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North America highest peaks 93rd; North America isolated peaks 72nd; US highest major peaks 76th; US most prominent peaks 49th; US most isolated peaks 24th; U.S. state high point 7th; Utah county high points 1st [3]
The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [4] [3] The second table below ranks the 50 most prominent summits of Utah. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [5]
Kings Peak (Utah) in August 2004. Mountains in Utah are numerous and have varying elevations and prominences. Kings Peak, in the Uinta Mountains in Duchesne County, Utah, is the highest point in the state and has the greatest prominence. It has elevation 13,528 feet (4,123 m) [1] and prominence 6,348 feet (1,935 m). [2]
It is the highest point of Utah County and is located in the southern part of the county. [ 6 ] Mount Nebo is an "ultra", one of 128 ultra-prominent peaks in the United States having more than 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) of topographic prominence .
It is also the highest point in Utah outside the Uinta Mountains. [4] [5] It is located about 20 mi (32 km) southeast of Moab. The summit is the highest point in the Manti-La Sal National Forest and the Mount Peale Research Natural Area. Mount Peale was named for Albert Peale, a mineralogist on the Hayden Survey of 1875. [5]
Elephant Butte is a 5,653-foot (1,723 m) summit in Grand County, Utah.It is located within Arches National Park, and is the highest point in the park. [3] Like many of the rock formations in the park, Elephant Butte is composed of Entrada Sandstone.
Signal Peak, with an elevation of 10,369 feet (3,160 m), is the highest peak in the Pine Valley Mountains and in Washington County in southwestern Utah, United States. Signal Peak is located north of the city of St. George and south of the community of Pine Valley in the Dixie National Forest.
The plateau, a tectonic uplift on the much larger Colorado Plateau landform, is the highest in Utah. [1] [2] It is over 900 square miles (2330 km 2) of mostly forested highland, much of which is part of Dixie National Forest. It has over 50,000 acres (200 km 2) of rolling hilly terrain above 11,000 feet (3350 m).