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The San Pitch Mountains are the location of Maple Canyon, which along with adjoining Box Canyon is an internationally famous rock climbing area, due to the composition of the rock walls being a conglomerate, with hundreds of routes of widely varying difficulty.
Maple Canyon is a canyon in the northeastern San Pitch Mountains in northern Sanpete County, Utah, United States [1] Nearly all of the canyon, except the western end, is located within the Uinta National Forest.
Red Mountains (Utah), (also a Red Mountains (Wyoming)) Rubber Mountains; San Francisco Mountains (Utah) San Pitch Mountains; Sheeprock Mountains; Silver Island Range, Utah; Simpson Mountains; Stansbury Mountains; Star Range; Swasey Mountain, (the north section of the House Range) Tavaputs Plateau, (* Roan Cliffs) [7] Traverse Ridge; Thomas ...
Fourmile Creek [7] flows northwest out of the San Pitch mountains, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Chicken Creek, but entirely dissipates prior to reaching the Interstate 15 (I-15) corridor. About 7 miles (11 km) south of Levan, Little Salt Creek [ 8 ] flows west out of San Pitch Mountains and then northwest to the Chicken Creek Reservoir.
The San Pitch River, extending 65 miles (105 km), is the primary watercourse of the Sanpete Valley and drains into the Sevier River in southwestern Sanpete. The river is named for the Ute chief Sanpitch , who also gives his name to the San Pitch Mountains and Sanpete County .
Mountain ranges of Sanpete County, Utah (2 P) Pages in category "Landforms of Sanpete County, Utah" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
San Pitch Mountains, a mountain range that runs along the west side of Sanpete County, Utah, US; People. San Pitch Utes, an American Indian tribe who lived in the ...
A month later, while he and other jailed Indians were escaping, Sanpitch was shot and wounded. On April 18, 1866, he was found and killed in Birch Creek Canyon (in the San Pitch Mountains, between Fountain Green and Moroni). The two Mormon men responsible for the chief's death buried his body under a rock slide by shooting at the canyon wall ...