Clay County High Point Trip Report

Date: December 28, 2001
Author: John Mitchler

This single area HP is on cropland tucked well off the highway, and provides a nice IL cohp'ing experience.

Take Exit 82 off I-70 at Altamont. Turn left (south) on 300th Street and zero the odometer. At mile 9.1 cross the county line where the road becomes CR 28. At mile 12.6 cross I-57. At mile 14 come to IL 37 and turn right to reach Farina after 0.7 mile. In Farina, take Monroe Street, south of the grain bins. Cross the tracks and go several blocks to the southeast side of town. Take a left on blacktop Jennie Haley Drive. Go 4.9 miles to a crest in the ridge, just before the Clay-Marion county line. Go left (northeast) on a field access road. This dirt road winds through a field and weaves among tree lines for 0.5 mile to the highpoint rise.

A survey sign is by a lone tree in the field, but the BM could not be located. A triangulation marker lies uprooted in a nearby clump of brush south of the BM sign, and reads: Holhauzen No. 2 1960, No. 6 1976.