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The site has been developed as a cross-country skiing, tubing, and snowshoeing venue with nearby horse-pulled sleigh riding during the winter months, while featuring mountain biking, golfing, a popular music festival and an international sheepdog competition in the summer. It is owned by the State of Utah and part of Wasatch Mountain State Park.
The Wasatch Range is traversed by just seven highways, along with several rugged mountain roads and unpaved trails. The most prominent are I-80 through Parley's Canyon east of Salt Lake City and I-84 through Weber Canyon southeast of Ogden. They meet near the ghost town of Echo on the eastern slopes of the range and continue northeast as I‑80.
Wasatch County (/ ˈ w ɑː s æ tʃ / WAH-satch) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 34,788. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Heber City. [2] The county was named for a Ute word meaning "mountain pass" or "low place in the high mountains".
Guardsman Pass (elevation 9,717 feet (2,962 m) [2] is a high mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. The pass is located on the boundaries of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (specifically the portion known as the Wasatch National Forest) to the west, and the Bonanza Flats backcountry area to the east.
Soldier Hollow is a small hollow in the Wasatch Range that is located within the Wasatch Mountain State Park in northwestern Wasatch County, Utah, United States. [1] [2]The hollow was formerly a Native American encampment and was later used by a group of Army surveyors in the 1850s. [3]
This List of rail trails in Washington lists former railroad right-of-ways in Washington state that have been converted to rail trails for public use, [1] or rail corridors where rails coexist with trail.
Wasatch Mountain State Park Visitors Center, April 2016. Established in 1961, Wasatch Mountain State Park is Utah's most developed state park. Named for the Wasatch Mountains, [Note 1] the park consists of 21,592 acres (8,738 ha), and sits at an elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m). [5] Wildlife in the park includes deer, elk, wild turkeys, and moose.
Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, United States and an unincorporated community that is a near-ghost town located at the pass. Soldier Summit has been an important transportation route between the Wasatch Front and Price, Utah, since the area was settled by the Mormon pioneers.