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Traditional Colorado Centennials

Colorado

100 places

This list takes Colorado's hundred highest summits, counting only those that rise 300 feet above the saddle linking them to a higher neighbor. It follows the older reckoning from the USGS quadrangle surveys, which stood from 1977, when Spencer Swanger became the first to climb them all, until airborne LiDAR reshuffled the ranks in 2021. Mount Elbert leads it and Dallas Peak, at 13,809 feet, comes last.

Photo: David Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo / CC BY 2.0

Ultras of Iran

Iran

55 places

An ultra is a peak that rises at least 1,500 meters, about 4,900 feet, above the lowest saddle linking it to any higher ground. Iran has fifty-five, from Damavand in the Alborz range to the desert volcanoes of the southeast. Damavand is the country's high point and the highest volcano in Asia.

Photo: The original uploader was Siamax at English Wikipedia . / CC BY-SA 3.0

Ultras of the Contiguous United States

United States

57 places

An ultra is a peak that rises at least 1,500 meters, about 4,900 feet, above the lowest saddle linking it to any higher ground. Fifty-seven stand in the lower forty-eight, nearly half of them in California, Utah, Nevada, and Washington, with single peaks as far east as New Hampshire and North Carolina. The earth scientist Steve Fry named the class in the 1980s while measuring peaks in Washington.

Photo: Thomas Holmes / CC BY-SA 4.0

US State High Points

United States

50 places

The highest point in each of the fifty states, from Denali at 20,310 feet to Britton Hill in Florida at 345 feet. Jack Longacre founded the Highpointers Club in 1986 after a letter to Outside magazine turned up dozens of people with the same goal. Some high points are drive-ups; Denali, Gannett Peak, and Granite Peak call for mountaineering.

Photo: NPS Photo / Tim Rains / Public domain

Utah 13ers

Utah

19 places

Utah has nineteen summits above 13,000 feet, and every one stands in the High Uintas. The Uintas are the highest range in the contiguous United States that runs east to west. Kings Peak, at 13,528 feet, is the state high point.

Photo: Hyrum K. Wright / CC BY-SA 3.0

Washington Home Court 100

Washington

100 places

Jeff Howbert published the Home Court in Pack & Paddle magazine in July 1995: the hundred highest peaks of the western Alpine Lakes country with at least 500 feet of clean prominence. He set the bounds around what a Seattle climber can reach on a weekend, with Highway 2 to the north, Interstate 90 to the south, and Deception Creek and the Cle Elum River to the east. Dick Kegel finished the hundred first, in September 1998.

Photo: Walter Siegmund / CC BY 2.5

Washington State Volcanoes

Washington

5 places

Washington's five volcanoes: Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, and Mount St. Helens. All five carry glaciers, and the U.S. Geological Survey monitors every one. Mount Rainier is the highest mountain in the state and the most prominent peak in the contiguous United States.

Photo: Caleb Riston / CC0

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