Mount Millicent | |
Elevation Ft: | 10452 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence Ft: | 192 |
Isolation Mi: | 0.46 |
Parent Peak: | Mount Wolverine |
Map: | Utah#USA |
Label Position: | left |
Map Size: | 240 |
Part Type: | Protected area |
Country: | United States |
State: | Utah |
Region: | Salt Lake |
Region Type: | County |
Coordinates: | 40.5905°N -111.5975°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [2] |
Range: | Wasatch Range[3] Rocky Mountains |
Topo: | USGS Brighton |
Age: | 33 Ma |
Rock: | Granodiorite[4] (Igneous rock)[5] |
Easiest Route: | scrambling |
Mount Millicent is a 10452feet summit in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
Mount Millicent is located 20miles southeast of downtown Salt Lake City at the Brighton Ski Resort in the Wasatch–Cache National Forest.[3] The peak is set in the Wasatch Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into headwaters of Big Cottonwood Creek. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1700abbr=offNaNabbr=off above Brighton in one mile (1.6 km). The mountain is composed of granodiorite of the igneous Alta stock.[5] This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[2] The mountain was listed and depicted as one of the principal peaks of the Rockies in a book published in 1916.[6]
Mount Millicent has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc), bordering on an Alpine climate (Köppen ET), with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.[7] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer.