Driskill Mountain

At 535 feet this is the highest natural point in Louisiana, and only Florida and Delaware have lower state high points. It is a hill of eroded Paleogene sand, capped by quartz sand of the Cockfield Formation, and a cairn marks the top. Among the fifty state high points it ranks forty-eighth, and the way up is on foot. Jimmie Davis and his band once played on the summit; five years later Davis was governor, and the song they played became the state song.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 13 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Germantown Colony Museum — 28 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.

More markers nearby

• Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker — 12 mi
• Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Ambush Site — 12 mi
• Louisiana Colored Chautauqua — 12 mi
• Ma Canfield's Cafe — 13 mi