{{Short description|Mountain summit in Utah, United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Reids Peak | image = Reids Peak.jpg | image_caption = East aspect | elevation_ft = 11724 | elevation_ref =<ref name="loj">{{cite web|url=https://listsofjohn.com/peak/18086|title=Reids Peak - 11,724' UT|website=listsofjohn.com|access-date=2024-06-09}}</ref> | prominence_ft = 670. | prominence_ref =<ref name="loj"/> | isolation_mi = 0.59 | isolation_ref =<ref name=peakbagger>{{cite peakbagger|pid=27798|name=Reids Peak, Utah|access-date=2024-06-09}}</ref> | parent_peak = Bald Mountain (11,948 ft)<ref name="loj"/> | etymology = | map = Utah#USA | map_caption = Location in Utah | label_position = bottom | map_size = 240 | part_type = Protected&nbsp;area | part = | country = United States of America | state = Utah | region = Summit | region_type = County | coordinates = {{coord|40.7063807|N|110.9124702|W|type:mountain_region:US-UT_scale:100000_source:gnis|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref =<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|id=1444862|name=Reids Peak|access-date=2024-06-09}}</ref> | range = Uinta Mountains<br />Rocky Mountains | rock = Quartz arenite | age = Late Precambrian | topo = USGS ''Mirror Lake'' | first_ascent = | easiest_route = {{YDS|2+}} scrambling<ref name="loj"/> }}

'''Reids Peak''' is an {{convert|11724|ft|meter|adj=mid|-elevation|abbr=off|sp=us}} mountain summit in Summit County, Utah, United States.

==Description== Reids Peak is located {{convert|50.|mi|km}} east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.<ref name=peakbagger/> It is situated in the western Uinta Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north into headwaters of the Weber River.<ref name=peakbagger/> Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises {{convert|2300.|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the Weber River in one mile (1.6&nbsp;km). Access to the mountain is via the Mirror Lake Highway. The mountain was first named "Reeds Peak" in 1875, and the present spelling of the toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.<ref name="gnis"/> The peak is named after an early explorer of this region.<ref name=Board>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2IfBjJTQy6YC&dq=reids+peak+early+explorer+region+decisions&pg=RA3-PA24 United States Board on Geographic Names, ''Decisions of the United States Geographic Board''], October 5, 1932, p. 24.</ref> William "Toopeechee" Reed was an early pioneer of this region who founded Reed Trading Post in 1828, making this the first permanent non-Indian residence and business in what would become the State of Utah.

==Geology== Reids Peak is composed of metasedimentary rock of the Mount Watson Formation.<ref>[https://geology.utah.gov/potd-july-26-2016-wasatch-cache-national-forest-summit-county-utah/ Utah Geological Survey], Retrieved 2024-06-09.</ref> Fluvial sediment processes deposited a sequence of nearly white quartz arenite and subarkose interbedded with minor amounts of pale-red arkosic arenite and grayish-green shale during the Late Precambrian.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eivUcW8gn4oC&dq=mount+watson+formation+utah&pg=PA211 Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, ''Lexicon of New Formal Geologic Names of the United States 1981–1985''], U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, p. 211.</ref> The Uintas were uplifted during the Laramide orogeny about 70 to 50 million years ago. The area around Reids Peak and Bald Mountain became an ice cap during glaciation of the Ice age, transforming these peaks into nunataks.<ref>Wallace Walter Atwood, ''Glaciation of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains'', U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909, p. 12.</ref> Numerous glacial cycles during the Quaternary Period sculpted the peak and scoured the surrounding land forming many depressions that are now lakes. Viewed from the summit, as many as 70 lakes can be counted.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2s8aAQAAMAAJ&dq=Reids+Peak+uinta+70+lakes&pg=RA27-PA40 ''Commercial West'', December 19, 1914], p. 40.</ref>

==Climate== Based on the Köppen climate classification, Reids Peak is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold snowy winters and mild summers.<ref name=Peel>{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 | pages = 1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P |s2cid=9654551 | issn = 1027-5606|doi-access=free }}</ref> Tundra climate characterizes the summit and highest slopes.

==See also== * Geology of the Uinta Mountains * List of mountains in Utah

==Gallery== <div style="max-width: 480px;"> <gallery mode=slideshow> File:Reids Peak, Utah.jpg|North aspect of Reids Peak (center), with Bald Mountain (left). Kamas Lake in foreground. File:Reids Peak se.jpg|Reids Peak viewed from the top of Bald Mountain. File:Reids Peak ne.jpg|Northeast aspect File:Reids Peak, Bald Mountain.jpg|Southwest aspects of Reids Peak (left) and Bald Mountain (right) viewed from Lost Lake File:Reids Peak west.jpg|West aspect, from Reids Lake </gallery> </div>

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==External links== * Reids Peak: [https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/daily-table/2-5780341/United%20States/Utah/Summit/Reids%20Peak weather forecast]

{{Portal bar|Mountains|Geography|Geology}} {{Geographic Location 2 | Center = Reids Peak | North = Mount Marsell | Northeast = Mirror Lake Highway | East = Mirror Lake | Southeast = Bald Mountain | South = Bald Mountain Pass | Southwest = Mount Watson | West = Notch Mountain | Northwest = Weber River }}

Category:Mountains of Utah Category:Features of the Uinta Mountains Category:Mountains of Summit County, Utah Category:Three-thousanders of the United States Category:Wasatch-Cache National Forest