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Fred Beckey's Great Peaks of the Continent

Rank	Peak	Elev-Ft (Opt)	State	Prom-Ft (Opt)	Range (Level 3)	Ascents
1.	Denali	20,310	Alaska	20,179	Alaska Range	232
2.	Pico de Orizaba	18,491	Puebla/Veracruz	16,148	Cordillera Neovolcanica	336
3.	Mount Saint Elias	18,008	Alaska/Yukon Territory	11,315	Saint Elias Mountains	5
4.	Mount Whitney	14,498	California	10,088	Sierra Nevada	3016
5.	Mount Rainier	14,411	Washington	13,246	Cascade Range	2275
6.	Longs Peak	14,255	Colorado	2940	Southern Rocky Mountains	819
7.	North Palisade	14,242	California	2894	Sierra Nevada	259
8.	Mount Shasta	14,162	California	9782	Cascade Range	1286
9.	Maroon Peak	14,156	Colorado	2356	Southern Rocky Mountains	199
10.	Mount Sneffels	14,150	Colorado	3070	Southern Rocky Mountains	447
11.	Pikes Peak	14,110	Colorado	5550	Southern Rocky Mountains	1186
12.	Gannett Peak	13,804	Wyoming	7076	Greater Yellowstone Rockies	311
13.	Grand Teton	13,770	Wyoming	6560	Greater Yellowstone Rockies	431
14.	Fremont Peak	13,745	Wyoming	1184	Greater Yellowstone Rockies	77
15.	Mount Waddington	13,186	British Columbia	10,823	Coast Mountains	5
16.	Mount Ritter	13,143	California	4022	Sierra Nevada	261
17.	Mount Robson	12,989	British Columbia	9314	Canadian Rockies	8
18.	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Arizona	6039	Colorado Plateau	1246
19.	Mount Moran	12,605	Wyoming	2685	Greater Yellowstone Rockies	40
20.	Mount Deborah	12,339	Alaska	5239	Alaska Range	1
21.	Mount Assiniboine	11,864	Alberta/British Columbia	6831	Canadian Rockies	29
22.	Mount Timpanogos	11,749	Utah	5289	Western Rocky Mountains	656
23.	Mount Hood	11,239	Oregon	7706	Cascade Range	1648
24.	Howser Spire	11,194	British Columbia	4262	Columbia Mountains	2
25.	Mount Sir Donald	10,774	British Columbia	2867	Columbia Mountains	24
26.	Mount Wilbur	9321	Montana	2136	Central Montana Rocky Mountains	23
27.	Mount Shuksan	9131	Washington	4451	Cascade Range	628
28.	Devils Thumb	9111	Alaska/British Columbia	3369	Coast Mountains	5
29.	Mount Saint Helens	8333	Washington	4613	Cascade Range	2027
30.	Black Elk Peak	7231	South Dakota	2931	Great Plains	898
31.	Ship Rock	7178	New Mexico	1578	Colorado Plateau	9
32.	Clingmans Dome	6643	North Carolina/Tennessee	4523	Blue Ridge Mountains	1564
33.	Mount Washington	6288	New Hampshire	6168	Northern U.S. Appalachians	4589
34.	Mount Marcy	5344	New York	4924	Canadian Shield	2142
35.	Katahdin	5268	Maine	4298	Northern U.S. Appalachians	1867

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