runbyu's directions proved pretty good. We drove part of the way up in my FJ cruiser and stopped at 7600ft. One could drive all the way to the saddle at 8000ft with an ATV but there are huge ruts that would deter most full size 4WD. From the saddle we managed to lose the trail periodically partially due to it going through scrub oak and partly due to 3-4 inches of fresh snow from the day prior. The "new" trail on the north side of the subpeak was nice. There are new summit register notepads now and I was a little honored to sign in right after the inimitable Gerry and Jennifer Roach. Good views for sure. We were able to follow the trail quite a bit better on the way down.
This part coming over from Lewiston Peak actually was not that bad. It was a nice ridge run that I may have enjoyed had I not been so cranky after all the bushwhacking up the mountain and worried about the incoming storm. My comment once we got to the top was "this is...flat." I honestly didn't realize what I was saying until after I'd said it. Suddenly the name made sense. From far away I didn't think it really looked flat but compared to other summits I've been to it really was flat. I wasn't overwhelmed by the views but did enjoying looking back at the Oquirrs and finding out car in the parking lot.
Summit register is FULL - July 2013 Route Up Flat Top and Lewiston
We made the drive out to Ophir, which was a super cool little town and started up South Fork Road around 3pm. Once we got to the saddle and turned off the road, it was mostly bad trail and cross country from there but we made it up to Lewiston and then over to Flat Top. The summit register is full, so if someone sees this, they may want to take a new one up to the summit. We were only the 7th people to have signed the register this year! We got chased off the top by a Thunderstorm but made it out just fine only getting wet. The new route around the North ridge from 9600 down to 9000 is great and kept us in the trees and out of the rain and lightning. There seem to have been a bunch of changes on the mountain since the last information was posted so I put up a trip report titled 'July 2013 Update - How to get to Flat Top and Lewiston' so that people would have a comprehensive source for getting to the top of these peaks.
PrinceOfNorway - Dec 8, 2012 7:54 pm Date Climbed: Dec 8, 2012
December Chill
This is a tough mountain slogging through snow; even with snowshoes. Anyway, I decided to climb up this mountain in a storm, and it was probably in the negative on top...especially with the wind chill. I spent 5 minutes; made a short vid, took some pics and was gone. Plunge step for the win!
harbor - Jun 8, 2012 1:45 am Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2012
Great hike
Hiked from the new trail head parking lot near the beginning of South Ophir Canyon up the ATV trail to the Mercur overlook and then took the trial up to just below Lewiston Peak. Hiked up the ridge to Lewiston and over to Flat top. 4 hours 10 min total from car to flat top. 3700 ft elevation from car to flat top. Perfectly clear and sunny day. Great views.
DarrenKnezek - Feb 5, 2012 9:38 pm Date Climbed: Feb 4, 2012
Winter Ascent
See post under Lewiston Ridge Route.
jamesmc2 - Dec 18, 2011 11:18 pm Date Climbed: Nov 25, 2011
Thanksgiving
Climbed the day after Thanksgiving in early winter conditions. Not enough snow to ski yet.
vanman798 - Feb 13, 2011 7:08 pm Date Climbed: Feb 12, 2011
Ski Tour
Skied this peak with Sean Peckham. Loved the views.
seanpeckham - Feb 13, 2011 1:10 am Date Climbed: Feb 12, 2011
Ski tour via Lewiston Peak
This was my third trip to the Oquirrhs for skiing/peak-bagging, and the first time there was no whiteout on the summit. I was very glad to finally see the incredible views.
ZeeJay - Dec 22, 2010 2:54 pm Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2007
Nice hike
10/27/2007 Up the west side of Lewiston, over to Flat Top, and down Halls Basin.
8/4/2001 With Fred G., as above, but also made a side trip to 10340 which is east of Flat Top.
nice views, the trail is pretty overgrown, and lots of flies. 2wd TRD tacoma made it up and down the road fine. started about half mile below the saddle. 3 hours up, 1hr45min down. lots of flowers too.
