- Highpoints Films – The Northeast film is complete and ready for distribution
- 50 states – Bench Project
- 50 states – Custom Sponsored Benches
- Arkansas – Signal Hill – Added a kiosk, 2 benches, a trailhead registration box, and a new sign
- California – Mount Whitney – Added 2 benches at the Whitney Portal TH and in Lone Pine
- Colorado – Bradford Washburn Museum – Created new State Highpointing exhibit
- Connecticut – Mount Frissell – Added summit signs and registers
- District of Columbia – Point Reno – Created new benchmark
- Florida – Britton Hill – Added 2 benches and an info kiosk
- Georgia – Brasstown Bald – Added 2 benches, an info kiosk, and refurbished historical signs
- Idaho – Mount Borah – Added an Ammo Box register
- Indiana – Hoosier Highpoint – Added new signs
- Iowa – Hawkeye Point – Major renovation, purchased campground acreage, 3 benches, signs
- Louisiana – Driskill Mountain – Added a new sign, 2 benches, and safety signs
- Maryland – Backbone Mountain – Added new signs, a bench, and a picnic table
- Michigan – Mount Arvon – Added new signs, mailbox register, and 2 benches
- Minnesota – Eagle Mountain – Summit plaque renovation, 9/11 Fifty Flags Poster to USFS
- Mississippi – Woodall Mountain – New signs, summit boulder, plaque, bench, and register
- Missouri – Taum Sauk Mountain – Added new signs and bench at the Jakk Longacre Glade
- Montana – Granite Peak – Added ammo box summit register
- Nebraska – Panorama Point – Added a bench, new signs, funded access road improvements
- Nevada – Boundary Peak – Added registers at 3 trailheads
- New Hampshire – Mount Washington – Added a register indoors
- New Jersey – High Point – Added a sponsored bench
- North Dakota – White Butte – Added a summit register, signs, and an iron ranger donation receptacle
- Ohio – Campbell Hill – Added a sponsored bench
- Oklahoma – Black Mesa – Added a granite bench in memory of Jean Trousdale
- Pennsylvania – Mount Davis – Added a sponsored bench
- Rhode Island – Jerimoth Hill – Added new signs, register, and trailwork
- South Carolina – Sassafras Mountain – Added a summit plaque and a bench
- South Dakota – Black Elk Peak – Funded summit tower restoration work, and 2 stone benches
- Texas – Guadalupe Peak – Added a bench at the visitor center and ammo box summit register
- Utah – Kings Peak – 9/11 50 Flags Poster to the USFS, added TH bench, and new wood signs
- Virginia – Mount Rogers – Added a bench just inside the VA State Park border
- Wisconsin – Timms Hill – Added mailbox register, trail maps, info kiosk, signs, and bench
- Summary – The current HPF projects progress report
- Future Projects – AZ, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, IN, KS, ND, NE, NH, OH, OK, SC, SD, TX
- Submit your project idea!
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2015 - Amount of financial assistance: $12,500 with a commitment of $40,000 for the remaining three regions in the coming year.
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The Highpointers Foundation is committed to funding films on state highpoints and Highpointing,
beginning with the Northeast Region, a film that was completed in 2016.
The films will be featured in the Golden, Colorado BWAMM film room,
and be made available at no cost to educational institutions for geography and other suitable classes.
The Foundation is also helping to raise money for a feature length film on Highpointing called American Highpoints by Every Step Productions.
It is the first film dedicated to the highpointing passion and strives to answer the question Why Highpointing? |
The Highpointers Foundation is funding a series of Highpointing films in the major US regions.
EveryStep Productions is producing four films.
The first film about the Northeast Region is complete, and you can view it on Vimeo.
To watch the movie, click the photo or link below.
Highpointing - A New Way to Discover America
The Northeast Region
To watch the movie, click the photo or link above.
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Approaching Wyoming’s highest,
13,804-foot Gannett Peak.
Photo by HPF Director Fallon Rowe |
Maine’s highest, 5,268-foot Mount Katahdin.
Photo by David Dunham |
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Why Highpointing?
Highpointers Trailer from
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A windy photo op on New Hampshire’s highest peak,
the famous 6,288-foot Mount Washington.
