The Rocky Mountains are enormous, stretching more than 3,000 miles long between the Southern United States, into Canada. Though it is one, near continuous chain, the American Rockies and Canadian Rockies have a handful of notable differences. But which one is better?
The American Rockies are quite a bit taller than the Canadian Rockies, with Mt. Elbert (14,433 feet) in Colorado, the tallest mountain in the American Rockies, sitting a few thousand feet taller than Mount Robson (12,972 feet), the tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies.
The U.S. mountains do tend to have a much higher base elevation than the Canadian mountains, though, making the Canadian mountains significantly more prominent. Mount Robson is the most prominent mountain in the chain, with 9,281 feet of prominence. That’s nearly 200 feet more prominent than Mount Elbert, the most prominent mountain in the American Rockies.
So which one is really better? That’s obviously a rather subjective, but at the end of the day both are truly stunning.
