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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 square mile (2.3 km 2), which is all land.. Loa sits beside the only source of water known as Spring Creek, which rises 4 miles (6 km) to the north where today is located the state fish hatchery.
Thousand Lake Mountain is surrounded by several small towns (Loa, Lyman, Fremont, Bicknell, Teasdale, and Torrey). The areas on and around Thousand Lake Mountain are used for farming, camping, hiking, horseback riding, hunting, and fishing. Thousand Lake Mountain is located in the easternmost section of Fishlake National Forest.
State Route 121 was created in 1931, connecting SR-24 at Loa with Fremont. [4] Two years later, the route was renumbered 72 and extended to Fremont Junction on SR-10. [5] State Route 250 was created in 1953 as a connection from SR-24 between Loa and Lyman north to the 90° turn in SR-72, [6] but was given back to the county in 1969.
Due to its remoteness and harsh terrain, settlements did not appear in the future Wayne County until the 1880s. By 1892, there was enough settlement and enough interest in a separate county (due mainly to the difficulty of accessing the Piute County seat), that Utah Territory passed an act (effective date March 10, 1892) [3] to separate the east portion of Piute into a separate county. [4]
The former provides access to several national parks and Arizona, and the latter connects I-15 with Logan, the state's only Metropolitan Statistical Area not on the Interstate. [ 2 ] When US-89 was established in the state in 1926, the road initially extended north to US-91 in Spanish Fork .
It has elevation 13,528 feet (4,123 m) [1] and prominence 6,348 feet (1,935 m). [2] It also has topographic isolation of 166.6 miles (268.1 km), highest amongst summits of Utah having at least 500 meters of prominence. For lists of the top 50 peaks in Utah by elevation, prominence, and topographic isolation, see List of mountain peaks of Utah ...
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The trail provides views of the surrounding areas. The maintained trail [5] gains 1,250 feet (381 m) of elevation in 1.4 miles (2.3 km) and due to the high elevation (the trailhead is about 10,700 feet [3,300 m] above sea level) it is a moderately strenuous hike with no shade. The hike to the summit can be completed in 2 to 3 hours round trip.