Spruce Top is a mountain in Greene County, New York, southwest of Tannersville, set among the high country of the Catskills. Nearby, Plateau Mountain rises to the southwest and Sugarloaf Mountain to the southeast. The mountain’s slopes feed Cook Brook and Roaring Kill, streams that flow generally northeast before joining Schoharie Creek. This places Spruce Top within the Catskills’ headwaters landscape, where ridgelines and narrow mountain valleys strongly influence both the terrain and the course of local waterways.