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Utah Cycling Summits/Passes - in detail

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Alpine loop road summit - 8030ft- Wasatch Range; paved Ut92 from Provo Canyon to American Fork Canyon.

Big Mountain Pass  - 7420ft - The best way to ride a road bike into Salt Lake City. Also called Emigration/ East Canyon summits.

Daniel's Summit - 8020ft -also called Strawberry Pass; US40 over Wasatch Plateau between Heber and Duchesne.
Hogan Pass - 8980(8820)ft - isolated Ut12 plateau summit between the Henry Mountains and the Wasatch Plateau
Meadow Gulch Divide - 7910ft - I70 with a long shallow climb instead of services
Red Canyon summit - 7825(7774)ft - One side has a bike path. Both sides have canyons comparable to Bryce Canyon.
Slickrock Divide - 5990ft - the official name of the divide crossed by the scenic drive in Capitol Reef National Park.
Uinta Summit - 8490ft - one of two paved roads that manages to come close to crossing the Uinta Mountains.
US89 summit: Thistle Jct - Fairview - 6418ft - shallow, easily missed summit. But it is marked as such on some maps.
Ut12 Summit: Boulder - Capitol Reef - 9591ft - It is fun to listen to stories of cycle tourists discovering this monumental hill by accident. It's a shame to spoil the surprise here. Oh well.
Wolf Creek Pass - 9485ft - could be mistake, for a road in the Appalachian mountains.
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Barney Top - 10580ft - This plateau top is a scenic backdrop from Bryce Canyon and it is a completely different landscape.
Bookcliff Divide - 8450(8340)ft: signed divide along Book Cliff Ridge road near Rabbit Valley.
Bruin Point summit(u) -10131ft - West Tavaputs Plateau summit between a lush green landscape and dry canyons in the Nine Mile Canyon area. The elevation profile looks like a ski jump.
FR077 summit: Paragonah - jct Ut20 - 8122ft - Old Spanish Trail crossing that has changed little since colonial times
Kokopelli's Trail summit(u):m88 - 6370ft -, very rough, easternmost La Sal Mountains summit of the well known bicycle trail.
Kokopelli Trail summit(u):m124  - 8320ft - final summit of the trail before Moab on the La Sal loop road.
Nine Mile Canyon Summit - 7501ft - shallow, bumpy dirt road over a low plateau on the way to an arecheological area.
Pole Line Pass -8930ft - sometimes it seams like every ATV in the Salt Lake Valley is on this trail across the Wasatch Range

 

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