American Fork Canyon via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail
1 mi · ▲ 298 ft · 29 min
American Fork Canyon via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail is a 1-mile out-and-back in Lone Peak Wilderness near Silver Lake Summer Home Area, UT. The route reaches American Fork Canyon at the turnaround, 0.5 miles in. It climbs 298 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 23/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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American Fork Canyon via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail
1 mi · ▲ 298 ft · 29 min
Elevation 6,754–6,946 ft
Out & Back · Lone Peak Wilderness
Trailhead: Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail · 40.49397, -111.65813
Weather Sep 4: Clear, high 75°F / low 53° · precip 1% · wind 11 mph · sunrise 6:58 AM · sunset 7:56 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail, heading S.
- 0.2 miBear left onto Granite Flat Connector Trail, heading SE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 50 ftReach American Fork Canyon, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail, heading NW.
- 500 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 500 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
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- Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail 10 mi · ▲ 3,940 ft
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