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In the contiguous United States (i.e. excluding Alaska and Hawaii), the northernmost, southernmost, westernmost, and easternmost major summits are Kintla Peak in Montana, Mount Graham in Arizona, Mount Shasta in California, and East Spanish Peak in Colorado, respectively.
Of the 200 most prominent summits of the United States, 84 are located in Alaska, 17 in California, 17 in Nevada, 14 in Washington, 12 in Montana, 11 in Utah, nine in Arizona, seven in Hawaii, six in Colorado, six in Oregon, four in Wyoming, four in Idaho, four in New Mexico, two in North Carolina, and one each in New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Maine.
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. Denali is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the United States of America.
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [1] It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) [8] west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater Basin in Death ...
List of highest U.S. county high points; List of mountain peaks of the United States. List of the highest major summits of the United States; List of the most prominent summits of the United States; List of the most isolated major summits of the United States; List of highest counties in the United States; List of highest United States cities ...
Denali, Alaska – highest summit in the United States, all US territories, and North America at 20,310 feet (6,190.5 m) (known as Mount McKinley from 1896 to Mount Whitney , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ note 1 ] California 36°34′43″N 118°17′31″W / 36.57861°N 118.29194°W / 36.57861; -118.29194 ( Mount Whitney ) – highest point in ...
Counties and county-equivalents of the United States of America.. The following table lists the 60 highest United States county or county-equivalent [a] high points. [b] The highest U.S. county high point is the summit of Denali in the Denali Borough of Alaska, the highest summit of the United States and all of North America.
Eight of these peaks lie on the Canada-United States border and one lies on the México-Guatemala border. Additional references and maps for the 200 highest of these major summits can be found on the List of the highest major summits of North America.