List of New England Fifty Finest

The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak. The list includes 20 peaks in Maine, 15 in Vermont, 14 in New Hampshire, and one in Massachusetts.

This list differs substantially from lists of peaks by elevation, such as the New England 4000 Footers. For instance, only one peak in the Presidential Range is on this list because the others do not have a major prominence, being connected to Mount Washington by ridgelines that are nowhere below 4,900 ft (1,490 m). Mount Washington has an elevation above sea level of 6,288 ft (1,917 m) but has a prominence of about 6,150 ft (1,875 m) because it stands that high above its key col — the lowest ground on the ridge line connecting Washington to the higher peaks of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Washington's key col is at the Champlain Canal in New York, the lowest ground on the water divide between the watersheds of the Hudson and Saint Lawrence Rivers.

Of the 48 New Hampshire Four-thousand Footers, only eight are also on this list, including Mount Lafayette and Carter Dome, which are the high points of the Franconia Range and the Carter-Moriah Range, respectively. The list includes several monadnocks, including the eponymous Mount Monadnock, and the high points of several small mountain ranges which have high prominence by virtue of their isolation from higher peaks by surrounding low ground.

List
Rank Peak State Prominence [1] Elevation
1Mount WashingtonNew Hampshire   6,150 ft  1,875 m  6,288 ft  1,917 m  
2KatahdinMaine 4,290 ft1,310 m5,268 ft1,606 m
3Mount MansfieldVermont 3,640 ft1,110 m4,393 ft1,339 m
4Mount LafayetteNew Hampshire 3,360 ft1,025 m5,249 ft1,600 m
5Killington PeakVermont 3,320 ft1,010 m4,241 ft1,291 m
6Sugarloaf MountainMaine 3,180 ft970 m4,250 ft1,295 m
7Equinox MountainVermont 3,060 ft935 m3,850 ft1,175 m
8Jay PeakVermont 2,975 ft906 m3,858 ft1,176 m
9Mount MoosilaukeNew Hampshire 2,932 ft894 m4,802 ft1,464 m
10Mount BigelowMaine 2,855 ft870 m4,145 ft1,263 m
11Dorset MountainVermont 2,840 ft865 m3,770 ft1,150 m
12Carter DomeNew Hampshire 2,821 ft860 m4,832 ft1,473 m
13Old Speck MountainMaine 2,720 ft830 m4,170 ft1,270 m
14Mount CabotNew Hampshire 2,670 ft815 m4,170 ft1,270 m
15White Cap MountainMaine 2,610 ft795 m3,654 ft1,114 m
16Coburn MountainMaine 2,510 ft765 m3,717 ft1,133 m
17Mount GreylockMassachusetts 2,470 ft755 m3,487 ft1,063 m
18Mount PutnamVermont 2,470 ft755 m3,642 ft1,110 m
19Saddleback MountainMaine 2,446 ft746 m4,120 ft1,256 m
20Kinsman MountainNew Hampshire 2,420 ft740 m4,358 ft1,328 m
21Stratton MountainVermont 2,410 ft735 m3,940 ft1,201 m
22The TravelerMaine 2,340 ft715 m3,541 ft1,079 m
23Mount ShawNew Hampshire 2,340 ft715 m2,990 ft911 m
24Snow MountainMaine 2,330 ft710 m3,960 ft1,207 m
25Mount AscutneyVermont 2,290 ft700 m3,140 ft955 m
26 [2] Kibby Mountain orMaine 2,260 ft690 m3,654 ft1,114 m
Caribou Mountain 3,650±10 ft1,112±3 m
27Mount CarrigainNew Hampshire 2,240 ft685 m4,700 ft1,435 m
28Baldpate MountainMaine 2,240 ft685 m3,790 ft1,155 m
29East MountainVermont 2,230 ft680 m3,439 ft1,048 m
30Grass MountainVermont 2,200 ft670 m3,109 ft948 m
31Baker MountainMaine 2,190 ft670 m3,520 ft1,073 m
32Smarts MountainNew Hampshire 2,190 ft670 m3,238 ft987 m
33Mount MonadnockNew Hampshire 2,160 ft660 m3,165 ft965 m
34Cold Hollow Mountains High Point[3]Vermont 2,160 ft660 m3,330 ft1,015 m
35Signal MountainVermont 2,140 ft650 m3,370 ft1,025 m
36Mount EllenVermont 2,132 ft650 m4,083 ft1,244 m
37Big Moose MountainMaine 2,130 ft650 m3,196 ft974 m
38Mount KearsargeNew Hampshire 2,100 ft640 m2,937 ft895 m
39Doubletop MountainMaine 2,080 ft635 m3,489 ft1,063 m
40Elephant MountainMaine 2,060 ft630 m3,772 ft1,150 m
41Mount OsceolaNew Hampshire 2,040 ft620 m4,340 ft1,325 m
42Boundary Bald MountainMaine 2,010 ft615 m3,638 ft1,109 m
43Gore MountainVermont 1,982 ft604 m3,332 ft1,016 m
44Mount CardiganNew Hampshire 1,922 ft586 m3,155 ft962 m
45Big Spencer MountainMaine 1,920 ft585 m3,206 ft977 m
46Camel's HumpVermont 1,880 ft575 m4,083 ft1,244 m
47Belknap MountainNew Hampshire 1,850 ft565 m2,382 ft726 m
48Saddleback MountainMaine 1,850 ft565 m2,998 ft915 m
49Mount BlueMaine 1,840 ft560 m3,190 ft970 m
50Moxie MountainMaine 1,820 ft555 m2,930 ft895 m

Notes
  1. Measurements of prominence generally have less precision than those of elevation, since the elevations of the key cols are seldom surveyed, and must be estimated from the contour lines above and below on topographic maps. The values in this table are intermediate between the maximum possible ("optimistic") and minimum possible ("clean") prominences. The values are rounded off to the nearest 10 ft or 5 m unless known more precisely. The determination of precise values would require only minor alterations in the order of the list — with one exception.
  2. Caribou Mountain's elevation is in the range of 3,640–60 ft, so it may be higher or lower than Kibby Mountain (3,654 ft). Whichever of them is higher has a prominence of about 2,260 ft (690 m). The other stands only about 1,220 ft (370 m) above the lowest point on the ridge line between them — well below the lowest prominence on the list.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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