The name Sugarloaf or Sugar Loaf applies to numerous raised topographic landforms worldwide: mountains, hills, peaks, summits, buttes, ridges, rock formations,

bornhardt A bornhardt () is a dome-shaped, steep-sided, bald rock outcropping at least in height and several hundred metres in width. They are named after Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946), a German geologist and explorer of German East Africa, who first ...

inselberg An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...

, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of a

sugarloaf A sugarloaf was the usual form in which refined sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top was the end product of a process in which dark molasses, a ri ...

were often so named.''New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.'' "sugarloaf." Lexicon Publications, Danbury, Connecticut, 1993. __NOTOC__

Australia

Mount Sugarloaf (New South Wales) Mount Sugarloaf, also known as ''Great Sugar Loaf'', is a mountain in the lower Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, standing at 412 meters (1,352 feet), it looks over the cities of Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Maitland. The s ...

* Sugarloaf Peak and Sugarloaf Saddle in

Cathedral Range The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the south of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. The range is an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada. The range is named after Cathedral Peak, which resembles a cathedral spire. Geograp ...

, Victoria * Mt Sugarloaf, a peak on

Mount Leura Mount Leura is a 313-metre scoria cone surrounding a dry crater 100 m deep and is the central and most obvious component of a larger volcanic complex southeast of the town of Camperdown located in western Victoria, Australia, south west of the ...

, Victoria * Mt Sugarloaf, in

Kinglake National Park The Kinglake National Park is a national park in Central Victoria, Australia. The national park is situated northeast of Melbourne and includes tracks (some with wheelchair access), and camping facilities. The national park includes Masons Fa ...

* Sugarloaf, in Mount Buangor State Park * Mt Sugarloaf, peak in the Pyrete Range of

Lerderderg State Park Lerderderg State Park (incorporating the former Pyrete State Forest) is a 14,250-hectare park located between Bacchus Marsh and Blackwood, an hour's drive from Melbourne, Australia. The park is part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape in the tra ...

, Victoria * The Sugarloaf, Hallett Cove,

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

Brazil

Sugarloaf Mountain Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to ...

(''Pão de Açúcar''), in Rio de Janeiro

Canada

Sugarloaf Mountain (New Brunswick) Sugarloaf Mountain is a mountain in the northern Appalachian Mountains in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. The mountain is protected by Sugarloaf Provincial Park and lies within city limits, just south of the urban area. Visitor attractions ...

Wilkie Sugar Loaf Wilkie Sugar Loaf is a Canadian peak in the Cape Breton Highlands near the community of Sugar Loaf in the province of Nova Scotia. Description Wilkie Sugar Loaf is a forested pyramidal peak rising from the shore of Aspy Bay, north of the C ...

in Nova Scotia * Pain de Sucre ("Sugarloaf") summit of

Mont Saint-Hilaire Mont Saint-Hilaire (English: Mount Saint-Hilaire; abe, Wigwômadenizibo; see for other names) is an isolated hill, high, in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec. It is about thirty kilometres east of Montreal, and immediately east of the ...

, Quebec * Mount Cheminis or Mont Chaudron on the Quebec-Ontario border * Sugarloaf Mountain, Nanaimo, British Columbia

Ireland

Great Sugar Loaf Great Sugar Loaf () at , is the 404th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, however, being below 600 m it does not rank on the Vandeleur-Lynam or Hewitt scales.Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: ...

, a 501 m peak in east County Wicklow *

Little Sugar Loaf Little Sugar Loaf () is a hill in the far northeastern sector of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. It does not have the elevation to rank on Arderin, Hewitt, or Vandeleur-Lynam scales,Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's ...

, a 342 m peak in east County Wicklow * Sugarloaf (County Cork), a 574 m peak near Glengarriff in County Cork * Sugarloaf (West Wicklow), a 552 m peak in west County Wicklow *

Sugarloaf Hill (Knockmealdowns) Sugarloaf Hill ( ga, Cnoc na Binne) is a mountain peak located in the Knockmealdown Mountains on the border between County Tipperary and County Waterford. See also * List of mountains in Ireland * Sugarloaf (mountain) The name Sugarloaf o ...

, a 663 m peak in the Knockmealdowns in County Waterford

New Zealand

Mount Sugarloaf The name Sugarloaf or Sugar Loaf applies to numerous raised topographic landforms worldwide: mountains, hills, peaks, summits, buttes, ridges, rock formations, bornhardt, inselberg, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of ...

