surgent - Oct 19, 2006 8:23 pm Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2000
In 2000
Back when the landowners were real nasty about visitors. Went on an 'open date'.
mattdalman - Oct 16, 2006 9:55 am Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2006
Trail
This was our 5th highpoint of our NE road trip. This is a beautiful part of the country.
Brian Kalet - Oct 10, 2006 9:10 pm Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006
Access Road
#7.
osatrik - Aug 15, 2006 6:35 am Date Climbed: Nov 28, 1986
Before Red Tape
My daughter and I visited this during our highpoints quest in the mid 1980s -- it was ungated and unmarked back then, and there was not enough interest in highpoints to cause the access problems that came in the 1990s with increasing highpoint tourism! This was our 15th of my 49 state high points.
woodstrider - Aug 8, 2006 5:44 pm Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006
Can We Call This A Climb?
I know, I know...it gets old.
I visited this lovely spot on a rainy day. A big thank you to the Mosely's for the sweet trail to the big rock. I really liked that Great Laurel at the start.
royswkr - Jul 5, 2006 10:28 pm Date Climbed: Dec 19, 1985
Bushwhack in from W
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RyanS - May 29, 2006 8:29 am Date Climbed: May 28, 2006
Highpointers Club path
Before heading to the airport to return home, my wife and I picked up one last New England highpoint.
chilkoot - May 23, 2006 2:24 am Date Climbed: Nov 7, 1998
Tough peak
My first attempt on 3/26/95 was aborted when we were threatened by the previous landowner. I only found out later about the issues with access to the highpoint. Returned in '98 and followed a route across adjacent land.
Route Climbed: Path Date Climbed: September 3, 2000 (1st time)
Been there several times; first one being the Labor Day open access date in 2000. Got my 6th highpoint with my daughter (her first). Been back there several times since, including bringing my son to his first highpoint - at about 3 months old!
Route Climbed: Drove right up Date Climbed: September 24, 2005
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. Until 3 months ago (July 2005), however, the access to the spot from Rt 101 was across a very short strip of private land and only Brown University had the legal right to use it.
The owner -- a 70-year-old, flamboyantly-gay music teacher to some of the small children in the neighborhood -- was reputed to have frequently driven off innocent Highpointers at gunpoint. The story is told of a Boy Scout troop and its leaders being forced to lie face down in the dirt for 45 minutes waiting to be arrested for trespassing by the bemused local Ocean State constabulary.
This past July, however, to the delight of Highpointers the world over, the property was sold to Jeff and Debbie Mosley who have an entirely different view of things. With the help of the now-recovered Boy Scouts and the Highpointers Club the Mosley's have built a little stone pathway from the highway to the sainted highpoint of the great state of Rhode Island.
On September 24, 2005 when I showed up, I was met by Jeff Mosley who was fantastically solicitous. The RI highpoint ain't much, but meeting and talking to Jeff Mosley made the trip well worth while.
One of the things Jeff told me was that Rhode Island has a pair of nesting Bald Eagles on a little island or such in the Scituate Reservoir, just off Rt 116. He said that there often were people standing on a platform with telescopes, as well there might be for such a sight, but I drove around the entire reservoir and could see neither hide nor hair of eagles or oglers. The National Wildlife Magazine confirms this phenomenon but gives no information about how to locate the birds. If anyone knows something about this, I'd love to hear from them.
Directions to Jerimoth Hill, RI
Take I-395 in Connecticut to exit 93 (101, Dayville, E. Killingly)
Take Rt 101 East 5.4 miles:
Past/over two little lakes
Ascend Jerimoth Hill
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.
Park here.
Across the street is the "trailhead", a white stone path marked with a prominent Highpoint sign.
Route Climbed: walked up the path Date Climbed: August 28, 2005
Since it is now accessable on weekends, decided to drive there, and check it out. Sure enough the gate was open. (9am) So I just walked to the end of the path, where there is a small sign in the grass to the right, left by highpointers club. Nobody came out and said anything. Took some pictures, and left.
I am the first one to post for the May 30th Open Access Date, which, at that time (4pm), had gotten about 100 visitors. We drove down there after climbing Mt. Washington that morning, and Mt. Greylock on Saturday. Jerimoth Hill is a cute little spot, behind somebody's house, who doesn't like visitors. I have always found the Rhode Islanders I have come in contact with to be hostile. When doing research for work, I had to communicate with Rhode Island government officials, and they always gave me a hard time and were reluctant to help. State officials from other states had always been friendly and happy to help, even when under deadline. Screw you Rhode Island!
Route Climbed: Access Road Date Climbed: 2/15/2004
An epic winter summit of Jerimoth Hill. Weather was around 20 degrees, the access road from Route 101, to about 50 feet toward the highest point, was very smooth ice.
surgent - Oct 19, 2006 8:23 pm Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2000
In 2000Back when the landowners were real nasty about visitors. Went on an 'open date'.
mattdalman - Oct 16, 2006 9:55 am Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2006
TrailThis was our 5th highpoint of our NE road trip. This is a beautiful part of the country.
