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Beaver Dam Mountains

Landform in southwest Utah and northwest Arizona

Summary

Landform in southwest Utah and northwest Arizona

Field	Value
name	Beaver Dam Mountains
photo	Beaver Dam Mountains 1.jpg
photo_size	295px
photo_caption	north section massif
West Mountain Peak (Washington County, UT)
country	United States
subdivision1_type	States
subdivision1
subdivision2
subdivision2_type	Regions
subdivision3
subdivision3_type	Counties
settlement
settlement_type	Communities
range_coordinates
subdivision4_type	Rivers
subdivision4
topo_map	Jarvis Peak quad
borders_on
length_mi	23
length_orientation	NNW-SSE
width_mi	13
highest	West Mountain Peak (Washington County)
highest_location	(northwest)-Beaver Dam Mountains
elevation_ft	7680
coordinates
map	USA Utah
map_caption	Beaver Dam Mountains of southwest Utah and Arizona

West Mountain Peak (Washington County, UT) The Beaver Dam Mountains are a 23 mi long mountain range located mostly in extreme southwest Washington County, Utah, west of St. George, with the south of the range extending into the Arizona Strip.

The range contains the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness which straddles the state's borders. The south of the range can be impressively seen from Interstate 15, as it traverses the corridor into Utah through the Virgin River Gorge, as the Virgin River exits the west of the Colorado Plateau.

Description

The range contains two sections. The northern massif is anchored by the highpoint (photo), of the West Mountain Peak (Washington County), 7680 ft. The eastern flank of the north massif contains Shivwits, Utah in the center of a section of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the Shivwits Band of Utah. Utah highway 91 traverses the northwest–southeast sections through Utah Hill Summit.

The center of the range is adjacent to the Highway 91 mountain pass, and Tahoari (peak), 5523 ft.

The mountains are the only place in Utah where Dudleya arizonica, a rare plant of the family Crassulaceae, can be found.

[[Azurite]] specimen from the old Apex mine near Jarvis Peak

Access

The center of the range at about 4,731 ft, (Utah Hill Summit), can be easily accessed from the west-southwest by Highway 91, from Littlefield, Arizona. The east and southeast of the range can be accessed by routes from St. George and Interstate 15.

References

''Utah Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 9th ed., 2014, pp. 56–57 {{isbn. 9780899332550
{{GNIS. 1433836. Utah Hill Summit
[http://climber.org/data/peaks/UTpeaksT.html Utah Peaks, Tahoari]
Fertig, Walter. (2016). "Research Journal of the Utah Native Plant Society". Utah Native Plant Society.

Wikipedia Source

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