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Old Spanish Trail: City Creek: Salt Lake City Creek: City Creek Canyon Road Corner Canyon: Salt Lake Corner Canyon Road unconstructed SR-71 (1931-1935) Cottonwood Canyon: Kane Cottonwood Creek: Cottonwood Canyon Road: Coyote Gulch: Garfield, Kane Hole in the Rock Trail: Croton Canyon: Kane County Colorado River: Crystal Canyon: Juab Unnamed ...
The average water yield of Big Cottonwood Creek is 52,864 acre-feet (65,207,000 m 3), which is the highest water yield of any Wasatch Front canyon stream in Salt Lake County. This canyon is a protected watershed area under strict management controls since it is a major source of drinking water for Salt Lake City. No dogs or horses are allowed.
A snowy winter view of the canyon Lake Blanche in Big Cottonwood Canyon, c. 1869. Big Cottonwood Canyon is a canyon in the Wasatch Range 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah. [2] The 15-mile (24 km)-long canyon provides hiking, biking, picnicking, rock-climbing, camping, and fishing in the summer.
During the mid-to the late 1900s, residential land use replaced agriculture as the dominant land-use type in the lower Little Cottonwood Creek drainage basin as the population of Salt Lake Valley expanded. [5] Land cover upstream from the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon is 60 percent forest land and 33 percent rangeland.
In Provo, US-89 meets US-189, its only branch, which heads northeast through Provo Canyon to Heber City, connecting to I-80 and bypassing Salt Lake City. North of Lehi, US-89 merges with I-15 (at exit 282), which has been built on or near the old road through a gap in the Traverse Mountains (elevation 4800 feet/1500 m) into the Salt Lake Valley .
Black Star Canyon is a remote mountain canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains, located in eastern Orange County, California. It is a watershed of the Santa Ana River . Black Star Canyon is a popular destination for mountain bikers as well as hikers due to its wild scenery.
City Creek is a small but historically important mountain stream that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake. City Creek's head is about 8 miles (13 km) up City Creek Canyon northeast of Downtown Salt Lake City. The entire stream measures only about ...
Lone Peak is a mountain summit in the Wasatch Range southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, and the center of the Lone Peak Wilderness, established in 1978.With an elevation of 11,260 feet (3,430 m), it is one of the highest peaks in the range and among the most prominent of the Wasatch Front, towering over the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper and easily visible from most of the ...