Major Peaks
The Wrangell Mountains include 12 of the 40+ Alaskan peaks over 13,000 ft (see fourteeners and thirteeners):
- Mount Blackburn, 16,390 feet (4,996 m), and East Summit, 16,286 ft (4,964 m)
- Mount Sanford, 16,237 feet (4,949 m), and South Peak, 13,654 ft (4,162 m)
- Mount Wrangell, 14,163 feet (4,317 m), and West Summit, 14,013 ft (4,271 m)
- Atna Peaks, 13,860 ft (4,225 m)
- Regal Mountain, 13,845 ft (4,220 m)
- Mount Jarvis, 13,421 feet (4,091 m), and North Peak, 13,025 ft (3,970 m)
- Parka Peak, 13,280 ft (4,048 m)
- Mount Zanetti, 13,009 ft (3,965 m)
Other prominent mountains include:
- Mount Drum, 12,010 ft (3,661 m)
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