As its name implies, the mountain is at the point where the Balsam Mountains intersect the crest of the Great Smokies, creating a triangular-shaped ridge.

Balsam Mountain, another High Peak, looms ahead.

Balsam Mountain Inn (added 1982)

The Great Balsam Mountains, or Balsam Mountains, are in the mountain region of western North Carolina, United States.

Balsam Mountain is one of the High Peaks of the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York.

Balsam Mountain is one of several peaks on an officially unnamed range that carries the watershed divide to Winnisook Lake near Slide Mountain.

Mount Sherrill is flanked to the east by North Dome, and to the west by Balsam Mountain.

Cataloochee consists of three narrow valleys running parallel to one another, and "walled in" by the high ridges of the Balsam Mountains.

However, on the northern side of the pass, the expanding fireball was partially blocked and deflected by the shoulder of Balsam Mountain.

The view from the Jumpoff is usually greater than 180 degrees, from Mount Le Conte to northwest to the Balsam Mountains to the southeast.