Black Bess Shaft
Black Bess Shaft is a quarry in Salt Lake, Utah and has an elevation of 9,990 feet. Black Bess Shaft is situated nearby to the village Brighton, as well as near the locality Snowbird.- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
- Address: UT
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Solitude Mountain Resort and Brighton Ski Resort.
Solitude Mountain Resort
Sports venue
Photo: Raman Patel, CC BY 3.0.
Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. Solitude Mountain Resort is situated 1½ miles north of Black Bess Shaft.
Brighton Ski Resort
Resort
Photo: PeteysHead, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brighton Ski Resort is a ski area in the western United States, located in Big Cottonwood Canyon in Brighton, Utah. About thirty miles from downtown Salt Lake City, it is owned and operated by Boyne Resorts. Brighton Ski Resort is situated 1¼ miles east of Black Bess Shaft.
Alta Ski Area
Sports venue
Photo: Baileypalblue, Public domain.
Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County. With a skiable area of 2,614 acres, Alta's base elevation is 8,530 ft and rises to 11,068 ft for a vertical gain of 2,538 ft. Alta Ski Area is situated 2 miles southwest of Black Bess Shaft.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brighton and Alta.
Brighton
Village
Brighton is a town in eastern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Brighton had a population of 432.
Alta
Photo: Thatotherperson, CC BY 3.0.
Alta is a small town at the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake County, part of the Wasatch Range region of Utah.
Snowbird
Locality
Snowbird is an unincorporated community in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Snowbird is situated 3 miles southwest of Black Bess Shaft.
Black Bess Shaft
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: Salt Lake, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.59937° or 40° 35′ 58″ northLongitude
-111.60741° or 111° 36′ 27″ westElevation
9,990 feet (3,045 metres)Open location code
85GCH9XV+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 368981938OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
“Black Bess Shaft” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Black Bess Shaft (minahan sa Estados Unidos, Utah)”
- Cebuano: “Black Bess Shaft”
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