The Deep Creek Range, often referred to as the Deep Creek Mountains (

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: Pi'a-roi-ya-bi), are a

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in the

Great Basin The Great Basin () is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets to the ocean, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja Californi ...

located in extreme western

Tooele Tooele ( ) is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 35,742 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Tooele County. Located approximately 40 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele is known for Tooele Army ...

and Juab counties in

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, United States. The range trends north–south (with a curl to the west at the southern end, 16% of range in

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Deep Creek Range, Peakbagger
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granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

in its central highest portion. The valley to the east is Snake Valley, and to the west is

Deep Creek Valley Deep Creek Valley is a long valley located in southwest Tooele County, Utah, Tooele County at the Utah-Nevada border; the extreme south of the valley is in northwest Juab County, Utah, Juab County. The valley parallels the west flank of the Deep ...

. Nearby communities include Callao, Utah to the east and the community of Ibapah and the lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation to the west. The highest point in the Deep Creek Range is Ibapah Peak, an ultra prominent peak, which rises to . Other peaks include Haystack Peak at and Red Mountain at . The range is the source of several perennial streams and supports a diverse

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, with an "island" of

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on the highest summits. The range has a vertical relief of above the salt flats of the

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lying to the northeast and rises about above the semiarid plains to the west.

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