List Of The Highest Major Summits Of The United States - Tallest Mountain In Us

The following sortable table comprises the 200 highest mountain peaks of the United States with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.

The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:

1. The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
2. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
3. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.

In the United States, only Denali exceeds 6000 meters (19,685 feet) elevation. Four major summits exceed 5000 meters (16,404 feet), nine exceed 4500 meters (14,764 feet), 104 exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet), 220 exceed 3500 meters (11,483 feet), and 302 major summits exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet) elevation.

Highest major summits

Of these 200 highest major summits of the United States, 88 are located in Colorado, 49 in Alaska, 22 in California, 14 in Wyoming, eight in New Mexico, five in Utah, four in Nevada, three in Montana, two in Washington, two in Hawaiʻi, two in Idaho, and one in Arizona. Five of these peaks lie on the international border between Alaska and Yukon, and two lie on the international border between Alaska and British Columbia. The ten highest major summits of the United States are all located in Alaska.

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