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Jun 22, 2020 — Flat Top Mountain is an easily accessible trailhead along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia at a paved parking lot. I started hiking along the trail, which begins pretty flat and really well-maintained. The Flat Top Mountain Trail then started zig-zagging up a bunch of forested switchbacks. It passed a trail junction a half mile before the summit and also passed a couple of pretty rock outcrops covered in mosses. Aside from some ferns and these boulders, there's nothing particularly of note along the hike, especially since there isn't even a sliver of a view. It's a nice stroll up a mountain.
Eventually I made it to the summit area, where a small cluster of boulders comprised the summit block. Flat Top Mountain is one of the three "Peaks of Otter". I also visited Sharp Top Mountain, another of these three named peaks, which pairs nicely with Flat Top Mountain.
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