State Park Highpoints -
a partial listing of highpoints
in large state parks
and interesting highpoints
in other state parks

There was a partial federal government shutdown in October 2013, including all national parks. State parks suddenly became more interesting - and I challenged people to locate their highpoints. David Olson organized the resulting data and performed his own research. There results this web page that I created to display what was learned. - Adam Helman

Fixes, improvements and additions can be sent to the webmaster.
Thus Mihai Giurgiulescu provided several California entries.

STATE PARK1 HIGHPOINT ELEVATION
    (FEET)		 WGS84 COORDINATES
          and CHART
Alabama Cheaha Cheaha Mtn       2,406   (33.4854° N, 85.8086° W)
De Soto Lookout Mountain - 3 areas       1,780+   (34.5061° N, 85.6368° W)
Monte Sano Monte Sano Mtn       1,640+   (34.7412° N, 86.5077° W)
Oak Mountain Oak Mountain       1,271   (33.35197° N, 86.69554° W)
Alaska Chugach Bashful Peak       8,005   (61.3074° N, 148.8700° W)
Denali unnamed       5,386   (62.9368° N, 150.1005° W)
unnamed       5,300+   (62.9556° N, 150.0677° W)
Arizona Lyman Lake unnamed       6,140+   (34.3651° N, 109.3753° W)
Picacho Peak Picacho Peak       3,374   (32.6355° N, 111.4011° W)
Arkansas Devils Den unnamed       1,800+   (35.7934° N, 94.2570° W)
Mount Magazine Signal Hill on
Magazine Mountain		       2,753   (35.1672° N, 93.6447° W)
Mount Nebo Spring Mtn       1,800+   (35.2133° N, 93.3264° W)
California Andrew Molera northeast corner       3,240+   (36.29713° N, 121.79661° W)
Anza-Borrego Desert Combs Peak       6,193   (33.3945° N, 116.6056° W)
Big Basin Redwoods Eagle Rock area 1       2,488   (37.14745° N, 122.19517° W)
area 2       2,480+   (37.14687° N, 122.19517° W)
Calaveras Big Trees unnamed       5,600+   (38.26154° N, 120.21422° W)
Castle Crags unnamed ridge       3,660+   (41.15587° N, 122.2669° W)
Castle Rock Castle Rock       3,214   (37.22838° N, 122.09608° W)
Cuyamaca Rancho Cuyamaca Peak       6,512   (32.9467° N, 116.6064° W)
D.L. Bliss liner       7,657   (38.97147° N, 120.10686° W)
Emerald Bay northwest corner       7,160+/-   (38.95827° N, 120.11109° W)
Forest of Nisene Marks Santa Rosalia Mountain       2,600+   (37.0716° N, 121.8555° W)
Fremont Peak Fremont Peak       3,174   (36.75714° N, 121.50401° W)
Henry Cowell Redwoods unnamed slope       2,600-   (37.10113° N, 122.14093° W)
Henry Willard Coe unnamed       3,600+   (37.3113° N, 121.4038° W)
Humboldt Redwoods Grasshopper Mountain       3,379   (40.3065° N, 123.9778° W)
Jedediah Smith Redwoods unnamed       1,320+   (41.7598° N, 124.0767° W)
Julia Pfeiffer Burns northeast corner       2,880+/-   (36.18104° N, 121.65574° W)
Malibu Creek Saddle Peak East       2,825+   (34.078252° N, 118.65532° W)
McArthur-Burney Falls southwest corner       3,035   (41.00084° N, 121.64546° W)
Montaña de Oro liner on east perimeter       1,680+   (35.24892° N, 120.81209° W)
Mount Diablo Mount Diablo       3,849   (37.8816° N, 121.9140° W)