Brian Kalet - Oct 10, 2006 9:10 pm Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006
Access Road#7.
osatrik - Aug 15, 2006 6:35 am Date Climbed: Nov 28, 1986
Before Red TapeMy daughter and I visited this during our highpoints quest in the mid 1980s -- it was ungated and unmarked back then, and there was not enough interest in highpoints to cause the access problems that came in the 1990s with increasing highpoint tourism! This was our 15th of my 49 state high points.
woodstrider - Aug 8, 2006 5:44 pm Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006
Can We Call This A Climb?I know, I know...it gets old.
I visited this lovely spot on a rainy day. A big thank you to the Mosely's for the sweet trail to the big rock. I really liked that Great Laurel at the start.
royswkr - Jul 5, 2006 10:28 pm Date Climbed: Dec 19, 1985
Bushwhack in from W.
RyanS - May 29, 2006 8:29 am Date Climbed: May 28, 2006
Highpointers Club pathBefore heading to the airport to return home, my wife and I picked up one last New England highpoint.
chilkoot - May 23, 2006 2:24 am Date Climbed: Nov 7, 1998
Tough peakMy first attempt on 3/26/95 was aborted when we were threatened by the previous landowner. I only found out later about the issues with access to the highpoint. Returned in '98 and followed a route across adjacent land.
koz - Jan 2, 2006 11:00 pm
Route Climbed: Path Date Climbed: September 3, 2000 (1st time)Been there several times; first one being the Labor Day open access date in 2000. Got my 6th highpoint with my daughter (her first). Been back there several times since, including bringing my son to his first highpoint - at about 3 months old!
grfiv - Sep 24, 2005 9:57 pm
Route Climbed: Drove right up Date Climbed: September 24, 2005Rhode 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. Until 3 months ago (July 2005), however, the access to the spot from Rt 101 was across a very short strip of private land and only Brown University had the legal right to use it.
The owner -- a 70-year-old, flamboyantly-gay music teacher to some of the small children in the neighborhood -- was reputed to have frequently driven off innocent Highpointers at gunpoint. The story is told of a Boy Scout troop and its leaders being forced to lie face down in the dirt for 45 minutes waiting to be arrested for trespassing by the bemused local Ocean State constabulary.
This past July, however, to the delight of Highpointers the world over, the property was sold to Jeff and Debbie Mosley who have an entirely different view of things. With the help of the now-recovered Boy Scouts and the Highpointers Club the Mosley's have built a little stone pathway from the highway to the sainted highpoint of the great state of Rhode Island.
On September 24, 2005 when I showed up, I was met by Jeff Mosley who was fantastically solicitous. The RI highpoint ain't much, but meeting and talking to Jeff Mosley made the trip well worth while.
One of the things Jeff told me was that Rhode Island has a pair of nesting Bald Eagles on a little island or such in the Scituate Reservoir, just off Rt 116. He said that there often were people standing on a platform with telescopes, as well there might be for such a sight, but I drove around the entire reservoir and could see neither hide nor hair of eagles or oglers. The National Wildlife Magazine confirms this phenomenon but gives no information about how to locate the birds. If anyone knows something about this, I'd love to hear from them.
Directions to Jerimoth Hill, RI
Take I-395 in Connecticut to exit 93 (101, Dayville, E. Killingly)
Take Rt 101 East 5.4 miles:
Past/over two little lakes
Ascend Jerimoth Hill
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.
Park here.
Across the street is the "trailhead", a white stone path marked with a prominent Highpoint sign.
George Fisher
TLP - Aug 29, 2005 9:11 am
Route Climbed: walked up the path Date Climbed: August 28, 2005Since it is now accessable on weekends, decided to drive there, and check it out. Sure enough the gate was open. (9am) So I just walked to the end of the path, where there is a small sign in the grass to the right, left by highpointers club. Nobody came out and said anything. Took some pictures, and left.
Peter Creedon - Aug 5, 2005 9:20 pm
Date Climbed: 7/4/05All I can say, is that the landowners here, are too anal about their property. They threatened to call the state troopers on me and my friends.
climber46 - Jul 19, 2005 10:06 pm
Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2002Visited this state highpoint when I happened to be travelling in the area anyway.
Steve Gruhn - Jan 30, 2005 5:39 pm
Date Climbed: November 9, 2001Hiked circuitous route to avoid the property of a landowner who didn't wish to grant access.
whiteheat - Nov 13, 2004 7:57 pm
Route Climbed: Access Road Date Climbed: 11/13/04Had a nice little road trip to Jerimoth Hill. Several inches of snow on the ground,
hgrapid - May 31, 2004 1:36 pm
Route Climbed: Route 101 Date Climbed: 5/30/04I am the first one to post for the May 30th Open Access Date, which, at that time (4pm), had gotten about 100 visitors. We drove down there after climbing Mt. Washington that morning, and Mt. Greylock on Saturday. Jerimoth Hill is a cute little spot, behind somebody's house, who doesn't like visitors. I have always found the Rhode Islanders I have come in contact with to be hostile. When doing research for work, I had to communicate with Rhode Island government officials, and they always gave me a hard time and were reluctant to help. State officials from other states had always been friendly and happy to help, even when under deadline. Screw you Rhode Island!
optigon11 - Feb 23, 2004 9:50 am
Route Climbed: Access Road Date Climbed: 2/15/2004An epic winter summit of Jerimoth Hill. Weather was around 20 degrees, the access road from Route 101, to about 50 feet toward the highest point, was very smooth ice.