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	Highpointing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To that end, both the state's topographically prominent county highpoints and less significant hills (or even mere mounds) must be reached - be it by driving or climbing as the individual locations warrant.
		Jerimoth Hill, the highest point in both Rhode Island and Providence County serves as example.
		While state highpointers for years accepted driving RI 101 to the point closest to the summit of to count for a visit to that state's highest point due to access issues, county highpointers require that one visit the slightly higher rock outcrop at the actual summit to claim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highpointing (1012 words)

	Jerimoth Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerimoth Hill is the name of the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, at 812 feet (247 m) above sea level.
		Jerimoth Hill is located in Providence County in the town of Foster, near the Connecticut border.
		There was so much pressure on Richardson to let highpointers cross through his property that Richardson's son finally gave permission to the hikers in 1998 by allowing hikers to get to the highpoint on selected national holidays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerimoth_Hill (447 words)

	SummitPost - Jerimoth Hill -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Jerimoth Hill is the highest point in Rhode Island.
		Jerimoth Hill is about an hour or so south of Boston, Massachusetts.
		Since Jerimoth Hill is open only on weekends, and New England is not too large, if you are going to take the time to camp you may want to visit other major mountain areas in the region such as the Berkshires, the Adirondaks, or the White Mountains in New Hampshire.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/152342/jerimoth-hill.html (651 words)

	Boston.com / Travel / New England / R.I. / At Rhode Island's Jerimoth Hill, it's not the height that's the problem
		Jerimoth, the pride of Foster township near the Connecticut border, is the littlest state's highest point.
		To reach Jerimoth Hill from the Boston area, take Interstate 95 south to Providence, then Route 6 west, and then Route 101 west (Hartford Pike) to Foster, R.I. As you near the Connecticut border, about 18 miles from Providence, you pass a Citgo gas station, and a sign for Burgess Road on your left.
		The path leading from Route 101 to the top of Jerimoth Hill runs through private land, but is open to the public five days a year, between 8 a.m.
	www.boston.com /travel/newengland/rhodeisland/articles/2003/08/10/at_rhode_islands_jerimoth_hill_its_not_the_height_thats_the_problem?pg=full (1257 words)

	Projo.com \| Providence \| Northwest
		Jerimoth Hill is ranked 45th among state summits, but in The Year of the Mountain, it's high enough.
		The hill is named after Jerimoth Brown, who owned it and large tracts of surrounding land around the turn of the 18th century.
		The hill is like a rock sundae, a big scoop of hard granite topped with lots of small, loose stones, glazed with trees and sprinkled with houses.
	www.projo.com /northwest/content/projo_20020928_nwjeri29.4bd55.html (694 words)

	Rhode Island's High Point
		Jerimoth Hill is jokingly referred to by highpointers as the most terrifying of all 50 state highpoints.
		The first time I thought the highpoint was the Jerimoth Hill sign on the highway.
		Jerimoth Hill is at the western-most portion of route 101 in Foster, just shy of the Connecticut border.
	riroads.com /archive/jerimothhill.htm (461 words)

	Quahog.org: Jerimoth Hill
		The summit of Jerimoth Hill is only a short, unstrenuous walk from Route 101, but in the 1990s it was named "America's most inaccessible high point" by the Highpointers Club, a group of individuals dedicated to standing on the highest point in each of the fifty states.
		Alaskan Highpointers Robert Thompson and Melvin Strauch achieved the top of the hill without incident, but on returning to their car, they were confronted by a father and son, neighbors of Richardson, who forced the two at gun point to lie face down on the ground.
		Jerimoth Hill is named for Jerimoth Brown, a fellow who owned the hill and much of the surrounding land in the late 1800s.
	www.quahog.org /attractions/index.php?id=69 (1525 words)

	King of the Hill
		No, if you want a true climbing adventure, you need to head to Jerimoth Hill in Rhode Island, the pride of the Foster township near the Connecticut border.
		With an elevation topping off at 812 feet, Jerimoth may seem like, well, a walk in the park, but if you try to tackle it, you'll discover that while endurance may not be an issue, ingenuity certainly is.
		In fact, Rhode Islanders will tell you, tongue in cheek, that the Johnston landfill beats out any hill in the state when it comes to height, and while I don't get a glimpse of this man-made pile as I motor into Johnston, the air is pungent, reeking of refuse.
	www.middlebury.edu /administration/middmag/archive/2005/summer/road (599 words)

