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County Highpoint Superlatives
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Welcome to the County Highpoint Superlatives page. From here you may link to
the front runners page, which shows who are
the leaders in a quest to identify and climb to the highest point in many of
the nation's 3141 counties and county equivalents. The information there is
guaranteed to be both interesting and amusing.
County highpoints command a wealth of superlative statistics independent of
any human effort to visit them. Thereby an "Apex" list of the
toughest twenty county highpoints
outside Alaska is provided. There is also a list based on other another
measure of difficulty, i.e. county highpoints requiring a vertical elevation
gain on foot of at least 5,000 feet
by at least one documented route.
In sharp contrast there are lists for counties whose highpoints are
relatively easy to visit (see below). Several more such human-independent superlative
lists for highpoints may be accessed from the
front runners page rather than directly from
this page.
For those interested in making a name for themselves through their highpointing
accomplishments, perhaps the best means is to consider visiting a county whose
highpoint has never been previously visited by any member of the County Highpointers.
Such "virgin" counties are many in number and are listed on a state-by-state basis under the
state trip report pages. An overview of virgin counties
in map format is also available.
Individuals interested in finding distances for various front runner list categories
will find the distance calculator convenient.
There is also a floating glob radius calculator
that may assist in finding one's standing for the eponymous
records category.
You are urged to
read a description of its use prior to attempting a calculation.
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floating glob radius calculator
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Comprehensive state-by-state lists of all county high points in the United
States are provided in County High Points by Andy Martin.
Contact him for more information.
Links to Superlative Statistics
- Front Runner Lists
- Highest 50-100-150+ Elevation Map
the corresponding lists
A work by Dave Covill showing the highest 166 county highpoints in all fifty states
(everything above 10,000 feet); and the highest 157 eastern highpoints (all above 3,000 feet)
in color-coded groups of 50 counties.
- High Five Map
(The five highest county highpoints in each state.)
- by Jerry Brekhus
- Low Five Map
(The five lowest county highpoints in each state.)
- by Michael Schwartz
- Overall Difficulty Map
difficulty ranking project
A work in progress by Edward Earl for ranking the difficulty (and ease) of counties by vote.
E-mail him with difficulty (and easy) rankings
after removing the ".county"
portion of the address (present to foil web crawlers).
- Difficult Counties (based upon the Apex and 5,000+ foot required effort lists)
apex peaks map
5,000+ ft required effort map
- Easiest and most Difficult County in each State Map
- by Ron Tagliapietra
Easiest County in each State List
- Easiest Counties Map
- by John Mitchler
explanation
Easiest Counties Lists -
(A-M)
(N-Z)
- County Highpoint "Triple Crown" Map
Triple Crown List (offsite)
Triple Crown county highpoints are simultaneously APEX,
5,000+ feet of gain, and ultra (5,000+ foot) prominences.
There are only ten
such triple crown summits in the lower forty-eight states.
County highpoints with at least one of these descriptors are also shown
with colors
corresponding to the specific descriptor combination, e.g. cyan
represents the combination of 5,000+ feet of gain and ultra prominence.
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