I will be traveling to Ohio in October. What is status on weekend visitors to Campbell Hill? Jumping fence?

Also anybody done Mt Porte Crayon in WVA? Difficulty (thickness, blowdowns, vegitation type)? Time to bushwhack? (As some may know,I can move rather fast on and off trail.)I plan to camp on the plains.

From my web site:

So this highpoint is located at a vocational school called the Hi Point Career Center, and there was some concern as to access. The author of the highpointers coffee table book, Joel Glickman, wrote under the heading for the Ohio entry as "highpointing Monday to Friday." There is a fence surrounding the center and a gate at the vehicular entrance, which is locked on weekends. If you're coming on a weekend, you're supposed to call ahead and ask them to leave the gate unlocked. When I called at 3:10pm on Friday, they had already left for the long weekend. In my research, however, I had read about a pedestrian gate that was not locked somewhere else on the campus. So I was prepared to walk around the perimeter of the place looking for this gate. When I arrived, I found that the main gate was locked. It turns out that this pedestrian gate is about 100 feet to the left of the vehicle gate. It's hard to make out in this photo, but the open pedestrian gate is on the left and the vehicular gate is on the right. It didn't look as though the pedestrian gate had been locked in a while.

source:
http://turzman.com/projects/highpoints/#OH

(This was at the crack of dawn on July 2, 2005.)

Physical access is easy, I not 100% certain about permission.

My wife and our granddaughter went by there a week ago on our way home from the Konvention. The auto gate is still there and was open when we went through so I didn't look too close. It appeared that the sections of fence had been removed from either side of the brick posts holding up the gate. In other words there may not be access for a car but there probably doesn't have to be any fence climbing.

Could you say if I saw right after you get back from there?

Thanks!

Campbell Hill remains the only highpoint I've not summited on the first attempt. Or, for that matter, the third.

My first trip there, as a fledgling highpointer, was with my father. We did no research, encountered the fence, and decided to try another time.

The second time, I called ahead for weekend access. Got in.

The third time (an impromptu trip with my mother), we arrived late evening on a weekday (it was still quite light out). The gate was locked, nobody was around.

In any case, I'd call just to make sure the gate will be open when you arrive. One way or the other.

Access issues, such as Ohio on the weekend, are dissussed in the Hot Spots section in the Annual Directory.