NEW ASHFORD OVERLOOK stop 5 at Mile 5.9 on the Mount Greylock State Reservation driving tour. At this pullover, cut by the CCC in the 1930s, you may see the building blocks of the mountain. According to geologists, metamorphic gray-colored Greylock schist and white colored quartzite were formed from an ancient sea bed some 600-300 million years ago. A collision of continents during the Taconic Orogeny pushed up folds of rock into a mountain range that may once have been 20,000 feet tall. These mountains have been worn down by weather and erosion over eons to their present height. The view here looks down into the Hopper and across to Stony Ledge; the town of Williamstown is seen to the north. The view is of the Green River Valley. Water from Hopper Brook flows into the Green River, which then flows into the Hoosic River, which joins the Hudson River in New York State. The water eventually reaches the Atlantic Ocean at New York City.

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