# Have you been to the highest point in your state? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214 "2014-06-06T18:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/61 "2014-06-14T16:22:31Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Used to go up Clingman’s Dome in East TN, usually after a night of getting wasted, to catch the sunrise. This is what I was going to post, only stone cold sober. 😃 > **[Kuwohi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clingmans_Dome)** > > Kuwohi (Cherokee: ᎫᏩᎯ, also known as Clingmans Dome, its former official name) is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina in the Southeastern United States. > At an elevation of 6,643 feet (2,025 m), it is the highest mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the highest point in the state of Tennessee, and the highest point along the 2,192-mile (3,528 km) Appalachian Trail. It is also the third highest point in eastern mainland North America, after Mou... ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/62 "2014-06-14T16:24:41Z")
I’ve been to the highest point of my home state (Ohio), but [Campbell Hill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_Hill_(Ohio)) (472 m / 1550 ft) isn’t really much to brag about. Just a grassy hill with a vocational school atop it. The highest point where I live now is [Mt. Korenge](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E8%93%AE%E8%8F%AF%E5%B1%B1) which is 2766 m (9074 ft). I haven’t gone all the way to the top yet (just to a nice lake a couple hours from the peak), but I plan to finally get around to it later this year sometime after the snow melts. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/63 "2014-06-14T16:34:46Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > Another Washingtonian here. Haven’t been to the top of Mount Rainier but have made it as high as Sunrise. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/64 "2014-06-15T04:54:21Z")
> [@Elemenopy](#): > > I’m only a few miles from [Hoosier Hill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier_Hill), the highest point in Indiana (not that it’s all that impressive). I’ve also climbed all over the Indiana Dunes hills around Lake Michigan, mostly in my youth, which probably come close. I agree. I live about 75 miles north of Hoosier Hill and you really can’t tell that is a “high point” for the state. Personally I have been to: **Boundary Peak** in Nevada (which sadly is mostly in California) **Mount Arvon** in the UP of Michigan (I have drive by it as the mountain itself is on timber company land) **Charles Mound** in Illinois (Went n a trip to Galena) **Panorama Point** in Nebraska (Got some pics of the buffalo in the area too) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/65 "2014-06-15T15:05:14Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > Oh hell no. I live in Colorado, the land of [Fourteeners](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteener). But I’ve been to [Leadville](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadville,_Colorado) and [Animas Forks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animas_Forks,_Colorado) a couple of times and been over [Vail Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vail_Pass), [Coal Bank Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Bank_Pass), [Molas Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molas_Pass), [Red Mountain Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mountain_Pass_(San_Juan_Mountains)) (on Christmas Day, even!), and [Lizard Head Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Head_Pass). Oh, and I almost forgot [Wolf Creek Pass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Creek_Pass). That’s good enough for me! 😉 As I understand it, Mt. Elbert is a relatively easy climb by Colorado standards, if you’re acclimatized to the thin air. Yes, its peak is 14,440 feet above sea level, but the trailhead is at about 10,000 feet. The vertical rise from the trailhead is only about 4500 feet which only about 10% greater than the vertical rise for Katahdin in Maine whose summit is at a relatively dinky 5269 feet above sea level. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/66 "2014-06-15T22:11:28Z")
Yes, that is true. My daughter, **Queen Bruin** , climbed that one for her first Fourteener peak bag. I’m in no shape to climb even a walk up at altitude. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/67 "2014-06-15T22:17:19Z")
[Peak Bagging](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_bagging) ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/68 "2014-06-15T23:43:13Z")
I haven’t had a chance to get to Mt. Elbert yet. I have, however, driven to the top of Pikes Peak, which is the highest point in my county. (14,110 feet) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/69 "2014-06-17T18:53:46Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Nope, it’s pretty out of the way…but just for a laugh, take a look at [Mount Sunflower!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sunflower#) [Surviving Mt. Sunflower](http://discoverthewest.blogspot.com/2013/06/surviving-mount-sunflower.html) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/70 "2014-06-17T18:55:10Z")
I haven’t been to the highest point of any state. But I’ve been to the[lowest points](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_elevation) in 16 states! ---
**Author:** ![Orionizer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orionizer/32/4442_2.png) [@Orionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orionizer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/71 "2014-06-17T19:49:26Z")
I’ve been to the highest point in North Carolina and the eastern US. [Mt. Mitchell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mitchell) at 6,684ft. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/72 "2014-06-17T20:04:10Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > [Peak Bagging](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_bagging) This is [Highpointing](http://highpointers.org/), not peakbagging. Highpointers don’t really care how you get to the top - driving is OK for highpointing but not for peakbagging for example. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/73 "2014-06-17T20:08:08Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > I can’t say I’ve been precisely at the highest point in Florida, which is [Britton Hill](http://www.summitpost.org/britton-hill/152497), at a whopping 345 feet above sea level, but I’ve been in the general area. Got light-headed because the oxygen is so much lighter up there. 😃 I’ve been meaning to go myself but I am afraid of heights so I really have to psych myself up for it. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214/74 "2014-06-17T21:49:50Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > This is [Highpointing](http://highpointers.org/), not peakbagging. Highpointers don’t really care how you get to the top - driving is OK for highpointing but not for peakbagging for example. Yes, I know. 🙂 Just adding a handy link for those who don’t know the term. The article I lnked to also includes a little about highpointing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-to-the-highest-point-in-your-state/690214.md?page=3)