Mount Watatic Summit — Attraction in Ashburnham

On a clear day you can see the Pru and the John Hancock in Boston. Maybe even the Tobin. (50+ miles) On any day you can see the woods and rocky summits of Northern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. The trail is typically well marked. Healthy kids should be able to make the climb. I once helped a woman with chronic leg weakness due to a back injury climb this. Keep going up to Nutting Ledges if you have the time for a short loop back to where you started. You can also follow the Wapack trail twenty plus miles north over a wide variety of woods, hills, ledges, berry patches, beaver ponds and such. A great place to clear your head and be ready to face...

Fantastic day hike. Difficulty level is fairly low, have done it with my son when he was 6 with no real trouble.

Good sized parking lot, but this is a popular spot and it fills up fast during nice weather. Summit is accessible in most of all weather with proper preparation.

Very open, great views up top, and the main trail continues north all the way through the Wapack range.

Note that the Midstate Trail, which starts down in Douglas, terminates here, though across the MA/NH line it becomes the Wapack Trail, just as the same trail continues south through RI as the North/South Trail all the way to the Atlantic.

All told, over 100 miles from Atlantic Ocean to...

I have been hiking up Mt. Watatic for many years now, the summit and the southeastern summit both have amazing views. There used to be a fire tower at the top but it was torn down about 20 years ago. There are three ways to hike to the summit: 1. The direct route up from Rt. 119, this route is called the Telephone Line Trail. Very steep, parking is on north side of road, closer to the jct. with Rt. 101 than the other parking area 2. & 3. both start at the parking area where the Midstate Trail crosses 119. This route allows one to do a loop over the summit. Clockwise or counterclockwise, both ways are...