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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Queens County High Point New York City

Queens High Point and all its glory


This may have been the least amount of effort I have ever done for a high point.  On the way to Long Island, I only had to pull over onto the service road of the Grand Central Parkway, get out of my car and walk a tiny bit, to summit the highest point in Queens.  Looking around, it did have a rise and appeared higher than anywhere else, but for the high rises.  At only 260 feet and how developed Queens is, it amazes me that anybody can figure out what the highest point actually is.

2 comments:

  1. Wow. Where did you find info about county high spots? You might possibly be the only person to have blogged about this spot.

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  2. Probably not. There is a book on the high points of NYS. So I doubt I'm the first to blog about this site.

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