Located at the North end of the Wapack Trail is North Pack Monadnock Mountain. There are a couple of trail heads for this trail. We parked on Mountain Road in Greenfield and hiked the Wapack Trail to the top. There is a good amount of parking here.
The trail starts out fairly flat for the first .8 miles of the trail.
Then the trail is a steady to steep incline for another .8 of a mile.
At the summit there is a large cairn and some views looking towards Mt. Monadnock.
From here we continued onto the Cliff Trail. I have never been on this trail before and thought the trail went around the top rim of North Pack providing a lot of views. The first part we did walk around the summit which provided some views. There is one view point that opens up onto a set of rocks giving stunning views towards Boston, the southern part of the Wapack Trail and Mt Monadnock.
We continued along the Cliff Trail which has some rock scrambles descending down the mountain and some flat areas. The trail connected with the Wapack Trail before heading back up to the summit of North Pack Monadnock. The total loop was about 2 miles, which had some difficult sections due to rock scrambles, the only view points were at the beginning of the Cliff Trail.
After reaching the summit again we continued to follow the Wapack Trail back to the parking lot. With it being fall there were a lot of leaves and pine needles on the trail making the climb down tricky at times.
Overall, we really enjoyed the hike. The total mileage was 5.25 miles. Some of those miles were difficult due to rock scrambles. There was some beautiful views. I would rate this trail on the harder side of moderate, good for those who have experience hiking a variety of terrain.
