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| Harney Peak | 7242 | 2207 |
| Odakota Mountain | 7200+ | 2195+ |
| Bear Mountain | 7172 | 2186 |
| Crooks Tower | 7137 | 2175 |
| Terry Peak | 7071 | 2155 |
| Crows Nest Peak | 7048 | 2148 |
| Sylvan Hill | 7000 | 2134 |
| Flag Mountain | 6937 | 2114 |
| Laird Peak | 6905 | 2105 |
| Custer Peak | 6804 | 2074 |
| Cement Ridge | 6674 | 2034 |
| Weston County High Point | 6620+ | 2018+ |
| Inyan Kara Mountain | 6368 | 1941 |
| Mount Rushmore | 5725 | 1745 |
| Rankin Ridge | 5013 | 1528 |
Terry Peak is only 150 feet lower than Harney Peak, but is easily accessible by road. The bedrock is Tertiary medium-grained granite. The League For Defacing Every Mountain With Towers has been busy on Terry Peak and the summit is a forest of communications towers. The slopes are being developed for ski resorts.
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Qa: Quaternary Alluvium Qg: Quaternary Gravels Tw: Tertiary White River Group Tui: Tertiary Intrusives K: Cretaceous Ju: Jurassic TPs: Triassic-Permian Spearfish Formation Pmk: Permian Minnekahta Limestone Po: Permian Opeche Shale Pm: Permian-Pennsylvanian Minnelusa Formation MDps: Mississippian-Devonian Paha Sapa Limestone O: Ordovician Whitewood Limestone and Winnepeg Siltstone C: Cambrian Deadwood Sandstone X: Proterozoic Metamorphic Rocks XW: Proterozoic and Archean Metamorphic Rocks |
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 | View south of the summit, looking east |
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Panorama looking east
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Above: Looking northwest Left: Looking north Below: Looking northeast to Lead |
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 | Looking southeast. The prominent conical peak is Custer Peak |
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 | Left and below: looking south |
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Panorama looking east (left) to south (right)
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Above: Looking south Left: Looking southeast |
 | Left and below: Looking southeast. The distant conical peak is Custer Peak |
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 | Left and below: Looking east. |
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Left: Looking northeast to Lead Below: Looking north |
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Left: Looking northwest Below: Looking west and southwest |
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Near 360-degree panorama. Photos were taken from multiple vantage points.
 | Left and below: Looking south and southwest from the south side of the peak. Harney Peak is on the distant horizon above the wooden structure. |
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Panorama looking south and southwest from the south side of the peak.
Geologic map based on:
Strobel, M.L., Jarrell, G.J., Sawyer, J.F., Schleicher, J.R., and Fahrenbach, M.D., 1999; Distribution of hydrogeologic units in the Black Hills area, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey Publication Series and Number: Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-743: Map Scale: 1:100,000
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