Mount San Jacinto San Jacinto Peak       10,839   (33.81474° N, 116.67945° W)
Mount Tamalpais Mount Tamalpais       2,571   (37.9290° N, 122.5777° W)
Palomar Mountain Boucher Hill       5,438   (33.3350° N, 116.9194° W)
Pfeiffer Big Sur liner       2,680+   (36.23455° N, 121.73895° W)
Placerita Canyon unnamed       2,274   (34.37534° N, 118.41906° W)
Plumas-Eureka Eureka Peak       7,447   (39.7473° N, 120.7214° W)
Point Mugu Tri Peaks       3,000+   (34.12218° N, 118.95019° W)
Portola unnamed ridge       1,920+   (37.26476° N, 122.16504° W)
Providence Mountains SRA Edgar Peak       7,165   (34.95552° N, 115.53635° W)
Red Rock Canyon Opal Benchmark       3,601   (35.42570° N, 117.96017° W)
Saddleback Butte Saddleback Butte       3,651   (34.67607° N, 117.79829° W)
Sugarloaf Ridge Bald Mountain       2,736   (38.45730° N, 122.50940° W)
Topanga Temescal Peak       2,126   (34.10227° N, 118.55376° W)
Wilder Ranch unnamed slope       920+   (37.00282° N, 122.09239° W)
Colorado Golden Gate Canyon Tremont Mountain       10,388   (39.8664° N, 105.4367° W)
Florida Myakka River unnamed         45+   (27.2364° N, 82.1776° W)
Hawaii Kahana Valley Pu'uka'aumakua       2,661   (21.5012° N, 157.8979° W)
Illinois Pere Marquette unnamed       900+   (38.9868° N, 90.5033° W)
Pyramid reclaimed strip mine       486   (38.0249° N, 89.4008° W)
      480+   (38.0094° N, 89.4229° W)
Indiana Brown County Weed Patch Hill       1,050+   (39.1668° N, 86.2168° W)
Chain O'Lakes "many"       980+   (41.3352° N, 85.3521° W)
Iowa Pilot Knob Pilot Knob       1,450+   (43.2526° N, 93.5529° W)
Maine Baxter Katahdin       5,268   (45.9044° N, 68.9228° W)
Camden Hills Mount Megunticook       1,385   (44.2410° N, 69.0675° W)
Grafton Notch Old Speck Mtn       4,160+   (44.5708° N, 70.9534° W)
Maryland Dans Mountain unnamed       2,600+   (39.55096° N, 78.94992° W)
Michigan Porcupine Mtns Wilderness Summit Peak       1,952   (46.7473° N, 89.7714° W)
Tahquemenon Falls "several"       830+   (44.5648° N, 85.2430° W)
      830+   (46.5939° N, 85.2550° W)
Minnesota Frontenac four areas       1,100+   (44.5391° N, 92.3578° W)
Itasca two unnamed       1,820+   (47.2070° N, 95.2962° W)
Mille Lacs Kathio unnamed       1,370+   (46.1347° N, 93.7386° W)
Saint Croix unnamed       1,010+   (46.0246° N, 92.4498° W)
Savanna Portage two unnamed       1,400+   (46.8414° N, 93.1685° W)
Missouri Johnson Shut-Ins unnamed       1,240-   (37.5379° N, 90.8320° W)
Sam A Baker Mudlick Mountain       1,313   (37.2618° N, 90.5246° W)
Montana Bannack unnamed       7,140-   (45.1413° N, 112.9852° W)
Lewis and Clark Caverns unnamed       5,896   (45.8374° N, 111.8794° W)
Lost Creek on north boundary       7,280+   (46.2156° N, 113.0090° W)
on southwest boundary       7,280+   (46.2050° N, 113.0049° W)
Nevada Berlin-Ichthyosaur southeast boundary       7,920   (38.8725° N, 117.5766° W)
Valley of Fire unnamed       3,891   (36.4157° N, 114.5810° W)
New Hampshire Bear Brook Hall Mountain       941   (43.0929° N, 71.3546° W)
