Traveling by car, foot, and plane to the highest places
Mount Frissell, Connecticut (South Slope) lies at 2,380 feet MSL and is ranked #36in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 9th highpoint of 2004. Mount Frissell is in a cohort of states with Maryland, Nevada, and Oklahoma whose highpoints sadly aren’t at the summit of a mountain, but merely the highest point on … Read more
Campbell Hill, Ohio, lies at 1,550 feet MSL and is ranked #43 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 8th highpoint of 2004. Campbell is on the campus of a vocational school, housing a cosmetology school at the time of my visit. At the time, this was the easiest high point I’d visited … Read more
Hoosier Hill, Indiana lies at 1,257 feet MSL and is ranked #44 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 7th highpoint of 2004. At this point I had retreated from the east coast and spent a couple weeks with my brother Kevin in Columbia, Missouri. A bit lost, I didn’t want to return … Read more
Mount Mansfield, Vermont lies at 4,393 feet MSL and is ranked #26 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 6th US Highpoint of 2004. After the sufferfest of skiing down Greylock the day before, we decided to snowshoe our way to the top of Vermont. This would prove to be an excellent decision … Read more
Mount Greylock, Massachusetts lies at 3,491 feet MSL and is ranked #31 in elevation among US Highpoints. This was my 5th US Highpoint of 2004 and my second highpoint that I skied after Wy’East. Although there was a closed auto road to the summit, we chose to skin up through the woods on a hiking … Read more
Jerimoth Hill, Rhode Island lies at 812 feet MSL and is ranked #46 in elevation among US Highpoints. This was the 4th stop during my cross-country trip with Teewinot and “Nancy.” At the time of my visit, the landowners wouldn’t allow access, and the “acceptable” alternative was this high point on the highway, which is … Read more
High Point, New Jersey lies at 1,803 feet MSL and is ranked #40 in elevation among US Highpoints. This, the third US Highpoint of my 2004 cross-country drive from Montana to Connecticut. This is another walk-up and is located in High Point State Park and features a 200-foot obelisk that was sadly closed when we … Read more
Hawkeye Point, Iowa lies at 1,670 feet MSL and is ranked #42 in elevation among US Highpoints. Hawkeye is located on a farm in southwest Iowa. This was my second highpoint during a cross-country trip with Teewinot and “Nancy.” This is a “jump out of the car, take a photo, leave” type of place. The … Read more
Black Elk Peak, South Dakota lies at 7,242 feet MSL and is ranked #15 in elevation among US Highpoints. I climbed Black Elk Peak, then called Harney Peak (presumably after some white colonizer asshat) with Teewinot and an ex-girlfriend as the first stop on a cross-country trip to move her from Montana to New England … Read more
US Highpoint #38! Eagle Mountain, Minnesota lies at 2,301 feet MSL and is ranked #37 in elevation among US Highpoints. I took advantage of a work trip to Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN to fly from MSP up to Duluth and then drive to the Eagle Mountain trailhead in January. Fortunately, the road to the … Read more
Mount Magazine, Arkansas lies at 2,753 feet MSL and is ranked #34 in elevation among US Highpoints. If you didn’t check out my photos of the absolutely gorgeous Lodge at Mount Magazine, check them out here. The day before I hiked Magazine, I hiked to Driskill Mountain, the Louisiana highpoint. So after relaxing at the … Read more
Immediately following my hike to the Louisiana highpoint, I turned north and drove directly to Mount Magazine State Park, home of the Arkansas highpoint. On a whim I decided to see if the summit lodge happened to have any same-day reservations, and much to my surprise, they did! I had just spent $230 on a … Read more
Driskill Mountain, Louisiana lies at 535 feet MSL and is ranked #48 in elevation among US Highpoints. In July, prior to my trip to Missouri, I decided to do a “twofer” type trip and knock out a couple of US State Highpoints on the way there. So, I flew American Airlines to DFW, then to … Read more
List of US State Highpoints that I have yet to complete. As of February 2025, I have completed 38. For a list of the US State Highpoints I’ve already completed, go here: US State Highpoints Number Elevation(feet) Peak State R/T distance(miles) Elevation Gain(feet) Notes Rank of these 1=hardest 1 14,505 Mt. Whitney CA 22 6148 … Read more