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Pennsylvania County High Points

Showing Horace Walker's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft (Opt)	Range (Level 5)	Prom-Ft (Opt)
1.	Somerset	Mount Davis	3213	Northern Allegheny Mountains	673
2.	Bedford	Blue Knob	3140	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
3.	Westmoreland	Laurel Hill-Radio Tower	3000	Laurel Highlands	300
4.	Fayette	Laurel Hill	2994	Laurel Highlands
5.	Blair	Schaefer Head	2950	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
6.	Cambria	Cambria County High Point	2862	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
7.	Susquehanna	Elk Hill	2700	Northeastern Pennsylvania
8.	Wayne	Mount Ararat	2656	Northeastern Pennsylvania
9.	Centre	Centre County High Point	2630	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
10.	Potter	Lyon Hill	2600	Northern Allegheny Plateau
	Potter	or Bailey Hill	2600	Northern Allegheny Plateau	360
	Potter	or White Knoll South	2600	Northern Allegheny Plateau	320
11.	Sullivan	North Mountain	2585	Northern Allegheny Plateau
12.	Tioga	Cedar Mountain	2543	Northern Allegheny Plateau
13.	McKean	McKean County High Point	2480	Northern Allegheny Plateau
13.	Luzerne	Cherry Ridge	2480	Northern Allegheny Plateau
15.	Bradford	Armenia Mountain	2460	Northern Allegheny Plateau
16.	Franklin	Tuscarora Mountain	2458	Southern Pennsylvania Ridges
16.	Fulton	Tuscarora Mountain	2458	Southern Pennsylvania Ridges
18.	Columbia	Red Rock Mountain-West Slope	2440	Northern Allegheny Plateau	40
19.	Huntingdon	Greenlee Mountain	2420	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
20.	Clearfield	Chestnut Ridge	2405	Northern Allegheny Plateau
21.	Cameron	Cameron County High Point	2400	Northern Allegheny Plateau
21.	Lycoming	Lycoming County High Point	2400	Northern Allegheny Plateau
21.	Wyoming	Bartlett Mountain	2400	Northern Allegheny Plateau
24.	Elk	Wildwood Fire Tower	2376	Northern Allegheny Plateau
25.	Clinton	Clinton County High Point	2375	Northern Allegheny Plateau
26.	Mifflin	Broad Mountain	2360	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
27.	Lackawanna	Moosic Mountains High Point	2323	Pocono Plateau
28.	Cumberland	Blue Mountain-Perry/Cumberland High Point	2270	Blue Mountain
28.	Perry	Blue Mountain-Perry/Cumberland High Point	2270	Blue Mountain
30.	Warren	Warren County High Point	2231	Northern Allegheny Plateau
31.	Juniata	Shade Mountain	2228	Southern Pennsylvania Ridges
32.	Monroe	Kistler Ledge	2215	Pocono Plateau
33.	Snyder	Shade Mountain-Snyder County High Point	2200	Central Pennsylvania Ridges	1480
34.	Carbon	Lake Mountain	2200	Pocono Plateau
35.	Jefferson	Jefferson County High Point	2180	Northern Allegheny Plateau
35.	Indiana	Chestnut Ridge-North Section	2180	Laurel Highlands
35.	Union	Jones Mountain	2180	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
38.	Pike	Pike County High Point	2115	Pocono Plateau
39.	Schuylkill	Bears Head	2094	Anthracite Ridges
40.	Adams	East Big Flat Ridge	2080	South Mountain-Catoctin
41.	Forest	Forest County High Point	1954	Northern Allegheny Plateau
42.	Crawford	Crawford County High Point	1913	Northern Allegheny Plateau
43.	Erie	Erie County High Point	1910	Northern Allegheny Plateau
44.	Clarion	McNaughton Hill	1901	Northern Allegheny Plateau
45.	Northumberland	Boyers Knob	1800	Anthracite Ridges
46.	Dauphin	Big Lick Mountain	1771	Anthracite Ridges
47.	Armstrong	Armstrong County High Point	1760	Northern Allegheny Plateau
48.	Venango	Venango County High Point	1755	Northern Allegheny Plateau
49.	Berks	Blue Mountain-Berks County High Point	1700	Blue Mountain
50.	Northampton	Blue Mountain-Northampton County High Point	1695	Blue Mountain
51.	Greene	Greene County High Point	1680	Southern Allegheny Plateau
52.	Lehigh	Blue Mountain-Lehigh County High Point	1674	Blue Mountain
53.	Lebanon	Stony Mountain	1651	Anthracite Ridges
54.	Mercer	Mercer County High Point	1621	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
55.	Butler	Kelley Benchmark	1620	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
56.	Washington	Washington County High Point	1572	Southern Allegheny Plateau
57.	Lawrence	Lawrence County High Point	1460	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
58.	Allegheny	Allegheny County High Point	1420	Northern Allegheny Plateau
	Allegheny	or Allegheny County High Point #2	1401	Southern Allegheny Plateau
59.	York	Stone Head North	1412	South Mountain-Catoctin
60.	Montour	Montour Ridge-Northeast Slope	1400	Northern Allegheny Plateau	40
61.	Beaver	Big Knob	1383	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
	Beaver	or Beaver County High Point #2	1400	Southern Allegheny Plateau
62.	Lancaster	Lancaster County High Point	1200	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills	60
63.	Chester	Welsh Mountain	1100	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
64.	Bucks	Flint Hill-Northeast Slope	980	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills	20
65.	Montgomery	Mill Hill	720	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills	80
66.	Delaware	Delaware County High Point	510	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
67.	Philadelphia	Chestnut Hill	441	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills	171

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List Description

Acknowledgments

Sources that were used to help me compile this list include:

About 30 of these points I determined by personal research done prior to 1990.
Book County High Points by Andy Martin; list compiled 1993 by Andy Martin, reviewed by Michael Schwartz.

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