Luzerne County High Point Trip Report
Cherry Ridge (2,460+ ft)
Date: April 29, 2000
Author: Michael Schwartz
Take PA 487 north 4.4 miles from the Sullivan/Luzerne County line to a large "Welcome to Pennsylvania
Game Lands" sign. Turn into the gravel road, signed 200 feet in as Mountain Springs Road. Go 1.9
miles to Opperman Pass. The dirt road on the left leads to one of the two Wyoming County high points.
Drive 200 feet further to a pullout on the right. A faint trail begins to the left of a rusty metal apparatus
standing just off the roadway. The trail is blazed with faded orange and white blazes, and becomes very
obscure in several places, but can be followed all the way to a junction with the "old railroad grade" shown
on the topo. Turn right at the junction, and note the faint blazes and an arrow on a beech tree to facilitate
finding the junction on the return. The grade still has a corduroy texture from the removed ties, and is
double-blazed orange over yellow. The grade parallels Cherry Ridge to the north and descends slightly.
As it approaches the face of the northern spur of Cherry Ridge, leave the trail and bushwhack uphill to the
ridge crest. There is quite a bit of blow-down on top, and the bushwhack to the summit goes slowly.
Fortunately the blow-down is oriented parallel to the route of travel. I went to the south end of the ridge
to ensure having covered the highest ground.