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Wasatch Mountains - Scenic Drives
Scenic drives to consider in the Wasatch Mountains area are listed below. Click on any scenic byway or backway listed below for complete information.
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| Alpine Scenic Drive |
24 miles oneway |
1 hour |
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Alpine Scenic Backway travels through heavy alpine forests around Mt. Timpanogos. The road is paved, but narrow and twisting, and offers sensational alpine scenery along its length. |
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| Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway |
14 miles oneway |
45 min. |
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This 14-mile long scenic drive offers pretty mountain scenery similar to Little Cottonwood Canyon. As in Little Cottonwood, there are picnic areas and campgrounds and access to numerous hiking trails. |
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| Cascade Springs Scenic Backway |
25 miles oneway |
1 hour |
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Cascade Springs Scenic Backway offers excellent alpine scenery and some nice views out over the Heber Valley. At mile 7 is beautiful Cascade Springs. |
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| Little Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway |
22 mile roundtrip |
1-1/2 hours |
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This scenic byway takes you from the edge of Salt Lake City up into the beautiful mountain scenery of the Wasatch Mountains. Along the 11-mile drive are picnic areas and campgrounds, the ski resorts of Snowbird and Alta and access to hiking trails. |
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| Logan Canyon Scenic Byway |
41 miles oneway |
1-1/2 hours |
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Hwy 89 enters beautiful Logan Canyon at the northeast corner of town and runs along the Logan River past numerous campgrounds, picnic areas, fishing spots and trailheads. After about 20 miles the highway leaves the canyon and climbs past Beaver Mountain Ski Area to Bear Lake Summit at 7,800 feet. At the summit are great views out over the large, turquoise Bear Lake. |
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| Nebo Loop Scenic Byway |
38 miles oneway |
1 1/2 hours |
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This byway allows you to see not only that tallest of Wasatch Mountains, Mount Nebo, but long stretches of Uinta National Forest. |
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| Ogden River Scenic Byway |
44 miles oneway |
1-1/2 hours |
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Ogden River Scenic Byway (Hwy 39) runs up the narrow and winding Ogden Canyon along the Ogden River. It passes Pineview Reservoir and traverses lush Ogden Valley before it climbs easily into the modest, but pretty Monte Cristo range. |
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| Pioneer Memorial Scenic Backway |
34 miles oneway |
1 hour |
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This backway follows the original route of the Donner-Reed Expedition of 1846. It climbs through Emmigration Canyon east fo Salt Lake City and then descends to Hwy 65. It ends at popular 680 acre East Canyon Reservoir. . |
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| Provo Canyon Scenic Byway |
32 miles oneway |
45 min. |
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This 32 mile scenic byway begins in Provo and winds through pretty Provo Canyon along the Provo River, one of Utah's finest trout rivers. It ends at Heber City in the Heber Valley farming area just east of the Wasatch Mountains.. |
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