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Adirondacks
46 places
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.
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Washington
100 places
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.
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California
15 places
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.
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Cascades
20 places
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.
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Catskills
33 places
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.
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Colorado
53 places
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.
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Desert Southwest
95 places
The Sierra Club's Angeles Chapter founded the Desert Peaks Section in 1941, the oldest peak-climbing section in the chapter. Ninety-five desert mountains stand on its list, spread across California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Mexico. Six of them and a Sierra Club membership make a member of the section. White Mountain Peak, east of the Owens Valley, is the highest.
Southern California
280 places
Weldon Heald, Luella Todd and Jack Bascom published the first Hundred Peaks Game list in 1946. The Sierra Club's Angeles Chapter made the group an official section in 1954. Its current list holds 280 Southern California summits, each above 5,000 feet, and recognizes climbers at 100 peaks, 200 peaks and completion of the full list.
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Idaho
9 places
Idaho holds nine ranked summits above 12,000 feet. Seven stand in the Lost River Range, one in the Lemhi Range and one in the Pioneer Mountains. Borah Peak leads them and is the highest point in the state. Two more Idaho summits clear 12,000 feet but rise less than 300 feet above the saddle joining them to a higher neighbor, so they count as shoulders rather than peaks of their own.
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Cascades
3 places
The Mazamas award the Guardian Peaks certificate to members who summit Mount Hood, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens on official club climbs. The Portland club, founded on the summit of Mount Hood in 1894, has given the award to about two thousand members.
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Nevada
73 places
Pete Yamagata started the Nevada Peaks Club in 1997 to promote climbing and exploration in Nevada's wild country. Its list holds 73 peaks spread across the state. The club charges no dues and holds no meetings.
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New England
67 places
The Appalachian Mountain Club's Four Thousand Footer Club drew up its New England list in 1964, carrying the New Hampshire forty-eight across into Maine and Vermont. A summit qualifies when it reaches 4,000 feet and stands 200 feet above the saddle linking it to a higher neighbor. The list runs to sixty-seven peaks today, and Mount Washington tops it.
New England
100 places
The AMC Four Thousand Footer Club added this list in 1967: the hundred highest summits in New England, each standing 200 feet above the saddle linking it to a higher neighbor. New England's sixty-seven 4,000-footers fill the top; the other thirty-three fall just short. The club calls it the only one of its lists with true bushwhacks, and eleven of those thirty-three have no trail at all.
White Mountains
48 places
The Appalachian Mountain Club founded its Four Thousand Footer Club in 1957 around this list. A summit qualifies when it reaches 4,000 feet and rises 200 feet above the saddle linking it to a higher neighbor. All forty-eight stand in the White Mountains, and Mount Washington, the highest point in the Northeast, tops them.
Northeast
115 places
This list gathers the Northeast's 4,000-footers into one: New England's sixty-seven, the forty-six Adirondack High Peaks, and Slide and Hunter in the Catskills. It took its name when the count was 111; later surveys promoted two more peaks in New Hampshire and two in Maine, and the name stuck at 115. The AMC Four Thousand Footer Club recognizes finishers, who must first join the New England and Adirondack clubs.
Oregon
100 places
This list runs from Mount Hood, the highest point in Oregon, down to a shade under 8,000 feet. The Cascade volcanoes take the top places, but the Wallowa Mountains in the northeast corner hold the largest share of the list. Twenty of the hundred borrow their name from a nearby landmark, most often a lake, and five carry nothing but an elevation.
Oregon
11 places
Oregon's Cascade volcanoes stand in a line down the state, from Mount Hood above the Columbia River to Mount McLoughlin near the California line. Mount Hood is the state high point, and all but Mount Bachelor stand in designated wilderness. Peaks keeps them together as one goal for climbers working through the Oregon Cascades.
Sierra Nevada
247 places
The Sierra Club's Angeles Chapter formed the Sierra Peaks Section in 1955 to explore and climb the Sierra Nevada. Its list holds 247 active peaks, from Owens Peak in the south to Adams Peak in the north, and spans routes from walk-ups to class 5 climbs. Fifteen are Emblem Peaks; ten of those plus fifteen more list peaks earn the section emblem.
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Sierra Nevada
15 places
The Sierra Club's Angeles Chapter founded the Sierra Peaks Section in 1955 and marked fifteen summits on its peaks list as Emblem Peaks, the ones that dominate their part of the range. A member earns the section emblem by climbing ten of the fifteen plus fifteen more peaks from the full list. Mount Whitney, Mount Williamson, North Palisade, and Mount Ritter are among them.
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Washington
100 places
Jeff Smoot chose a hundred Washington summits for his 2002 guidebook Climbing Washington's Mountains, and peakbaggers took the selection as a list. It favors classic routes over raw height, mixing scrambles in the Alpine Lakes and Olympics with technical climbs in the North Cascades. Every Washington peak above 9,000 feet is on it.
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Southern Appalachians
40 places
The Carolina Mountain Club and the Tennessee Eastman Hiking and Canoeing Club have run this challenge since 1968. More than sixty Southern Appalachian summits pass 6,000 feet; forty qualify, each dropping 200 feet to the saddle joining it to another qualifier or standing three quarters of a mile from one. They fall in six ranges: the Smokies, Plotts, Balsams, Craggies, Blacks and Roans. All but Mount Le Conte lie in North Carolina or on its line with Tennessee.
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Lake Tahoe
63 places
Members of the Sierra Club's Peak and Gorge Section drew up this list of sixty-three peaks around Lake Tahoe in the early 1980s. Ogul is the Washoe word for the mountain bighorn sheep that once ranged there. The section disbanded in 1998, and the Western States Climbers have kept the list since 2000; it carries no Sierra Club tie today. Fifty-six of the peaks stand in California and seven in Nevada.
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Tennessee
55 places
Fifty-five summits in and around Tennessee reach 4,500 feet. Many sit on the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains, where the state line follows the ridge shared with North Carolina. Kuwohi, at 6,643 feet, is the highest of them and the highest point in Tennessee.
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World
7 places
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven continents. Peaks follows the Messner version, which counts Puncak Jaya in New Guinea rather than Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, so the Australasian leg is a climb rather than a walk. Patrick Morrow finished this version first, on Puncak Jaya, in May 1986.