"Just a few miles from the famous Falling Water, there's another Frank Lloyd Wright house called Kentuck Knob. (Apparently the original and ambitious white settler in the 1700s was hoping to get all the way to Kentucky). The house sits at the top of the low mountain which shares its name, and it belongs to some aged Englishman named Lord Palumbo. He never comes here anymore, but the house is still filled with his belongings: books, photos, wooden duck decoys--apparently this is his American hunting lodge. It's a private home, but open for tours, and the only way to get to the top of the mountain is to buy a ticket and ride a bus up from the gatehouse. Which is to say, I didn't exactly "summit" this peak. However, I gave myself credit for "climbing" Kentuck Knob because my daughter and I did walk back down from the top. You have to take the bus up, but you are allowed to follow the downhill trail back down to the gate...through Lord Palumbo's sculpture gardens. It's an interesting walk which includes a piece of the Berlin Wall. This one's more for architecture enthusiasts than mountain climbers. But it meets my minimum criteria of 2,000 feet, and it's worth a visit in you're in the ..." — briansnyder • May 6, 2023