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.
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 miles in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Depending on differing definitions between Canada and the U.S., its northern terminus is located either in northern British Columbia's Terminal Range south of the Liard River and east of the Trench, or in the northeastern foothills of the Brooks Range/British Mountains that face the Beaufort Sea coasts between the Canning River and the Firth River across the Alaska-Yukon border. Its southernmost point is near the Albuquerque area adjacent to the Rio Grande rift and north of the Sandia–Manzano Mountain Range. Being the easternmost portion of the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are distinct from the tectonically younger Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, which both lie farther to its west.
Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
The Santa Fe Mountains at the southern end of the Rockies as seen from the Sandia Crest in New Mexico
The summits of the Teton Range in Wyoming
Mount Robson in British Columbia