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The tall stone High Point Monument in New Jersey with the sun right at its tip, a paved path leading up to it, and blue sky with thin clouds

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High Point, New Jersey

I walked up to the High Point Monument, which marks the highest point in New Jersey, in October 2025. The sun was sitting right at the tip of the obelisk as I came up the paved path, with rocks and trees along the right side and thin clouds across the blue sky.

The monument is in High Point State Park in Sussex County. I climbed the stairs inside to the top, and from the small windows up there I could look out over a lot of green forest and a lake below.

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