The Star Range is an 8-mile (12 km) long, small mountain range located in central
Beaver County,
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
. The range is "
star"-shaped as small ridges end at peaks, like fingers of a hand. Another adjacent range sequence southwest, the Shauntie Hills has other fingers of the star-shape.
Both ranges slope north towards flatlands south of the
Sevier Lake
Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by t ...
region, (southwest
Sevier Desert
The Sevier Desert is a large arid section of central-west Utah, United States, and is located in the southeast of the Great Basin. It is bordered by deserts north, west, and south; its east border is along the mountain range and valley sequences ...
), and
San Francisco Mountains
The San Francisco Peaks (Navajo: , es, Sierra de San Francisco, Hopi: ''Nuva'tukya'ovi'', Western Apache: ''Dził Tso'', Keres: ''Tsii Bina'', Southern Paiute: ''Nuvaxatuh'', Havasupai-Hualapai: ''Hvehasahpatch''/''Huassapatch''/''Wik'hanbaja' ...
. The south flank of the Star Range lies at the northeast perimeter of the
Escalante Desert
The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in southwestern Utah.
Geography
The Escalante Desert is northwest of Cedar City in Iron County, Utah, and ext ...
;
Milford Valley, the site of
Milford and a north-flowing stretch of the
Beaver River (Sevier River), lies adjacent, and east of the range, a narrowing valley stretch with the
Mineral Mountains bordering to the east.
Description
The range is only about 8-mi long. and trends southwest by northeast.
The highpoint of the range is Topache Peak, in the center-southeast bordering the Escalante Desert, at ).
Access
Access to the northeast or south side of the Star Range is by way of
Utah State Route 21
State Route 21 (SR-21) is a state highway in western Utah, running for in Millard and Beaver Counties from the Nevada state line near Garrison to Beaver.
Route description
SR-21 begins at the Nevada state line as a continuation of Nevada St ...
, from Milford, or
Upton. Utah 21 turns due-west at Milford and crosses the north foothills of the range. The northwest side of the range can be accessed from the same route, (farther west), by way of The Big Wash, which drain washes from the northwest foothills. Utah 21 goes to the southeast flank of the San Francisco Mountains, about 13-mi from Milford.
[Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 41.]
References
External links
Topache Peak, lat-long.com (approx. range center-(southeast)) (coordinates)
Mountain ranges of Beaver County, Utah
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Utah
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