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Mount Timpanogos, often referred to as Timp, is the 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. With 5,270 ft (1,610 m) of topographic prominence, Timpanogos is the 47th-most prominent mountain in the contiguous United States.
The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] The second table below ranks the 50 most prominent summits of Utah. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [ 5 ]
Timpanogos Cave National Monument is a United States National Monument protecting the Timpanogos Cave Historic District and a cave system on Mount Timpanogos in American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Range, near Highland, Utah, in the United States. The site is managed by the National Park Service. The 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) trail to the cave ...
Mount Elbert in the Sawatch Range is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains and the U.S. State of Colorado.. The following sortable table comprises the 184 peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
Other notable peaks include Mount Timpanogos, a massive peak that looms over northern Utah County and is especially prominent from Pleasant Grove and Orem; Lone Peak, the Twin Peaks, and Mount Olympus, which overlooks the Salt Lake Valley; Francis Peak overlooking both Morgan and Davis counties; and Ben Lomond and Mount Ogden, both towering ...
Mount Timpanogos Wilderness is a 10,518-acre (42.56 km 2) wilderness area protecting Mount Timpanogos and the surrounding area in Utah, United States. It is located in the front range of the Wasatch Mountain Range , between American Fork Canyon on the north and Provo Canyon on the south, within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest on the ...
The glacier is situated in a north-facing cirque on the east slope of Mount Timpanogos (11,749 feet or 3,581 metres). [3] The best evidence indicates that the Timpanogos Glacier was once a "true" glacier with crevasses present in the early 20th century, but that the surface portion was lost during the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s and reduced ...
Of the 50 most prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains, only Mount Robson and Mount Elbert exceed 2500 meters (8202 feet) of topographic prominence, seven peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), 31 peaks are ultra-prominent summits with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet), and all 50 peaks exceed 1189 meters (3901 feet) of topographic prominence.