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)