Bear Mountain (Connecticut)

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Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut. At Template:Convert (note, per references 1 and 3, there is disagreement about the precise elevation), Bear Mountain is the highest mountain that lies wholly within Connecticut. However, it is not the state highpoint: in the 1940s, the United States Geological Survey determined that the highest elevation in the state, at Template:Convert, was actually on the nearby Connecticut-Massachusetts border, on the southern slope of Massachusetts’ Mount Frissell.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> There is a stone monument on the Bear Mountain summit. The Appalachian Trail crosses the mountain in a generally north-south direction.

Mount Frissell, on which is located Connecticut's highest elevation, as seen from Bear Mountain
View of Mount Everett and Mount Race from Bear Mountain
Stone monument at the summit