Thirteener

In mountaineering in the United States, a thirteener is a mountain that exceeds above mean sea level, similar to the more familiar "fourteeners," which exceed. In most instances, "thirteeners" refers only to those peaks between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation.
The importance of thirteeners is greatest in Colorado, which has the majority of such peaks in North America with over 600 of them. Despite the large number of peaks, over 20 peak baggers have reported climbing all of Colorado's thirteeners. Thirteeners are also significant in states whose highpoints fall between 13,000 and 13,999 feet. For example, the Wyoming thirteeners are the highest peaks within the state, and only 5 individuals have reported climbing all 35 peaks, likely due to a combination of technical difficulty and remoteness. In 2019, Teresa Gergen became the first person to summit all 846 thirteeners outside of Alaska, an accomplishment that took her nearly two decades to complete.
Not all summits over 13,000 feet qualify as thirteeners, but only those summits that mountaineers consider to be independent. Objective standards for independence include topographic prominence and isolation, or a combination. However thirteener lists do not always consistently use such objective rules. A rule commonly used by mountaineers in the contiguous United States is that a peak must have at least of prominence to qualify. According to the , it is standard in Alaska to use a prominence rule rather than a 300-foot rule. These are the standards applied for the lists below. Regarding whether or not peaks in excess of 13,999 feet should be considered as "thirteeners", this article will count them as such for statistical purposes, but concentrate its focus on those peaks less than 14,000 feet since the higher peaks are already covered in the fourteeners list.

List of United States thirteeners by state

Thirteeners are found in nine U.S. states. This table summarizes their numbers based on each state's prominence criteria:

U.S. State	Thirteeners	Fourteeners	Highest 13er < 14,000 ft	Elevation
Colorado	637	53	Grizzly Peak
California	149	12	Mount Barnard
Alaska	41	20	Mount Hunter, South Peak
Wyoming	35	0	Gannett Peak
Utah	17	0	Kings Peak
New Mexico	3	0	Wheeler Peak
Hawaii	2	0	Mauna Kea
Nevada	2	0	Boundary Peak
Washington	0	1	none	-

File:Kitcarsonmtn.jpg|thumb|The Crestone Group including
Columbia Point, Colorado

Colorado

By the most detailed count, Colorado has 637 peaks that exceed and meet the prominence criteria, of which 53 are fourteeners. The highest of them less than 14,000 feet are as follows :

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
54	Grizzly Peak		Sawatch Range
55	Stewart Peak		San Juan Mountains
56	Columbia Point		Sangre de Cristo Range
57	Pigeon Peak		San Juan Mountains
58	Mount Ouray		Sawatch Range
59	Ice Mountain		Sawatch Range
60	Fletcher Mountain		Tenmile Range
61	Pacific Peak		Tenmile Range

Grizzly Peak is not only the name of Colorado's highest thirteener, but the state has four other Grizzly Peaks plus one Grizzly Mountain on the list:

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
130	Grizzly Peak		San Juan Mountains
142	Grizzly Mountain		Sawatch Range
145	Grizzly Peak		San Juan Mountains
302	Grizzly Peak		Front Range
415	Grizzly Peak		Sawatch Range

File:Lizard Head.jpg|thumb|Lizard Head, Colorado
Other notable Colorado thirteeners include:

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
66	Mount Adams		Sangre de Cristo Range
68	Mount Meeker		Front Range
82	Crystal Peak		Tenmile Range
89	Turret Peak		Needle Mountains
96	Mount Silverheels		Mosquito Range
131	Argentine Peak		Tenmile Range
253	North Arapaho Peak		Front Range
304	Mummy Mountain		Mummy Range
324	Parry Peak		Front Range
451	Hesperus Mountain		San Juan Mountains
515	Twilight Peak		San Juan Mountains
556	Lizard Head		San Juan Mountains

File:Mount Humphreys.jpg|thumb|Mount Humphreys, California

California

has the second greatest number of thirteeners with 149 of them, of which 12 are fourteeners. The highest under 14,000 feet are as follows :

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
13	Mount Barnard		Sierra [Nevada (U.S.)\|Sierra Nevada]
14	Mount Humphreys		Sierra Nevada
15	Mount Keith		Sierra Nevada
16	Mount Stanford		Sierra Nevada

File:Mount Darwin.jpg|thumb|Mount Darwin, California
File:Mt Tom CA from US 395.jpg|thumb|Mount Tom, California
Other notable California thirteeners include:

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
19	Mount [Le Conte (California)\|Mount Le Conte]		Sierra Nevada
21	Mount Agassiz		Sierra Nevada
23	Norman Clyde Peak		Sierra Nevada
26	Mount Darwin		Sierra Nevada
27	Mount Kaweah		Sierra Nevada
29	Mount Winchell		Sierra Nevada
30	Mount Morgan (Inyo County)		Sierra Nevada
33	Red Kaweah		Sierra Nevada
38	Black Kaweah		Sierra Nevada
39	Mount Tom		Sierra Nevada
46	Birch Mountain		Sierra Nevada
53	Palisade Crest		Sierra Nevada
69	Montgomery Peak		White Mountains
76	Kaweah Queen		Sierra Nevada
120	Red Slate Mountain		Sierra Nevada
122	Mount Ritter		Sierra Nevada
123	Mount Baxter		Sierra Nevada
126	Mount Lyell		Sierra Nevada
137	Mount Dana		Sierra Nevada
149	Mount Morgan (Mono County)		Sierra Nevada

