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The following sortable table comprises the 200 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the United States of America.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
- The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
- The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
- The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.
Denali is one of only three summits on Earth with more than 6000 meters (19,685 feet) of topographic prominence. Three summits of the United States exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet), six exceed 3500 meters (11,483 feet), ten exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet), 19 exceed 2500 meters (8202 feet), 45 exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), 128 ultra-prominent summits exceed 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 264 major summits exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
Most prominent summits
Of these 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, eight in Colorado, seven in Hawaiʻi, seven in Arizona, six in Oregon, four in Wyoming, four in Idaho, three in New Mexico, two in North Carolina, and one each in New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, and Maine. Four of these peaks lie on the international border between Alaska and British Columbia, four lie on the international border between Alaska and Yukon, and one lies on the state border between Tennessee and North Carolina.