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Here, the route reaches its highest point at 10,626 feet (3,239 m) above sea level, the second-highest paved road in Utah behind the Mirror Lake Highway at 10,715 feet (3,266 m). [8] The route turns to the east here, while continuing south leads to the rest of Cedar Breaks National Monument and State Route 148 (the Cedar Breaks Scenic Byway). [1]
Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States. Located 250 miles (400 km) south of Salt Lake City , it is 170 miles (270 km) north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15 . Southern Utah University is located in Cedar City.
Parowan (/ ˈ p ær ə w ɑː n / PARR-ə-wahn) is a city in and the county seat of Iron County, Utah, United States. [5] The population was 2,790 at the 2010 census, [6] and in 2018 the estimated population was 3,100. [7] Parowan became the first incorporated city in Iron County in 1851.
All highways in Utah are codified in law; US 163 is defined at Utah Code §72-4-122(3). [11] While Monument Valley and US 163 have been featured in numerous western movies, a specific view area near Utah mile marker 13 has recently been given the nickname Forrest Gump hill, as a location from the movie Forrest Gump. It has become common for ...
U.S. Route 40 begins at I-80 at Silver Creek Junction in Silver Summit, traveling south-southeast as a full freeway in a broad valley northeast of Park City.At the south end of the valley, Jordanelle Reservoir comes into view and US-40 continues south high on the slope above its western shore while Utah State Route 248 climbs away to the east on the slope overlooking the northern shore.
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.
Pine Valley is about a 50-mile (80 km) long valley. The valley narrows in the south to about 3 miles (4.8 km) wide, [4] where Pine Valley Wash originates. The valley is a north-south valley, but the southern 10 miles (16 km) turns southeasterly, paralleling a mountain ridgeline stretch of the Indian Springs Range bordered to the west.
Location of Cedar Mesa in Utah. Cedar Mesa is a tableland in San Juan County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It extends from Elk Ridge in the north, Comb Wash to the east, the gorge of the San Juan River to the south, and Grand Gulch to the west, an area of over 400 square miles (1,000 km 2). The center of the mesa is ...