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Blue Mounds, highest summit of the Ocooch Mountains; Belmont Mound, (Ocooch Mountains) Mount Pisgah; Platte Mound, (Ocooch Mountains) Wildcat Mountain; Ocooch Mountains, highest and most rugged part of the Driftless Area of the upper Midwest. Penokee Mountains, an ancient heavily eroded mountain range spanning northern Wisconsin and Michigan ...
Death Valley National Park, notorious for its below sea level desert, also has soaring mountains, including Telescope Peak, its highest.. This is a list of United States National Parks by elevation.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three main ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip of a mountain above a geodetic sea level . [ b ] [ c ] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation.
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of 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 [1] of greater North America. [2]
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.
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A total of 477 mountain summits in the United States meet both criteria for the definition of "major summit" used here: at least 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) of topographic elevation and at least 500 metres (1,640 ft) of topographic prominence.
The following sortable table comprises the 209 most topographically isolated mountain peaks of the United States of America (including its territories) with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. [1] [a] The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: