Explore Lanesborough, Massachusetts, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lanesborough, Massachusetts. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Massachusetts or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Lanesborough.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Lanesborough |
| State | Massachusetts (MA) |
| County | Berkshire County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.517306 |
| Longitude | -73.22816 |
| Population | 3,000 |
| Density | 75.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 01237 |
| Area Code | 339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978 |
| County Seat | Pittsfield |
Lanesborough stretches across a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic clarity of Town Brook, which carves a path through the valley floor before the terrain rises to meet the distant, weathered peaks of the Berkshire Hills. It lies 1.8 miles west of Berkshire, MA (from Berkshire, MA: bearing 280°T), and is situated 4.7 miles north of Pittsfield. The air here holds a crisp, terrestrial weight, unburdened by any maritime influence, settling instead over the quiet expanses of the Lanesborough Water Supply Land. To the west, the dense, shadowed canopy of Pittsfield State Forest offers a stark contrast to the open fields, while the nearby Pontoosuc Lake mirrors the shifting gray and gold of the afternoon sky. One might wander toward Goodrich Hollow, where the land dips into a basin that seems to trap the very breath of the season, or follow the Turner Trail toward the hidden, vertical rush of Lulu Cascade, where the water spills over ancient stone with a precision that feels both indifferent and eternal.
Lanesborough carries the quiet gravity of a place shaped by its inland isolation and the slow, deliberate turn of its agrarian history. While the economy has evolved from the early patterns of settlement into a modern rhythm of local enterprise, the character of the place remains anchored to the land itself, where the silence of the woods often outlasts the noise of the day. The influence of the nearby Berkshire Hills provides a constant, looming backdrop, a reminder of the geography that dictates the flow of water and the movement of the wind. Even as the modern day asserts itself in the pulse of daily life, there is an enduring, literate quality to the silence here, as if the soil itself remembers the generations who worked it long before the current map was drawn.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lanesborough, Massachusetts. Coordinates: 42.517306, -73.22816. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Lanesborough includes the ZIP code (01237), telephone area code (339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978), county seat of Berkshire County (Pittsfield), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |