Wasatch Range
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View of the Wasatch Range in Salt Lake City
The Wasatch Range (English Wasatch Range or Wasatch Mountains ) [ wɑ sætʃ ː ] is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains.
The mountain range is located in the northeastern part of the Great Basin and extends from central Utah north - past the Great Salt Lake - until shortly after the federal limit of Idaho. It is about 350 km long and an average of about 3,000 meters high. The highest peaks are Mount Timpanogos and Mount Nebo with a height of over 3,600 meters.
The Wasatch Range is world famous for the powder snow in her eleven ski resorts. That's a slogan on the license plate of Utah "Greatest Snow on Earth". In 2002, here the Winter Olympics were held.
West beneath the Wasatch Range extends in the central part of the U.S. state of Utah, the metropolitan area of the Wasatch Front, in which 80 % of the population of the state live.