Idaho County Most Prominent Peaks by Rob Kleffner

A few preliminary comments:

  • Only 3 of these peaks lack an official name.
  • Some county high points are merely waypoints on a rise to a higher summit in another county. Every point on this list is a peak and all of them are ranked summits.
  • The county boundaries I used come from a repository used by Google so they may not be as precise as needed to get a truly accurate list.
  • The list includes some more iconic mountains in place of less iconic high points.
  • In my home county of Ada, the most prominent peak is Shaw Mountain but the high point is the Boise Ridge South Summit. For Camas County, the most prominent peak is highly-visible Smoky Dome instead of the summit just south of Bromaghin Peak.
  • The list includes all of Idaho’s ultra-prominent peaks.
  • Some truly iconic Idaho summits (like Bell Mountain) are not present in the prominence list but they do appear in the high point list.
  • Likewise, the most prominent mountain in Boise County seems to be Shafer Butte but the high point (Mount Cramer) is much more representative of the Boise County mountain experience.
  • Two of the peaks (the peaks in Canyon County and Lewis County) are located on private property and access is unknown.
  • Corrections for any errors are always welcome.

Ada             Shaw Mountain (5908, 1124)

Adams        Council Mountain (8131, 2323)

Bannock     Sedgwick Peak (9170, 3647)

Bear Lake   Meade Peak (9957, 2485)

Benewah     Lindstrom Peak (4695, 1679)

Bingham     – East Butte  (6575, 1543)

Blaine          Hyndman Peak (12009, 4837)

Boise           Shafer Butte (7582, 2715)

Bonner        Scotchman Peak (7025, 4663)

Bonneville   Caribou Mountain (9816, 3098)

Boundary    Boundary County High Point  (7712, 3317)

Butte            Diamond Peak (12197, 5375)

Camas         Smoky Dome (10097, 3268)

Canyon        – Walters Butte (2938, 464) —Private Property

Caribou       Bonneville Peak (9271, 3395)

Cassia         Cache Peak (10339, 4493)

Clark           Big Table Mountain  (9083, 1896)

Clearwater  Rhodes Peak (7932, 2698)

Custer         Borah Peak (12662, 5982)

Elmore        Trinity Mountain  (9459, 2381)

Franklin       Oxford Peak (9307, 4042)

Fremont      Mount Two Top (8700, 1622)

Gem            Squaw Butte (5896, 1718)

Gooding      Windy Benchmark (5926, 388)

Idaho           He Devil  (9420, 5230)

Jefferson     Table Butte  (5235, 336)

Jerome        Flat Top Butte (4297, 369)

Kootenai      Mica Peak (5252, 2669)

Latah           Bald Mountain (5340, 2117)

Lemhi          Scott Peak  (11398, 4251)

Lewis           Peak 3460 (Greer Hill)  (3460, 450) —Private Property

Lincoln         Dietrich Butte (4635, 432)

Madison       North Menan Butte (5619, 790)

Minidoka      Kimama Butte (5077, 776)

Nez Perce    Craig Mountain (5372, 1057)

Oneida         Elkhorn Peak (9097, 3498)

Owyhee       Hayden Peak (8417, 3150)

Payette        Peak 3326 (Bannister Hill) (3326, 492)

Power          Deep Creek Peak (8751, 3242)

Shoshone    South Butte (6994, 2373)

Teton           Piney Peak (9021, 2250)

Twin Falls    Peak 6787 (Mule Creek Butte)  (6787, 917)

Valley           Big Baldy (9705, 3200)

Washington  Sturgill Peak  (7589, 3434)