After nearly missing the start of the trail a few times, we were finally headed to the highpoint of Rhode Island. (Jerimoth Hill, RI Photos)

First off…isn’t it crazy how life gets busy and next thing you know, you are a year behind on your blog posts?!?

Ever have one of those days where you want to accomplish something, but don’t really know how much you will take down?  That was our day of highpointing Rhode Island and Massachusetts.  At one point, I had the grand plan of adding Connecticut to that list, but thanks to sleeping in, not so good recognition skills, and spotty C-Spire service, stop No. 3 had to be skipped.  Oh well, the other two stops were still pretty good.

When you think of Jerimoth Hill, you don’t think of danger.  Nope, you save that for places like Denali or Mt. Rainier.  I mean, what could be dangerous about Jerimoth Hill?  Getting hit by a car while crossing the street?  Well, back in the day, getting shot was up on the list.  You see, Jerimoth Hill was on privately owned land, which has since been transferred, but before that transfer, folks had been threatened with being shot for attempting to reach the highest point of the Ocean State.

On this day, however, Ben and I did not have to overcome gunshots.  No, we had to overcome me driving past the trail about five times. The trail is just inside the Rhode Island state line when traveling from Connecticut.  Because of my amazing ability to not be able to recognize the parking area across the street from the trail, we crossed the Rhode Island/Connecticut state line on multiple occasions (Something about this trip and missing highpoints….).

I finally decided to stop at a local gas station and ask for help.  The cashier said he knew the highpoint was around, but he had never been.  I actually started to get worried that we were never going to figure this thing out, which is really quite ridiculous given there is a sign that lets you know you are close by.

The parking area is across the street from this sign if you are coming in from Connecticut.

There is not a whole lot to Jerimoth Hill.  It is a short walk in a nicely wooded area.  The highpoint area itself is interesting with all sorts of decorations.  For us, it was a milestone highpoint.  After reaching the top of Rhode Island, Ben and I had reached 20 highpoints, giving us 40% of the goal.  We sat around at the top of the state for a bit and talked about the highpoints we had hit along the way and which ones he remembered.  From there, it was back to the car and onward back to Massachusetts and Mt. Greylock.