Back at Sperry Road/CCC Trail where we parked a few cars is a great info site about the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president, the unemployment rate was 25 percent. As part of his plan to combat the Great Depression, Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to put men back to work and protect our natural resources.
CCC Camp SP-7, along Sperry Road, was temporary home to hundreds of men in the 107th Company. Projects spread across the mountain: restoring the forest, sculpting the summit landscape, and building a parkway. The CCC created Mount Greylock and almost all of our state forests.

Sperry Road leads 0.6 mi. to Sperry Campground and 1.7 mi. to Stony Ledge. Sperry Campground was a farm site in the late 1700s. In 1863, the Williams Alpine Club established a camping area there.

Saturday’s hike at Mount Greylock State Reservation was a route from the Sperry Road CCC trail parking, up the Hopper to the Overlook Trail, then onto to Notch Road and a spur to Robinsons Point with phenomenal views! We then got on the Appalachian Trail and followed the old Thunderbolt Ski Trail to the summit ( here some of us went on Mike Whalen’s Walk with Thoreau event) lunch at Bascom Lodge, up the War Memorial then back down on the Appalachian Trail to Hopper and parking at Sperry Road. Just under 7 miles and 6 hours on the highest mountain in Massachusetts!

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