Pfeiffer75 - May 9, 2010 10:21 pm Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2009
Expensive Hike
Climbed from the main saddle at 8000 feet up South Fork Canyon. Pretty straightforward climb to Lewiston and then a ridge walk over to Flat Top. The drive was the worst part. Ended up doing $400 of damage to the underbody of my ford getting hung up on a boulder in South Fork canyon
Second climb on 6/4/2012. The road up south fork canyon is still in bad shape
utclimber - Dec 12, 2009 8:48 pm Date Climbed: Dec 12, 2009
Snowy and Windy
I climbed Lewiston and Flat Top today with very low visibility. Not too much snow yet, maybe a foot or a little more up high. Flat Top probably received 4 inches or so today while I was up there.
kteichert - Nov 4, 2009 10:31 pm Date Climbed: Nov 4, 2009
First Ultra!
I've started my list of Ultra peaks now. This was a magnificent peak. Definitely know why they call it Flat Top. And I had it all to myself! I didn't see a single other person the entire day. It was a gorgeous day with light winds from the south. It was warm and I was in a t-shirt all day. Absolutely perfect day!
Tracy - Jun 28, 2009 6:47 am Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009
7:00 PM summit
Hiked this one with my 18-year old son. Spur of the moment decision. Tougher than I expected. Beautiful day for a hike though. 2.5 hours up and 1.5 hours down. Hiked from 8,100-foot elevation trailhead that originates from road out of Ophir Canyon. We were the second set of signatures in the logbook for the day. See summit log of Mr. Winters below ;-).
rmjwinters - Jun 27, 2009 9:47 pm Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009
South Fork Road
Drove up South Fork from Ophir to 8,060 ft and the trailhead. Ascended to the west ridge and contoured on Lewiston Peak's northwest slopes to the summit. Ran into a herd of elk on the ridge. Returned via Lewiston Peak's summit on down the west ridge adding about 0.3 miles to the roundtrip 6.8 miles.
Dean - Jun 9, 2009 7:40 am Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2009
2nd visit, this time via Lewiston Peak
A friend from Seattle really wanted this mountain so I consented to doing it again. Driving the road was a reminder that this most likely will be the last time I ever do this peak. It was worse than I remembered but at least the road was open. I drove to 8100 feet and parked and we then found the trail which helped us to Lewiston Peak. From there we descended snow to the connector ridge to Flat Top Peak, which we enjoyed for about five minutes before an electrical storm in the area chased us off.
csfoster - Jun 1, 2009 8:55 pm Date Climbed: May 30, 2009
From Ophir
First peak of the hiking season. Was great to see the Oquirrh Mtn. Range. I had no idea how beautiful these mountains are.
morgthom75 - Jun 1, 2009 4:30 pm Date Climbed: May 30, 2009
Crazy Hike
This was my first "real" hike in a few years. I'm newly married, and mostly out of shape. This was a tough one for me. The weather was iffy, there were pouring rainstorms and intimidating thunder storms surrounding us the majority of the hike. We lucked out and never got hit with it. The trail was shoddy, at best, and very frustrating at times. It was very rewarding, however. The views were spectacular! A very interesting location, which I knew almost nothing about. Very glad I did it, and will hopefully come back later in life. Loved it.
apachedino - Dec 8, 2008 7:21 pm Date Climbed: Dec 6, 2008
Doorbell?
Happy to say the road to the saddle is open, though very rough. Also no one has descrebed "Val's trail" which switches back through the forest before meeting up with lewiston ridge at a small saddle. Lot's of very old tree carvings here (almost all before 80's many from early 1900's, one from 1907! Lot's of helicopter activity and landing on the ridges, fresh tire tracks from them in the snow on both lewiston and flat top. What is with the doorbell on the solar shed on flat top? that is eery, is there like a tunnel that goes down below that because there is absolutely no use for a doorbell for a shed that small. Weird.
Very warm day, more like September than december, very clear with views from logan to Uintahs, entire wasatch front, Mine camp peak, Ibapah, moroni, Wheeler peak (maybe even North schell? not sure but very far away, further than wheeler but to the north.) Pilot and the raft river range and everything in between. Fabulous, fog in the salt flats down low in the morning gave the appearance of islands to all the small ranges to the west.
boisedoc - Sep 30, 2013 12:56 pm Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2013
fresh fall snowrunbyu's directions proved pretty good. We drove part of the way up in my FJ cruiser and stopped at 7600ft. One could drive all the way to the saddle at 8000ft with an ATV but there are huge ruts that would deter most full size 4WD. From the saddle we managed to lose the trail periodically partially due to it going through scrub oak and partly due to 3-4 inches of fresh snow from the day prior. The "new" trail on the north side of the subpeak was nice. There are new summit register notepads now and I was a little honored to sign in right after the inimitable Gerry and Jennifer Roach. Good views for sure. We were able to follow the trail quite a bit better on the way down.
