The Canyon Mountains are a long

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located in the northeast corner of

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; the range is bisected north-south with a southeast border section of Juab County. The Canyon Mountains are part of the north section of the Fishlake National Forest, but the west of the range borders the northeast of the Sevier Desert, and the adjacent

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Geography

The range is a small

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section of mountains that merge into the smaller Gilson Mountains north traversed by Utah route 132. To the southeast the range merges into the

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also part of the Fishlake National Forest; between the two,

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traverses northeast to Scipio and then further to

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. The highpoint of the range is Fool Creek Peak, at ,Utah, DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, p. 34. lying on the two county borders, but slightly east of the range's center (1.5 mi).

North range terminus: Sevier River

The

enters the northeast Sevier Desert at the northeast, then north of the range, with the south border of the Gilson Mountains. The Sevier River makes its final exit from the mountains, and valleys associated with the western flank of the Wasatch Ranges, as well as the Wasatch and Sevier Plateaus. The massif of the

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- Tushar Mountains are south; the river flows north along the east flanks, then north-northeast along the east flank of the Valley Mountains, then northwest along the north of Little Valley, then northwest, then due-west past the Gilson and Canyon Mountains into the Sevier Desert. The river turns southwest to Leamington, then Delta, then due-west towards the west Sevier Desert.

Geography

North range terminus: Sevier River

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