Greensville County Highpoint Trip Report

Date: June 1, 2006
Author: Michael Schwartz

northern area - northwest of Callaville (320+ ft)

Used Don Derosiers' approach directions. The gate at the dirt road where Don parked looks like it was struck by a heavy vehicle, uprooted, and left alongside the road. We were able to drive up the rough road in a sedan all the way to "the road from the northeast" described by Don and shown on the topo. From there, almost directly opposite the junction, a fairly open two-track woods road heads almost due west, drops down and then rises toward a crest. It would seem to be the track shown on the topo, as it hits the highpoint contour in the right spot but it begins much closer to the road junction than shown on the topo. Very near the county line (before you reach the crest -- and take a GPS device to make life easy), a better road heads almost due north (right), practically on the county line. From this point, the little sliver of the contour to the south is all lower. We walked the road north until the GPS verified we had left the contour. Highest ground is where one might expect -- at the center bulge of the contour and very close to the road, about 200 feet north of the road junction.

southern two areas on state line east of Greensville-Brunswick County line (320+ ft)

Use Don's directions, noting that Summit "Road" is actually Summit Trail. The eastern area is pretty straightforward. Ignore the contour further east that is in NC and just barely touches the state line. For the western area, where the road turns sharply right toward the eastern area, park at the gated road shown on the topo that heads west-northwest. That road descends almost immediately and soon leaves the contour. We walked south from it back into the western bulge of the area but the rise was minimal. Finally, we bushwhacked north into the larger eastern bulge of the contour and found a nice little knob a few feet higher than anything else around. Visit that knob and the eastern area to best cover the southern areas.