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Sugarloaf Mountain (Massachusetts)
Sugarloaf Mountain or Mount Sugarloaf, is a butte-like mountain located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States, with two summits, North Sugarloaf Mountain and its more popular knee, South Sugarloaf Mountain . Its cliffs, made of arkose sandstone, are a very prominent landscape feature visible for miles. Despite the low elevation of the summits to the nearby Berkshire Mountains, dramatic cliff faces and a rise of 500 to from the nearby Connecticut River make the mountain a popular tourist and hiking destination. Sugarloaf Mountain is the southern terminus of the Pocumtuck Range.
==Origin of the name==
The name ''sugarloaf'' refers to the loaf-like shape that sugar was once molded into for shipment. The names ''Sugarloaf Mountain'' and ''Mount Sugarloaf'' are both used to describe this mountain. USGS sources and published hiking maps refer to (North and South) ''Sugarloaf Mountain.'' However, the Massachusetts state reservation encompassing them is called the Mount Sugarloaf State Reservation. The name ''Mount Sugarloaf'' is sometimes used to describe only the south summit,〔''Massachusetts Trail Guide'' 8th ed. Appalachian Mountain Club. Boston, 2004.〕 and the north summit is sometimes described as the Pocumtuck Ridge.〔(Connecticut River Home Page ). Cited Dec. 17, 2007〕 Both names are used locally.〔''AMC massachusetts and Rhode Island Trail Guide.'' 6th ed. Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989.〕〔Christopher J. Ryan. “Mount Toby Trail Map.” Fourth edition. Newall Printing, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1999.〕〔() United States Board on Geographic Names. Cinted Dec. 5, 2007〕
The original Native American name for the mountain is Wequamps (or Wequomps). The root ''wehqu-'' in this name or ''weckw-'' in ''Weckwannuck'' "Sugarloaf Brook" means "at the point of or extremity of" and occurs in placenames indicating a stopping point. According to native American myth, Sugarloaf Mountain is the carcass of a human-eating giant beaver who lived in a lake now occupied by the Connecticut River. The people complained to the god Hobomok that the beaver was greedy, and consuming all their resources. In response Hobomok decided to kill the beaver with a club he fashioned from a large tree. After the struggle, the beaver died and sank to the bottom of the lake, turned to stone, and became what is now Sugarloaf Mountan. There may be some truth to this tale; 15,000 years ago the Connecticut River from northern Vermont to southern Connecticut was a post-glacial lake. A now extinct species of giant beaver as big as black bears once inhabited North America at about the same time (see Pocumtuck Range for details).〔
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