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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.
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 .
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.
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 ...
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 county is sloped to the south, with its highest point east of Ephraim, on South Tent Mountain [11] at 11,285 ft (3,440 m) ASL. [12] The county has a total area of 1,603 square miles (4,150 km 2 ), of which 1,590 square miles (4,100 km 2 ) is land and 12 square miles (31 km 2 ) (0.8%) is water. [ 13 ]
Currently, Vietnam has 34 national parks. Cúc Phương is the first national park and was established in 1966 in the area of 3 provinces: Ninh Bình , Thanh Hóa and Hòa Bình . Meanwhile, the latest national park established is Song Thanh ( Sông Thanh ), setup on December 18, 2020, located in Quảng Nam province.
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 ...