The Lake Mountains (also known as simply Lake Mountain) are a

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located on the western edge of the

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in northwestern

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. The range forms the northwest border of

Utah Lake Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the center of Utah County, Utah, United States. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo- Orem metropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt ...

, and its proximity to major population centers allows its use for communication towers, mostly in its north section, bordering Eagle Mountain.

Description

The range is arc-shaped, curved to the east. The Lake Mountains have no prominent peaks, but a central ridge line, about long, that trends slightly north-northwest by south-southeast. The highest point in the range is an unnamed peak, with an elevation of . The range is bordered by Cedar Valley on the west; the Oquirrh Mountains on the northwest, ; the

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on the north, Utah Lake and Utah Valley on the northeast, east and southeast; the

Goshen Valley The Goshen Valley is a valley located in southern Utah County, Utah, and the valley forms part of its southeast border with the Wasatch Front, and parts of the Wasatch Range. The valley is an extension southwesterly of the Utah Valley. A souther ...

on the south-southwest, and the

East Tintic Mountains The East Tintic Mountains are a mountain range in central Juab, Utah, and Tooele counties in Utah, United States on the east margin of the Great Basin just west of the Wasatch Front about south-southeast of Salt Lake City. The community of Eur ...

on the southwest.

Utah State Route 68 State Route 68 (SR-68) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. It is a major thoroughfare throughout the Wasatch Front as it runs north–south for , linking US-6 near Elberta to US-89 in Woods Cross. The route intersects several major ...

(also known as Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs) runs along the northeast, east, and southeast perimeter of the mountains (along the shore of Utah Lake) and

Utah State Route 73 State Route 73 (SR-73) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, connecting the Rush, Cedar, and Utah Valleys. It is a discontinuous route in two segments; one long segment connecting SR-36 to Saratoga Springs, and one short segment within ...

passes by the northern edge. Lake Mountain Communications Road (a

dirt road A dirt road or track is a type of unpaved road not paved with asphalt, concrete, brick, or stone; made from the native material of the land surface through which it passes, known to highway engineers as subgrade material. Dirt roads are suitable ...

) runs roughly north-south through the range (between Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain) and provides access to the multiple radio communication towers on the range. Several minor dirt roads also cross the southern end of the range, with Soldiers Pass Road being the most prominent. There are seventeen named canyons on the east side of the range, running toward Utah Lake: Long, Pfieffer, Burnt (southern), Chaparral, Miners, Potter, Enoch, Seep, Little, Olaf, Limekiln, Losee, Clark, Israel, Lott, Burnt (northern), and Reformation canyons (from south to north), with Limekiln Canyon being in the approximate center. The west side has much fewer named canyons, running toward Cedar Valley: Mercer, Ivans, Wildcat, and Wiley (from south to north), with Wiley Canyon being in the approximate center.

Radio infrastructure

Radio infrastructure on the range serves several radio and television needs for the cities of Provo,

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, American Fork, and almost all of Utah county.

FM & HD Radio stations

The Lake Mountains house

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s for several radio stations serving the Provo area. KENZ 94.9 FM, a contemporary hits station, broadcasts from the range .

KJMY KJMY (99.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Bountiful, Utah, and serving the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, including Ogden and Provo. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and it broadcasts a hot adult contemporary ra ...

, a

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-based hot adult contemporary format radio station on 99.5 FM formerly had a translator known as K256AE, which is on 99.1 MHz from a tower on the mountains. The translator is now used as a rebroadcast of

's HD-2 stream through a loophole in FCC rules. It is known as "Country 99.1."

KVFX KVFX (94.5 FM), also known as ''VFX'', is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station broadcasting in the Logan- Salt Lake City- Ogden, Utah metropolitan area. It is owned by the Sun Valley Radio, Inc. KVFX-FM also broadcasts via translator in Tremonton at ...

had a translator known as K284AI-FM. K284AI was on located 104.7 MHz. In order to make way for

KNIV KNIV (104.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a regional Mexican format. Licensed to Lyman, Wyoming, United States, it serves the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Aerostar Communications, LLC. Throughout t ...

’s move into the Salt Lake City market, the station signed off the air. One

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translator also call the mountain home. K217CL (91.3 FM), carries programming from KYCC, and is licensed to Provo.

KUDD KUDD (105.1 FM, "Mix 105.1") is an American radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format serving Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, that's licensed to American Fork, Utah. This station is owned by Dell Loy Hansen, through Broadway Med ...

103.9 FM has a booster on the mountain, providing coverage to the Provo-Orem metropolitan area.

Amateur (ham) radio

Multiple repeaters for amateur radio exist on the Lake Mountains. The most well known repeaters are operated by the Utah Amateur Radio Club (UARC), first coordinated in 1927, and the Utah Valley Amateur Radio Club (UVARC), first coordinated in 2016 Numerous other stations share tower space with the repeaters above, all operating on different frequencies.

Television stations

Numerous high and low power television stations call the Lake Mountains their home. KUPX's, former analog broadcast on channel 16 from a tower on the mountains. KUPX is owned by Paxson Salt Lake City License Inc and carries programming from

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. Its tower was located on the northern flank of the mountain (pictured right). KUPX now broadcasts its

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signal on channel 29 from

Farnsworth Peak Farnsworth Peak is a peak located on the northern end of the Oquirrh Mountain range, approximately south west of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The mountain is named for Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the first completely electronic t ...

. K22IT, another television station on the mountains, carried programming from

KTMW KTMW (channel 20) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the state of Utah. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station maintains studio ...

. It remained in analog, and had no application to transmit in digital. Its license has since been deleted. KUTH, Salt Lake City's

Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...

affiliate, broadcasts its digital broadcast from the Lake Mountains on channel 32. K43JV, a lower power television translator, carries programming from

3ABN The Three Angels Broadcasting Network, or 3ABN, is a Christian media television and radio network which broadcasts Seventh-day Adventist religious and health-oriented programming, based in West Frankfort, Illinois, United States. Although it ...

. It broadcasts on channel 43. Currently it has a construction permit to transmit in digital on RF channel 16, the former analog home of KUPX. K49GD, channel 49, was a translator for

and carried a variety of programming. K49GD was licensed to Spanish Fork. The station license was deleted by the FCC. KUTH filed an application with the FCC to move its transmitter to Farnsworth Peak which would leave only K43JV transmitting from the mountain. This move will allow KUTH to better serve the

Wasatch Front The Wasatch Front is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. It consists of a chain of contiguous cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from approximately Provo in the south to Logan in the nort ...

because of Farnsworth Peak's higher terrain and close proximity to

Internet service providers

The Lake Mountain provide an advantageous location for

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s to either provide

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to local residents, or to relay data between facilities. Providers include Rise Broadband, InnovativeAir, SenaWave, and Avative Fiber.

References

External links

Wiley Canyon (west of range center, coordinates), topoquest
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