Big Provo Cirque Trail via Lame Horse Trail is a 9.1-mile out-and-back in Mount Timpanogos Wilderness near Aspen Grove, UT. It climbs 3,560 ft, with sections as steep as 35% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 32/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi6,897 – 9,364 ft · steepest grade: 35%9.4 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 40.41540, -111.60781
Nearest town Aspen Grove, UT
Directions
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Big Provo Cirque Trail via Lame Horse Trail
9.1 mi · ▲ 3,560 ft · 4 hr 49 min
Elevation 6,898–9,363 ft
Out & Back · Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
Trailhead: 40.41540, -111.60781
Weather Sep 4: sunrise 6:58 AM · sunset 7:55 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Lame Horse Trail, heading S.
- 0.9 miContinue straight onto Mount Timpanogos Trail, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading E.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Stewarts Cascade Trail, heading S.
- 1.4 miContinue straight onto Big Provo Cirque Trail, heading W.
- 2 miReach Big Provo Cirque Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 2 miContinue straight onto Stewarts Cascade Trail, heading NE.
- 1.4 miTurn left, heading W.
- 150 ftTurn left onto Mount Timpanogos Trail, heading NE.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Lame Horse Trail, heading W.
- 0.9 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
100% dirt
Weather
Sunrise 6:58 AMSunset 7:55 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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