A photo story

Panorama Point, Nebraska

I stood at the stone marker at Panorama Point, the high point of Nebraska, in October 2023. The monument reads Elevation 5424, The Highest Point in Nebraska, and it was erected by the Kimball Nebraska Chamber of Commerce. A metal rail runs around it, and dry grass stretches out to the horizon under a clear sky. It was early afternoon, around 78, with a breeze around 17 miles an hour. The day before I had been on Mount Elbert, about a five and a half hour drive west.

Panorama Point sits on the high plains in Kimball County, a few hundred yards from the Colorado and Wyoming tripoint, at about 5,429 feet. You get there on a gravel ranch road, and the marker is right there in the grass. I took a selfie at the stone, and that was Nebraska's high point, one of the lower 48. The next day I was at Mount Sunflower, about a six hour drive southeast.

I was alone for this one. It was a solo trip, so the photos are just the marker and one selfie with the stone, with dry grass running off in every direction under the clear sky.

I also stopped at the visitor center and got a certificate for the high point. That made Nebraska one more state checked off on the run between Mount Elbert the day before and Mount Sunflower the next day.