Cardigan Mountain Mount Cardigan       3,155   (43.6494° N, 71.9144° W)
Miller Pack Monadnock Mtn       2,280+   (42.8623° N, 71.8787° W)
Monadnock Monadnock Mtn slope       2,874   (42.8602° N, 72.1013° W)
Mount Kearsarge
State Forest Park		 Mount Kearsarge       2,920+   (43.3830° N, 71.8573° W)
Mount Washington Mount Washington       6,288   (44.2703° N, 71.3031° W)
Pawtuckaway Mount Pawtuckaway       980+   (43.1204° N, 71.1972° W)
Pillsbury Lovells BM       2,460+   (43.2036° N, 72.0609° W)
Sunapee "Summit" on
Sunapee Mtn		       2,726   (43.3139° N, 72.0742° W)
New Jersey Highpoint High Point       1,803   (41.3208° N, 74.6614° W)
Island Beach unnamed dune         30+   (39.7689° N, 74.1004° W)
Wawayanda 6 Passaic coHPs       1,480+   (41.1394° N, 74.3937° W)
New York Allegany unnamed       2,360+   (41.9990° N, 78.7421° W)
Bear Mountain Bear Mountain       1,284+   (41.3125° N, 74.0059° W)
Bethpage unnamed         160+   (40.7553° N, 73.4405° W)
Blauvelt unnamed         600+   (41.0822° N, 73.9303° W)
Harriman Hogencamp Mtn       1,383   (41.2410° N, 74.1343° W)
Hither Hills two areas         200+   (41.0291° N, 71.9817° W)
one area         200+   (41.0322° N, 71.9767° W)
Hudson Highlands Bull Hill       1,420   (41.4383° N, 73.9559° W)
Jones Beach unnamed         10+   (40.5940° N, 73.5415° W)
Letchworth unnamed at
southwest end		       1,400+   (42.5707° N, 78.0579° W)
Schunemunk Schunemunk Mtn       1,664   (41.3917° N, 74.1164° W)
Storm King Storm King Mtn       1,340+   (41.4326° N, 73.9946° W)
unnamed       1,340+   (41.4133° N, 73.9905° W)
Taconic Brace Mountain       2,311   (42.0442° N, 73.4926° W)
Tallman Mtn two unnamed areas         200+   (41.0220° N, 73.9088° W)
North Carolina Crowders Mountain King BM on
The Pinnacle		       1,690   (35.2077° N, 81.3126° W)
Dismal Swamp unknown         22-  
Elk Knob benchmark Trout
on The Peak		       5,160+   (36.4033° N, 81.6437° W)
Grandfather Mountain Calloway Peak       5,946   (36.1115° N, 81.8114° W)
Hanging Rock Moores Knob       2,579   (36.3982° N, 80.2829° W)
Jockeys Ridge unnamed on
sand dunes 		      138-   (35.9601° N, 75.6338° W)
Morrow Mountain Morrow Mountain       900+   (35.3523° N, 80.0929° W)
Mount Mitchell Mount Mitchell       6,684   (35.7648° N, 82.2651° W)
South Mountains Benn Knob       2,894   (35.5652° N, 81.6603° W)
Oklahoma Black Mesa Black Mesa2       4,973   (36.9318° N, 102.9978° W)
Oklahoma northwest corner2       4,467   (36.8569° N, 102.8850° W)
Great Plains unnamed       1,904   (34.7386° N, 98.9979° W)
Quartz Mountain King Mountain       2,411   (34.8710° N, 99.2938° W)
Oregon Saddle Mountain Saddle Mountain       3,283   (45.9689° N, 123.6854° W)
Pennsylvania Blue Knob Blue Knob       3,120+   (40.2888° N, 78.5625° W)
Cook Forest area 1       1,640+   (41.3856° N, 79.2485° W)
area 2       1,640+   (41.3803° N, 79.2559° W)
French Creek Williams Hill       1,020+   (40.2018° N, 75.8122° W)
Hickory Run unnamed       2,000+   (41.0558° N, 75.6316° W)
