Bradford County High Point Trip Report

one area 1 1/2 miles southeast of Lawtey (220+ ft)

Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Michael Schwartz

First a note about speed traps. This area of US 301, especially the towns of Lawtey, Waldo, and Starke, has been infamous for many years as one of the last of the old style speed traps. The area is loaded with police, and they will cite drivers for exceeding the speed limit by even miniscule amounts. I saw drivers pulled over during my visit, and a local trucker verified that the enforcement is as strict as ever. Watch it!

I used a slightly different approach than that reported by Fred Lobdell in October 1999. From US 301 in Lawtey, I also took CR 225 (Lake Street, at the Exxon Station) east and southeast, but turned left (east) onto NE 216 Street after 1.3 miles. Went 0.3 mile to a dead end at the left of the entrance into the Lawtey P.D. firing range. I parked off the road and walked straight ahead past a single-cable "gate". This quickly led to what I suspect is the "good-quality" dirt road described by Fred. I then used my GPS to guide a walk through the open pine woods to the southern, middle, and northern portions of the liner highpoint area.

From parking, GPS indicated the southernmost point of the liner to be 0.22 mile away, bearing 078 degrees. The only marking I found was a square of concrete, protruding a couple of inches, marked by two white poles. That was within a few feet of the northernmost point of the liner area, where the 220-foot contour intersects the county line.