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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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading S.
  2. 150 ftContinue straight onto Lame Horse Trail, heading S.
  3. 0.9 miContinue straight onto Mount Timpanogos Trail, heading E.
  4. 0.2 miTurn right, heading E.
  5. 150 ftTurn right onto Stewarts Cascade Trail, heading S.
  6. 1.4 miContinue straight onto Big Provo Cirque Trail, heading W.
  7. 2 miReach Big Provo Cirque Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 2 miContinue straight onto Stewarts Cascade Trail, heading NE.
  9. 1.4 miTurn left, heading W.
  10. 150 ftTurn left onto Mount Timpanogos Trail, heading NE.
  11. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Lame Horse Trail, heading W.
  12. 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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