Mount Whitney is the highest summit in the contiguous United States
with an elevation of 14,494 feet. It is on the boundary between
California's Inyo and Tulare counties, 84.6 miles west-northwest of
the lowest point in North America at Badwater in Death Valley National
Park (282 feet below sea level). [ 5 ] The west slope of the mountain
is in Sequoia National Park and the summit is the south end of the
John Muir Trail which runs 211.9 miles from Happy Isles in Yosemite
Valley . The east slope is in the Inyo National Forest in Inyo County
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