Every State’s Highest and Lowest Points, Ranked and Explained
The United States is a country of wild geographic extremes, and a new video from Across the Globe breaks down every single high and low point across all 50 states. From towering alpine summits to salt flats sitting hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, the range is pretty wild.
The video works through all 50 states region by region, pairing each high point with its corresponding low. It’s a surprisingly interesting topic for anyone who loves maps, geography, or just a good collection of facts that make the US feel stranger and more interesting than a typical atlas would suggest.
Some of the standout heights are pretty impressive. Colorado’s lowest point, for example, sits at roughly 3,317 feet above sea level, meaning the bottom of the state is still higher than the tallest peaks in 18 others. Meanwhile California holds both the highest summit in the contiguous US (Mount Whitney at 14,505 feet) and the lowest point in all of North America (Badwater Basin in Death Valley at 282 feet below sea level), both located within the same county.
On the opposite end of the drama scale, Florida’s highest point is Britton Hill at just 345 feet, the lowest high point of any state in the country. And Kansas, long mocked as pancake flat, actually tilts thousands of feet upward from east to west, topping out at Mount Sunflower near the Colorado border.
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