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Little Cottonwood Canyon

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Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Little Cottonwood Canyon
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Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah 84092, USA

Little Cottonwood Canyon lies within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest along the eastern side of the Salt Lake Valley, roughly 15 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah. The canyon is part of Granite, a CDP and Community Council designated by Salt Lake County. The canyon is a glacial trough , carved by an alpine glacier during the last ice age, 15,000 to 25,000 years ago. A number of rare and endemic plant species are found in the canyon's Albion Basin. Mountain goats inhabit the surrounding mountains.The Salt Lake Temple of the LDS Church was built of blocks of quartz monzonite, Granite, and Granodiorite which Mormon pioneers quarried from the Little Cottonwood Stock near the mouth of the canyon.
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