Highpointing Forum
Have you any tips, insights, or just straight-up great stories from your adventures out hiking the 50 highest points in America? You are officially invited to join, create or expand upon a conversation!
Forum Navigation
Mount Whitney Stats
#1 · April 17, 2021, 9:35 pm
Mount Whitney is the highest point in California and stands at 14,498 ft above sea level. This elevation puts Mount Whitney at position 2 for the highest peaks in the United States. The peak prominence for Mount Whitney is 10,078 ft. and its isolation is 1,646.3 miles.
Whitney, like Denali, is on nearly all the important lists worldwide.
- World's most prominent peaks 81st
- World's most isolated peaks 18th
- North America's highest peaks 24th
- North America's prominent peaks 16th
- North America's isolated peaks 4th
- U.S. state high point 2nd
- US highest major peaks 11th
- California's highest major peaks 1st
- California fourteeners 1st
- California county high points 1st