Allegany County High Point Trip Report
Alma Hill (2,548 ft)
Date: August 17, 2000
Author: Michael Schwartz
From the Alma Fire House, go east on county 38 for 0.4 miles to a left at Alma Hill Road. At 4.2 miles
(1/2 mile past the southern area) park opposite a chained track road. This point is about 0.2 miles south
of the starting point mentioned in Bill Schuler's trip report. The track road eliminates virtually all
bushwhacking.
Walk up the road until it turns right at a large boulder near some vertical metal pipes. To the right the
trail leads to the old pumping station, with the USGS BM about 150' WNW of the NW corner of the
building. It's the cap of a vertical pipe near a witness post. In summer the tall ferns here obscure the BM,
but the witness post was visible from a distance. Backtracking to the boulder and metal pipes, the original
track road continues straight ahead (west) to other areas of relatively high ground that merit visiting, as it
is not at all clear that the BM is at the summit.
1 area 7/10 mile south of Alma Hill (2,540+ ft)
Date: October 23, 2000
From the Alma Fire House, go east on county 38 for 0.4 miles to a left at Alma Hill Road. At 3.7 miles,
park at a large microwave tower and walk up a woods road on the west side of the road. The road
deteriorates to a footpath on the summit plateau, leaving a 200' bushwhack to high ground, near a very
large Norway spruce.