Prospect Hill, also known as Mount Holyoke, is a prominent landmark in western Massachusetts. It is the site of Mount Holyoke College and offers panoramic views of the Connecticut River Valley and the surrounding mountains. It is also home to a historic summit house, which was built in 1851 as a hotel and observatory. 

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters Colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.

The 800-acre campus was designed and landscaped between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted and Sons. The campus includes a botanic garden, two lakes, several waterfalls, tennis courts, stables, and woodland riding trails. It is also home to the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. 

The campus trail system grants access to the various ecological sites located within Mount Holyoke’s campus living laboratory and provides students and the larger community with miles of trails for both recreation and learning. Several of the trails feature interpretive sites ranging from Prospect Hill’s historical conversion from parkland to forest, to the water quality and wetland restoration story along the Upper Lake loop.