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Ocean smiling in a selfie with sunglasses pushed up on his head, among scrub oaks at the Connecticut high point on the south slope of Mount Frissell, with blue hills behind under a clear sky

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Mount Frissell's south slope, Connecticut's high point

I reached the Connecticut high point in September 2025. It isn't a summit. Connecticut's highest ground is a marked spot on the south slope of Mount Frissell, right on the Massachusetts line, and the true top of Frissell sits on the Massachusetts side. I took this selfie up there, with scrub oaks around me and blue hills running out behind under a clear sky.

Bear Mountain, farther southeast, is the highest summit in Connecticut, but it's lower than this slope point, which makes this one of the odd high points in the lower 48. The marker is set right into the rock in Litchfield County, and I took a second photo of it in the dry leaves.

A small metal marker post set in a disk on gray rock, with dry oak leaves around it, at the Connecticut high point
The marker in the rock at the Connecticut high point.

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