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U.S. State High Points

Showing Mike Holland's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	State	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 3)	Ascent Date
1.	Maryland	Backbone Mountain	3360	Appalachian Plateaus	2012-07-01
2.	Pennsylvania	Mount Davis	3213	Appalachian Plateaus	2012-07-01
3.	New Jersey	High Point	1803	Appalachian Ridges	2012-07-03
4.	Delaware	Ebright Azimuth	442	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2012-07-03
5.	West Virginia	Spruce Knob	4861	Appalachian Plateaus	2012-07-22
6.	Virginia	Mount Rogers	5729	Blue Ridge Mountains	2012-08-11
7.	Kentucky	Black Mountain	4139	Appalachian Plateaus	2012-08-12
8.	New Hampshire	Mount Washington	6288	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2012-08-31
9.	Rhode Island	Jerimoth Hill	812	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2012-08-31
10.	New York	Mount Marcy	5344	Canadian Shield	2012-09-01
11.	Massachusetts	Mount Greylock	3488	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2012-09-02
12.	Connecticut	Mount Frissell-South Slope	2372	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2012-09-02
13.	Tennessee	Clingmans Dome	6643	Blue Ridge Mountains	2012-09-29
14.	Mississippi	Woodall Mountain	806	Appalachian Plateaus	2012-10-03
15.	Florida	Britton Hill	345	Piedmont-Southeast Coast	2012-10-03
16.	Georgia	Brasstown Bald	4784	Blue Ridge Mountains	2012-10-04
17.	Alabama	Cheaha Mountain	2405	Appalachian Ridges	2012-10-04
18.	North Carolina	Mount Mitchell	6684	Blue Ridge Mountains	2012-10-05
19.	South Carolina	Sassafras Mountain	3554	Blue Ridge Mountains	2012-10-05
20.	Vermont	Mount Mansfield	4393	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2012-11-23
	Alaska	Mount McKinley	20,320	Alaska Range
	California	Mount Whitney	14,495	Sierra Nevada
	Colorado	Mount Elbert	14,433	Southern Rocky Mountains
	Washington	Mount Rainier	14,411	Cascade Range
	Wyoming	Gannett Peak	13,804	Greater Yellowstone Rockies
	Hawaii	Mauna Kea	13,796	Hawaii
	Utah	Kings Peak	13,528	Western Rocky Mountains
	New Mexico	Wheeler Peak	13,161	Southern Rocky Mountains
	Nevada	Boundary Peak	13,140	Great Basin Ranges
	Montana	Granite Peak	12,799	Greater Yellowstone Rockies
	Idaho	Borah Peak	12,662	Idaho-Bitterroot Rocky Mountains
	Arizona	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Colorado Plateau
	Oregon	Mount Hood	11,239	Cascade Range
	Texas	Guadalupe Peak	8749	Southwest Basins and Ranges
	South Dakota	Harney Peak	7242	Great Plains
	Nebraska	Panorama Point	5426	Great Plains
	Maine	Katahdin	5268	Northern U.S. Appalachians
	Oklahoma	Black Mesa	4973	Great Plains
	Kansas	Mount Sunflower	4039	Great Plains
	North Dakota	White Butte	3506	Great Plains
	Arkansas	Magazine Mountain	2753	Ozark Highlands
	Minnesota	Eagle Mountain	2301	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
	Michigan	Mount Arvon	1978	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
	Wisconsin	Timms Hill	1951	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
	Missouri	Taum Sauk Mountain	1772	Ozark Highlands
	Iowa	Hawkeye Point	1670	Great Plains
	Ohio	Campbell Hill	1549	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
	Indiana	Hoosier Hill	1257	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
	Illinois	Charles Mound	1235	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
	Louisiana	Driskill Mountain	535	Ozark Highlands

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List Description

The fifty state high points of the United States are an increasingly popular peakbagging pursuit. There is a club (the Highpointers) and several guidebooks to completing this diverse list of peaks.

Of the fifty high points, five require real mountaineering skills: Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska; Washington state's Mount Rainier and Oregon's Mount Hood in the Pacific Northwest; and Montana's Granite Peak and Wyoming's Gannett Peak in the Northern Rockies. Another five or so (Illinois, Kentucky, and others) are on private land and require landowner permission or visiting on specially scheduled open access dates.

Most of the remaining state summits are easy hikes or drive-ups. Hiking the cool forests of the Appalachians, exploring the windy, lonely high plains, and backpacking above treeline in the western mountains are all part of the great fun of this scavenger hunt.

This list includes does not include the high point of the District of Columbia. This is the version the Highpointers Club recognizes.

Selected Guidebook(s) for this List

Fifty State Summits, Guide with Maps to State Highpoints (Zumwalt)

Highpoints of the United States: A Guide to the Fifty State Summits (Holmes)

Caution: These books feature many of the peaks on this list, but may not have information on all of them.

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