Lowe Peak is a mountain

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located on the common boundary that

Tooele County Tooele County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 72,698. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year. Tooele Coun ...

shares with

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, United States.

Description

Lowe Peak is located southwest of downtown

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and west of Lehi in the

Oquirrh Mountains The Oquirrh Mountains ( ) is a mountain range that runs north–south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. The range runs from northwestern Utah County– ...

which are part of the Great Basin Ranges. It ranks as the second-highest summit in the Oquirrh Mountains, and sixth-highest in Tooele County. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's west slope drains to

Rush Valley Rush Valley is a long north-trending valley in the southeast of Tooele County, Utah. It lies adjacent to and attached to the south of Tooele Valley; the separation point is the low point of the valley at Rush Lake, and lies at the southeast ...

via Ophir Creek, whereas the east slope drains to

Utah Lake Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the center of Utah County, Utah, United States. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo- Orem metropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Sa ...

via West Canyon Wash.

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is significant as the summit rises above Left Fork West Canyon in two miles (3.2 km). In 1988, two people perished when their small plane crashed at 9,700 feet on the west face of the peak.''2 Die in Oquirrh Mountain Plane Crash''
Deseret News, November 16, 1988. This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the

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Climate

Lowe Peak is set within the

Great Basin Desert The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife ...

which has hot summers and cold winters. The desert is an example of a

cold desert climate The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk'') is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert ...

as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool. Winter highs are generally above freezing, and winter nights are bitterly cold, with temperatures often dropping well below freezing.

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* Lowe Peak
weather

National Geodetic Survey Data Sheet
{{Portal bar, Geography, Geology, Mountains Mountains of Utah Three-thousanders of the United States Mountains of Utah County, Utah Mountains of Tooele County, Utah Mountains of the Great Basin

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