On April 12, 1934, a wind speed of 231 MPH was recorded at Mount Washington’s summit.
This was the world record for a long time,
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Gary Scurka with his daughter Mackenzie
at Florida’s highpoint monument.
Photo by Kathleen Wolfe |
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The Highpoints Bench Project
2010 –> 2019 - Amount of financial assistance: $30,000 so far |
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The Highpointers Foundation has committed to purchasing two dozen modern benches made from recycled plastic.
Built with a black steel frame and pleasant earth-tone tan colored planks, these environmentally friendly
benches are being placed at highpoints all over America for weary visitors to stop, pause, and admire the
vista. Strategically placed to maximize viewing and resting, these benches can be seen in numerous highpoint
locales. The benches are each six feet long, and made by Kirby-built of New Berlin, WI, one of Americas leading
providers of environmentally friendly trailhead equipment. Visitors may see some kiosks, info boards, signposts,
and other items soon, all made by Kirby-built.
Thirty benches are currently installed as of summer 2018, with 3 more planned in 2019. |
The Bench Project offers opportunities for visible cooperation between the Foundation and managers/owners of the various state highpoints.
It also provides an awareness to the public that maintaining and improving state highpoints is a
continuing effort and process in which everyone can participate.
Donors are needed to help make this project a reality.
A custom plaque will be created identifying major sponsors, and imbedded in the backrest of the bench.
Please consider sponsoring a bench at your favorite highpoint! |
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| Custom Sponsored Benches |
We need donors to help make our Bench Project a reality. If you sponsor a bench,
a custom plaque will be created identifying you, and imbedded in the backrest of the bench.
Please consider sponsoring a bench at your favorite highpoint! |
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Contest!
- Who will become the first to be titled World’s Greatest HPF Bench Sitter ???
- Rules of the game are simple:
Sit on benches that the Foundation has placed at or near state highpoints.
Tell the Highpointing World about it via Facebook or Instagram.
We reserve the right to install more benches during the contest.
Click here for more details.
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Summary
Amount of financial assistance to date for all 50 states plus DC: Over $170,000
The Highpointers Foundation has raised over $275,000, and has invested more than $170,000 at 36 US state highpoints,
the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum in Golden, Colorado, and for the USA-wide program of Highpoints movies.
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Future projects
Possible future projects to assist privately and publicly owned state highpoints are being considered at:
AL, AZ, CO, CT, DE, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, ND at TH, ND at summit, NE, OK, TX, and WA.
- Alabama – Cheaha Mountain – Trail to the summit from Cheaha Lake to the southwest
- Arizona – Mount Humphreys – A fully funded bench at new TH parking lot
- Colorado – Mount Elbert – Trail reconstruction on the north side from the Halfmoon/Mount Massive Trailhead
- Connecticut – Mount Frissell – A fully funded bench, info kiosk, and crushed rock at parking area
- Delaware – Ebright Azimuth – Signs along approach streets to replace those vandalized
- Idaho – Mount Borah – A fully funded bench at the trailhead
- Illinois – Charles Mound – Open dates information sign, bench
- Indiana – Hoosier Highpoint – New signs, kiosk, table, bench, and trail
- Kansas – Mount Sunflower – New signs, kiosk, and replacement US flag
- Kentucky – Black Mountain – Access road improvements, summit monument repairs
- Nebraska – Panorama Point – More road maintenance including around the HP plus a HP info sign
Small arrows along the roads leading to the HP from I-80
- North Dakota – White Butte – Trail work, approach road, signs, benches
- Oklahoma – Black Mesa – Adding crushed rock for the parking area at the TH
- Pennsylvania – Mount Davis – Kiosk, signs, historical plaque
- South Dakota – Black Elk Peak – Restoration efforts, additional interpretive signs
- Texas – Guadalupe Peak – Trail signs on the path to the summit
- Washington – Mount Rainier – Backpackers hanging scale at start of trail by ranger and guide service buildings
The Highpointers Foundation Board of Directors always welcomes ideas for other projects at state highpoints.
Submit your project idea!
List of the US State Summits
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