I was looking at the Peaks by State list and was wondering what the most mountainous state was so I put this little spread sheet together. I simply takes the # of peaks divided by the land area in square miles.
Peaks Area Pks/sqMi
WA 5689 66582 0.08544
VT 733 9249 0.07925
NH 648 8969 0.07225
CA 10983 155973 0.07042
ID 5723 82751 0.06916
WV 1597 24087 0.06630
AZ 7396 113642 0.06508
NV 6741 109806 0.06139
UT 4374 82168 0.05323
OR 4976 96003 0.05183
ME 1344 30865 0.04354
NY 1987 47224 0.04208
CO 4363 103730 0.04206
MT 5883 145556 0.04042
VA 1553 39598 0.03922
WY 3129 97105 0.03222
TN 1234 41220 0.02994
NC 1330 48708 0.02731
NM 3147 121365 0.02593
HI 145 6423 0.02258
CT 102 4845 0.02105
MA 154 7838 0.01965
PA 841 44820 0.01876
AR 493 52075 0.00947
GA 435 57919 0.00751
TX 1352 261914 0.00516
SD 272 75989 0.00358
OK 241 68679 0.00351
SC 89 30111 0.00296
RI 1 1045 0.00096
ND 60 68994 0.00087
NE 43 76878 0.00056
Not really suprising that WA is on top but I thought there were some interesting ones on this list.