Highest elevation on the Finger Lakes Trail (FLT)
Posted by: sagefemme
N 42° 02.542 W 074° 35.689
18T E 533534 N 4654559
Less than a mile from the summit of Balsam Lake Mountain, it is over 3500 feet above sea level.
Waymark Code: WMM60V
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/27/2014
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The Finger Lakes Trail (FLT) main trail is 563 miles long, extending from the Pennsylvania border in Alleghany State Park to Denning, east of Claryville (Ulster County), with and additional 360 miles of branch trails.
Balsam Lake Mountain is the only Catskill peak over 3500 feet elevation that the FLT traverses.
To see the documentation of this claim, go to the interactive map (
visit link) , zoom in on the easternmost section, and click on the red balloon. It will open a pop-up window that reads, "High Point FLT! - Trail Jct (in bold) Highest elevation on the Finger Lakes Trail (3,660 ft), Trail junction"