List of California 14,000-foot summits facts for kids

Further information: List of mountain peaks of California

Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.

This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence. In mountaineering parlance, these peaks are known as fourteeners. The main fourteener article has a list of all of the fourteeners in the United States, as well as references, more information about how the list is determined, and caveats about accuracy.

The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:

1. The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
2. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
3. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.

Summits higher than 14,000 feet

The following sortable table comprises the 12 California summits with at least 14,000 feet (4267 meters) of elevation and at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.

See also

• List of mountain peaks of North America
  • List of mountain peaks of Greenland
  • List of mountain peaks of Canada
  • List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
  • List of mountain peaks of the United States
    • List of mountain peaks of Alaska
    • List of mountain peaks of California
      • List of the major 4000-meter summits of California
      • List of the major 3000-meter summits of California
      • List of California 14,000-foot summits
      • List of mountain ranges of California
    • List of mountain peaks of Colorado
    • List of mountain peaks of Hawaiʻi
    • List of mountain peaks of Montana
    • List of mountain peaks of Nevada
    • List of mountain peaks of Utah
    • List of mountain peaks of Washington (state)
    • List of mountain peaks of Wyoming
  • List of mountain peaks of México
  • List of mountain peaks of Central America
  • List of mountain peaks of the Caribbean
• California
  • Geography of California
    • Category:Mountains of California
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• Physical geography
  • Topography
    • Topographic elevation
    • Topographic prominence
    • Topographic isolation