Marky wrote:how many of the places I have been to, would I have been able to get at as easily without the roads.
That can be said for your home, too.
One peak that is great to stand on and get away from it all is Frenchmans Cap.
You can see a track leading from North Col down towards the Irenabyss, you can see a trig point, you can see Tahune Hut (if you want to go that close to the edge), and you can see Lake Burbury - they are the only manmade objects my eye can detect from this summit. And may it stay that way.
I think I can recall, possibly, a lighthouse somewhere on the western horizon too, a white dot so insignificant that it doesn't count. Or I might be thinking of another summit.
But, for the Western Arthurs, it is a truly magnificent formation - and I've only been as far as Cygnus and a bit.