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    The Wasatch Range (/ˈwɑːsætʃ/ WAH-satch) or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about 160 miles (260 km) from...
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    of a chain of mostly contiguous cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from approximately Santaquin in the south to Logan in the north, and...
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    bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day Utah. The desolate and...
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    Wasatch Plateau, Utah-Sanpete-Carbon-Emery-Sevier Wasatch Range: (north to south), Cache-Box Elder-Weber-Morgan-Davis-Salt Lake-Summit-Wasatch-Utah-Juab-Sanpete...
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    1962. The 25 Big Boy locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch Range between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming. In the late 1940s, they...
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  • Look up Wasatch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Wasatch Range or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States. Wasatch may also...
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  • The Wasatch Back sits on the eastern side of the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, while the Wasatch Front sits on the western side. Wasatch is a...
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    is set in the Wasatch Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. It is situated in Big Cottonwood Canyon, on land managed by Wasatch National Forest...
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    Peak Mount Peale Bald Mountain Mount Nebo is the highest summit of the Wasatch Range. Mount Timpanogos Abajo Peak Brian Head Deseret Peak Geography portal...
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    point of the southern Sangre de Cristo Range. The summit of Mount Nebo is the highest point of the Wasatch Range. The elevation of Mount Nebo includes...
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    Mount Nebo is the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range of Utah, in the United States, and the centerpiece of the Mount Nebo Wilderness...
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  • Range American Fork Twin Peaks, on the Alpine Ridge within the Wasatch Range Broads Fork Twin Peaks, on the Cottonwood Ridge within the Wasatch Range...
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    lies within the Uinta Mountains. At the western base of the Wasatch Range is the Wasatch Front, a series of valleys and basins that are home to the most...
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    Ben Lomond Mountain (Utah) (category Wasatch Range)
    Lomond stands out along the Wasatch Front because the mountain range appears to run east and west along the Wasatch Range, while most mountains appear...
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    Hastings Cutoff (category Wasatch Range)
    left the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming, passed through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80-mile nearly water-less drive...
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    Mount Timpanogos (category Wasatch Range)
    second-highest mountain in Utah's Wasatch Range. Timpanogos rises to an elevation of 11,752 ft (3,582 m) above sea level in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest...
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    Higher-elevation areas of the Rocky Mountains, the Wasatch Range, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Range are alpine. Coastal areas of Oregon and Washington...
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    Uinta Mountains (redirect from Uinta Range)
    Uinta Mountains are part of the Wasatch and Uinta montane forests ecoregion. Nearly the entire range lies within Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (on the...
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    Guardsman Pass (category Wasatch Range)
    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...
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    of Buffalo, New York throughout the 2006–2007 winter. The Wasatch Front and Wasatch Range in Utah can also receive significant lake effect accumulations...
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    north-central Utah. Mountains surround Utah Valley on three sides: the Wasatch Range to the east, Traverse Mountains to the north, and the Lake Mountains...
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    Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great...
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    Wellsville Mountains (category Wasatch Range)
    Mountains is a mountain range in Box Elder and Cache counties in Utah, United States, that is part of the Wasatch Range. The range separates the Cache Valley...
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    Challengers entered service in 1936, on the UP's main line over the Wasatch Range between Green River and Ogden, the locomotives had problems climbing...
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    Mount Olympus (Utah) (category Wasatch Range)
    the Salt Lake Valley. Mount Olympus is not the tallest peak along the Wasatch Front, but its unusual form and location make it a popular hiking destination...
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    and Wyoming Wasatch Range, Utah Bear River Mountains, Utah and Idaho Washburn Range, Wyoming White Cloud Mountains, Idaho Whitefish Range, Montana and...
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    Big Cottonwood Canyon (category Wasatch Range)
    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. The 15-mile (24 km)-long...
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    Salt Lake City (category Wasatch Front)
    faults are related to the regional Wasatch Fault which runs north–south along the western base of the Wasatch Range and is considered at high risk of producing...
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    County, Utah, United States, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range, north from Utah Lake. This city is thirty-two miles southeast of Salt...
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    Timpanogos Glacier (category Wasatch Range)
    glacier located on Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range within the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness (in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest) in northeastern...
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