Uintah Basin (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Uintah Basin, also spelled Uinta Basin, is a physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. It It is also a geologic structural basin in eastern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the Uinta Mountains. The Uintah Basin is fed by creeks and rivers flowing south from the Uinta Mountains. Many of the principal rivers (Strawberry River, Currant Creek, Rock Creek, Lake Fork River, and Uinta River) flow into the Duchesne River which feeds the Green River--a tributary of the Colorado River. The confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers is located in Canyonlands National Park. Freedom Bridge over Starvation Reservoir on U.S. Highway 40 in Duchesne County, Utah. The Uinta Mountains comprise F282 one of the borders of the Uintah Basin, and is the only major mountain range in the continental United States oriented from east to west, rather than north to south. They contain the highest point in Utah, Kings Peak, with a summit 13,528 feet above sea level.