Brita - Jul 8, 2013 10:08 pm Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2013
Leat Favorite Mountain Part 2This part coming over from Lewiston Peak actually was not that bad. It was a nice ridge run that I may have enjoyed had I not been so cranky after all the bushwhacking up the mountain and worried about the incoming storm. My comment once we got to the top was "this is...flat." I honestly didn't realize what I was saying until after I'd said it. Suddenly the name made sense. From far away I didn't think it really looked flat but compared to other summits I've been to it really was flat. I wasn't overwhelmed by the views but did enjoying looking back at the Oquirrs and finding out car in the parking lot.
runbyu1 - Jul 8, 2013 2:56 pm Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2013
Summit register is FULL - July 2013 Route Up Flat Top and LewistonWe made the drive out to Ophir, which was a super cool little town and started up South Fork Road around 3pm. Once we got to the saddle and turned off the road, it was mostly bad trail and cross country from there but we made it up to Lewiston and then over to Flat Top. The summit register is full, so if someone sees this, they may want to take a new one up to the summit. We were only the 7th people to have signed the register this year! We got chased off the top by a Thunderstorm but made it out just fine only getting wet. The new route around the North ridge from 9600 down to 9000 is great and kept us in the trees and out of the rain and lightning. There seem to have been a bunch of changes on the mountain since the last information was posted so I put up a trip report titled 'July 2013 Update - How to get to Flat Top and Lewiston' so that people would have a comprehensive source for getting to the top of these peaks.
PrinceOfNorway - Dec 8, 2012 7:54 pm Date Climbed: Dec 8, 2012
December ChillThis is a tough mountain slogging through snow; even with snowshoes. Anyway, I decided to climb up this mountain in a storm, and it was probably in the negative on top...especially with the wind chill. I spent 5 minutes; made a short vid, took some pics and was gone. Plunge step for the win!
harbor - Jun 8, 2012 1:45 am Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2012
Great hikeHiked from the new trail head parking lot near the beginning of South Ophir Canyon up the ATV trail to the Mercur overlook and then took the trial up to just below Lewiston Peak. Hiked up the ridge to Lewiston and over to Flat top. 4 hours 10 min total from car to flat top. 3700 ft elevation from car to flat top. Perfectly clear and sunny day. Great views.
DarrenKnezek - Feb 5, 2012 9:38 pm Date Climbed: Feb 4, 2012
Winter AscentSee post under Lewiston Ridge Route.
jamesmc2 - Dec 18, 2011 11:18 pm Date Climbed: Nov 25, 2011
ThanksgivingClimbed the day after Thanksgiving in early winter conditions. Not enough snow to ski yet.
vanman798 - Feb 13, 2011 7:08 pm Date Climbed: Feb 12, 2011
Ski TourSkied this peak with Sean Peckham. Loved the views.
seanpeckham - Feb 13, 2011 1:10 am Date Climbed: Feb 12, 2011
Ski tour via Lewiston PeakThis was my third trip to the Oquirrhs for skiing/peak-bagging, and the first time there was no whiteout on the summit. I was very glad to finally see the incredible views.
ZeeJay - Dec 22, 2010 2:54 pm Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2007
Nice hike10/27/2007 Up the west side of Lewiston, over to Flat Top, and down Halls Basin.
8/4/2001 With Fred G., as above, but also made a side trip to 10340 which is east of Flat Top.
Pharmacist - Jul 14, 2010 11:52 pm Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2010
Nice Viewsnice views, the trail is pretty overgrown, and lots of flies. 2wd TRD tacoma made it up and down the road fine. started about half mile below the saddle. 3 hours up, 1hr45min down. lots of flowers too.
