Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake City

Name: Little Cottonwood Canyon
Address: Salt Lake City, United States

#53 among attractions in Salt Lake City

Nature, Natural attraction, Top attraction, Canyon

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Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake City

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Little Cottonwood Canyon lies within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest along the eastern side of the Salt Lake Valley, roughly 15 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah. The canyon is part of Granite, a CDP and "Community Council" designated by Salt Lake County. The canyon is a glacial trough, carved by an alpine glacier during the last ice age, 15,000 to 25,000 years ago. A number of rare and endemic plant species are found in the canyon's Albion Basin. Mountain goats inhabit the surrounding mountains. ()

Coordinates: 40°34'16"N, 111°42'25"W

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Little Cottonwood Canyon – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cecret Lake, Doughnut Falls, Lone Peak, Pfeifferhorn.

4.5 miE
Natural attraction, Hiking trail, Park
Cecret Lake, Salt Lake City
114 min walk • Cecret Lake is a small alpine lake in Albion Basin which is within the town limits of Alta in the U.S. state of Utah. This area is also part of the Wasatch National Forest. Cecret Lake is also a protected watershed for Salt Lake City.
4.9 miNE
Natural attraction, Waterfall
Doughnut Falls, Salt Lake City
126 min walk • Doughnut Falls is a waterfall in the Big Cottonwood Canyon near Silver Fork, south of Midvale in Salt Lake County, Utah. Access to Chocolate Falls is from the Mill D Trailhead towards the Jordan Pines picnic area.
4 miSW
Natural attraction, Mountain, Vernacular architecture
Lone Peak, Salt Lake City
102 min walk • Lone Peak, a mountain peak southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States is the center of the Lone Peak Wilderness, established in 1978.
2.6 miS
Natural attraction, Mountain, Vernacular architecture
Pfeifferhorn, Lone Peak Wilderness
66 min walk • The Pfeifferhorn is the 11,331 feet triangularly-shaped peak located in the most isolated part of the Lone Peak Wilderness Area of the Wasatch Mountains in northern Utah, United States.
6.9 miNW
40°38'20"N • 111°48'11"W
Old Mill Golf Course, Salt Lake City
176 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
4.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Vernacular architecture
Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake City
126 min walk • Big Cottonwood Canyon is a canyon in the Wasatch Range 12 miles southeast of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah. The 15-mile-long canyon provides hiking, biking, picnicking, rock-climbing, camping and fishing in the summer.
3.2 miE
Town
Alta, Salt Lake City
83 min walk • Alta is a town in eastern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 383 at the 2010 census, a slight increase from the 2000 figure of 370.
6.2 miNW
Reportedly haunted, Vernacular architecture
Cottonwood Paper Mill, Salt Lake City
159 min walk • The Cottonwood Paper Mill is an abandoned stone structure located at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It was built in 1883 by the Deseret News under the direction of Henry Grow.
2.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Granite Mountain, Salt Lake City
75 min walk • Granite Mountain is a mass of solid rock one mile up Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of Utah, not too far from Salt Lake City, Utah.
5.1 miW
Romanesque revival architecture
Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio
131 min walk • The Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio is a historic building in Sandy, Utah. It was built in 1903-1905 as a meeting house for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed in the Romanesque Revival architectural style. It was acquired by sculptor Avard T. Fairbanks in 1966, and remodelled as his art studio.
1.8 miNW
Nature, Mountain
Twin Peaks, Salt Lake City
46 min walk • Twin Peaks is an American television series, running from 1990 to 1991; and in 2017. Twin Peaks may also refer...