Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 24, 2013

Colorado is the Highest State in the nation, and not just because we legalized recreational marijuana use. But we probably did that from lack of oxygen to the brain.

It’s overrated and a waste of time. Kinda like eating and going to the bathroom.

How many presidents had IQs under 100?

The highest point of Michigan is Mount Arvon (almost 2000 feet) and the low point is the Detroit Lions. Sorry, couldn’t resist!

I think that the highest point in Indiana is one of the buildings in Indianapolis.

@kea: No, Kansas is NOT flat as a pancake. Those “plains” are mostly rolling hills. True, very low hills, their slopes are not steep, but in most of the Kansas that I’ve been in, you can’t see more than 2 or 3 miles, even if you are 20 feet off the ground. You can’t say that about any place in Florida that I’ve seen.

Sometimes the comments are more interesting than the comic.

Grant Wood didn’t paint a FLAT Iowa! There are nice, roundy hills on the east and west sides, just flat farmland in the middle.

happytinkerbelle, that’s true, it’s 1 foot taller than Mt. Curwood, which used the be the tallest, until they did a resurvey in 1982. Arvon..1979 ft…..Mt. Curwood…1978 ft. One foot. So, as an example of how Yoopers have a little time on their hands…..People have started piling up rocks on the top of Mt. Curwood, to make it the highest point in Michigan…All they need is a couple of feet, right?….Wrong. There are other people piling up rocks on Mt. Arvon to keep it the highest..Strangest contest I know….I’m pretty sure it has something ton do with cabin fever…

And after I won the Kurwood Derby, I climbed Mount Dora in Florida. Exhausting afternoon.

Woo hoo! I got ‘em, too, without looking. I knew it had to be a coastal state, and have been through Alabama’s version of mountains.

From the Indianapolis Monthly "Q: What’s the highest point in Indiana? Could it be construed as a mountain?Richard V., Bloomington

A: The honor belongs to Hoosier Hill, which “soars” 1,257 feet above sea level. If you want to attempt an ascent, leave your pitons, oxygen bottles, and North Face climbing gear at home. Though on paper Hoosier Hill’s height sounds fairly impressive, a geographical technicality makes it less so in person. Its location in Wayne County, on the Indiana-Ohio border, already boasts a high (for these parts) elevation. For Hoosier Hill to claim the title of the state’s highest point, all it has to do is poke up just a little bit higher than the surrounding terrain. Which it does. To the tune of about 30 feet.

So while anyone who “summits” the hill (there’s a picnic table where you can recover from the journey) basically feels like they’ve climbed a very modest slope, they are in fact standing 1,257 feet above sea level—about 400 feet taller than Indianapolis’s Chase Tower, the tallest building in the state.

It could be worse. Florida’s highest point, Britton Hill, is only 345 feet tall. Illinois’s is only 1,235 feet. And in Mississippi, the highest point is some dirt pimple called Woodall Mountain that’s barely above sea level at all. Oh, well—what can you expect from a state that’s basically just a big trailer park?" Ouch…

@chassimmons:

Actually, Kansas is FLATTER than a pancake! A recent topological experiment in which they scaled-up a pancake to match Kansas showed the pancake to be extremely convoluted terrain (think of all the bubble holes, etc.).

I guess that makes many other states flatter than a pancake, too!

I’ve been to Illinois several times. It’s really flat there. How come it doesn’t rank?

Make a scale model of the earth one foot in diameter and it will be as smooth as a bearing ball.

I would guess that extreme northwestern Illinois has elevations that exceed 1000 feet. U.S. 20 from Freeport to Galena is very hilly.

Our house is at 4000’.

veloroutes.org says I am at 1607’

Let’s not forget the state of depression.

I used to live in a super low valley, at 4600ish feet. Before that my hubby lived on a tall bluff, it was almost 100 ft above sea level!

Good!

guessing it’s southeast. |I know Florida is one. Guessing Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas?