Mount Watatic

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Mount Watatic
Elevation	558 m / 1,832 ft
Location	Ashburnham / Ashby, Massachusetts, USA
Range	The Wapack Range
Coordinates	42°41′48″N, 71°53′33″W

Mount Watatic is a 1832 ft monadnock on the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border, near the southern endpoint of the Wapack Trail. Its base lies in Ashburnham and Ashby, Massachusetts. It was the site of several ski areas with tow ropes that operated for several decades until closing in 1984. The bald summit of the mountain featured a fire tower, open to the public, until its removal in 1997.

In 2000, the summit of the mountain was sold to Industrial Communications and Electronics for the development of a 150 ft cellular telephone tower

An engraved stone at the summit of Mount Watatic.

and a road to the summit. Prior to development, however, the mountain was purchased for $2,500,000 by the Ashby Land Trust, the Ashburnham Conservation Trust, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2002. The purchase resulted in the permanent protection of approximately 281 acres of the mountain, including the summit, as conservation land.