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Catskill 3500-foot Peaks

Ranked Peaks have 160 feet of Clean Prominence

Showing Zachariah Rollins's most recent ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	Peak	Elev-M (Opt)	Prom-M (Opt)	Range (Level 5)	Isol-Km
1.	Hunter Mountain	1237	664	Central Catskills	23.7
2.	West Kill Mountain	1189	384	Central Catskills	5.0
3.	Plateau Mountain	1176	548	Central Catskills	6.4
4.	Sugarloaf Mountain	1164	371	Central Catskills	2.1
5.	Hunter Mountain-Southwest Peak	1146	67	Central Catskills	2.0
	West Kill Mountain-East Peak	1140	24	Central Catskills	.8
6.	Rusk Mountain	1128	238	Central Catskills	3.5
7.	Twin Mountain	1115	261	Central Catskills	1.8
8.	North Dome	1100	356	Central Catskills	4.9
	Twin Mountain-South Peak	1097	42	Central Catskills	.8
9.	Indian Head	1089	144	Central Catskills	.9
10.	Mount Sherrill	1085	171	Central Catskills	2.0
11.	Black Dome	1219	640	Northern Catskills	13.6
12.	Thomas Cole Mountain	1207	73	Northern Catskills	1.1
12.	Blackhead	1207	164	Northern Catskills	1.5
14.	High Peak	1114	523	Northern Catskills	6.7
	Camels Hump	1085	30	Northern Catskills	1.1
15.	Windham High Peak	1074	233	Northern Catskills	4.9
16.	Bearpen Mountain	1103	524	Northwest Catskills	14.5
	Bearpen Mountain-Northwest Peak	1079	18	Northwest Catskills	1.3
17.	Halcott Mountain	1079	225	Northwest Catskills	5.4
18.	Vly Mountain	1076	204	Northwest Catskills	3.0
19.	Slide Mountain	1280	1009	Southern Catskills	219.5
20.	Cornell Mountain	1183	195	Southern Catskills	2.4
21.	Table Mountain	1173	204	Southern Catskills	4.8
22.	Peekamoose Mountain	1171	61	Southern Catskills	.8
23.	Wittenberg Mountain	1158	73	Southern Catskills	1.1
24.	Panther Mountain	1140	305	Southern Catskills	6.4
25.	Lone Mountain	1134	91	Southern Catskills	1.8
26.	Friday Mountain	1126	65	Southern Catskills	1.6
27.	Balsam Cap	1104	80	Southern Catskills	1.2
28.	Rocky Mountain	1069	100	Southern Catskills	1.4
29.	Doubletop Mountain	1183	281	Southwest Catskills	2.2
30.	Graham Mountain	1179	368	Southwest Catskills	14.3
31.	Balsam Lake Mountain	1140	152	Southwest Catskills	3.8
32.	Big Indian Mountain	1134	165	Southwest Catskills	2.7
33.	Fir Mountain	1109	140	Southwest Catskills	2.4
34.	Eagle Mountain	1103	158	Southwest Catskills	3.1
34.	Balsam Mountain	1103	185	Southwest Catskills	6.2
36.	Mill Brook Ridge	1067	122	Southwest Catskills	3.3

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List Description

In the Northeastern United States, 4000 feet is the magic number for most of the famous peakbagging lists. However, the Catskill Mountains of south-central New York State only have two peaks above this threshold, so the best-known Catskill peak list is the 3500 footers.

Despite the low elevations (compared to the higher summits of New England and the Adirondacks), this is a challenging list to complete, with many of the summits reachable only by bushwhacking. Catskill terrain and trails can be very tough, with steep descents and thick vegatation. 15 of these summits have no maintained trail.

Another interesting wrinkle with this list is that the Catskill Mountain Club requires hikers to climb four of these summits (Slide, Blackhead, Balsam, and Panther) twice, including once in the winter, to obtain official recognition.

Links

Catskill 3500 Club

Selected Guidebook(s) for this List

AMC Catskill Mountain Guide, 2nd: AMC's Comprehensive Guide to Hiking Trails in the Catskills (Kick)

Caution: These books feature many of the peaks on this list, but may not have information on all of them.

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