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USA State Highpoints

Mount Whitney

Mount Whitney

This project started as my Western USA State Highpoints project. I first considered climbing the Western USA State Highpoints in the mid 1980s, but was distracted by other climbing projects and bicycling trips for many years. I finally completed my original project in 2014 with a hike up Mauna Kea.

Since 2005 I opportunistically visited several Central and Eastern USA State Highpoints. Then in the summer of 2018 I took a long road trip and visited most of those then remaining. Finally, in March of 2022, I visited the Southeast and completed my USA State Highpoints project. I finished on Britton Hill, Florida, the lowest of the 50 State Highpoints.

The USA State Highpoints

climbed = Highpoints Visited

If you hover over a peak map marker the name of the peak should appear. If you click a marker a new browser tab should open displaying the description page for that peak on peakbagger.com.

The Highpoint List

Peak State Elevation Year
Denali Alaska 20310 1996
Mount Whitney California 14499 1986
Mount Elbert Colorado 14438 1991
Mount Rainier Washington 14406 1980
Gannett Peak Wyoming 13810 1986
Mauna Kea Hawaii 13796 2014
Kings Peak Utah 13529 2013
Wheeler Peak New Mexico 13162 2011
Boundary Peak Nevada 13141 1986
Granite Peak Montana 12804 1979
Borah Peak Idaho 12666 2011
Humphreys Peak Arizona 12633 2011
Mount Hood Oregon 11244 1977
Guadalupe Peak Texas 8750 2010
Black Elk Peak (formly Harney Peak) South Dakota 7231 2014
Mount Mitchell North Carolina 6684 2005
Kuwohi (formerly Clingmans Dome) Tennessee 6644 2018
Mount Washington New Hampshire 6286 2018
Mount Rogers Virginia 5711 2018
Panorama Point Nebraska 5429 2014
Mount Marcy New York 5344 2018
Katahdin Maine 5267 2018
Black Mesa Oklahoma 4973 2018
Spruce Knob West Virginia 4864 2018
Brasstown Bald Georgia 4784 2022
Mount Mansfield Vermont 4395 2018
Black Mountain Kentucky 4139 2018
Mount Sunflower Kansas 4039 2014
Sassafras Mountain South Carolina 3553 2022
White Butte North Dakota 3508 2014
Mount Greylock Massachusetts 3492 2018
Backbone Mountain Maryland 3360 2018
Mount Davis Pennsylvania 3213 2018
Magazine Mountain Arkansas 2753 2018
Cheaha Mountain Alabama 2408 2022
Mount Frissell (South Slope) Connecticut 2382 2018
Eagle Mountain Minnesota 2301 2014
Mount Arvon Michigan 1979 2014
Timms Hill Wisconsin 1951 2014
High Point New Jersey 1803 2018
Taum Sauk Mountain Missouri 1772 2014
Hawkeye Point Iowa 1670 2018
Campbell Hill Ohio 1549 2018
Hoosier Hill Indiana 1257 2018
Charles Mound Illinois 1235 2018
Jerimoth Hill Rhode Island 812 2018
Woodall Mountain Mississippi 806 2018
Driskill Mountain Louisiana 535 2017
Ebright Azimuth Delaware 450 2018
Britton Hill Florida 345 2022

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General Information

Highpointers Club
Peakbagger.com: Paul's USA State Highpoints
Summitpost: U.S. State Highpoints

Reference

  1. Holmes, Don, Highpoints of the United States, Second Edition, University of Utah Press, 2000.

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