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Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,247. [14] .
Holyoke Community College is a two-year college located in Holyoke, Massachusetts offering academic, transfer, and non-credit programs.
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- Mount Tom State Reservation
- Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day Parade
- Holyoke Canal System
- Holyoke Heritage State Park
- Wistariahurst Museum
- Dinosaur Footprints
- Ashley Reservoir
- International Volleyball Hall of Fame
- Holyoke Children’s Museum
- Whiting Street Reservoir
A basalt mountain range, 4.5 miles long and 1.5 miles, lurks above the northern end of Holyoke. There’s inspiring, rugged scenery in the Mount Tom Range, and from the high western cliffs you can gaze out for miles across the Pioneer Valley. The range is part of the Metacomet Ridge, a fault-block running north for 100 miles from Branford, CT to nort...
Holyoke has always had a large Irish makeup, to the point that this place was known as “Ireland Parish” when it was incorporated in 1786. The first post office in 1822 was simply “Ireland”, and the sudden industrialization in the mid-19th century brought a large wave of Catholic Irish immigrants to build the canals and work in the mills. Even today...
Built between 1847 and 1882, Holyoke’s 4.5 miles of power canals kindle fascination as a working power source, visually impressive feature of the cityscape and as a site of important mechanical engineering history. It was here that the hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel (1842-1930) developed the first large-scale Venturi meters to measure differen...
In 1980 the vast William Skinner Silk Mill was destroyed by fire, and in 1986 this park celebrating Holyoke’s industrial past opened on that canal-front plot. The first thing to note about Holyoke Heritage State Park is its location, with dramatic views of the canal and its industrial cityscape. The International Volleyball Hall of Fame and Holyoke...
For background on the Skinner family, and Holyoke’s riveting history, you can head to the family estate, named for the profusion of wisteria vines on the eastern facade. The main house here was actually built 20 miles away in Williamsburg, MA, in 1868, but was moved to its current plot in 1874 after floods. In a near perfect state of preservation, ...
In the early Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago, what is now the Connecticut River Valley was a subtropical region of swamps and lakes. Here, a variety of dinosaurs up to 20 feet long left tracks in the mudflats, which eventually became sandstone. Preserved on an eight-acre plot off U.S. Route 5 are more than 800 such fossils. First stud...
An easy way to immerse yourself in the natural beauty around Holyoke is on the trails surrounding the city’s water supply reservoirs, established in the late 19th century. The first of these is the Ashley Reservoir, not far from the Holyoke Mall and made up of two ponds over more than 200 acres. On the water’s edge are stands of alder and red osier...
As the birthplace of volleyball in 1895, Holyoke is the logical place for the International Volleyball Hall of Fame, found at the north end of the Holyoke Heritage State Park. Appropriately for Holyoke, the venue is an industrial warehouse built in 1949 to store silk fabric made at the destroyed Skinner Mill. When we made this list there were 146 i...
In the same building as the International Volleyball Hall of Fame there’s a children’s museum that first opened in 1981 and moved to its current location in 1985. The Holyoke Children’s Museum is a top-notch resource for parents, featuring more than 20 permanent exhibits to engage children in open-ended play. What will catch their eye straight away...
At the eastern foot of Mount Tom there’s a 114-acre reservoir that was built in the 1880s by damming Raging Brook. The packed dirt road arrived later, in 1897, for maintenance access, and is open to hikers, offering a light 3.7-mile walk with exhilarating mountain views and a lot of opportunities for spotting wildlife. As this is an auxiliary water...
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Holyoke encourages visitors to delve into the city's rich offerings in tourism, arts, culture, and entertainment. Concerts, shopping, dining, the beauty of nature, hidden treasures, and art exhibitions are only the initial attractions when you dive into Explore Holyoke.
