Beaver Ridge (Beaver County, Utah)
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Beaver Ridge a
ridge A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides. The sides of a ridge slope away from a narrow top, the crest or ridgecrest, wi ...
in
Beaver County, Utah Beaver County is a county in west central Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 7,072, up from the 2010 figure of 6,629. Its county seat and largest city is Beaver. The county was named for the abundance ...
. It lies south of Nevershine Hollow and north of the
canyon A canyon (; archaic British English spelling: ''caƱon''), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency t ...
of Fremont Wash. It reaches an elevation of .


History

Beaver Ridge is the top of the pass between the valley of the Beaver River and the
Parowan Valley Parowan Valley, originally known as the Little Salt Lake Valley, is a basin in Iron County, Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners ...
. This was the apex of the 1855 cutoff from the original, more difficult route of the
Mormon Road Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of S ...
in the Black Mountains to the west. The 1855 cutoff made a crossing at
Beaver, Utah Beaver is a city in, and county seat of, Beaver County in southwestern Utah, United States. The population was 3,592 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 figure of 3,112. History Indigenous peoples lived in the area for thousands of years, ...
, (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 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.


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Landforms of Beaver County, Utah Ridges of Utah Mormon Road {{Utah-geo-stub