what mountains are in utah
The highest peak in the Wasatch Mountains, Mount Nebo, is 11,877 feet. Utah's landform is divided among three major physiographic provinces: the Great Basin or Basin and Range province, the Colorado Plateau province, and the Rocky Mountain province. The largest of the provinces in Utah is the Colorado Plateau.
The Uinta Mountains are considered by many to be Utah's backpacking and hiking paradise. Among the many popular routes into the High Uintas Wilderness and Utah's highest peaks are the Uinta Canyon trailhead below U-Bar Ranch 18 miles north of Neola, and Lake Fork or Swift Creek trailheads north of Mountain Home.
Rising to 13,528 feet, Kings Peak is the highest spot in Utah, and Beaver Dam Wash in the southwestern corner of the state is the lowest point at 2,350 feet. Only the Uinta Mountains have peaks that exceed 13,000 feet, and there are twenty-four of them that do.
Utah Mountains. There are many hikes outside Logan in northern Utah. One pleasant walk is the 1-mile Limber Pine Trail loop at the summit of Logan Canyon overlooking Bear Lake.