Pine Valley (Utah)
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 north Pine Valley, and to the east the Wah Wah Mountains, (from Utah Route 21)
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Utah |
| Region | (southeast)-Great Basin Desert |
| Counties | Beaver, Millard, Iron |
| Borders on | Antelope Valley-NW Tunnel Springs Mountains-NNW Ferguson Desert-N Confusion Range-ENE Wah Wah Mountains-NE, E & SE Indian Peak Range-SW & SSW Mountain Home Range-W & SW |
| Communities | Five Points, Lund, Zane, Beryl, (Milford), (Garrison) |
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dry lake Hardpan |
Pine Valley Hardpan |
| Wash (arroyo) |
Pine Valley Wash |
| Coordinates | 38°25′03″N 113°41′14″W / 38.41750°N 113.68722°WCoordinates: 38°25′03″N 113°41′14″W / 38.41750°N 113.68722°W |
| Length | 50 mi (80 km), N-S |
| Width | 13 mi (21 km), (center-north section; south, see text) |
 Pine Valley within the State of Utah
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Pine Valley is a 50-mile (80 km) long valley located in southwest Utah, United States. Most of the valley lies in Beaver and Millard Counties; the extreme south of the valley arises in two mountain range regions in north Iron County.
The valley is endorheic, with a north flowing Pine Valley Wash that ends in sinks. At about 7-mi north of the sinks region, in a north valley area, lies the Pine Valley Hardpan, about 4 miles (6.4 km) long, east-west.
The northwest of Pine Valley contains a 12-mile (19 km) long Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Station. The southern stretch of the Tunnel Springs Mountains is in the experimental station.
Pine Valley is about a 50-mile (80 km) long valley. The valley narrows in the south to about 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, where Pine Valley Wash originates. The valley is a north-south valley, but the southern 10 miles (16 km) turns southeasterly, paralleling a mountain ridgeline stretch of the Indian Springs Range bordered to the west. The south terminus of Pine Valley is at the merge point of the southeast Indian Springs and Wah Wah Mountains. Steamboat Mountain, 8,588 feet (2,618 m), is west, south of the Indian Springs, but a northeasterly stretch of peaks, ridges and hills, form the southern border of the two ranges. The northeast mountainous stretch, is also a part of the northwest border of the Escalante Desert which lies below at lower elevations.
The north terminus of Pine Valley also narrows; here, the Tunnel Springs Mountains are the west border, and a lower stretch of mountains and hills trend northwest from the north Wah Wah Mountains, to form the east border.
The center of Pine Valley has a 7-mile (11 km) long alluvial fan that trends northeasterly off the center and southeast flank of the Mountain Home Range. The center of the valley has CCC Reservoir (south, about the north-south valley center); the center-north contains, Cow Camp Well, and Electric Fence Reservoir. Cow Camp and Electric Fence are in the sinks region at the north terminus of Pine Valley Wash. Adjacent just north is the Pine Valley Hardpan, which has washes feeding it from the northwest (Tunnel Springs Mtns), and northeast; and from the alluvial fan washes southwest, Pine Valley Wash, south, and other washes from the east and southeast (Wah Wah Mtns).
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