The highest and lowest natural elevation in each of the 50 states
From the East to the West, the North and the South...
What’s the highest natural elevation in your state? What’s the lowest?
While the United States’ topography provides plenty to marvel at across the map, it’s not uncommon for people to take a proverbial swing and miss when answering those perplexing geographical questions:
A mountain? Some hill, a body of water, a hole, what?
So, let’s take care of this earthly enigma on a little e-hike through the hills, mountains, sea-level dwellings and below, across the U.S.
Alabama
Cheaha Mountain: 2,413 feet.
Gulf of Mexico: Sea level.
Alaska
Denali: 20,310 feet.
Pacific Ocean: Sea level.
Arizona
Humphreys Peak: 12,633 feet.
Colorado River: 70 feet.
Arkansas
Signal Hill: 2,753 feet.
Ouachita River: 55 feet.
California
Mount Whitney: 14,505 feet.
Death Valley: -282 feet.
Colorado
Mount Elbert: 14,433 feet.
Arikaree River: 3,315 feet.
Connecticut
Mount Frissell: 2,380 feet.
Long Island Sound: Sea level.
Delaware
Ebright Azimuth: 447.85 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Florida
Britton Hill: 345 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Georgia
Brasstown Bald: 4,784 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Hawaii
Mauna Kea: 13,803 feet.
Pacific Ocean: Sea level.
Idaho
Borah Peak: 12,662 feet.
Snake River: 710 feet.
Illinois
Charles Mound: 1,235 feet.
Mississippi River: 279 feet.
Indiana
Hoosier Hill: 1,257 feet.
Ohio River: 320 feet.
Iowa
Hawkeye Point: 1,670 feet.
Mississippi River: 480 feet.
Kansas
Mount Sunflower: 4,039 feet.
Verdigris River: 679 feet.
Kentucky
Black Mountain: 4,145 feet.
Mississippi River: 257 feet.
Louisiana
Driskill Mountain: 535 feet (and only a little over five miles from the location where Bonnie and Clyde met their demise).
New Orleans: -8 feet.
Maine
Mount Katahdin: 5,268 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Maryland
Hoye-Crest: 3,360 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Massachusetts
Mount Greylock: 3,491 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Michigan
Mount Arvon: 1,979 feet.
Lake Erie: 571 feet.
Minnesota
Eagle Mountain: 2,301 feet.
Lake Superior: 601 feet.
Mississippi
Woodall Mountain: 806 feet.
Gulf of Mexico: Sea level.
Missouri
Taum Sauk Mountain: 1,772 feet.
Saint Francis River: 230 feet.
Montana
Granite Peak: 12,807 feet.
Kootenai River: 1,800 feet.
Nebraska
Panorama Point: 5,429 feet.
Missouri River: 840 feet.
Nevada
Boundary Peak: 13,147 feet.
Colorado River: 479 feet.
New Hampshire
Mount Washington: 6,288 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
New Jersey
High Point: 1.804 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
New Mexico
Wheeler Peak: 13,159 feet.
Red Bluff Reservoir: 2,842 feet.
New York
Mount Marcy: 5,344 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
North Carolina
Mount Mitchell: 6,684 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
North Dakota
White Butte: 3,507 feet.
Red River of the North: 750 feet.
Ohio
Campbell Hill: 1,549 feet.
Ohio River: 455 feet.
Oklahoma
Black Mesa: 4,973 feet.
Little River: 289 feet.
Oregon
Mount Hood: 11,249 feet.
Pacific Ocean: Sea level.
Pennsylvania
Mount Davis: 3,213 feet.
Delaware River: Sea level.
Rhode Island
Jerimoth Hill: 812 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
South Carolina
Sassafras Mountain: 3,563 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
South Dakota
Black Elk Peak: 7,242.
Big Stone Lake: 966 feet.
Tennessee
Clingmans Dome: 6,643.
Mississippi River: 178 feet.
Texas
Guadalupe Peak: 8,749.
Gulf of Mexico: Sea level.
Utah
Kings Peak: 13,528 feet.
Beaverdam Wash: 2,000 feet.
Vermont
Mount Mansfield: 4,393 feet.
Lake Champlain: 95 feet.
Virginia
Mount Rogers: 5,729 feet.
Atlantic Ocean: Sea level.
Washington
Mount Rainier: 14,411 feet.
Pacific Ocean: Sea level.
West Virginia
Spruce Knob: 4,863 feet.
Potomac River: 240 feet.
Wisconsin
Timm’s Hill: 1,951 feet.
Lake Michigan: 579 feet.
Wyoming
Gannett Peak: 13,804 feet.
Belle Fourche River: 3,099 feet.
