After leaving Alabama's Cheaha Mountain, we headed straight across the state to reach Mississippi's Woodall Mountain.

Summit and USGS marker of Woodall Mountain.

The car we had rented didn't have 10th of a mile precision on the trip meter, so we initially missed the right turn off 176. Realizing we'd gone to far, and remembering a series of postings on the HighPointer's Forum about the new house built right at the turn off, we doubled back and quickly found the correct road. You actually have to pull into what appears from the road to be the drive for the new house before you see that the dirt road continues on past the house.

Immediately after making the correct turn we spied a wild turkey running for cover in the bushes. Continuing up the narrow dirt road we were glad no one else was coming down from the summit and needed to get by.

I was ready to expect the worse on Woodall's summit. I recalled that some people thought Woodall was in contention for messiest highpoint (top honors went to Kentucky's Black Mountain). As it turned out, the summit didn't appear to have any more trash than your average trailhead or rest area. However, all that was left of the highpoint memorial sign was the frame.

We actually found a bit of a view from this summit by looking down the cleared utility line path through the trees. With little reason to stick around after bagging our fifth and final highpoint of this trip, we headed on up into Tennessee to visit the Shiloh National Military Park and then spent the night in Jackson before heading home.

View from Woodall Mountain