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Utah’s largest fire of 2020 torched the Uintas’ south slope, but it may have done some good Brian Maffly © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Photo courtesy of InciWeb) The East Fork Fire burns in the High Uintas Wilderness on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. It charred nearly 90,000 acres and burned for more than four months, making it Utah’s biggest, costliest fire last year. Yet the East Fork fire, sparked by lightning last August on the Uinta Mountains’ South Slope, hardly grabbed much media attention. Much of the land burned was remote wilderness and the East Fork fire did n...

1,000 Reasons to Explore the Uinta Mountains Neatly tucked under the notch in the Northeast corner of Utah sits the Uinta Mountain range. This 460,000-acre wilderness area boasts over 545 miles of hiking trails and over 1,000 natural lakes, with more than 500 which support 7 species of game fish (Arctic Grayling, Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Golden Trout, Mountain Whitefish, Rainbow Trout, and Tiger Trout). There are over 400 miles of small rivers and streams that form several major drainage basins feeding water into Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. Geography Most major mountain ranges in the Un...