The Fish Springs Range is a long narrow, and north-trending mountain range located in center-west

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. The northeast of the range borders the

Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge is at the southern end of the Great Salt Lake Desert, part of the Great Basin in Juab County, Utah, United States. The Refuge is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. As an oasis in the Grea ...

; the entire east of the range borders the Fish Springs Flat, where the east region of the flat borders the

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. The Fish Springs Range lies at the south of the

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; southwards, as well as southwest and southeastwards, north-trending valleys and mountain ranges drain northwards to the Great Salt Lake Desert. The sequence of these landforms west-to-east, are

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-(Fish Springs Range-north),

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, Whirlwind Valley, and

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. The south of the range borders the north of Tule Valley.

Range description

The Fish Springs Range is north-south trending, linear, narrow (mostly 3 to 4-mi wide), the range is veryslightly "arc-shaped", and curved, to the west. A small sub-range, Middle Range, lies 6.5-mi southwest, towards the

. Southeast lies the extreme north foothills of the

. Fish Springs Flat borders the east of the range, and west of the range lies a satellite sub-peak (only other regional peak), The Honeycombs, . The highpoint of the range in the center-south is George H. Hansen Peak, .DeLorme Atlas, p. 30–31.

Access

The Fish Springs Range and wildlife refuge can be accessed from the west from Trout Creek. From the east, access can be from the

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region by unimproved roads, and southeast by the same from

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, and

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, (through the

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). File:Fish Springs Utah.jpg, Fish Springs & northern hills of range File:MiddleSpring.JPG, Middle Spring

References

External links

George H. Hansen Peak, mountainzone (coordinates)Fish Springs & Fish Springs Range (north section), (Topoquest)Fish Springs Range (center & south section), (Topoquest)
Great Salt Lake Desert Mountain ranges of Juab County, Utah Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Utah