Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, United States and an unincorporated community that is a near-ghost town located at the pass. Soldier Summit has been an important transportation route between the Wasatch Front and Price, Utah, since the area was settled by the Mormon pioneers. It is on the route of both U.S. Route 6 and the old main line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW), now the Provo Subdivision of the Central Corridor. Located where the road makes a brief bend through the extreme southwest corner of Wasatch County, Soldier Summit historically had more to do with nearby Utah County.
One of several rows of foundations left at Soldier Summit
Depiction of a Denver and Rio Grande Western train climbing the summit, circa 1915. There are 5 locomotives used—four at the front and one at the back.
The Wasatch Range or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about 160 miles (260 km) from the Utah-Idaho border south to central Utah. It is the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the Great Basin region. The northern extension of the Wasatch Range, the Bear River Mountains, extends just into Idaho, constituting all of the Wasatch Range in that state.
View of the Wasatch Range from the Salt Lake City Public Library, January 2006
Mount Olympus, a prominent and recognizable mountain visible from much of the Salt Lake Valley, August 2005
The Wasatch Mountains in the fall, September 2003
Kyhv Peak over Rock Canyon at sunset as seen from the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, August 2012.