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Website. vernalcity.org. Vernal, the county seat and largest city in Uintah County, is in northeastern Utah, approximately 175 miles (280 km) east of Salt Lake City and 20 miles (32 km) west of the Colorado border. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 10,079. The population has since grown to 10,432 as of the 2022 population estimate.
Website. www.co.uintah.ut.us. Uintah County (/ juːˈɪntə / yoo-IN-tə) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census the population was 35,620. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Vernal. [2] The county was named for the portion of the Ute Indian tribe that lived in the basin.
Freedom Bridge over Starvation Reservoir on U.S. Route 40 in Duchesne County, Utah.. Father Escalante's expedition visited the Uinta Basin in September 1776. 1822–1840 French Canadian trappers Étienne Provost, François le Clerc, and Antoine Robidoux entered the Uinta Basin by way of the Old Spanish Trail and made their fortunes by trapping the many beaver and trading with the Uintah tribe.
Gilbert Peak seen from lake 151. The Uinta Mountains are part of the Wasatch and Uinta montane forests ecoregion. Nearly the entire range lies within Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (on the north and west) and Ashley National Forest (on the south and east). The range's highest peaks are protected as part of the High Uintas Wilderness.
Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains [4] on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah, north of the town of Jensen, Utah ...
The Utah Field House of Natural History State Park consists of a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2) structure on a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) property. The museum displays prehistoric geological, anthropological, and natural history items found near the Uinta Mountains and within the Uinta Basin. The park has a picnic area, and camping is available at ...
May 21, 2001. (#00000354) Ashley National Forest. 40°43′11″N 109°43′10″W / 40.719722°N 109.719444°W / 40.719722; -109.719444 (Carter Road) Ashley National Forest. 1881-built military road in Uintah County and Daggett County. 3. Cockleburr Wash Petroglyphs.
U.S. Route 191 (US-191) is a major 404.168-mile (650.445 km), north–south U.S. Numbered Highway through eastern Utah, United States. The present alignment of US-191, which stretches from Mexico to Canada, was created in 1981 through Utah. Previously the route had entered northern Utah, ending at US-91 in Brigham City, but with the completion ...