The Blue Mountain Forest Association is required to allow access to the general public at least once a year. I believe that they charge the $50 fee per person to discourage people from making too many requests. But, I felt that the $50 was well worth my visit a couple of years ago, so as organizer of the NH2005 HP Konvention, I encouraged folks to sign up for the trip organized by a county highpointer (there are over 3000 of those points across the U.S.; Croydon is the HP of Sullivan County) for the Friday of Labor Day weekend; 17 people paid their $50. Not only were the wild boar really cool to observe, but the club house contains some incredible photo history, as the preserve was one of the centers where buffalo were bred for re-establishment of the western herds in the early 1900s. The association hardly needs the cash, as it costs over $1 million to join, and the waiting list is many years long, as membership is usually passed down within the 31 families that make up the association, the maximum number allowed. A friend remembers a few years ago that boar commonly escaped, raising havoc in the local gardens of Grantham. My observation hiking up the ridge to the summit fire tower, which is still occupied for six months each year, was churned up soil much like one would see in someone's garden during the spring, which indeed happens each night by these foor-footed rototillers in their search for grubs.