northeast corner       2,000+   (41.0580° N, 75.6275° W)
Presque Isle many       580+   (42.1607° N, 80.1112° W)
Raccoon Creek area 1       1,300+   (40.5315° N, 80.4851° W)
area 2       1,300+   (40.5346° N, 80.4814° W)
area 3       1,300+   (40.5338° N, 80.4682° W)
area 4       1,300+   (40.5295° N, 80.4716° W)
Ricketts Glen Cherry Ridge
Luzerne coHP		       2,460+   (41.3614° N, 76.2712° W)
Ryerson Station unnamed       1,440+   (39.8754° N, 80.4523° W)
South Dakota Custer Mount Coolidge       6,023   (43.7447° N, 103.4814° W)
Little Devils Tower       6,960+   (43.8519° N, 103.5392° W)
Tennessee Cedars of Lebanon unnamed       760+   (36.0792° N, 86.3212° W)
Fall Creek Falls Bradden Knob       2,020+   (35.6694° N, 85.3063° W)
Montgomery Bell Bell Benchmark       860+   (36.0645° N, 87.2824° W)
Nathan Bedford Forest Pilot Knob       660+   (36.0886° N, 87.9739° W)
area 2       660+   (36.1131° N, 87.9656° W)
area 3       660+   (36.1212° N, 87.9618° W)
Natchez Trace Maple Creek
Lookout Tower		       700+   (35.8553° N, 88.2379° W)
T. O. Fuller at Indian Town       330+   (35.0631° N, 90.1309° W)
Texas Big Bend Ranch Fresno Peak       5,080+   (29.4271° N, 103.8371° W)
Franklin Mountains North Franklin Mtn       7,192   (31.9029° N, 106.4936° W)
Hueco Tanks unnamed       4,900+   (31.9123° N, 106.0463° W)
Palo Duro in Mesquite Park       3,480+   (34.9197° N, 101.6537° W)
unnamed       3,480+   (34.9640° N, 101.6493° W)
Utah Dead Horse Point area 1       6,080+   (38.5335° N, 109.7314° W)
area 2       6,080+   (38.5403° N, 109.7239° W)
Goblin valley Wild Horse Butte       5,760   (38.57860° N, 110.72021° W)
Virginia Douthat liner on west perimeter       3,160+/-   (37.89552° N, 79.83765° W)
Fairy Stone unnamed       1,548   (36.7792° N, 80.0734° W)
areas 2 and 3       1,540+   (36.7783° N, 80.0969° W)
Washington Blake Island two areas       213+   (47.5374° N, 122.4955° W)
Mount Pilchuk Mount Pilchuk       5,340+   (48.05788° N, 121.79679° W)
Mount Spokane Mount Spokane       5889   (47.92356° N, 117.11217° W)
West Virginia Cacapon west corner       2,400+   (39.46192° N, 78.35020° W)
Holly River liner       2,920+   (38.6593° N, 80.2706° W)
area 2       2,920+   (38.66399° N, 80.26628° W)
area 3       2,920+   (38.66748° N, 80.26864° W)
Watoga southeast corner       3,320+   (38.07347° N, 80.08824° W)
Wisconsin Blue Mounds Blue Mounds       1,719   (43.0281° N, 89.8526° W)
Newport two unnamed       680+   (45.25187° N, 86.9984° W)
Peninsula unnamed       770+   (45.1602° N, 87.1979° W)
Perrot Eagle Bluff       1,180+   (44.0112° N, 91.4514° W)
Potawatomi unnamed       730+   (44.8747° N, 87.4276° W)
Rib Mountain Rib Mountain       1,924   (44.9207° N, 89.6949° W)

1 "SRA" denotes "State Recreation Area".

2 The Oklahoma highpoint (4,973 feet) is in a small section of Black Mesa State Park
  distanced from the main area with a 4,467 foot liner at its northwest corner.

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