Table Top Mountain (New York)
Table Top Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County in the U.S. State of New York.
Table Top Mtn. is flanked to the north by Phelps Mountain, and to the south by Mount Marcy.
Table Top has three summits; the southernmost is the highest, followed by the middle peak at 4,308 ft (1,313 m) and the north peak at 4,216 ft (1,285 m).
Table Top Mountain stands within the watershed of the Ausable River, which drains into Lake Champlain, thence into Canada's Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The southwest end of Table Top Mtn. drains into Marcy Brook, and the West Branch of the Ausable River. The northwest side of Table Top Mtn. drains into Phelps Brook, thence into Marcy Brook. The north end of Table Top drains into Klondike Brook, thence into the Ausable's West Branch. The southeast side of Table Top drains into Johns Brook, thence into the East Branch of the Ausable River.
Table Top Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of the Adirondack State Park.
See also
- Table Top Mountain
- List of mountains in New York
- Northeast 111 4,000-footers
- Adirondack High Peaks
- Adirondack Forty-Sixers
Notes
- ^ Goodwin, Tony, ed. (2021). Adirondack trails. High peaks region (15th ed.). Adirondack Mountain Club. pp. 286–287. ISBN 9780998637181.
- ^ "The Peaks – Adirondack 46ers". adk46er.org. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Table Top Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ Carson, Russell M. L. (1927). Peaks and People of the Adirondacks. Garden City: Doubleday. pp. 135–136. ISBN 9781404751200.
- ^ "Table Top Mountain-Middle Peak, New York". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ "Table Top Mountain-North Peak, New York". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
External links
- "Table Top Mountain, New York". Peakbagger.com.
- "Table Top Mountain". SummitPost.org.