Hopefully, this page now serves as an easy way to find summitpost pages that have been created on Utah county highpoints. Only one county highpoint remains without a dedicated page but even this one, a liner (Wasatch county) which does has a route page which will aid you if seeking information and pictures about it.

Many of Utah's county highpoints are less than exciting as far as challenges go:
Carbon's Monument Peak, Iron's Brianhead, Millard's Mine Camp Peak, Emery's East, Wasatch's liner, Kane's liner and Wayne's Bluebell Knoll but all have interesting aspects and are worthwhile in their own right. Brianhead's views are outstanding and just getting to Bluebell Knoll is an adventure in itself. Many others are challenges to get to but all of them together will let you experience Utah in a unique and special way. You'll never forget the mini adventures all will provide you with.

Utah's county highpointing got a big boost by the publication of two books,
High in Utah and Hiking Utah's Summits. Of the two books, the High in Utah book is the better purchase. One of the best sources of information on the County Highpoints of Utah can be found at www.cohp.org

However, Utah has outstanding county highpoints such as Kings Peak, Mt. Nebo, Ibapah Peak, Deseret Peak, Mt. Peale, Mt. Waas, American Twin and Mt. Ellen
Check back from time to time as I work on this page.

Utah County Highpoints:

Utah Counties

Beaver County Delano Peak 12,173 feet
Box Elder County Bull Mtn 9920 feet
Cache County Naomi Peak 9979 feet
Carbon County Monument Peak 10,452 feet
Daggett County Eccentric Peak 12,276
Davis County Thurston Peak 9706 feet
Duchesne County Kings Peak 13,528
Emery County East Mtn 10,743 feet
Garfield County Mount Ellen 11,522
Grand County Mount Waas 12,331
Iron County Brian Head Peak 11,307
Juab County Ibapah Peak 12,087
Kane County On county line 10,040
Millard County Mine Camp Peak 10,222 feet
Morgan County Thurston Peak 9706
Piute County Delano Peak 12,173
Rich County Bridger Peak 9255'
Salt Lake County American Twin Peaks 11,489'
San Juan County Mount Peale 12,721'
Sanpete County So. Tent Mtn 11,285'
Sevier County Fishlake Hightop Mtn 11,633'
Summit County Gilbert Peak 13442
Toole County Deseret Peak 11,031
Uintah County Eccentric Peak
Utah County Mt. Nebo 11,928
Wasatch County On county line at 10,840
Washington County Signal Peak 10,365
Wayne County Bluebell Knoll 11,328
Weber County Willard Peak 9764

Carbon County - Monument Peak 10,452 feet

A summitpost page has been developed for this highpoint. The below information will be deleted in the near future.

Monument Peak in earlyl morning light

County Seat: Price
County population: 19,700

Perhaps the easiest of all the Utah county highpoints since you can drive your vehicle, if you have high clearance, all the way to the top. Lacking high clearance, you can drive to within a couple hundred yards (which makes Iron county's Brianhead the easiest) See the description in "High in Utah" and study the maps I've created for more information on how to get there. Best time for this one would be July to October (snow would block road any earlier)

View south from Monument Peak

Price City, the largest town and county seat, with a population of 8,712 people, is at an elevation of 5500 feet. Price City was incorporated in 1911 and Carbon County was formed in 1894.

Topozone

Weather report for nearby Price, Utah

Wasatch County - liner on Mt. Cardwell

Scott Patterson has a SP page on Bald Mountain which is close to thise interesting area where the Wasatch County highpoint is. I attached a trip report to his page which highlighted the County highpoint and that can be found HERE. It has several pictures that I didn't include in this section. The following is from my trip there:

Nearby Bald Mountain from near the Wasatch county highpoint

I parked just below the Bald Mountain Overlook (roughly 28+ miles from Kamas) and started from there. I had pre-loaded GPS coordinates and that helped me tremendously. A little cross country effort of maybe 15 minutes found me soon in the correct area (lots of rock and talus) and I began my search for the HP. I quickly ruled out the Topozone co-ordinate and used the directions given by Edward Earl in his report. I saw several cairns in the area but all but two seemed off the mark (in my opinion of course). A large one to the north was actually a bit out of the area and I GPS'd each one and have listed them below. Two of the closest were rather interesting. One simply consisted of about 16 stones placed in an arch shape and the other was on top of a rock with a good view of a pretty lake down below. This was the cairn put up by Gerry and Jennifer Roach along with Dave Covill and it came complete with a small pill bottle register. In my searching for the true HP, I felt it was close to these two mentioned cairns (see below). The closest one to the correct spot in my opinion was the large cairn put up by Gerry and Jennifer Roach and Dave Covill. I found the small pill bottle with its register and found three entries which were:

08-24-02 - Gerry & Jennifer Roach and Dave Covill
07-03-03 - Ken Akerman (his 18th Utah cohp)
09-29-03 - T-bone and the Sherpa (yup, I'm not making this up)

I signed in below good ole "T-Bone".

