Reids Peak

Reids Peak
Reids Peak
	East aspect
Highest point
Elevation	11,724 ft (3,573 m)
Prominence	670 ft (204 m)
Parent peak	Bald Mountain (11,948 ft)
Isolation	0.59 mi (0.95 km)
Coordinates	40°42′23″N110°54′45″W / 40.7063807°N 110.9124702°W
Geography
	Reids Peak Location in Utah Reids Peak Reids Peak (the United States)
Country	United States of America
State	Utah
County	Summit
Parent range	Uinta Mountains ; Rocky Mountains
Topo map	USGS Mirror Lake
Geology
Rock age	Late Precambrian
Rock type	Quartz arenite
Climbing
Easiest route	class 2+ scrambling

Last updated January 06, 2025

Reids Peak is an 11,724-foot-elevation (3,573-meter) mountain summit in Summit County, Utah, United States.

Description

Reids Peak is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.^[2] It is situated in the western Uinta Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north into headwaters of the Weber River.^[2] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,300 feet (701 meters) above the Weber River in one mile (1.6 km). Access to the mountain is via the Mirror Lake Highway. The mountain was first named "Reeds Peak" in 1875, and the present spelling of the toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.^[3] The peak is named after an early explorer of this region.^[4] William "Toopeechee" Reed was an early pioneer of this region who founded Reed Trading Post in 1828, making this the first permanent non-Indian residence and business in what would become the State of Utah.

Geology

Reids Peak is composed of metasedimentary rock of the Mount Watson Formation.^[5] Fluvial sediment processes deposited a sequence of nearly white quartz arenite and subarkose interbedded with minor amounts of pale-red arkosic arenite and grayish-green shale during the Late Precambrian.^[6] The Uintas were uplifted during the Laramide orogeny about 70 to 50 million years ago. The area around Reids Peak and Bald Mountain became an ice cap during glaciation of the Ice age, transforming these peaks into nunataks.^[7] Numerous glacial cycles during the Quaternary Period sculpted the peak and scoured the surrounding land forming many depressions that are now lakes. Viewed from the summit, as many as 70 lakes can be counted.^[8]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Reids Peak is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold snowy winters and mild summers.^[9] Tundra climate characterizes the summit and highest slopes.

Gallery

North aspect of Reids Peak (center), with Bald Mountain (left). Kamas Lake in foreground.
Reids Peak viewed from the top of Bald Mountain.
Northeast aspect
Southwest aspects of Reids Peak (left) and Bald Mountain (right) viewed from Lost Lake
West aspect, from Reids Lake

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References

1 2 3 4 "Reids Peak - 11,724' UT". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
1 2 3 "Reids Peak, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
1 2 "Reids Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved June 9, 2024.
↑ United States Board on Geographic Names, Decisions of the United States Geographic Board, October 5, 1932, p. 24.
↑ Utah Geological Survey, Retrieved 2024-06-09.
↑ Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981–1985, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, p. 211.
↑ Wallace Walter Atwood, Glaciation of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909, p. 12.
↑ Commercial West, December 19, 1914, p. 40.
↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.

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[loj-1] 1 2 3 4 "Reids Peak - 11,724' UT". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 9, 2024.

[peakbagger-2] 1 2 3 "Reids Peak, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved June 9, 2024.

[gnis-3] 1 2 "Reids Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved June 9, 2024.

[Board-4] United States Board on Geographic Names, Decisions of the United States Geographic Board, October 5, 1932, p. 24.

[5] Utah Geological Survey, Retrieved 2024-06-09.

[6] Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981–1985, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, p. 211.

[7] Wallace Walter Atwood, Glaciation of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909, p. 12.

[8] Commercial West, December 19, 1914, p. 40.

[Peel-9] Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . ISSN 1027-5606. S2CID 9654551.

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