List of the major 3000-meter summits of the Rocky Mountains
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Further information: List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
See also: List of the ultra-prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains and List of the major 100-kilometer summits of the Rocky Mountains
The following sortable table comprises the 184 peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.[1]
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
- The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.[2][3]
- The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.[4][3]
- The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.[5]
In the Rocky Mountains, 62 major summits exceed 4000 meters (13,123 feet) elevation, 137 exceed 3500 meters (11,483 feet), and the following 184 exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet) elevation.