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This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Utah. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2] [3] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of Utah ...
Kimball Junction is a settlement located in Snyderville, Utah. At the 2020 US census, the population was 6,744 people. [ 1 ] Named after William Henry Kimball and the site of the former Kimball Stage Stop , the area now serves as a gateway to Park City via State Route 224 .
Big Mountain Pass is a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, United States. It has an elevation of 7,420 feet (2,260 m). [1] It is on the original route of the Mormon pioneers who crossed it in 1847 on their way to the Salt Lake Valley. [2] In 1846, the pass was used by the Donner Party. [1]
Park City is usually cooler than Salt Lake City as it lies mostly higher than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) above sea level, while Salt Lake City is situated at an elevation of about 4,300 feet (1,300 m). In 2011, the town was awarded a Gold-level Ride Center designation from the International Mountain Bicycling Association for its mountain bike trails ...
The lower east summit reaches an elevation of 7,519 feet (2,292 m). [4] Split Mountain is composed of Permian-Pennsylvanian cliff-forming Weber Sandstone with Permian slope-forming Park City Formation around the lower base. [5]
State Route 224 (SR-224) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. The route connects Interstate 80 and Kimball Junction in the north to Park City in the south. Ski resorts line the mostly four-lane highway, including Park City Resort and Deer Valley.
The Canyons opened as Park City West in 1968, a sister resort to the nearby Park City Mountain Resort which opened five years earlier. It was renamed ParkWest in 1975 after a change in ownership, and the name was changed again in 1995 to Wolf Mountain (not to be confused with the small ski area of the same name near Ogden, Utah) for two seasons, then became The Canyons in 1997, after the ...
Gobblers Knob is the highest point in the Mount Olympus Wilderness, [3] and is set on land managed by Wasatch National Forest.This peak is situated in the Wasatch Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains, and with Salt Lake City 12 miles to the west and Park City 10 miles to the east, it is a popular hiking destination. [7]