Britton Hill, Florida

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 345 ft / 105 m
Peak Type	Hill
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	30° 59' 5'' N, 86° 16' 57'' W 30.98483, -86.28238 (Dec Deg) 568520 E 3428142 N, Zone 16 (UTM)
This peak has 1 other candidate high point areas: Area Elevation Map Name Map View Main Summit 345 Paxton Monument 341 Paxton
Country	United States
State/Province	Florida (Highest Point)
County/Second Level Region	Walton (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Britton Hill":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Britton Hill at SummitPost.org      Britton Hill at ListsOfJohn.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Walton, FL by Ron Tagliapietra Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Britton Hill:      United States State High Points (plus DC) (Rank #51)      U.S. State High Points (Rank #50)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #247)      Contiguous 48 U.S. State High Points (Rank #48)      United States State/Territory High Points (Rank #56)      Combined USA-Canada-Mexico State/Province High Points (Rank #96)      Southern USA CoHPs (Rank #1047)      Florida County High Points (Rank #1)      Gulf Coast CoHPs (Rank #2)      "Helman Counties"-Greatest Elevation Differential (Rank #50)      EPIC List - States of the USA (Rank #90) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Fifty State Summits, Guide with Maps to State Highpoints (Zumwalt)        Highpoints of the United States: A Guide to the Fifty State Summits (Holmes)        Highpoint Adventures: The Complete Guide to the 50 State Highpoints (Winger) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2006-05-02 by Tom Owen      2007-03-17 by John Gower      2012-05-29 by Alan Barber      2012-08-01 by Danny Holwerda      2012-12-07 by Dave Dunham      2012-12-07 by Dave Dunham      2012-12-07 by Dave Dunham      2012-12-07 by Dave Dunham      2012-12-07 by Dave Dunham      2014-04-04 by Morris Zwick      2014-05-10 by John Griffith      2014-07-17 by David Odenwalder      2015-04-15 by Cory Verner      2015-12-30 by Chris Gilsdorf      2016-02-29 by Dave Covill      2016-06-07 by Bill Peterson      2017-06-08 by Joe Merlone      2018-03-08 by David Gambone      2018-04-09 by Peter Stone      2018-12-10 by Alden Holmes View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (470 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Britton Hill      Elevation Ladder from Britton Hill      Prominence Ladder from Britton Hill

The lowest high point in the 50 U.S. states is in Florida, marked by this roadside monument near the north edge of the Florida panhandle (1991-02-07).
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 65 ft/20 m   Optimistic Prominence: 75 ft/23 m   Key Col: Florala, AL    280 ft/85 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 5.92 mi/9.53 km    Isolation Limit Point: 31.0708, -86.2842 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Coston Hill  (N)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Piedmont-Southeast Coast Range4: Southeast Coast Range5: Florida Panhandle-South Alabama
Drainage Basins	Minor Streams of Southern USA Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Topo Map	Paxton O30086h3 1:24,000
Route #1	Paved Road
Data Source	GPS Reading or LIDAR
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Other Photos

monument marking the Florida state highpoint (2006-05-05). Photo by Tom Owen. Click here for larger-size photo.

Britton Hill or Lakewood Park? (2012-07-07). Photo by Ronald Land. Click here for larger-size photo.

The true Florida highpoint, per LiDAR data (345.8', N 30 59.090' W 86 16.943' WGS84 datum). The ground at the base of the pair of trees a bit left of center in the foreground felt highest (2015-12-30). Photo by Chris Gilsdorf. Click here for larger-size photo.

Stone marker at the top (2016-01-06). Photo by Josh Brooks. Click here for larger-size photo.

Pond near the high point (2016-02-26). Photo by Michael Vecchiarelli. Click here for larger-size photo.

Kelly and I happy to be at (or near) the Florida high point! Thanks to the young USMA grads for the pic (2016-06-07). Photo by Bill Peterson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Britton Hill (2016-10-08). Photo by Shawn Dunn. Click here for larger-size photo.

Getting lost at the summit (2016-12-28). Photo by Kelli Allstot. Click here for larger-size photo.

On Britton Hill in Lakewood Park, Walton County, Florida (2017-11-10). Photo by Kreg Ellzey. Click here for larger-size photo.

HP # 16 (2012-05-13). Photo by Iwan Auderset. Click here for larger-size photo.

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