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Hurricane (/ ˈhɜːrɪkən / HUR-ih-kən) is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. Its population was 20,036 as of the 2020 United States Census estimates. The Hurricane valley makes up the easternmost part of the St. George metropolitan area and is near Zion National Park.
2003 [2] Visitors. 1,089,087 (in 2022) [3] Operator. Utah State Parks. Sand Hollow State Park is a state park located in Utah, USA, featuring a 1,322-acre (535 ha) reservoir and an extensive off highway vehicle recreation area on Sand Mountain. The park is near the town of Hurricane. The park was officially dedicated in April 2003 and surrounds ...
List of mountain peaks of Utah. Coordinates: 40.7763°N 110.3729°W. Kings Peak (at right) is the highest summit of the Uinta Mountains, the U.S. State of Utah, and the Western Rocky Mountains. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Utah. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in ...
Utah State Parks. Quail Creek State Park is a state park of Utah, United States, featuring a 600-acre (240 ha) reservoir. The park is located within Hurricane, Utah, 9 miles (14 km) west of the city center and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the historic ghost town of Harrisburg. Quail Creek State Park offers camping, boating, swimming, and fishing.
The Hurricane Cliffs of southwest Utah [1] and northwest Arizona are a red, limestone geographic feature, sets of cliffs along the western, eroded edge of the Kaibab Limestone; the cliffs are about 135-mi (217 km) long, [2][3] with the south end terminus just north of the Grand Canyon. The cliffs are associated with the Hurricane Fault.
Hurricane Mesa. Hurricane Mesa (37°14′25″N 113°12′41″W[1]) is a Utah landform near Hurricane, Utah, used for Cold War tests of rocket ejection seats for supersonic aircraft at the Hurricane Supersonic Research Site. [2] The mesa is "flat bedrock of faultless Shinarump conglomerate" 1,500 ft (460 m) above the Virgin River valley, which ...
www.washco.state.ut.us. Washington County Hall of Justice, May 1992. Washington County 5th District Courthouse, 2010. Road to Zion National Park. Washington County is a county in the southwestern corner of Utah, United States. [2] As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 180,279, [3] making it the fifth-most populous county in Utah.
Mollie's Nipple butte is located in Hurricane Valley Heritage Park. Its elevation is 1,353 feet (412 m) "above the fertile Hurricane Valley". Mollie's Nipple butte was well known to pioneers during frontier exploration of the area. The butte has an archeological significance because indigenous peoples of the Americas used the caves below the ...