Box Elder Peak From Granite Flats

Because the summit is over 11k it is a popular hike among peak baggers.

Box elder peak from granite flats.

The trail is primarily used for hiking and is best used from june until october. Search and rescue personal survey an airplane that crashed above the granite flat campground in the box elder peak area of american fork canyon on friday july 3 2020. Timpanogos and lone peak it dominates the ridgeline above and to the north of american fork canyon. Witnesses saw the small plane a 1975 fixed wing single engine cessna 172m go down friday morning and officials located the wreckage in the area of box elder peak above the granite flats.

This trail is unsanctioned use at your own risk. Meghan thackery deseret news. Four people died in the crash. The peak is over shadowed by timpanogos as well as nearby lone peak and the pfeifferhorn but it still offers outstanding views of these and many other surrounding peaks.

This is a mix of well maintained trail and dry creek beds the name kinda gives it away. Start from granite flats campground near tibble fork. Box elder peak 11 101 ft is the large well known peak in between mt. Box elder peak via deer creek dry creek trail is a 10 2 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near alpine utah that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as difficult.

This is going to be where you ll see the fewest people most who climb box elder peak do so from the east granite flats. According to the utah county sheriff s office the plane went down near box elder peak. Dogs are also able to use this trail. Cannon said the craft is a small plane but the make and the model have not.

Box elder peak is located in the wasatch range south of the little cottonwood canyon alpine ridge and north of mt.