File:MtBlackburn-AtnaPeaks-ParkaPeak.jpg|thumb|Parka Peak, Atna Peaks, and Mount Blackburn, Alaska

Alaska

has at least 41 thirteeners that meet its more stringent prominence criteria of 500 ft, of which 20 are also fourteeners. Different sources list varying numbers of 13,000+ ft peaks in the state, mainly because many of the peaks are unnamed and have no spot elevations given on the USGS topographical maps. Using a 300' interpolated prominence criterion, there are 61 13,000+ ft peaks in Alaska. The following list may miss a few peaks that should be included:
File:MountJarvis.jpg|thumb|Mount Jarvis, Alaska

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
21	Mount Hunter, South Peak		Alaska Range
22	Atna Peaks		Wrangell Mountains
23	Regal Mountain		Wrangell Mountains
24	Mount Hayes		Alaska Range
25	Mount Cook		Saint Elias Mountains
26	Mount Sanford, South Peak		Wrangell Mountains
27	Mount [Quincy Adams (Fairweather Range)\|Mount Quincy Adams]		Fairweather Range
28	Ocypete Peak		Saint Elias Mountains
29	East Kahiltna Peak		Alaska Range
30	Mount Natazhat		Saint Elias Mountains
31	Mount Jarvis		Wrangell Mountains
32	Mount Hunter, Middle Peak	+	Alaska Range
33	Mount Bona, East Peak		Saint Elias Mountains
34	Mount Hayes, South Peak		Alaska Range
35	Celeno Peak	+	Saint Elias Mountains
36	Parka Peak		Wrangell Mountains
37	Mount Silverthrone		Alaska Range
38	Mount Marcus Baker		Chugach Mountains
39	Mount Jarvis, North Peak		Wrangell Mountains
40	Mount Moffit		Alaska Range
41	Mount Zanetti		Wrangell Mountains

File:Gannet Peak with Gannett Glacier.jpg|thumb|Gannett Peak, Wyoming

Wyoming

has 35 thirteeners with at least 300 ft of interpolated prominence, but no fourteeners. 31 of the 35 are located in the rugged and remote Wind River Range. Several of the Wyoming thirteeners require glacier travel and/or rock climbing up to the 5.4 YDS difficulty level to reach the summit, and most climbers spend multiple days backpacking to reach most of these peaks. The highest of them are:
File:Grand Teton in Winter-NPS.jpg|thumb|Grand Teton, Wyoming

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
1	Gannett Peak		Wind River Range
2	Grand Teton		Teton Range
3	Fremont Peak		Wind River Range
4	Mount Warren		Wind River Range
5	Mount Helen		Wind River Range
6	Turret Peak		Wind River Range
7	Mount Sacagawea		Wind River Range
8	Jackson Peak		Wind River Range
9	Mount Woodrow Wilson		Wind River Range
10	Bastion Peak		Wind River Range
11	Mount Febbas		Wind River Range
12	Flagstone Peak		Wind River Range
13	Sunbeam Peak		Wind River Range
14	Pinnacle Ridge		Wind River Range
15	Downs Mountain		Wind River Range

File:Francs Peak.jpg|thumb|Francs Peak, Wyoming
Other notable Wyoming thirteeners include:

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
20	Wind River Peak		Wind River Range
23	Cloud Peak		Big Horn Mountains
26	Francs Peak		Absaroka Range
33	Black Tooth Mountain		Big Horn Mountains

File:Kings Peak Close Up.jpg|thumb|Kings Peak, Utah

Utah

has 17 thirteeners with at least 300 ft of prominence, but no fourteeners. All of them are located in the remote Uinta Mountains near the Wyoming border. The highest of the thirteeners are:

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
1	Kings Peak		Uinta Mountains
2	South Kings Peak		Uinta Mountains
3	Gilbert Peak		Uinta Mountains
4	Mount Emmons		Uinta Mountains

File:Wheeler Peak from Phillips.jpg|thumb|Wheeler Peak, New Mexico

New Mexico

has 3 thirteeners, all located within about of each other in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
1	Wheeler Peak		Sangre de Cristo Mountains
2	Truchas Peak		Sangre de Cristo Mountains
3	North Truchas Peak		Sangre de Cristo Mountains

File:Mauna Kea10.jpg|thumb|Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Hawaii

has two thirteeners, the great shield volcanoes which comprise the bulk of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Rank	Mountain	Elevation	Range
1	Mauna Kea		Island of Hawaii
2	Mauna Loa		Island of Hawaii

File:Boundary Peak Nevada USA.jpg|thumb|Boundary Peak, Nevada

Nevada

has only a single thirteener that meets the threshold for inclusion, Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park with an impressive of prominence. However, the highest point in the state is Boundary Peak, which is a sub-peak of California's Montgomery Peak with only of prominence.

Mountain	Elevation	Range
Boundary Peak		White Mountains
Wheeler Peak		Snake Range

Washington

is the only mountain in Washington state that exceeds, and it has two summits that meet the prominence criteria, both of which are included on the list of fourteeners.