Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains

This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. Topographic prominence is the elevation difference between the summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. Topographic isolation is the minimum great circle distance to a point of higher elevation.

This article defines a major mountain peak as a summit with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. An ultra prominent peak is a summit with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence.

Highest major summits

The following sortable table lists the 100 highest major mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains with a topographic prominence of at least .This prominence cutoff agrees with that used for Wikipedia's List of highest mountains, but is much larger than that used for the list of fourteeners; hence many standard fourteeners are not included on this list. Topographic elevation is defined as the...
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