Spire measure peak lists

This is the heart of the spire measure part of peaklist.org.

Most of the lists on this page fall into two types, depending on the measure used to rank the peaks.

"RSM": lists ranked by reduced spire measure require no arbitrary cutoff. The ranking rewards independence as well as intrinsic quality (local relief and steepness). Most lists on this site are of this type. However pure spire measures are listed for the peaks as well.
"SM": lists ranked by pure (unreduced) spire measure rank peaks purely by their intrinsic quality, but such lists require an arbitrary cutoff to eliminate trivial subpeaks. The cutoff uses reduced spire measure: the ratio RSM/SM must be greater than 1/2. (Click here for example pairs of peaks illustrating this cutoff.)

Some lists also include first ascent information.

United States

Lists of the best peaks in various US states and regions, as well as the entire US.

North America

Elsewhere

(*) This list is different from all of the others in that it is ranked by prominence, not SM or RSM. It is not to be confused with the Top 50 peaks in the world by RSM or SM (these lists are in preparation).