	RI: Jerimoth Hill
		The Highpointers Club has worked out these open access dates with the property owner whose land sits on the most obvious access from the road to the true highpoint (which is actually owned by Brown University).
		A few pictures and we walked back, meeting more highpointers along the way (there were some 103 people who came to see Jerimoth Hill on this day).
		Back at the road I took some pictures of the "No Trespassing" signs warning highpointers not to access the true high point, but to be content with the sign by the road.
	mcfarren.info /adam/outdoor/highpoints/ri.shtml (223 words)

	Rhode Island Highpoint
		Jerimoth Hill would seemingly be an easy target at 812 feet, but the actual highpoint is on private property.
		Accordingly, the Highpointers Club has arranged several open access dates with the the property owners each year so they are not bothered with highpointers on their property year round.
		We planned a trip to New England to coincide with one of the open access dates for Jerimoth Hill in 2003.
	www.dennypayne.com /highpoints/ri.html (154 words)

	jerimoth.com: FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This product is named after Jerimoth Hill, the highest point (812') in the smallest state (Rhode Island, of course).
		Because Jerimoth Hill is on private property, access is a bit difficult and it's currently only open to the public four days each year.
		I "climbed" Jerimoth Hill at 5pm on October 8, 2000, the last access date of that year.
	jerimoth.com /faq.html (295 words)

	Class Quilt Paragraphs
		Jerimoth Hill is located in Foster, which is in the northwestern part of Rhode Island.
		Jerimoth Hill, the highest point in Rhode Island, is 812 feet above sea level.
		The flying horse carousel in Watch Hill, RI, is the oldest flying horse carousel in America.
	www.chariho.k12.ri.us /ric/msposato/spoquiltparagraphs.html (1905 words)

	Blog - ONE VERY SMALL STEP FOR MAN - Rhode Island - ExploreNewEngland.com
		I'd gotten all bundled up for our big hike to Jerimoth Hill in Foster, the highest point in Rhode Island at a whopping 812 feet.
		As it turned out the road that brings you to Jerimoth Hill elevates to 807 feet so that from the parking area to the highest point is only a five foot incline.
		As we drove away from Jerimoth Hill feeling somewhat gypped, I couldn't help but notice the Connecticut hills looming in the distance, mocking us as if to say "Connecticut may be more boring than Rhode Island, but at least we've got real hills."
	www.explorenewengland.com /travel/explorene/rhodeisland/blog/2005/12/one_very_small.html (180 words)

	Connecticut county highpoints - www.surgent.net
		I arrived at the Burley Hill area around 11:30 and drove up to the towers that were atop a smaller sub-peak, and parked.
		The drive to Snow Hill passes through a scenic drive (and walkway, judging by some benches) through mountain laurel, which was in bloom and made for a very pretty, flowery drive.
		This little band of hills are located in the Meshomasic State Forest near East Hampton, south of Hartford.
	www.public.asu.edu /~surgent/highpoints/states/ct.html (1715 words)

	OnCape: Cape Cod's Destination Guide (October 13, 2005)
		But to hikers hell-bent on conquering the highest point in every state, Jerimoth Hill was one of the toughest summits in the nation.
		Richardson's dedication to keeping people off his land was so ferocious that it prompted the Highpointers Club (www.highpointers.org), a climbing group, to label Jerimoth Hill the nation's least accessible high point - more elusive than dangerous climbs such as 20,320-foot Mount McKinley in Alaska.
		Ross Garofalo, of Manchester, N.H., waited three years before he came to Jerimoth Hill on May 29, one of the few dates of the year that hikers were allowed to use the path to the point.
	www.capecodonline.com /oncape/stories/hiking13.htm (686 words)

