I visited the New Jersey state highpoint while on a longer trip mostly concentrated around Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. The New Jersey highpoint, called "High Point", is located near its northwesternmost corner, near the city of Port Jervis, New York. I had been on the road for a couple days bagging peaks, hills and tree-piles all over Pennsylvania. It was late in the afternoon and I was now getting sort of near the Jersey highpoint, so it was now on my agenda. Getting there involved a bit of adventure: some guys were cutting traffic by driving on the right shoulder, and nearly hitting people - the usual yahoo crap. So I saluted them, letting them know they're number 1 to me - knuckle first. Well, that got them ticked off at me and when traffic opened up a bit we played some cat and mouse, them passing me and cutting me off, and me - well, maybe I did the same to them. This went on for about 10 minutes and at some point they turned off into some parking lot, and that was that. I followed US-209 out of Buskhill up the PA/NJ boundary, which is slow two-lane, made slower by RVs. In all, getting to Port Jervis was a mini-ordeal.

From Port Jervis, I immediately entered New Jersey on Route NJ-23 for about 4 miles to the High Point State Park. New Jersey should be commended for creating such a nice park for its highpoint. However, today the weather was rainy and foggy, and the 220-foot monument on its summit was closed for repairs. The only upside was that I didn't have to pay any entry fee. I just drove up to the top, parked in the dense fog, walked the 200 feet or so to the "summit", and made my way to the rocky top, just outside of the fencing and construction being done on the monument. No one else was there when I was there. I didn't stay long. I stopped for a meal at the Dairy Queen in Port Jervis, then re-entered Pennsylvania via Interstate-84 to Scranton, then down the Turnpike to Philadelphia, where I stayed the night in Essington, a suburb of Philly. This set me up for a quicky visit to the mighty Delaware highpoint the next day.