Mineral Hills Abandoned Rock Quarry

Mineral Hills Abandoned Rock Quarry

Tucked at the very end of a residential street in Northampton, MA, is the unassuming entrance to the Mineral Hills Conservation Area, a free network of hiking trails. Entering the forest area, which is maintained by the Friends of the Mineral Hills and monitored by the Kestrel Land Trust, one is unlikely to realize at first that they are just a brief walk from a large abandoned rock quarry. The quarry operated from the 1950s until the early 2000…