So, the spot that I felt was highest and still within Wasatch county was here.

My GPS-derived coordinates for the HP (NAD27 datum): (40.67880� N, 110.90130� W)

I took the following GPS-derived coordinates for the cairns found there:

(40.67844� N, 110.90164� W) - the Roach / Covill cairn
(40.67883� N, 110.90165� W) - 16 Stone cairn
(40.68113� N, 110.90034� W) - large cairn to north
(40.68031� N, 110.90168� W) - small cairn

I parked my car at (40.68418� N, 110.90290� W).

I didn't take the time to climb up to the summit of Mt. Cardwell but I recommend reading Edward Earl's trip report as well as this message.
Don't forget to take in the scenery of this area, it is varied and amazing. Some great stuff as you head back towards Kamas.

A 3 dollar fee per day is levied on cars that park anywhere along the highway unless you have a Golden Age Passport which gets you a freebie by just displaying it on your dash.

Time spent in the HP area, one hour. 1/3rd of a mile to the HP and less than 300 feet elevation gain.

TOPOZONE MAP

My SP trip report contains more info and pictures.

County highpoints over 12,000 feet

To qualify, the peak needs to be over 12,000 feet.
Here they are:

1. Kings Peak 13,528 Duchesne county
2. Gilbert Peak 13,442 Summit county
3. Mt. Peale 12,741 San Juan county
4. Mt. Waas 12,331 Grand county
5. Eccentric Pk 12,276 Uintah-Daggett counties
6. Delano Peak 12,173 Beaver-Piute counties
7. Ibapah Peak 12,087 Juab county

There are 8 cohp's over 11,000 feet and 6 over 10,000 feet. Mt. Nebo just misses being a 12,000 footer by 72 feet. The highest I've ever slept on a mountain was at 11,000 feet when we were doing Fishlake Hightop. What a great state. Check out the scenery on the way from Bluebell Knoll to Mt. Ellen as we traveled the backroads of Utah.

Helpful resources

High in Utah (a book about the county highpoints)

Mountaineering in Utah by Michael Kelsey It has a short section on North and South Tent peaks.

County highpoint site www.cohp.org

Scott Surgent's helpful site

State Completers (thanks to www.cohp.org)

Utah (37)
highpointer final county date
Winford Bludworth Salt Lake 09-26-1992
Paul Hatch ?? ??-??-????
Ty Hanson Salt Lake 08-23-1997
Evan Hanson Salt Lake 08-23-1997
Vernon Bonfield Salt Lake 08-23-1997
Mike Weibel ?? ??-??-????
Dan Miller ?? ??-??-????
Bob Packard Juab 10-02-1998
Andy Martin Juab 08-21-1999
Bob Graham Beaver/Piute 10-02-1999
Jobe Wymore Summit 08-26-2000
Bob Martin Juab 09-03-2000
Val Todd Kane 10-21-2000
John Vitz Rich 09-15-2001
Scott Casterlin Morgan/Davis 07-20-2003
Edward Earl Morgan/Davis 07-20-2003
Barbara Lilley Weber 08-18-2003
Gordon MacLeod Summit 08-25-2003
Kline Barney Kane 09-30-2003
James Wedekind Salt Lake 07-31-2004
Jessica Wedekind Salt Lake 07-31-2004
Rik Dunham Box Elder 08-28-2004
Adam Helman Juab 09-06-2004
Gerry Roach Washington 09-30-2004
Jennifer Roach Washington 09-30-2004
Bill Schuler Salt Lake 12-22-2004
Lowell Hurst Duchesne 08-20-2005
Ben Bennion Grand 09-07-2005
Sherilyn Bennion Grand 09-07-2005
Doug Springmeyer Grand 10-27-2005
Ben Knorr Garfield 01-07-2006
Dennis Poulin Summit 08-22-2006
Dean Molen Summit 08-22-2006
Terry Sadler Summit 08-22-2006
Diane Winger Juab 08-28-2006
Charlie Winger Juab 08-28-2006
Dale Millsap Daggett & Uintah 10-19-2007

Please email me if your name has been left off this list or you know of someone who has completed the state.

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