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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brighton Ski Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort.
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.
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 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
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 4 miles west of Brighton.
Park City
Photo: Don LaVange, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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″ northLongitude
-111.58331° or 111° 34′ 60″ westPopulation
432Elevation
8,707 feet (2,654 metres)Open location code
85GCJC28+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 150968168OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5771973Wikidata ID
Q66222167
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Satellite Map
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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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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Silver Lake Summer Resort and Forest Glen.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Silver Lake Visitor Center.
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