PAXTON A journey to Britton Hill, the highest natural point in Florida, moved one recent visitor to poetry.
“Get lost to get found, Florida’s highest little ground, cows & crickets the only sound, the silence now so loud, time to pavement pound,” an unknown author wrote Jan. 2 in the visitor’s log at Lakewood Park, which stands atop Britton Hill at the north end of Walton County.
Britton Hill, at 345 feet above sea level, is in the unincorporated Lakewood community, just northeast of Paxton and less than five miles south of the Alabama state line.
Florida’s highest point is designated by a monument and signs in the Walton County-owned Lakewood Park at 2756 N. County Road 285, as well as by directional signs, such as one at the CR 285-County Road 147 intersection.