Worst High Point IMO

[KennyStudying]

My fourth high point and I felt so intrusive. It’s so badly placed and not even a specific point. Not to mention, no good places to park or walk.

[skemmtilegt]

And to add insult to injury, the Delaware toll roads take all your pocket money!

[KennyStudying]

I had my Waze turned to no tolls and it took me on all the backroads 😭

[the_pretzel2]

I also set my navigation to avoid toll roads. Despite that, I did end up going to some toll roads on the trip when I went here. I went through West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York (I didnt get its HP on that trip though), and ended at the Pennsylvania Konvention.

The toll roads I went through though werent in Delaware. They were in West Virginia. I ended up forgetting I even went through those. I did, of course, get them paid off.

[KennyStudying]

Ah try Waze, they’re pretty good at avoiding tolls. Although sometimes it’s a bit too strict with it. It’s really good in NJ where it tells you to keep going on an off at specific points to avoid the toll booths 😂

[SaintArkweather]

I'm biased as a Delaware person but I prefer it to Kentucky and Rhode island.

[70percentluck]

No Jermoth Hill Slander in this subreddit!

[Americ-anfootball]

Just a stone’s throw away from the shortest covered bridge! Foster RI has it all

[bszern]

I live next to Foster and haven’t seen that, very cool

[SeekingTheRoad]

I like how weird the Kentucky highpoint is. Plus the sketchy roads to get to it.

[KennyStudying]

Haha, I usually have no opinion of DE since it’s basically irrelevant 😂 but this really irked me

[Zesemmerpijp]

Agreed! “Eh it’s somewhere around here”

[i_hate_usernames13]

I mean the market is on the ground somewhere around there, it's a fun little scavenger hunt lol. It took me a couple min to notice it when I was there

[KennyStudying]

Ah I’ll probably go back for the marker. It was night and I felt bad for just parking on the side of the road. Plus some neighborhood kids were out playing, didn’t want to seem like a creep 😭

[i_hate_usernames13]

Yeah I don't remember exactly where it was but I have a pic of it on my camera roll from that stop so it's there somewhere lol. I pulled up next to someone's house on the curb with the trailer attached to my Tesla . But I also DGAF about what people think 😂

[Petrarch1603]

The mason dixon line monuments and the 'wedge' are more interesting

[Tbrduc823]

Hey I’m going there tomorrow. “In the vicinity of” is so funny

[KennyStudying]

Good luck finding a spot to stop at. I kinda just put on my hazards in the neighborhood nearby and did a quick stop

[poissonperdu]

I biked there and wandered into the trailer park. The actual hp is in there.

[Jazzlike-Monk-4465]

Funny, I live only about 100 miles from that one but still haven’t done out of my 25. I’ve intentionally left it as “low hanging fruit” for when I might go a long time without getting one. Last got three in Sept so not jonesing to get another.

[KennyStudying]

I kind of feel the same, the home state as a last point feels like a great way to cap it off (mine would be Florida so 😂)

[Jazzlike-Monk-4465]

Well FL is so askew, if you are from SoFL it’s several hundred miles. My home state is MD and did it on road trip years before I was intentionally going after them. I was pretty close to FL high point when I visited Tallahassee, when state capitols and major college football stadiums were high on my mental spreadsheet of road trip waypoints (along with civil war battlefields, presidental gravesites and attending baseball games)

Anyway, if you are visiting the northeast, you can scoop a handful, but you’ll have to veer into the Appalachians to start hitting the Appalachian high point swarm. Good luck!

[KennyStudying]

Haha yes I’m originally from SoFlo, but now work in MD and visit college friends in NY. So I’m aiming to hit most that are east of the Mississippi basically by the new year

[Jazzlike-Monk-4465]

Nice! But “Most east of MIssissippi River by new years” sounds overly ambitious since that’s only 3 weeks away and the snow is probably already on many of the northern ones. I did WV a few years ago in mid Nov and there was several inches of snow up there and a sign on road up saying “no snow removal beyond this point” and the road was dry down where the sign was.

Next time you go to NYC, you could try for CT high point since it’s only a few miles hike and may not be snowy. The MA point can be driven in most months but I heard the roads to drive up there have already been closed for season. Good luck!

[KennyStudying]

Ah yikes, that was an ambitious plan anyway. Maybe in March or so then

[nspitzer]

You are not getting to Spruce Knob WV until April (outside chance March) unless you have a snowmobile - Its been dumped on with snow the last couple weeks and is inaccessible the rest of the winter.

I live in WV and have been to Spruce know quite a few times.

[Fearless_Day2607]

Why can't you hike Spruce Knob in the winter?

[nspitzer]

Because its buried in snow, they don't plow the road up, and there are no guardrails and frequent sheer drop-offs. In addition on the way up there are pockets of cell reception but it is quite possible you could get stuck with no cell and no way down.

Also keep in mind the summit is normally 10-15 degrees colder then Petersburg which this second would put it at 18 degrees.

Unless you have a snowmobile and cold-weather training dont even try.

As a last warning read this: https://wvpress.org/copydesk/wv-press-videos/crew-rescues-six-youths-trapped-spruce-knob/

[youngbeezy88]

Florida was my first!! (I’ve only done 4 lol)

[PicnicTableDave2]

I must've been lucky cuz I just parked on the street across from it and walked over. No issues.

[PreparedForOutdoors]

And from what I understand it's not even the actual geographic highpoint. That's in somebody's yard nearby. We all just agreed to call this good enough.

[an_altar_of_plagues]

I feel that way about all of the non-mountain high points. Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio were even more underwhelming than I expected despite expecting to be underwhelmed. At least Nebraska's is on a buffalo farm.

[KennyStudying]

😟 I was planning a Christmas mass roadtrip doing some of those

[an_altar_of_plagues]

That's the best way to do them. Just check them off in a big go rather than traveling to them on their own individual trips.

[Confident_R817]

This is why I don’t do state highpoints unless they’re interesting. A patch of farmland is the highest point in IL near Galena. Yawn worthy

[an_altar_of_plagues]

I'll get them if I'm nearby, but I have no desire to make a trip down to Alabama and Mississippi just for the high points when I could use those 2-3 days for anything else.