Uinta National Forest is a national forest located in north central

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, USA. It was originally part of the Uinta Forest Reserve, created by

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on 2 February 1897. The name is derived from the

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word ''Yoov-we-teuh'' which means ''pine forest''. Because of changes to the boundaries over the years, the

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are now located in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. In August 2007 it was announced that the Uinta National Forest would merge with the Wasatch-Cache National Forest based in

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, north of Provo, Utah. The Uinta National Forest was headquartered in

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with four outlying district offices located in Pleasant Grove, Heber, Spanish Fork, and

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until August 2007. The Uinta National Forest is now managed as one unit along with the Wasatch-Cache National Forest as the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Managing , the Uinta National Forest is less than 45 minutes south of Salt Lake City and only minutes away from Provo, Utah. In descending order of land area it is located in parts of

, Wasatch, Juab, and Sanpete counties. One of the most prominent features of the Uinta National Forest is the

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mountain peak, towering over above sea level. However, the highest point in the Unita National Forest (as well as the entire

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) is the nearby

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at above sea level.

Wilderness areas

There are three officially designated

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

s in Uinta National Forest that are part of the

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. One of them lies partly in neighboring

Wasatch National Forest Wasatch National Forest was established as the Wasatch Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah on August 16, 1906 with to the east of Salt Lake City and Provo. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Grantsv ...

. *

Lone Peak Wilderness The Lone Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Uinta and the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. The Lone Peak Wilderness was established in 1978 as part of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and wa ...

(partly in Wasatch NF) * Mount Nebo Wilderness *

Mount Timpanogos Wilderness Mount Timpanogos Wilderness is a wilderness area protecting Mount Timpanogos and the surrounding area. It is located in the front range of the Wasatch Range, Wasatch Mountain Range, between American Fork Canyon on the north and Provo Canyon on ...

References

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Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
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Wilderness areas

See also

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