	Backpacker.com - Rhode Island: Jerimoth Hill
		McKinley may be tougher, but this unassuming suburban hillock is known as "America's Most Elusive Highpoint." One of 14 that require hikers to cross private land, Jerimoth is jealously guarded by the Richardson family, who are known to use motion sensors to detect nocturnal trespassers.
		For more than 30 years, Henry Richardson, the so-called "madman of Jerimoth Hill," reportedly broke cameras, slashed tires, and fired rock salt at intruders.
		Though Richardson died in 2001, the Providence Journal reported last April that two locals were charged with "threatening, beating, and firing shots" over the heads of two hikers who'd crossed their land at night.
	www.backpacker.com /destinations/highpoints/article/0,8231,7170,00.html (184 words)

	Steven Tursi's highpointing adventures: States' highest point count: 24
		Kyle did a great job renovating the highpoint, but it's still a nondescript hill in Indiana that nobody would ever notice if not for the fact that it happened to be the state's highest point.
		On our way down we saw a woman who must have missed the memo about parking at the end of the driveway; she was parked almost all the way up by the house and had two cameras with her.
		Since I was eaten alive at Timm's Hill, and since I had time to kill at 7:30am when we arrived at the trailhead for Mt. Arvon, I took the time to don a headnet and to coat myself in DEET.
	turzman.com /projects/highpoints (14525 words)

	Highpoints of MA, CT and RI
		Immediately after the MA/CT border marker on the left (a gray, 4-foot stone pillar nearly overgrown by the side of the road) is a small parking lot with an AMC sign.
		Rhode Island's mighty Jerimoth Hill sits on land owned by Brown University on which they have built supports for telescopes and such for astronomical observation.
		At the top of the hill, on the left, is a sandy pull-off marked with large rocks in front of a large cell/radio tower.
	www.georgefisher.com /Personal/Highpoint001.htm (1901 words)

	Who's coming with me? - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jerimoth Hill isn't really a hill at all.
		The men parked their car on the side of the road, and in the middle of the night, decided to bushwhack the 50-foot distance to Jerimoth.
		When they got back to their car, two men emerged from the bushes, fired shotgun blasts into the air, and made the Alaskans wait face-down at gun-point until the cops showed up.
	www.tuftsdaily.com /news/2003/10/14/391004/Whos-Coming.With.Me-1481179.shtml (816 words)

	Targo Tennisberg - Highpointing - Jerimoth Hill, Rhode Island - Pictures and Instructions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the same time they could be asking $20/person from every visitor, and make good money from the 1000+ people that come there every year.
		We visited Jerimoth Hill on an open access day, September 5th, 2004.
		There were about a dozen other highpointers by the summit, and we chatted with some who had been at the convention in Washington state earlier this year.
	www.targotennisberg.org /highpoints/rhode_island (274 words)

	Rhode Island news \| projo.com \| The Providence Journal \| Local News
		New owners in control of the path to the state's highest point, Jerimoth Hill in Foster, have expanded access to what has been called the most elusive state high point in the country.
		Alaska's Mount McKinley, at 20,320 feet, is the highest high point, and the hardest to climb, too, according to a 2001 interview with Henri Butler, a native of Glocester and the first person from Rhode Island on record to climb all 50 state high points.
		Hikers planning to scale Jerimoth Hill should carry enough supplies and survival gear to last, at minimum, four minutes for a round-trip hike.
	www.projo.com /news/content/projo_20050818_hill18.18399d17.html (770 words)

	Mount (ME), Mount Washington (NH), Mount Mansfield (VT), Mount Marcy (NY), Ebright Azimuth (DE), High Point (NJ), Mount ...
		The highpoint of Rhode Island, 812' Jerimoth Hill, lies on private property, and as such it has become somewhat of a cause celebre.
		If, however, it's not possible to make the "climb" on one of those few days, the Club has deemed that just parking on the highway next to the Jerimoth Hill sign counts as an official ascent-and that was what we intended to do.
		From Jerimoth Hill we drove wearily back to the Harborside Hyatt in Boston, where at 10:30 p.m., after quick showers, we inhaled delicious Maine lobster dinners in the hotel's bayside restaurant.
	angeles.sierraclub.org /sps/archives/sps01504.htm (2339 words)

