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Adam Roddy
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Alan Ritter 6/20/99
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Scott Surrgent 5/23/98
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Adam Roddy
http://www.adamroddy.com/

Alan Ritter 6/20/99
http://www.climber.org/Feature/central6/

Scott Surrgent 5/23/98
http://www.surgent.net/highpoints/

I scaled Hoosier High Point, the Highpoint of Indiana at 1,257 feet, on Thursday afternoon, October 16th, 2003. It was my 10th state highpoint.

I left my home in Algonquin, IL at 10:15AM Central Time and arrived at Hoosier High Point at 5:00PM Eastern Time. It was a typical fall day, cloudy and 55 degrees. I enjoyed the scenic drive north on SR 227. There was little traffic and the rolling hills gave it a “roller coaster” feel. It was obvious from the gouges in the pavement that some fun loving, possibly intoxicated, individuals had gone airborne as they drove over some of these hills. The area in general was very nice and the houses and yards were particularly well kept.

The Hoosier High Point itself was not well kept and in fact was run down and in a state of disrepair. The steps on the highpoint side of the stile were broken. The two benches were severely damaged and there was no HP marker sign on the 4 x 4 protruding from the cairn. I also could not find a sign in book. It appears that this highpoint has been visited by vandals but the damage did not appear to be recent. It makes me angry to see this kind of senseless damage but overall I enjoyed my solitary visit to Hoosier High Point.

It started raining shortly after I left Hoosier High Point. I continued north on SR 227 to Union City and then east on SR 47 toward Bellefontaine, OH and Campbell Hill, Ohio’s highpoint.

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As I've mentioned here before, I've gotten into highpointing lately. This
is visiting the highest points of all the states (although something tells
me I'm never going to climb Mt. McKinley...)

Anyway, on Sat. June 12 I decided to knock out Indiana's highpoint, which is
north of Richmond.

My route up was I-275 to I-75 to I-70 to IN 227 to county roads.

The progress of the new 75/70 interchange north of Dayton is really cool to
see. Giant concrete supports where a ramp will go...

This was only my second time on I-70 between the Dayton Airport and Richmond
(the other was about 10 years ago).

This part of I-70 has a LOT of trucks on it. There is also a lot of car
traffic, and the road really needs to be three lanes.

A little before the Indiana line there's a rest area - and it has a large
truck parking lot! I've never seen this in Ohio, except for the turnpike.
Please ODOT, rebuilt other rest areas with this!

The Blue Arc over I-70 at the Ohio/Indiana line appears to be Ohio's. It is
inside of Ohio and only has Ohio-related signs on it.

I went north on IN 227 for maybe 10 miles or so, and then turned on a few
county roads. I had fairly good directions to the high point but missed it
and turned around. A local driver pulled up alongside and asked me if I was
looking for the highpoint. I said yes, and he pointed it out to me.

I parked alongside the road and walked along the grassy edge of a field for
100 feet or so, and then walked through the woods for maybe 15 feet. There
was a clearing, a pile of rocks, two benches broken by vandals, and a
structure to help you cross a barbed wire fence (no longer needed since
someone had cut the fence)

Definitely the lamest high point I've been to so far, and not nearly as cool
and Indiana's 2nd highest point - Weed Patch Hill in Brown County State
Park.

I took IN 227 back to I-70, but took US 35 through Eaton and into Dayton. A
fair amount of traffic on this part of 35, but not enough to require
widening or anything like that. Dayton's electric bus lines make it as far
as the western end of the US 35 expressway (they don't go on the expressway,
they appear to follow old US 35 or whatever it's called). This is also the
point at which signs of suburbia first appear (the western part of
Montgomery County was definitely rural)

Although many maps show the US 35 expressway that is west of I-75 as a full
freeway, it does have at least one stoplight (more I think). There are no
business entrances or driveways or anything, though.

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-Pete Jenior - Cincinnati, Ohio
-Civil Engineering Major
Georgia Tech (downtown Atlanta)
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1st Highpoint! Check out my trip report and pictures at:
http://shelleypotts.com/AboutMe/HighPoints/IN.html

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Shelley Potts
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http://shelleypotts.com/AboutMe/HighPoints/IN.php

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Came up from Lexington on our way back to WI on our long road trip (3500 miles total in 6 days). Kinda wandered around the country since the road names were all different or something like that. Maybe we were just tired. Anyway, we found it and Ben climbed over the thing to get over the fence while Justin walked around it where the fence had been cut. Snapped the picture and rolled back home. Great trip. Got 9 points in on our trip which made 10 total for us. We're pretty optimistic and will probably plan a trip through the northeast to bag a whole bunch.

I visited Hoosier Hill on March 31, 2006. Here's the link for the trip report: Hoosier Hill Trip Report.

A fine day, Indiana route 227 is a nice country drive. The summit was well maintaned, very small, but gave off positive energy.

last night. First one we arrived at in the dark.