Harney Peak, South Dakota

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 7244 ft / 2208 m
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	43° 51' 58'' N; 103° 31' 52'' W 43.865973, -103.531188 (Dec Deg) 618026E 4858035N Zone 13 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	South Dakota (Highest Point)
County/Second Level Region	Pennington (Highest Point)
City/Town	Mount Rushmore
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Harney Peak":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Harney Peak at SummitPost.org      Harney Peak at ListsOfJohn.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Pennington, SD by Ron Tagliapietra      CoHP.org Trip Report for Pennington, SD by Carl Millsap Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Harney Peak:      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #379)      USA/Canada Range4 High Points (Rank #127)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #72)      United States State High Points (plus DC) (Rank #15)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #24)      U.S. State High Points (Rank #15)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #161)      U.S. National Forest High Points (Rank #76)      Most Isolated Peaks of the U.S. States (Rank #22)      Most Prominent Peaks of the U.S. States (Rank #21)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #70)      Contiguous 48 U.S. State High Points (Rank #13)      United States State/Territory High Points (Rank #15)      South Dakota County High Points (Rank #1)      Midwest USA CoHPs (Rank #1)      Midwestern Wilderness High Points (Rank #1)      Black Hills 6500-foot Peaks (Rank #1)      United States Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #44)      Combined USA-Canada-Mexico State/Province High Points (Rank #47) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Fifty State Summits, Guide with Maps to State Highpoints (Zumwalt)        Highpoints of the United States: A Guide to the Fifty State Summits (Holmes) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1989-05-12 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      1991-07-19 by Dennis Stewart      2005-07-03 by Jamie Bakken      2007-06-15 by Sarah Kin      2007-07-12 by Gustav Sexauer      2008-07-27 by Walter Blume (GPS Track)      2009-07-20 by Melanie Deare      2010-08-18 by Peter Stone      2010-08-29 by Eric Noel      2010-11-27 by Gokul Gopal      2012-03-11 by Lupe Lunde (Unsuccessful)      2012-06-04 by Tye Scott      2012-07-10 by Andrew DeFeo      2013-07-26 by Andrew Hollis      2014-04-11 by Weston Broadbent      2014-05-02 by Richard Oestreicher      2014-06-09 by Charles Russell      2014-09-02 by Lupe Lunde      2014-09-25 by Lupe Lunde      2014-10-05 by Trevor Kent View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members. Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Harney Peak      Elevation Ladder from Harney Peak      Prominence Ladder from Harney Peak

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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2922 ft/890 m   Optimistic Prominence: 2942 ft/896 m   Line Parent: Mount Nystrom   Key Col: Iron Creek    4320 ft/1317 m
Isolation	140.2 mi/225.62 km Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Peak 7320  (SW) Isolation Limit Point: 42° 20' 27'' N; 105° 21' 43'' W     ILP Map Links: Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: North America Plains Range3: Great Plains Range4: Black Hills (Highest Point) Range5: Southern Black Hills (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Missouri Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Black Hills National Forest (Highest Point) Wilderness/Special Area: Black Elk Wilderness Area (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Custer O43103g5 1:24,000
Route #1	Maintained Hiking Trail Trailhead: 6142 ft/1872 m Vertical Gain: 1100 ft/335 m Distance (one way): 3.2 mi/5.15 km

Other Photos

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 88: Harney Peak, SD summit. The lookout tower is no longer in official use, but serves as an observation deck for hikers. Don't expect solitude here! Harney Peak is well served by the extensive trail system in the Black Elk Wilderness and can be approached from 7 or 8 different trail heads. The most popular trail head is at Sylvan Lake. Photo is looking ENE (2014-05-17). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 88: Lupe on Harney Peak. She was more interested in the numerous chipmunks scrambling over the rocks than in the views. Harney Peak offers fabulous 360 degree views of the Black Hills, SD (2014-05-17). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 89: Lupe on summit of Sylvan Hill. Harney Peak (center left) and Little Devil's Tower (just left of the highest rock on Sylvan Hill) are visible in the background about 3 miles to the ENE (2014-05-17). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 94: Joe and Dusty near the Harney Peak lookout tower (2014-09-02). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 92: Lupe on the summit of Peak 6735 looking like she's lost an ear. Harney Peak in the distance at the right side of the photo. Photo is looking WNW (2014-06-09). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 97: David near the W edge of the massive granite outcropping extending out to the W of Harney Peak. 7,000 ft. Sylvan Hill is the first ridge visible beyond David (2014-09-25). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 102: Lupe on St. Elmo Peak with Harney Peak in the background (2014-10-29). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 97: Lupe on the massive granite outcropping just W of the summit of Harney Peak (2014-09-25). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Black Hills, SD Expedition No. 105: Lupe at the summit of Silver Mountain with a cold wind coming out of the SW from the direction of Harney Peak, seen in the distance (2014-11-22). Photo by Lupe Lunde. Click here for larger-size photo.

Alex being zen after a successful ascent (2009-08-01). Photo by Trevor Bollmann. Click here for larger-size photo.

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