The Bull Valley Mountains are a 30-mi (48 km) long,''Utah Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2014, p. 56

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in southwest

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, located in northwest Washington County. The range is adjacent the Utah border and attached to the

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of southeast

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. The

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transects the summits of both ranges, with the

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north and northeast of the Bull Valley Mountains, and south of the mountains the

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watershed, and specifically the Santa Clara River which drains southeasterly from an

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along the mountain range's southeast flank.

Description and region

The Bull Valley Mountains are on the

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between the Escalante Valley north, the location of

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in the southern

of the

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, and the watershed of the Colorado to the south.

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is 25 mi SSE of the range.

State Route 18

Utah Route 18 traverses the base of the southeast escarpment and upper Santa Clara River; Route 18 then goes due north through the east end of the Bull Valley Mountains to Enterprise. The route also travels due south from the escarpment through

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, then to Saint George. A separate route skirts the center of the escarpment's foothills, going from Veyo, then along the Santa Clara to Gunlock; the southwest third of the Bull Valley Mountains is drained southwest into the Beaver Dam Wash, west of the

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. A feeder wash, Jackson Wash is located at the southwest escarpment area; the southwest of the mountain range is in the watershed of the East Fork Beaver Dam Wash, while the main Beaver Dam Wash watershed is between the Clover and Bull Valley mountain ranges.

Lower Enterprise Reservoir

Lower Enterprise Reservoir, is in the north of the range on Little Pine Creek. The reservoir is just southwest of Enterprise, and about 5 mi due south of

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. The reservoir has a historic pioneer dam which was built in the early 1900s. Grassy Creek is the only creek that runs into the reservoir all year long.

Pine Park

Pine Park is southwest of Enterprise and east of

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. This area features white

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and a small creek with a campground and picnic area. The creek eventually leads to Beaver Dam State Park just a few miles west of Pine Park.

Peaks and highpoint

Numerous peaks dot the Bull Valley Mountains, most around 5000 ft. The highpoint Lost Peak, is in the center-west; Gutz Peak, is 2 mi northwest.

References

External links

*Range Highpoint, Lost Pea
Lost Peak, at Utah Peaks (starting with L), coordinates, (elev, 7503 ft)
*Enterprise Reservoi

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