Brighton
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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Brighton Ski Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort.
Brighton Ski Resort
Resort
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.
Solitude Mountain Resort
Sports venue
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 northwest of Brighton.
Guardsman Pass
Mountain saddle
Guardsman Pass (elevation 9,717 feet is a high mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. The pass is located on the boundaries of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest to the west, and the Bonanza Flats backcountry area to the east. Guardsman Pass is situated 1½ miles east of Brighton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alta and Snowbird.
Alta
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
Park City
Park City is a year-round resort town located on the Eastern of the Wasatch Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain Range in Utah. Altitude in town ranges from 6,720 to 8,460 ft. above sea level.Brighton
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Salt Lake, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.60182° or 40° 36′ 7″ north
Longitude
-111.58331° or 111° 34′ 60″ west
Population
432
Elevation
8,707 feet (2,654 metres)
Open location code
85GCJC28+PM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Gilaki to Turkish—“Brighton” goes by many names.
- Gilaki: “برایتن (یۊتا)”
- Gilaki: “برایتن”
- Italian: “Brighton (Utah)”
- Italian: “Brighton”
- Ladin: “Brighton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brighton”
- Norwegian: “Brighton”
- Turkish: “Brighton”
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