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Northeast USA Triple Divide Points

Minimum basin size of 100 square miles

Showing Willi Unsoeld's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	Peak	Elev-Ft	Basin 1	Basin 2	Basin 3	Range (Level 5)
1.	Mount Washington	6288	Androscoggin	Saco	Connecticut	Presidential Range
2.	Mount Field	4320	Saco	Merrimack	Connecticut	Franconia Area
3.	Salmon Mountain	3400	St. Lawrence	Androscoggin	Connecticut	Boundary Ranges
5.	Styles Peak-North Peak	3287	St. Lawrence	Hudson	Connecticut	Southern Green Mountains
9.	Hudson-Connecticut-Housatanic Triple Divide	2106	Housatonic	Hudson	Connecticut	Berkshire Hills
14.	Crocker Hill	1220	Blackstone	Merrimack	Connecticut	Southern New England Upland
16.	Elliott Hill	1181	Blackstone	Thames [CT]	Connecticut	Southern New England Upland
13.	Hudson-Delaware-Passaic Triple Divide	1280	Hudson	Passaic	Delaware	Hudson-Jersey Highlands
15.	Delaware-Raritan-Passaic Triple Divide	1200	Passaic	Raritan	Delaware	Hudson-Jersey Highlands
7.	Woodchuck Hill	2680	Delaware	Susquehanna	Hudson	Northwest Catskills
4.	Border Monument 441 Peak	3340	St. Lawrence	Androscoggin	Kennebec	Boundary Ranges
17.	Merrimack-Charles-Blackstone Triple Divide	551	Charles	Blackstone	Merrimack	Southern New England Upland
10.	Border Monument 318 Peak	1920	St. Lawrence	Saint John	Penobscot	Boundary Ranges
11.	East Miles Notch Peak	1900	Androscoggin	Presumpscot	Saco	Eastern White Mountains
6.	Mississippi-Susquehanna-Potomac Triple Divide Point	2840	Potomac	Mississippi	Susquehanna	Northern Allegheny Mountains
8.	Potter County Triple Divide Point	2520	St. Lawrence	Mississippi	Susquehanna	Northern Allegheny Plateau
12.	South Crow Hill	1640	St. Lawrence	Hudson	Susquehanna	Finger Lakes

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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 be over 100 square miles. This last condition excludes what could easily be hundreds of peaks that are triple divides that involve tiny coastal creeks. Peaks located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the six New England states are listed.

Outside of the two major New Hampshire 4000-footers at the top of the list, most of the other peaks are quite obscure. However, the river systems that meet at these points will be familiar to most Northeast residents, and finding the hydrographic junction of three major rivers might have an intuitive appeal to many peakbaggers.

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