CR2040 Deep Creek Rdd s(u) by Bicycle - Velo

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CR2040 Deep Creek Rd s(u)

After two triess for higher points in the Uinta Mountains had been scrapped because of mud and snow, that I could never have imagined, let alone see from the bottom, I was ready to try a lower summit. What a pleasant road and ride, with almost nonexistent traffic. And once you get far enough down and away from the crest of the Uinta mountains you can even see the snow on the top, that still persisted till this May.

1.START-END EAST:West 1500 - North 3500, Vernal
2.road to Dry Fork Canyon turns right here.
3.beginning of gravel, at jct with Sawtooth Cove Drive
4.TOP, 7480ft
5.Paradise Park Rd joins profile
6.START-END WEST:Deep Creek Rd terminates at Ut121

Approaches

From East. The profile starts out, passing through Vernal's most refined neighborhood. The residences are interspersed between cream colored rock monuments of Dry Fork Canyon. But it does not last very long before the road extracts itself from all those flags and lawn monuments, and enters a farm environment. Where Dry Fork Settlement Rd turns its slope to the higher canyons, this road stays in the same valley and remains hardtopped a few more miles till the last of the residental houses have been collected.

After that, it becomes a hard gravel road and becomes intermittently quite steep, where it climbs over an initial hogback ridge. At the top a spur to the north leads to a better, but still snow-blocked viewpoint of the Dry Creek Canyon entrance and the valley below. Just for future reference, according to the map, this spur is the beginning of Pine Ridge road, terminating at ~8200ft according to the map.

From South. (described downwards) Over here the theme is large ranches, and the road obeys. It seems to follow land boundaries along rectangular patterns. This makes for an interesting route with many unpredictable curves. The last ranch in the biggest, and for a minute it looks like the road is actually going to end here, but instead it just comes very close to any number of fences and gates. By this time pavement has started up again. So the unpaved portion over the summit was really very short. The pavement here is actually rougher than most unpaved surfaces. After a few more active ranches, the road gradually straightens and follows natural ravines down into the Unita Basin. It ends at the jct with Ut122.

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Dayride with this point as highest summit

PARTIALLY PAVED / UNPAVED

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CR2040 Ceep Creek Rd s(u) , Ut122 Vernal s(u): near Taylor Mtn Rd, several miles north of Vernal at ~7200ft > Taylor Mtn Rd south > 1500N road west > up Dry Creek Canyon Rd > up Deep Creek Rd > Deep Creek Rd s(u) > Paradise Park Rd south > Ut121 east > Ut121 Vernal s(u) > Vernal > several miles of detour around Vernal as far as west as US191 north > 500N Rd west > 1500N Rd west > Taylor Canyon north back to starting point: 63.7miles with 4490ft of climbing in 6:01hrs (garmin etrex32x m6:25.05.08)