Peck Mountain

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Peck Mountain
Elevation 431 feet (131 m) ridge high point
Location Cheshire, Connecticut
Range Metacomet Ridge
Coordinates 41°31′18″N, 72°55′15″W
Type Fault-block; igneous
Age of rock 200 million yrs.
Easiest route trailless

Peck Mountain of south-central Connecticut, 431 feet (131 m), is a traprock mountain ridge located in Cheshire, Connecticut. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. The Metacomet Ridge continues south from Peck Mountain as Mount Sanford and north as a diminishing series of hills that extend into Southington, Connecticut.

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