From Deseret News archives:
Mountains High: Utah abounds with high peaks in all counties
2. La Sal Mountains, 12,721-foot high point.
3. Tushar Mountains, 12,173-foot high point.
4. Deep Creek Mountains, 12,087-foot high point.
5. Wasatch Mountains, 11,928-foot high point.
• Tallest peak in each of the 29 counties:
Beaver: *Delano Peak, 12,169.
Box Elder: "Bull Mountain," 9,931 or 9,934.
Cache: Naomi Peak, 9,979.
Carbon: Monument Peak, 10,452.
Daggett *"Eccentric" benchmark, 12,276.
Davis: *Thurston Peak ("North Francis"), 9,706.
Duchesne: Kings Peak, 13,528.
Emery: East Mountain, 10,743.
Garfield: Mount Ellen, 11,522.
Grand: Mount Waas, 12,331.
Iron: Brian Head, 11,307.
Juab: Ibapah Peak, 12,087.
Kane: **Andy Nelson Peak, 10,027.
Millard: Mine Camp Peak, 10,222.
Morgan : *Thurston Peak, 9,706.
Piute: Delano Peak, 12,169.
Rich: Bridger Peak, also called Swan Peak, north ridge, 9,255.
Salt Lake: American Fork Twin Peaks, 11,489.
San Juan: Mount Peale, 12,721.
Sevier: Fish Lake Hightop, 11,633.
Summit: Gilbert Peak, 13,442.
Tooele: Deseret Peak, 11,031.
Uintah: *"Eccentric" benchmark, 12,276.
Utah: North Nebo, 11,928.
Wasatch: **Mount Cardwell, 10,743.
Washington: Signal Peak, 10,365.
Wayne: Bluebell Knoll, 11,322.
Weber: Willard Peak, 9,764.
*Shared high point with another county.
**Unofficial name. Actual peak not named by USGS.
• Tallest La Sal Mountain peaks :
1. Mount Peale, 12,721 feet above sea level.
2. Mount Mellenthin, 12,645.
3. Mount Tukuhnikivatz, 12,482.
4. Mount Waas, 12,331.
5. Manns Peak: 12,272.
6. Mount Laurel, 12,271.
7. Mount Tomasaki, 12,239.
8. "Pilot Mountain," 12,200.
9. "Green Mountain," 12,163.
10. Tukuhnikivatz North Summit, 12,048.
11. "Castle Mountain," 12,044.
12. "La Sal Peak," 12,001.
("titles are nicknames.)
• Tuschar Mountains' highest points:
1. Delano Peak, 12, 173.
2. Mount Belknap, 12,137
3. Mount Baldy, 12,122
4. Mount Holly, 11,985
5. Mount Brigham, 11,758.
6. Gold Mountain, 11,650
7. Edna Peak, 11,650
8. Copper Belt Peak, 11,383
9. Circleville Mountain, south, 11,331
10. Shelly Baldy Peak, 11,321
11. Lake Peak, 11,310
12. Signal Peak, 11,306
13. Circleville Mountain, north, 11,285.
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