High Point Monument
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The High Point Monument is a monument located at High Point State Park in Sussex County in the Skylands Region of Northwestern New Jersey, built at High Point, located at 1,803 feet above sea level (the highest point in New Jersey, hence the name). The monument offers breathtaking views of farmland and forest, hills and valleys in three states, out to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, where the Delaware River separates the ridges of New Jersey from those of Pennsylvania.
The monument was constructed to honor war veterans, through the generosity of Colonel Anthony R. and Susie Dryden Kuser, who donated the land for the park. Construction began in 1928 and completed in 1930. At the top of the 220-foot structure, observers have a spectacular view of the ridges of the Pocono Mountains toward the west, the Catskill Mountains to the north and the Wallkill River Valley in the southeast. At the top of New Jersey's tallest knob, the Monument is an obelisk monument similar to other war monuments, such as the one located on Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
