May 23 2026
Mount Tammany 🏔️ Overview Mount Tammany is one of New Jersey’s best-known hiking destinations and the dramatic eastern wall of the Delaware Water Gap. Rising above the Delaware River in Warren County, the mountain marks the southern end of Kittatinny Mountain, a long Appalachian ridge that extends northeast through northwestern New Jersey. Although Mount Tammany …
May 21 2026
Stone Mountain 🏔️ Overview Stone Mountain is a vast, rounded rock dome rising above the rolling landscape of Georgia’s Piedmont region. Located in DeKalb County, approximately ten miles northeast of downtown Atlanta, the mountain is the centerpiece of the 3,200-acre Stone Mountain Park and one of Georgia’s most recognizable natural landmarks. Although commonly called a …
May 20 2026
Haleakalā | Haleakala 🏔️ Overview Haleakalā is a massive shield volcano that dominates eastern Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Rising to 10,023 feet (3,055 meters) at Puʻu ʻUlaʻula, also called Red Hill, it is the highest mountain on Maui and one of the most topographically prominent summits in the United States. The Hawaiian name Haleakalā …
May 18 2026
Celestial Peak | Tiandu Feng | Capital of Heaven Peak | 天都峰天 🏔️ Overview Celestial Peak, more commonly called Tiandu Peak or Tiandu Feng, is one of the three celebrated principal summits of Huangshan in eastern China. Rising above a maze of granite towers, forested ravines, and cloud-filled valleys, it is widely regarded as the most …
May 17 2026
Bright Peak | Brightness Summit | Guangming Ding 🏔️ Overview Bright Peak, commonly known by its Chinese name Guangming Ding, is one of the three celebrated main summits of Huangshan in eastern China. Rising to 1,860 meters (6,102 feet), it is generally recognized as the second-highest peak in the range, standing only four meters below …
May 16 2026
Mount Hua | Huashan Mountain | Huà Shān | 华山 Mount Hua—also known as Huashan—is a dramatic granite mountain in China’s Shaanxi Province. Famous for knife-edge ridges, near-vertical stairways, ancient Taoist temples, and pathways carved directly into cliffs, it is often described as one of the steepest and most thrilling mountains in China. The mountain …
May 15 2026
Mount Putuo | Pǔtuó Shān | Mount Potalaka | 普陀山 🏔️ Overview Mount Putuo—also written Putuoshan or Putuo Shan—is a sacred island mountain in the Zhoushan Archipelago of Zhejiang Province, China. Rising from the East China Sea, it combines forested hills, granite headlands, sandy beaches, sea caves, Buddhist temples, and centuries-old pilgrimage routes within a remarkably compact …
May 14 2026
Großer Hafner | Grosser Hafner 🏔️ Overview Großer Hafner is a prominent 3,076-meter mountain in the Austrian Alps. It rises along the border between the federal states of Carinthia and Salzburg, forming the highest point of both the Hafner Group and Salzburg’s Lungau region. The mountain belongs to the Ankogel Group, one of the principal …
May 13 2026
Colorado’s highest mountains form one of the most impressive concentrations of alpine summits in the United States. Every mountain in the state’s top ten rises above 14,270 feet, and all belong to the Southern Rocky Mountains. These peaks are distributed among several ranges, from the broad high ridges of the Sawatch Range to the steep, …
May 12 2026
🏔️ Overview Mount Narodnaya is the highest mountain in the Ural Mountains, reaching approximately 1,895 meters (6,217 feet) above sea level. The mountain rises in the remote Subpolar Urals of northern Russia, close to the boundary between the Komi Republic and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Although Mount Narodnaya is much lower than the great summits …
