Connecticut River Byway
Skinner State Park, MA

The summit of Mount Holyoke at Skinner State Park offers one of the most famed and spectacular views in the entire Connecticut River Valley, famously painted by the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. The Summit House, formerly a 19th-century resort, offers educational, interpretive material to visitors, including accounts from early writers of the 18th and 19th centuries who marveled at what the spot revealed of the valley.