Nevershine Hollow is a
valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...
east of the
South Hills, in
Beaver County, Utah. The mouth of the valley is at an elevation of . Its head is at an elevation of 6,500 feet at , north of
Beaver Ridge.
History
Nevershine Hollow was on the new 1855 cutoff route from the original
Old Spanish Trail and the original and more difficult route of the
Mormon Road in the
Black Mountains to the west. The 1855 cutoff made a crossing at
Beaver, Utah, (3 miles east up the
Beaver River from the old crossing at modern
Greenville, Utah), passed through more wagon friendly terrain in Nevershine Hollow and over
Beaver Ridge into the canyon of
Fremont Wash Fremont Wash sometimes called Fremont Canyon in its upper reach, is a stream and a valley in the north end of Parowan Valley, in Iron County, Utah. Its mouth lies at its confluence with Little Salt Lake at an elevation of 5,686 feet / 1,733 meters. ...
to
Muley Point.
[Edward Leo Lyman, Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, University of Nevada Press, 2008.]
References
Valleys of Beaver County, Utah
Valleys of Utah
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