Box Elder Peak Trail & White Canyon Trail via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail
12 mi · ▲ 6,357 ft · 7 hr 11 min
Box Elder Peak Trail & White Canyon Trail via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail is a 12-mile out-and-back in Lone Peak Wilderness near Silver Lake Summer Home Area, UT. It climbs 6,357 ft, with sections as steep as 51% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 87/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Box Elder Peak Trail & White Canyon Trail via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail
12 mi · ▲ 6,357 ft · 7 hr 11 min
Elevation 6,954–11,077 ft
Out & Back · Lone Peak Wilderness
Trailhead: Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail · 40.49397, -111.65813
Weather Sep 4: Clear, high 76°F / low 53° · precip 1% · wind 6 mph · sunrise 6:58 AM · sunset 7:56 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail, heading NW.
- 3.1 miBear left onto White Canyon Trail, heading W.
- 0.7 miBear right onto Box Elder Peak Trail, heading S.
- 1.9 miBear right onto Box Elder Trail, heading NW.
- 0.3 miReach White Canyon Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.3 miBear left onto Box Elder Peak Trail, heading SE.
- 1.9 miBear left onto White Canyon Trail, heading N.
- 0.7 miBear right onto Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail, heading N.
- 3.1 miArrive 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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Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 3.5 mi in (~167 min). Leave by 4:49 PM for the 7:56 PM sunset. Back at your car by 9:35 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail Trailhead
- American Fork Canyon via Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail 1 mi · ▲ 298 ft
- Deer Creek-Dry Creek Trail 10 mi · ▲ 3,940 ft
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