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United States State High Points (plus DC)

Showing Steve Mueller's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	State	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 3)	Ascent Date
1.	South Dakota	Harney Peak	7242	Great Plains	1972-05-27
2.	Washington	Mount Rainier	14,411	Cascade Range	1972-08-03
3.	Colorado	Mount Elbert	14,433	Southern Rocky Mountains	1982-08-13
4.	California	Mount Whitney	14,495	Sierra Nevada	1992-08-24
5.	Illinois	Charles Mound	1235	Midwest-Great Lakes Area	1993-06-27
6.	Kansas	Mount Sunflower	4039	Great Plains	1994-09-03
7.	Oklahoma	Black Mesa	4973	Great Plains	1994-10-01
8.	Nebraska	Panorama Point	5426	Great Plains	1994-12-18
9.	Montana	Granite Peak	12,799	Greater Yellowstone Rockies	1995-08-06
10.	New Mexico	Wheeler Peak	13,161	Southern Rocky Mountains	1995-09-24
11.	Iowa	Hawkeye Point	1670	Great Plains	1996-05-26
12.	Oregon	Mount Hood	11,239	Cascade Range	1996-06-09
13.	Wisconsin	Timms Hill	1951	Midwest-Great Lakes Area	1996-06-30
14.	Utah	Kings Peak	13,528	Western Rocky Mountains	1996-07-31
15.	Wyoming	Gannett Peak	13,804	Greater Yellowstone Rockies	1996-08-07
16.	Idaho	Borah Peak	12,662	Idaho-Bitterroot Rocky Mountains	1996-08-11
17.	Minnesota	Eagle Mountain	2301	Midwest-Great Lakes Area	1996-10-13
18.	Arkansas	Magazine Mountain	2753	Ozark Highlands	1996-10-24
19.	Louisiana	Driskill Mountain	535	Ozark Highlands	1996-10-25
20.	Mississippi	Woodall Mountain	806	Appalachian Plateaus	1996-10-26
21.	Missouri	Taum Sauk Mountain	1772	Ozark Highlands	1996-10-27
22.	Texas	Guadalupe Peak	8749	Southwest Basins and Ranges	1997-04-13
23.	Alaska	Mount McKinley	20,320	Alaska Range	1997-06-30
24.	Ohio	Campbell Hill	1549	Midwest-Great Lakes Area	1997-11-09
25.	Indiana	Hoosier Hill	1257	Midwest-Great Lakes Area	1997-11-09
26.	North Carolina	Mount Mitchell	6684	Blue Ridge Mountains	1998-05-03
27.	Alabama	Cheaha Mountain	2405	Appalachian Ridges	1998-05-04
28.	Florida	Britton Hill	345	Piedmont-Southeast Coast	1998-05-04
29.	Georgia	Brasstown Bald	4784	Blue Ridge Mountains	1998-05-05
30.	South Carolina	Sassafras Mountain	3554	Blue Ridge Mountains	1998-05-05
31.	Tennessee	Clingmans Dome	6643	Blue Ridge Mountains	1998-05-06
32.	West Virginia	Spruce Knob	4861	Appalachian Plateaus	1998-05-07
33.	Kentucky	Black Mountain	4139	Appalachian Plateaus	1998-05-08
34.	Maryland	Backbone Mountain	3360	Appalachian Plateaus	1998-05-08
35.	Pennsylvania	Mount Davis	3213	Appalachian Plateaus	1998-05-08
36.	Virginia	Mount Rogers	5729	Blue Ridge Mountains	1998-05-09
37.	Michigan	Mount Arvon	1978	Midwest-Great Lakes Area	1998-05-26
38.	North Dakota	White Butte	3506	Great Plains	1998-05-27
39.	Nevada	Boundary Peak	13,140	Great Basin Ranges	1998-08-16
40.	Arizona	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Colorado Plateau	1998-08-30
41.	Massachusetts	Mount Greylock	3488	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-09-26
42.	Connecticut	Mount Frissell-South Slope	2372	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-09-26
43.	New York	Mount Marcy	5344	Canadian Shield	1998-09-27
44.	Vermont	Mount Mansfield	4393	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-09-28
45.	New Hampshire	Mount Washington	6288	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-09-29
46.	Maine	Katahdin	5268	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-09-30
47.	Delaware	Ebright Azimuth	442	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-10-02
48.	New Jersey	High Point	1803	Appalachian Ridges	1998-10-03
49.	Rhode Island	Jerimoth Hill	812	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1998-10-03
50.	Hawaii	Mauna Kea	13,796	Hawaii	1999-02-05
51.	District of Columbia	Reno Reservoir	415	Blue Ridge Mountains	2013-05-04

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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's Mount Rainier and Oregon's Mount Hood in the Pacific Northwest; and Montana's Granite Peak and Wyoming's Gannett Peak in the Rockies. Another five or so (Rhode island, Illinois, Kentucky, and others) are on private land and require landowner permission.

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 the high point of the District of Columbia, which in many matters is a state equivalent.

Links

Highpointers Club -- U.S. State High Points

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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