Montana’s Tallest Peaks by Mountain Range

These are the tallest peaks in each of Montana's mountain ranges. There is no official list of mountain ranges for Montana or an official map of their boundaries. The mountain range boundaries in this list were defined by Ed Madej of the Montana State Library in 2000 and revised by Cedron Jones of the Montana Wilderness Association in 2007. The list of mountain peaks was taken from the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) http://gnis.usgs.gov and their elevations were read from U. S. Geological Survey 1:24,000 scale topographic maps.

The mountain ranges between Butte and the Blackfoot River are not officially named. For the purpose of this list, the area between Butte and McDonald Pass on US 12 is called the "Boulder Mountains" and the area between McDonald Pass and the Blackfoot River the "Nevada Mountains".

Please notice that this is NOT a list of the tallest mountains in Montana. The 41 tallest named peaks in Montana are all in the Beartooth Range, and there are more than 240 named peaks whose elevations are over 10,000 feet. Montana's 300 tallest named peaks are also available.

Information Facts and Disclaimers:

• The GNIS only contains peaks that have names. There may be un-named peaks in each range taller than the peaks listed here.
  The highest point in each range has been put on the list, whether or not it appears in the GNIS and whether or not it has a name.
• The location of a peak in the GNIS could be wrong, so that some peaks may appear in the wrong mountain range or be left out of all the mountain ranges.
• The location of the mountain range boundaries could be wrong, so that some peaks may appear in the wrong mountain range or be left out of all the mountain ranges.
• A mountain peak might be missing from the GNIS, and may not have been found when the list was made.

This list was compared against the lists found on the Peak Bagger page. This list and the Peak Bagger have many differences due to different interpretations of the boundaries of mountain ranges. The peaks followed by asterisks were added to this page because they were found in the Peak Bagger or on USGS topographic maps and proved to be missing or incorrect in the GNIS.

Click the name of a peak to view it on a map.

Gerry Daumiller
Montana State Library
November 8, 2005 - Revised September 2007