Bucks County High Point Trip Report

Date: March 10, 2000
Author: Michael Schwartz

2 areas where county line crosses Flint Hill (970+ ft)

For the eastern area: From PA 212 north of Pleasant Valley, take Peppermint Valley Road 1.8 miles northwest to Richlandtown Pike. Right (north) on Richlandtown Pike for 0.1 miles to left turn onto Flint Hill Road. Go 0.5 miles to stone monument at roadside marking the Bucks-Lehigh County line. Park.

County line, with 970+' contour to the SE, runs through thick woods between pipeline right-of-way and Flint Hill Road. Ground slopes up toward point close to monument.

For the western area: Backtrack to intersection of Richlandtown and Peppermint Valley Roads, as the road shown on the topo ascending Flint Hill from the Flint Hill Road-Forest Drive junction does not exist northwest of the county line. Take Richlandtown Road south one block to a right turn onto Nemeth Road. Follow Nemeth about 0.7 miles to a pair of county line monuments bracketing the road. The county line and the 970+' contour run southwest and toward a private home. The highest ground is very close by.

Haycock Mountain (960+ ft)

From the junction of PA 412 and 563, go west 1.1 miles on 563 to right turn onto Top Rock Road. Go 0.6 miles to PA state parking lot on the left. No signs for Haycock Mountain. Take gravel road uphill, which becomes a trail after about 1/4 mile. There are cut trees everywhere, which tend to obscure the trail. Trees are marked with blue, red, yellow, and white, none of which are blazes. If you lose the trail, keep working uphill from side to side -- the trail is there. After reaching the top of the logged area, start to pick up some actual white blazes on rocks, which soon become blue blazes, making trail finding easier. The blue blazes go right to the summit area, a field of huge boulders. Rock hoppers will enjoy climbing the half dozen boulders that are candidates for the summit. The largest is split by a four-foot wide cleft with a large chockstone wedged in between. Use this cleft as a chimney for a climb to the top. A boulder on slightly higher ground is probably the summit. Next to it, on a smaller boulder, are two bench marks a foot apart.