The Somerset County highpoints are two regions found along Meadow Bridge Road, a local road set amid farms and patches of forest about 10 miles south of the city of Salisbury. Beth and I had visited the highpoints in Wicomico County about 30 minutes earlier. We had to pass through Salisbury to get to our hotel in Pocomoke City, about another 25 miles south of Salisbury. For sepcific road directions, we followed Mike Schwartz's detailed report from the cohp.org website.

We bypassed Salisbury by following US-13 and eventually exited at the exit closest to our objective. Beth had the maps and was navigating while I drove. We had to keep our eyes open for the quick turns and hidden street signs, but we managed fine and found ourselves along Meadow Bridge Road, which actually sits on the Somerset-Worcester County boundary. Two areas both reach above 15 meters on the map - which is not easy to read and being in meters, not overly detailed either. However, earlier maps put a 53-foot spot elevation at the Zion Cemetary on the southern region. In other words, it's all flat and hard to gauge rises... the usual.

The first area is set off the road a bit and when we arrived, covered in maturing soy plants. A derelict house engulfed by vines and trees sat in the center of the field, as did a cemetary. Mapwise and visually the cemetary and house sat on the top of the rise, which we gauged maybe about 4 feet above the road. We searched for a way in but no roads, not even a farm path, leads into the field to the cemetary (which we surmise is a private family plot and not open to the public). The soy was way too thick to walk through.

We drove another few hundred feet south to the Mt Zion Cemetary, which sits on the east side of the road in Worcester County. However, in this case the road goes through the 15-meter contour. Furthermore we found rises on the Somerset side of then road that seemed natural and a good 2 feet above the road. After some brief exploration we called it good and got out of the humidity back into our vehicle. My hunch is the southern area is higher than the north based on some circumstantial evidence and the information offered by the older map. We could not visit the northern area but we'll come back to this area another time, probably during the winter.

We spent the night at a Days Inn in Pocomoke City. The hotel was way overpriced and really dumpy. Not impressed at all.