(1238m), by Lake Heron, South Island, New Zealand *

Sugar Loaf Islands The Sugar Loaf Islands (often Sugarloaf; mi, Ngā Motu, ) are a collection of five small uninhabited islands and several sea stacks near Port Taranaki, New Zealand. The largest, Moturoa Island, covers approximately . Motumahanga is the island fu ...

, near New Plymouth *

Sugarloaf (Christchurch) Sugarloaf ( mi, Te Heru o Kahukura) is a landmark in the Port Hills to the south of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. The Māori part of the name means the headcomb of Kahukura. The Sugarloaf communications tower is an iconic radio and ...

, a peak in the Port Hills with a prominent transmission tower

Norway

* Sukkertoppen ("Sugarloaf peak"), a 314m mountain on the island of

Hessa Hessa or Heissa is an island in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is the westernmost island in the municipality and it is one of the main islands in the island-city of Ålesund. The island is located west and south of t ...

Ålesund Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ...

, Norway

Philippines

Pan de Azucar Island Pan de Azucar, variously known as Tampisaw Island or Tambaliza (which is also the name of one of the barangays on the island), is a populated island in the Visayan Sea in the Philippines. The island is known for Mount ''Pan de Azucar'' (Sugarloa ...

in Iloilo province

Sierra Leone

Sugar Loaf (Freetown) :''Mountains with a similar name are listed at Sugarloaf_(mountain)'' Sugar Loaf is a forested mountain in the Western Area of Sierra Leone in west Africa. The capital city of Freetown is built around its lower slopes. Parts of the mountain are p ...

is a mountain on the edge of the capital city

United Kingdom

Sugar Loaf, Carmarthenshire Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf, is a prominent hill in Carmarthenshire, Wales beside the A483 trunk road some south-west of Llanwrtyd Wells. It is a popular viewpoint and picnic spot within easy reach on foot from the roadside car ...

, Wales *

Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf ( cy, Mynydd Pen-y-fâl or ), is a hill situated north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales and sits within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the ...

, Wales * Sugarloaf Hill, Malvern, England * Sugarloaf Hill,

Folkestone Downs The Folkestone Downs are an area of chalk downland above Folkestone, where the eastern end of the North Downs escarpment meets the English Channel. Part of the Downs is the Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment Site of Special Scientific Interest, ...

, England

United States

Sugar Loaf Mountain (Alaska) Sugar Loaf Mountain, also known as Sugar Mountain, is a summit located in the Alaska Range, near Denali National Park and Preserve, in Alaska, Alaska, United States. It is situated northeast of park headquarters and southeast of Healy, Alaska, ...

Sugarloaf Mountain (Cleburne County, Arkansas) Sugarloaf Mountain is a hiking and mountain biking destination located in Cleburne County, Arkansas, east of the city of Heber Springs, Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is a 690 feet (210 m) erosional remnant beside Little Red R ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Butte County, California) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Riverside County, California) * Sugarloaf Mountain (San Bernardino County, California) * Sugarloaf Mountain (San Mateo, California) * Sugarloaf Ridge, situated in

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Sugarloaf Ridge State Park is a state park in Northern California, United States. Located in the Mayacamas Mountains north of Kenwood, the park straddles the boundary between Sonoma and Napa counties. The park contains the Bald Mountain and ...

in Sonoma County, California *

(

Boulder County Boulder County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado of the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 330,758. The most populous municipality in the county and the county seat is Boulder. Boulder County comprises th ...

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...

) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida) Sugarloaf Mountain is the fifth-highest named point and the most prominent point in the U.S. state of Florida. At above sea level it is also the highest point on the geographic Florida Peninsula. The hill is in Lake County, near the town of C ...

, the highest point of peninsular Florida * Sugarloaf Mountain (Rowan County, Kentucky) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Maine) *

Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland) Sugarloaf Mountain is a small (1,283 foot; 391 m) mountain and park about 10 miles (16 km) south of Frederick, Maryland, USA. The closest village is Barnesville, located just over one mile from the foot of the mountain. The peak of this re ...

