Mt. Driskill, Louisiana

If you really want adventure, go try to find Driskill Mountain without first consulting a highpoint guide for directions! This is what we did, and it took a few hours to track it down. We were all around it, asking the locals for directions, and each one gave directions with confidence. Most were wrong. It also seemed like most were a little wary to even talk to us at first. Part of the crew even gave up and headed home before we finally located the trailhead.



Finally a guy on a tractor directed us to a church, saying that the trail began past a tower behind the church. From the tower to the gate that marks the beginning of the trailhead is about 2-300 yards. You could drive a truck as far as the gate, but most cars or large touring motorcycles wouldn’t bode well on the rutted dirt road.
Note that Craig was able to negotiate the road on his BMW motorcycle.

In this photo, Tucker and Craig are in front of the gate where the trail starts. If you look closely, you can see the “TRAIL” sign to the left of the trail, just to the right of the gatepost.
. A closeup of the trail follows.


At a fork in the trial another sign points the correct route to the right.
Although rated an “easy” trial, Driskill is actually more strenuous than say, Mt. Mitchell N.C. the hightest mountain East of the Mississippi, and over 10 times higher than Driskill, which is a mere “bump” at just over 500 feet. The difference is, you drive almost all the way up on Mitchell, whereas Driskill actually gets a little steep for about a quarter of a mile. See Craig and Tucker “struggling” up the hill……



Here's a shot of Tucker and I at the peak. There is a rock pile with a sign, a logbook, and a post with the elevation marked at 535 feet.



Also of interest is a handwritten monument stating: “Jack Longacre, FOUNDER, HIGHPOINTERS CLUB SCATTERED HIS ASHES ON DRISKILL MOUNTAIN, MAY 22, 2003”





It would be nice if we could put together a nice plaque for him on this peak to honor his contributions to highpointing …