Jerimoth Hill, Rhode Island |
 ... a notice put up by the Highpointers Club, which worked for many years to gain public access to the highpoint. In 2003, Joe Glickman and Nels Akerlund’s book, To The Top: Reaching for America’s 50 State Summits, said that “the most inaccessible of the nation’s fifty highpoints is Rhode Island’s 812-foot Jerimoth Hill. For years it’s been guarded by an antisocial homeowner who turns rabid when hikers cross his front yard en route to the highest point in the nation’s smallest state.” The “antisocial homeowner” is no longer a danger to hikers, but … |