Sugarloaf Mountain (Franklin County, Massachusetts) Sugarloaf Mountain or Mount Sugarloaf, is a butte-like mountain located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States, with two summits, North Sugarloaf Mountain and its more popular knee, South Sugarloaf Mountain . Its cliffs, made of arko ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Marquette, Michigan) *

Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island) Sugar Loaf is a 75-foot-high (23m) landlocked rock or stack in the interior of Mackinac Island in Lake Huron. Created by erosion during the period of postglacial Lake Algonquin, Sugar Loaf is the largest post-glacial erosion feature in the Strai ...

, a rock formation on Mackinac Island in Michigan *

Sugar Loaf (Winona, Minnesota) Sugar Loaf is a bluff on the Mississippi River topped by a rock pinnacle, overlooking the city of Winona, Minnesota, United States. The name "Sugar Loaf" is sometimes taken to mean just the rock pinnacle, which was created by quarrying in the ...

Sugarloaf (New York) Sugarloaf is a summit in Herkimer County, New York and partly in Hamilton County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains The Adirondack Mountains (; a-də-RÄN-dak) form a massif in northeastern New York with boundaries that correspond roughly ...

Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York) Sugarloaf Hill is a peak along the Hudson River in Putnam County, New York, part of the Hudson Highlands. It was named by the Dutch for its resemblance in outline to a sugarloaf when sailing up the river towards it. Topography Sugarloaf Hil ...

, and Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York), two adjacent peaks in the

Hudson Highlands The Hudson Highlands are mountains on both sides of the Hudson River in New York state lying primarily in Putnam County on its east bank and Orange County on its west. They continue somewhat to the south in Westchester County and Rockland County ...

of New York * Sugarloaf Mountain (Greene County, New York), one of the

Catskill High Peaks The Catskill High Peaks are all of the mountains in New York's Catskill Mountains above in elevation whose summits are separated either by ''or'' a vertical drop of at least between it and the next nearest separate summit. By usual standards, ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Webb, New York), in the Town of Webb in Herkimer County, New York * Sugar Loaf Mountain (Orange County, New York) * Sugarloaf Mountain (Rutherford County, North Carolina) * Sugarloaf (Geauga County, Ohio), one of the highest points of

Northeast Ohio The region Northeast Ohio, in the US state of Ohio, in its most expansive usage contains six metropolitan areas ( Cleveland–Elyria, Akron, Canton–Massillon, Youngstown–Warren, Mansfield, and Weirton–Steubenville) along with eight m ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Ross County, Ohio), situated in

Great Seal State Park Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

, located in

Chillicothe, Ohio Chillicothe ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Scioto River 45 miles (72 km) south of Columbus, Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio. It is the only city in Ross Count ...

* Sugar Loaf Mountain (Oklahoma),

summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used ...

with the most

prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

in the state * Sugarloaf Mountain (Pennsylvania), inside the eponymous Sugarloaf Township of

Luzerne County Luzerne County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and is water. It is Northeastern Pennsylvania's second-largest county by total area. As of ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina), near Patrick,(Chesterfield County, South Carolina) * Sugarloaf Mountain (El Paso, Texas) in the

Franklin Mountains State Park Franklin Mountains State Park is a Texas state park in El Paso, Texas, in the United States. Park headquarters are located at an elevation of with the highest peak reaching . It is one of the largest urban parks in the nation lying completely ...

* Sugarloaf Mountain (Utah), a mountain near the

Alta Ski Area Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of , Alta's base elevation is and rises to for a vertical gain of . One of the oldest ski ...

outside of Salt Lake City, Utah * Sugarloaf Mountain (Wyoming), in the

Snowy Range The Medicine Bow Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming. The northern extent of this range is the sub-range the Snowy Range. From the northern end of Colorado's Never Summer ...

. * Sugarloaf Mountain (Vermont), a prominence southeast of

Sugarbush Resort Sugarbush Resort is a ski resort located in the Mad River valley in Warren, Vermont, owned by Alterra Mountain Company. It is one of the largest ski resorts in New England. The resort encompasses more than 4000 acres (16 km²) total, 484 ...

Uruguay

Cerro Pan de Azúcar Cerro Pan de Azúcar (''Sugar Loaf Hill'') is among the top 10 highest points of Uruguay, with an altitude of 423 metres (1,387.8 ft). Location and features It is located southwest of Maldonado Department, in the municipality of Piri� ...

(Sugarloaf Hill), Maldonado

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