Of the two Kittson County High Point areas, one is a large 1080' contour area mostly in Roseau and Marshall counties, with the 1082' spot elevation at the tripoint. The other is more like an extension of the first. The land in that area is exceptionally flat. I visited this area on May 28, 2005, after my inital partial completion of Pennington County.
From the intersection of State Highway 1 and U.S. Highway 59 in Thief River Falls (Pennington County),
I drove northnorthwest on U.S. 59 to the intersection with Kittson County Road 9 just south of Karlstad.
I drove east on C.R. 9 to the Kittson-Roseau County Line and turned right on that muddy gravel road.
I drove south on the county line road for 1 mile. From that point, every road I considered taking was Minimum Maintenance. The road straight ahead was very muddy, so I opted to turn onto the eastbound road and park for the night. It rained occasionally.
The next morning, I returned to the intersection and considered going south. I could see that the road was too muddy for my passenger car, so I turned around and drove 1 mile east, then 1 mile south, barely keeping from getting stuck, hoping to drive 1 mile west to the county tripoint and Kittson County High Point. That road, however, was even muddier than the road I had been on, so I returned to the intersection 1 mile north of the high point, parked, and started walking.
From reading Dan Richardson's report, I expected this road to go all the way to the tripoint, even though the topo map did not show it so.
I walked on that muddy road, through puddles and mud. After about a half mile, the road ended, the newly-planted field ending right at the wooded area (shown on the topographical map). The field itself had been planted before the heavy rains began because there were no deep tractor tire tracks.
I continued walking along the woodline until I saw that the ground to the west was not as muddy. I determined that it was therefore the highest and walked that ridgeline to the northwest until it started getting lower and then back southeast to the road intersection (at that point there was a 20-foot long road going north), where the road ditch was swampy.
During that walk, I identified a number of small, subtle field bumps that appeared higher, with the characteristic field hill lighter soil appearance. I suspect that one of these are the true natural highpoint, but, with years of farm implement work, it would be difficult to be sure. The ground here is quite flat.
I then walked northwest again to the second area, really just an extension of the larger one.
The area between the two ridges was a 1-foot deep swamp, not arable.
I walked back along the woodline, then continued north to the intersection where I parked.
I got back to Kittson County Road 9, and turned right, where its name changed to Roseau C.R. 6.
I continued east on C.R. 6 on my way to Marshall County's High Point.
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