The Mohawk Trail
Williamstown → Greenfield, MA · ~63 miles · half day
The Mohawk Trail follows Massachusetts Route 2 for about 63 miles across the northern Berkshires, tracing an old Native American footpath. Opened in 1914 as the state’s first scenic auto-touring road — one of the oldest in the country — it winds through the Hoosac Range and Deerfield River valley, famed for fall foliage and the white-knuckle Hairpin Turn.
Good to know: Paved and open year-round, but the Hairpin Turn and high sections can ice over in winter, and foliage weekends draw heavy traffic.
New England’s oldest scenic auto road.
A century-old auto-touring road through the Berkshires that’s one of New England’s premier fall-foliage drives.
States on this route
The signature stops
What to pull over for.
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