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Uinta Mountains

American  
[yoo-in-tuh] / yuˈɪn tə /

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in NE Utah, part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Kings Peak, 13,498 feet (4,115 meters).


Uinta Mountains British  
/ jʊˈɪntə /

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in NE Utah: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Kings Peak, 4123 m (13 528 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He used Facebook to advertise guided hikes in Utah’s Uinta Mountains.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

Schmidt purchased a $1.4 million “Mountain Modern” custom home in Kamas, Utah, with five bedrooms, seven baths and a “stunning” view of the Uinta Mountains, according to property records and real estate listings.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2021

On any given weeknight, they travel back and forth across the pitch-black basin situated below the snow-capped Uinta Mountains providing much-needed aid.

From National Geographic • Dec. 30, 2020

It involved deeper crustal rocks and produced bulges that would become mountain ranges like the Rockies, Black Hills, Wind River Range, Uinta Mountains, and the San Rafael Swell.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

I was of two minds—I wanted to go, but it seemed a little risky and a big chance for discomfort, since we would have to cross the Uinta Mountains, and a snowstorm likely any time.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt

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