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Pine Valley is a 50-mile (80 km) long〔Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 40-41, 48-49.〕 valley located in southwest Utah, United States. Most of the valley lies in Beaver and Millard Counties; the extreme south of the valley arises in two mountain range regions in north Iron County. The valley is endorheic, with a north flowing Pine Valley Wash that ends in sinks. At about 7-mi north of the sinks region, in a north valley area, lies the Pine Valley Hardpan, about 〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 40.〕 long, east-west. The northwest of Pine Valley contains a long Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Station. The southern stretch of the Tunnel Springs Mountains is in the experimental station. ==Description== Pine Valley is about a 50-mile (80 km) long valley. The valley narrows in the south to about wide,〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 48.〕 where Pine Valley Wash originates. The valley is a north-south valley, but the southern turns southeasterly, paralleling a mountain ridgeline stretch of the Indian Springs Range bordered to the west. The south terminus of Pine Valley is at the merge point of the southeast Indian Springs and Wah Wah Mountains. Steamboat Mountain, , is west, south of the Indian Springs, but a northeasterly stretch of peaks, ridges and hills, form the southern border of the two ranges. The northeast mountainous stretch, is also a part of the northwest border of the Escalante Desert which lies below at lower elevations. The north terminus of Pine Valley also narrows; here, the Tunnel Springs Mountains are the west border, and a lower stretch of mountains and hills trend northwest from the north Wah Wah Mountains, to form the east border. The center of Pine Valley has a 〔Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 40.〕 long alluvial fan that trends northeasterly off the center and southeast flank of the Mountain Home Range. The center of the valley has CCC Reservoir (south, about the north-south valley center); the center-north contains, Cow Camp Well, and Electric Fence Reservoir. Cow Camp and Electric Fence are in the sinks region at the north terminus of Pine Valley Wash. Adjacent just north is the Pine Valley Hardpan, which has washes feeding it from the northwest (Tunnel Springs Mtns), and northeast; and from the alluvial fan washes southwest, Pine Valley Wash, south, and other washes from the east and southeast (Wah Wah Mtns). The lowpoint of the valley is probably Pine Valley Hardpan, or the Pine Valley Wash sinks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pine Valley (Utah)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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