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Northeast USA Triple Divide Points

Minimum basin size of 100 square miles

Showing John Wesley Powell's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	Peak	Elev-M (Avg)	Basin 1	Basin 2	Basin 3	Range (Level 5)
1.	Mount Washington	1917	Androscoggin	Saco	Connecticut	Presidential Range
2.	Mount Field	1323	Saco	Merrimack	Connecticut	Franconia Area
3.	Salmon Mountain	1040	St. Lawrence	Androscoggin	Connecticut	Boundary Ranges
4.	Border Monument 441 Peak	1021	St. Lawrence	Androscoggin	Kennebec	Boundary Ranges
5.	Styles Peak-North Peak	1005	St. Lawrence	Hudson	Connecticut	Southern Green Mountains
6.	Mississippi-Susquehanna-Potomac Triple Divide Point	869	Potomac	Mississippi	Susquehanna	Northern Allegheny Mountains
7.	Woodchuck Hill	820	Delaware	Susquehanna	Hudson	Northwest Catskills
8.	Potter County Triple Divide Point	771	St. Lawrence	Mississippi	Susquehanna	Northern Allegheny Plateau
9.	Hudson-Connecticut-Housatanic Triple Divide	645	Housatonic	Hudson	Connecticut	Berkshire Hills
10.	Border Monument 318 Peak	588	St. Lawrence	Saint John	Penobscot	Boundary Ranges
11.	East Miles Notch Peak	582	Androscoggin	Presumpscot	Saco	Eastern White Mountains
12.	South Crow Hill	503	St. Lawrence	Hudson	Susquehanna	Finger Lakes
13.	Hudson-Delaware-Passaic Triple Divide	393	Hudson	Passaic	Delaware	Hudson-Jersey Highlands
14.	Crocker Hill	373	Blackstone	Merrimack	Connecticut	Southern New England Upland
15.	Delaware-Raritan-Passaic Triple Divide	369	Passaic	Raritan	Delaware	Hudson-Jersey Highlands
16.	Elliott Hill	361	Blackstone	Thames [CT]	Connecticut	Southern New England Upland
17.	Merrimack-Charles-Blackstone Triple Divide	169	Charles	Blackstone	Merrimack	Southern New England Upland

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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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