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USA Lower 48 Triple Divide Points

Minimum basin size of 1500 square miles

Showing Mark Kuhn's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	Peak	Elev-Ft (Opt)	Basin 1	Basin 2	Basin 3	Range (Level 3)
32.	Long Mountain	3240	Alabama	Apalachicola	Mississippi	Blue Ridge Mountains
53.	Apalachicola-Altamaha-Suwanee Triple Divide	480	Altamaha	Suwanee	Apalachicola	Piedmont-Southeast Coast
16.	Mount Washington	6288	Androscoggin	Saco	Connecticut	Northern U.S. Appalachians
22.	Mississippi-Rio Grande-Brazos Triple Divide	4750	Brazos	Mississippi	Rio Grande	Great Plains
23.	Rio Grande-Colorado-Brazos Triple Divide	4485	Brazos	Colorado [TX]	Rio Grande	Great Plains
47.	Trinity-Brazos-Red Triple Divide	1260	Brazos	Trinity	Mississippi	Great Plains
48.	Kernersville Triple Divide	1020	Cape Fear	Roanoke	Pee Dee	Piedmont-Southeast Coast
3.	Three Waters Mountain-North Slope	11,640	Colorado	Columbia	Mississippi	Greater Yellowstone Rockies
5.	Commissary Ridge North	9955	Colorado	Columbia	Great Basin	Western Rocky Mountains
40.	Colorado-Nueces-Guadalupe Triple Divide	2400	Colorado [TX]	Guadalupe	Nueces	Great Plains
37.	Woodchuck Hill	2700	Delaware	Susquehanna	Hudson	Appalachian Plateaus
17.	North Skylight Ridge	6300	Eel	Klamath	Sacramento	Northwest U.S. Coast Ranges
6.	Winnemucca Lake Southeast	9840	Great Basin	Sacramento	San Joaquin	Sierra Nevada
8.	Salton-Santa Ana-Great Basin Triple Divide	9070	Great Basin	Santa Ana	Salton Sea	Central and Southern California Ranges
19.	Sproats Meadow Northwest	5720	Great Basin	Klamath	Columbia	Great Basin Ranges
20.	Mud Lake East	5220	Great Basin	Klamath	Sacramento	Great Basin Ranges
21.	Little Tejon	4800	Great Basin	Santa Clara	South San Joaquin Basin	Central and Southern California Ranges
36.	Salton-Colorado-Great Basin Triple Divide	2720	Great Basin	Salton Sea	Colorado	Central and Southern California Ranges
10.	Oregon Buttes	8558	Great Divide Basin	Colorado	Mississippi	Greater Yellowstone Rockies
11.	South Great Divide Basin Peak	8520	Great Divide Basin	Colorado	Mississippi	Southern Rocky Mountains
39.	Guadalupe Benchmark	2383	Guadalupe	Nueces	San Antonio	Great Plains
41.	Hudson-Connecticut-Housatanic Triple Divide	2126	Housatonic	Hudson	Connecticut	Northern U.S. Appalachians
24.	Watering Pond Knob-Northeast Ridge	4360	James	Mississippi	Potomac	Appalachian Ridges
33.	Brush Mountain - New-James-Roanoke Triple Divide	2860	James	Roanoke	Mississippi	Appalachian Ridges
52.	James-Roanoke-Nottoway Triple Divide	640	James	Chowan	Roanoke	Piedmont-Southeast Coast
13.	Miller Mountain	7513	Klamath	Umpqua	Columbia	Cascade Range
14.	Desert Ridge	6995	Klamath	Rogue	Umpqua	Cascade Range
12.	Triple Divide Peak	8020	Mississippi	Columbia	Nelson	Central Montana Rocky Mountains
43.	Three Way Watershed Marker	1740	Mississippi	St. Lawrence	Nelson	Midwest-Great Lakes Area
50.	Choctaw Lookout Tower	680	Mississippi	Alabama	Pearl [MS-LA]	Piedmont-Southeast Coast
51.	Roanoke-Tar-Neuse Triple Divide	650	Neuse	Roanoke	Tar	Piedmont-Southeast Coast
27.	Mississippi-Santee-Pee Dee Triple Divide	3760	Pee Dee	Santee	Mississippi	Blue Ridge Mountains
33.	Mississippi-Susquehanna-Potomac Triple Divide Point	2860	Potomac	Mississippi	Susquehanna	Appalachian Plateaus
44.	Peters Mountain-Southwest Slope	1700	Rappahannock	Mattaponi	James	Blue Ridge Mountains
2.	Headwaters Hill	11,862	Rio Grande	Mississippi	Colorado	Southern Rocky Mountains
4.	Reeds Peak	10,015	Rio Grande	Chihuahua Basins	Colorado	Southwest Basins and Ranges
35.	Mississippi-Roanoke-Pee Dee Triple Divide	2820	Roanoke	Pee Dee	Mississippi	Blue Ridge Mountains
49.	Mississippi-Trinity-Sabine Triple Divide	710	Sabine	Trinity	Mississippi	Great Plains
24.	Mount Field	4360	Saco	Merrimack	Connecticut	Northern U.S. Appalachians
9.	Sawmill Mountain-West Peak	8749	Santa Maria	Santa Clara	South San Joaquin Basin	Central and Southern California Ranges
28.	Sassafrass Mountain-East Peak	3560	Santee	Savannah	Mississippi	Blue Ridge Mountains
26.	Young Lick Knob	3840	Savannah	Apalachicola	Mississippi	Blue Ridge Mountains
46.	Lula Triple Divide	1360	Savannah	Altamaha	Apalachicola	Piedmont-Southeast Coast
18.	Dishpan Gap North	5892	Skagit	Snohomish	Columbia	Cascade Range
1.	Crumbly Spire	13,280	South San Joaquin Basin	Owens Valley	San Joaquin	Sierra Nevada
29.	Salmon Mountain	3425	St. Lawrence	Androscoggin	Connecticut	Northern U.S. Appalachians
30.	Border Monument 441 Peak	3360	St. Lawrence	Androscoggin	Kennebec	Northern U.S. Appalachians
31.	Styles Peak-North Peak	3307	St. Lawrence	Hudson	Connecticut	Northern U.S. Appalachians
38.	Potter County Triple Divide Point	2540	St. Lawrence	Mississippi	Susquehanna	Appalachian Plateaus
42.	Border Monument 318 Peak	1940	St. Lawrence	Saint John	Penobscot	Northern U.S. Appalachians
45.	South Crow Hill	1660	St. Lawrence	Hudson	Susquehanna	Appalachian Plateaus
7.	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Yaqui	Wilcox Playa	Colorado	Southwest Basins and Ranges
15.	Colorado-Wilcox-Yaqui Triple Divide	6444	Yaqui	Wilcox Playa	Colorado	Southwest Basins and Ranges

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List Description

To be on this list, a peak must be the triple divide point of three basins of rivers that reach marine water, and the smallest of these basins must have an area of over 1500 square miles. This last condition excludes what could easily be hundreds of peaks that are triple divides that involve small rivers and tiny coastal creeks.

Also, this list only shows triple divide points for rivers that enter the ocean directly (or for well-defined internal drainages). Therefore, the entire Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio system is considered one basin, and triple divides that include two or three components of this system (e.g. the Colorado-Arkansas-Platte triple divide, where the Arkansas and Platte are both Mississippi tributaries) are not shown. This does leave out a large number of points in the central part of the United States, but most of these points would be low hills in relatively flat country.

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