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Adirondack 46ersEst. 1948 · Adirondack Forty-Sixers

Bob and George Marshall and their guide Herbert Clark climbed all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks between 1918 and 1925. Later surveys put four of the forty-six under 4,000 feet and found one 4,000-foot summit the Marshalls had skipped, but the Adirondack Forty-Sixers kept the original list. Mount Marcy, the highest point in New York, tops it.

Bulger ListEst. 1976 · The Bulgers

John Lixvar drew up Washington's hundred highest summits in 1976, and the climbers who set out to finish them called themselves the Bulgers. A peak needs about 400 feet of prominence to hold its own place on the list. Russ Kroeker finished first, on Sinister Peak, in October 1980.

California FourteenersEst. 1991 · Porcella and Burns

Steve Porcella and Cameron Burns counted fifteen California summits above 14,000 feet in their guidebook, first published in 1991. Fourteen rise in the Sierra Nevada; White Mountain Peak stands alone east of the Owens Valley. Mount Whitney is the highest of the fifteen, and of the contiguous United States.

Cascade VolcanoesEst. 2010 · The Mountaineers

The Mountaineers' Tacoma branch created this peak pin in 2010 for climbers who reach all twenty major Cascade volcanoes. The line runs from Mount Garibaldi in British Columbia south to Lassen Peak in California. Every peak counts toward the pin; there is no partial credit.

Catskill 3500Est. 1962 · Catskill 3500 Club

The Catskill 3500 Club has taken members since 1962 for climbing the highest peaks on public land in the Catskills. Its list held thirty-five summits until 2021, when Doubletop and Graham closed to the public and left thirty-three. Members also climb Slide, Blackhead, Balsam and Panther a second time in winter.

Colorado 14ersColorado

Colorado holds fifty-three peaks above 14,000 feet that also rise 300 feet above the saddle linking them to a higher neighbor. Other Colorado summits clear 14,000 feet but fall short of that rise, so lists count them as shoulders rather than mountains of their own. Mount Elbert is the highest of them, and the highest summit in the Rocky Mountains.