Additional note: Starting in 2002, the National Geodetic Survey, in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, increased the heights of many of the nation's highest mountain peaks — including those in Utah — because of a new calibration. The peaks aren't really higher, but the baseline they are being measured from is.

For example. Kings Peak is now technically 5.9 feet taller than before at 13,534 feet above sea level. Mount Nebo has gained 4.6 total feet; Mount Timpanogos has risen 4.4 feet; Lone Peak has added an extra 4.3 feet; and Mount Olympus is now an additional 3.7 feet above sea level.

It will be years before maps and most of these new calibrations come into the mainstream, however. This article has stuck with the traditional heights.

SOURCES: "High in Utah," by Michael R. Weibel and Dan Miller; "Highpoints of the United States," by Don W. Holmes; U.S. Geological Survey maps; and information collected by Winford "Dub" Bludworth of Salt Lake City, who has climbed 49 of the nation's 50 high points and all 29 county high points in Utah.

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