Deer Trail Mountain is a mountain summit in Piute County, Utah, United States.
Description Deer Trail Mountain is located southwest of Marysvale, Utah, in the Tushar Mountains on land managed by Fishlake National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains to the Sevier River via Gold, Threemile, Pine, and Cottonwood creeks. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Cottonwood Creek in 1.5 miles (2.4 km). The Deer Trail Mine on the mountain's east slope produced 77,500 ounces of gold from 1904 through 1959.Jerry Grant, Grants Mining Districts of the Western United States: Volume 2, Xlibris Corporation, 2020, . The mine was discovered in 1878 when a piece of float ore was found on a deer's trail.House Documents, Volume 13, 1885, US Government Printing Office, p. 463. This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Based on the Köppen climate classification, Deer Trail Mountain has a dry summer subarctic climate (Köppen Dsc) with cold snowy winters and mild summers. The mountain has a complex rock composition consisting of Oligocene breccia and tuff at the top, which overlays Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, overlaying Triassic Chinle Formation, Triassic Moenkopi Formation, Permian Kaibab Limestone, Permian Toroweap Formation, and Queantoweap Sandstone.Geologic Map of the Deer Trail Mountain-Alunite Ridge Mining Area, West-Central Utah, Charles G. Cunningham, USGS, 1979.
See also List of mountains in Utah
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External links Deer Trail Mountain: weather forecast