The Deep Creek Range, (often refereed to as the Deep Creek Mountains (

Goshute The Goshutes are a tribe of Western Shoshone Native Americans. There are two federally recognized Goshute tribes today: * Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, located in Nevada and Utah * Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah ...

: Pi'a-roi-ya-bi), are a

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in the

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located in extreme western

Tooele Tooele ( ) is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 35,742 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Tooele County. Located approximately 30 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele is known for Tooele Army ...

and Juab counties in

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, United States. The range trends north-south (with a curl to the west at the southern end, 16% of range in

White Pine County, Nevada White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,030. Its county seat is Ely. The name "(Rocky Mountain) white pine" is an old ...

Deep Creek Range, Peakbagger
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in its central highest portion. The valley to the east is Snake Valley, and to the west is

Deep Creek Valley Deep Creek Valley is a long valley located in southwest Tooele County at the Utah-Nevada border; the extreme south of the valley is in northwest Juab County. The valley parallels the west flank of the Deep Creek Range, both north-trending. In the ...

. Nearby communities include

Callao, Utah Callao ( ) is a community in northern Snake Valley, along the border of Juab and Tooele counties, Utah, United States. Description The community was part of the original Pony Express overland route, and was first called Willow Springs in 1860. ...

to the east and the community of

Ibapah Ibapah ( ) is a small unincorporated community in far western Tooele County, Utah, United States, near the Nevada state line. Description The settlement is located near the Deep Creek Mountains. The site was originally established in 1859 by ...

and the lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation to the west. The highest point in the Deep Creek Range is

Ibapah Peak Ibapah Peak is a summit in Juab County, Utah in the United States. It is the highest point of the Deep Creek Range and is located less than east of the Utah-Nevada border, and about northwest of the town of Trout Creek, Utah. With a topographi ...

, an ultra prominent peak, which rises to . Other peaks include

Haystack Peak Haystack Peak is a mountain summit located in Juab County, Utah, United States. Description Haystack Peak is the second-highest summit in the Deep Creek Mountains which are a subset of the Great Basin Ranges, and it is set on land administered ...

at and Red Mountain at . The range is the source of several perennial streams and supports a diverse

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, with an "island" of

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on the highest summits. The range has a vertical relief of above the salt flats of the

Great Salt Lake Desert The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for w ...

lying to the northeast and rises about above the semiarid plains to the west.

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Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Utah Mountain ranges of Juab County, Utah Mountain ranges of Tooele County, Utah {{Utah-geo-stub