Pfeiffer75 - May 9, 2010 10:21 pm Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2009
Expensive HikeClimbed from the main saddle at 8000 feet up South Fork Canyon. Pretty straightforward climb to Lewiston and then a ridge walk over to Flat Top. The drive was the worst part. Ended up doing $400 of damage to the underbody of my ford getting hung up on a boulder in South Fork canyon
Second climb on 6/4/2012. The road up south fork canyon is still in bad shape
utclimber - Dec 12, 2009 8:48 pm Date Climbed: Dec 12, 2009
Snowy and WindyI climbed Lewiston and Flat Top today with very low visibility. Not too much snow yet, maybe a foot or a little more up high. Flat Top probably received 4 inches or so today while I was up there.
kteichert - Nov 4, 2009 10:31 pm Date Climbed: Nov 4, 2009
First Ultra!I've started my list of Ultra peaks now. This was a magnificent peak. Definitely know why they call it Flat Top. And I had it all to myself! I didn't see a single other person the entire day. It was a gorgeous day with light winds from the south. It was warm and I was in a t-shirt all day. Absolutely perfect day!
Tracy - Jun 28, 2009 6:47 am Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009
7:00 PM summitHiked this one with my 18-year old son. Spur of the moment decision. Tougher than I expected. Beautiful day for a hike though. 2.5 hours up and 1.5 hours down. Hiked from 8,100-foot elevation trailhead that originates from road out of Ophir Canyon. We were the second set of signatures in the logbook for the day. See summit log of Mr. Winters below ;-).
rmjwinters - Jun 27, 2009 9:47 pm Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2009
South Fork RoadDrove up South Fork from Ophir to 8,060 ft and the trailhead. Ascended to the west ridge and contoured on Lewiston Peak's northwest slopes to the summit. Ran into a herd of elk on the ridge. Returned via Lewiston Peak's summit on down the west ridge adding about 0.3 miles to the roundtrip 6.8 miles.
Dean - Jun 9, 2009 7:40 am Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2009
2nd visit, this time via Lewiston PeakA friend from Seattle really wanted this mountain so I consented to doing it again. Driving the road was a reminder that this most likely will be the last time I ever do this peak. It was worse than I remembered but at least the road was open. I drove to 8100 feet and parked and we then found the trail which helped us to Lewiston Peak. From there we descended snow to the connector ridge to Flat Top Peak, which we enjoyed for about five minutes before an electrical storm in the area chased us off.
csfoster - Jun 1, 2009 8:55 pm Date Climbed: May 30, 2009
From OphirFirst peak of the hiking season. Was great to see the Oquirrh Mtn. Range. I had no idea how beautiful these mountains are.
morgthom75 - Jun 1, 2009 4:30 pm Date Climbed: May 30, 2009
Crazy HikeThis was my first "real" hike in a few years. I'm newly married, and mostly out of shape. This was a tough one for me. The weather was iffy, there were pouring rainstorms and intimidating thunder storms surrounding us the majority of the hike. We lucked out and never got hit with it. The trail was shoddy, at best, and very frustrating at times. It was very rewarding, however. The views were spectacular! A very interesting location, which I knew almost nothing about. Very glad I did it, and will hopefully come back later in life. Loved it.
apachedino - Dec 8, 2008 7:21 pm Date Climbed: Dec 6, 2008
Doorbell?Happy to say the road to the saddle is open, though very rough. Also no one has descrebed "Val's trail" which switches back through the forest before meeting up with lewiston ridge at a small saddle. Lot's of very old tree carvings here (almost all before 80's many from early 1900's, one from 1907! Lot's of helicopter activity and landing on the ridges, fresh tire tracks from them in the snow on both lewiston and flat top. What is with the doorbell on the solar shed on flat top? that is eery, is there like a tunnel that goes down below that because there is absolutely no use for a doorbell for a shed that small. Weird.
Very warm day, more like September than december, very clear with views from logan to Uintahs, entire wasatch front, Mine camp peak, Ibapah, moroni, Wheeler peak (maybe even North schell? not sure but very far away, further than wheeler but to the north.) Pilot and the raft river range and everything in between. Fabulous, fog in the salt flats down low in the morning gave the appearance of islands to all the small ranges to the west.