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In Little Cottonwood Canyon about 10 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, traffic had already slowed to a stop because of heavy snow on Saturday when an avalanche hit the area.
A sceenshot of video taken by the Utah Department of Transportation of an avalanche near Little Cottonwood Canyon on Jan. 4, 2024.
State Route 210 (SR-210) is a state route in the U.S. state of Utah that is the access road for Little Cottonwood Canyon and the ski resorts of Alta and Snowbird.The 13.62 mi (21.92 km) highway straddles the southeastern edge of the Salt Lake Valley before it enters the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon.
The Little Cottonwood stock is a granitic intrusion that extends from the mouth of the canyon almost to Snowbird ski resort. It is Oligocene in age, roughly 30.5 to 29 million years old, composed primarily of granodiorite, quartz monzonite, and granite, with some mafic enclaves.
Utah DOT road crews were plowing areas of road slush in Little Cottonwood Canyon near Alta, Utah, on May 12.
The road begins at the gate to the Bingham Canyon Mine and heads northeast as a two-lane undivided highway on the Bingham Highway. The road enters the town of Copperton and turns east. After exiting the town, the Bingham Highway splits into the Old and New Bingham Highway, with SR-209 turning northeast on the latter.
Forecasters are also expecting winter driving conditions to be present in the regions of Sardine Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Big Cottonwood Canyon, and Little Cottonwood Canyon.
By the end of the twentieth century, up to 7,000 people per day could be found on the Alta slopes, and traffic in the Little Cottonwood Canyon was nearing gridlock proportions. [10] Today, Alta is a small town centered around the Alta Ski Area.