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Britton Hill, 345 feet above sea level, in north Walton County. It is the lowest state high point in the country.
It is in Lakewood Park, 2759 North County Highway 285, DeFuniak Springs, which has three nature trails: the yellow trail takes about 45 minutes, the blue about an hour and the red about an hour and a half.
Population 82,948. Typical home sale price $709,498 in the three months ending June 2026; typical condo $562,500 in May 2026. Median household income $81,986; 20.1% of residents are 65 or older. (Source: Redfin; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, published January 2026)
Open the county guide →The long one is the Florida National Scenic Trail, about 1,500 miles from Big Cypress National Preserve in the south to Gulf Islands National Seashore at the western end of the Panhandle.
Read the answer →Florida covers 65,758 square miles, 22nd among the 50 states: 53,625 square miles of land and 12,133 of water.
Read the answer →In Key West. The painted concrete buoy the City of Key West put up in 1983 at the corner of South and Whitehead streets marks the spot, 90 miles from Cuba.
Any beach on the Gulf coast faces west, so the sun goes down into the water the length of that shore.
The whole Atlantic coast, from Amelia Island down to Key Biscayne. The ones worth setting an alarm for are the undeveloped stretches, where nothing stands between the dune and the horizon.
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