Nomenclature
The name Yokun derives from Jehoiakim Yokun, a Native American of the Mahican tribe. As early as the 19th Century, Yokun's name applied to "Yokun Seat," a summit of Lenox Mountain. This term was accepted by the Board of Geographic Names in 1894.
George Wislocki, first director of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, first applied the name "Yokun Ridge" to this landform in 1971. The name was accepted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names in 2009 as the name of a 9-mile (14 km) long ridge of the Taconic Mountains including West Stockbridge Mountain, Lenox Mountain, Mahanna Cobble, Yokun Seat, and Baldhead. The Appalachian Mountain Club uses the term in the 2004 and 2009 edition of its Massachusetts Trail Guide. The Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Town of Lenox, and the Bousquet Ski Area have also used the term.
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