peculiar property of looking rather like the outline of a whale from Arrowhead, his Pittsfield home; nowhere else does Greylock resemble a whale, through the landslide on the Adams side of the mountain does resemble the head of an American Indian, and is popularly termed "Chief Greylock".