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List of the most isolated major summits of the United States

The following sortable table comprises the 209 most topographically isolated mountain peaks of the United States of America (including its territories) with at least of topographic prominence.

The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:

  1. The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
  2. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
  3. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.

In the United States, only Denali exceeds of topographic isolation. 3 summits exceed , 8 exceed , 13 exceed , 47 exceed , 113 exceed, and 214 major summits exceed of topographic isolation.

Most isolated major summits

The list below contains the 200 most isolated major summits in the 50 states and District of Columbia, plus an additional 9 major isolated summits in the U.S. territories, for a total of 209 summits.

Of these 209 most isolated major summits of the United States, 63 are located in Alaska, 19 in Montana, 16 in California, 14 in Utah, 13 in Nevada, 12 in Colorado, 12 in Arizona, 10 in Wyoming, 7 in Washington, 7 in Oregon, 6 in New Mexico, 5 in the Northern Mariana Islands, 4 in Hawaii, 3 in Idaho, 3 in Texas, 2 in North Carolina, 2 in Maine, 2 in New York, 2 in American Samoa, 2 in Puerto Rico, and one each in New Hampshire, Arkansas, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. Two of these summits lie on the international border between Alaska and British Columbia and one lies on the state border between Tennessee and North Carolina.

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