	#16(and a half) - Jerimoth Hill, RI
		#16(and a half) - Jerimoth Hill, RI A statue coup near the top of Rhode Island.
		On the way back to New York from Mt. Washington, we stopped at Jerimoth Hill, the highest point in Rhode Island.
		The guidebook said there's not much to it, just a walk of about 100 yards or so from the road.
	www.angelfire.com /mb/birkett/hpri.html (213 words)

	Adirondack Forum - Jerimoth Hill Rhode Island
		A dirt path that gains 25 feet in elevation and dead-ends after a 3 minute stroll at a smooth rock overlooking two sheds.
		Though Richardson died in 2001, the Prividence Journal reported last April that two locals were charged with "threatening, beating, and firing shots" over the heads of two hikers who'd crossed their land at night.
		There is an interesteing article in Backpacker magazine that reads:........last April that two locals were charged with "threatening, beating, and firing shots" over the heads of two hikers who'd crossed their land at night.
	www.adkforum.com /printthread.php?t=611 (320 words)

	The Most Difficult Highpoint (Hooked on the Outdoors 2003 Apr (Vol. 5, No. 1)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since 1999, more than 1,100 people have walked up Jerimoth Hill on the open dates, but getting volunteers—especially on holiday weekends—who ensure that summiteers respect private property isn’t all that easy.
		Some hikers have continued to be belligerent, vandalizing private land and declaring that access to the highpoint is their right.
		Still, the club is trying to diffuse the situation, negotiating for an easement that keeps hikers out of the backyards and spruces up this small, but logistically tough to conquer, highpoint.
	www.ruhooked.com /artman/article_526.shtml (316 words)

	BAM: Comets Now and Then, Under the Elms, April 1996
		With comet Hyakutake loitering in plain sight of Earth, and with the moon in a total eclipse on April 3, many Brown heads have been pointing upward in recent weeks.
		On March 23 a party of students and amateur astronomers climbed Jerimoth Hill in western Rhode Island and got "one of the most astronomical sights any of us have ever seen," according to Associate Dean of the College David Targan, who was a member of the group.
		Two days after the trek to Jerimoth Hill, Targan and friends drove to New Hampshire and climbed Mount Monadnock for an unobstructed, dark-sky view.
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=598 (259 words)

	Ed Brimberg's Highpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On October 6, 2001 at 12:30pm Ed Brimberg, Mano Malayanur and Mike Gingerich hiked to the peak of Jerimoth Hill, Rhode Island.
		This was the first leg of a two highpoint trip to RI and MA.
		As part of this trip we flew from BWI to Providence, RI and then drove to RI and MA highpoints.
	members.cox.net /brimpics1/RI (126 words)

	Views From The Top - Forums - Seeking Jerimoth Hill hikers
		The Associated Press bureau in Rhode Island is working on a story about the new owners of Jerimoth Hill and the new unfettered access to this high point of Rhode Island
		He has "hosted" the access days on Jerimoth Hill for years.
		As for my experience on Jerimoth Hill, it was #8 (of 31 so far) for me and I completed it on October 7, 2001 (Columbus Day).
	www.viewsfromthetop.com /forums/showthread.php?p=91628 (921 words)

	Highpointing: The Ultimate All-American Adventure (Hooked on the Outdoors July 25, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From the bucolic Britton Hill in northwest Florida (345 ft., the lowest highpoint) to the imposing Mount McKinley in Alaska (20,306 ft., the highest point in the US as well as North America), highpointing is a journey most take over a course of years.
		Jerimoth Hill (812 ft.) in Rhode Island is among the lowest high points but one the most difficult to achieve, courtesy of a landowner who confronts trespassers on his property with threats of violence (he has been known to occasionally lay waste to bewildered hikers’ cameras).
		The Highpoints Club has recently worked with the landowners to set up access days where aspiring highpointers can visit Jerimoth Hill without having to wear camouflage and sneak in under the dark of the new moon.
	www.hookedontheoutdoors.com /artman/article_597.shtml (1508 words)

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